Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-17

The Alamogordo shops are now run
ming with a full force of men.
New engines are said to be contem-
plated for this division of the Santa
Fe.
General Storekeeper N. NJ. Rice left
last night on a business trip to
Needles.
Conductor Sad" Alcott has been
granted a f~ifteen-days' lay of. Conduc-
tor H. M. Dice taking out his way car.
w. L. Gray has been appointed chief
dispatcher for the Santa Fe at Ration,
N. M, taking the place of j. p. Folger,
resigned.
Conductor Sam Moore is now on the
Captain run of the FL Paso-Rock ISL
land system.
The night porter at the Deming
Harvey house, accompanied by the
Polish %laundress, eloped to Chicago
this week.
The Rock Island blew in an item of
s37 800 towards the revenues of Jersey
as a fee in forming the new $50 million
corporation.
President c. B. Eddy, of railroad
fame, returned from his trip east on
Tuesday and has been spending the
week in Alamogordo.
Frank Burgette, an old time conduc-
tor on the Santa Fe Pacific, has sew
cred his connection with the road and
gone to Los Angeles to live.
d. A. Shope, superintendent of
bridges and buildings on the Winslow
division of the Santa Fee Pacidc, was
an Albuquerque visitor yesterday.
j. M. Meade, who has been danger
ously i'll at his home in Topeka, is re-
covering. He was formerly resident
civil engineer in Las Vegas for the
Santa Fe company.
George w. Smith, formerly general
master mechanic for the Santa Fe at
San B~ernardino, Cal, now master me-
chanic for the Illinois Central at Wa
%terloo, Iowa, was in Topeka Wednes-
day.
Announcement has been made by the
Southwe stern Passenger bureau of the
granting of n and one-third fare for
the round trip for the anti-horse thief
association, to be held in Paola, Kan,
October Is to 20.
More than 500 employees in the
freight departments of the different
Kansas City railroads have beer grant
ed substantial increases in salary
within the past month. In no instance
has there been any threat of a strike.
Illinois Central earnings for August
were $3,370,431 against SO, 3d. IFS last
year, a decrease of $12,747. The an
nual meeting of the stockholders OF
the company will be held in Chicago
on October Is. Books close September
10 and reopen October 16.
f. p. Hickey, for about a year gen.
eral foreman of the locomotive depart
ment of the Santa Fe shops in Topeka,
has been made master mechanic of di-
visions 1, 2 and 3 of the Seaboard Air
Line, headquarters at Raleigh, N. c.,
n has jurisdiction over about 1,4O0
miles of road.
A daring railroad item from the Gal
lup Republican: A mean man thought
he would hold up the No. 2 passenger
from the west last Sunday morning
early, but he got left, and taking a
tumble to himself, skipped out some
time during the day and has not been
seen since.
Ine Northwestern is experimenting
with Sioux Indians as laborers on the
Elkhorn line, and believes the inno-
walton will prove successful. For sew
eral months it has been almost impos-
sible to get sufficient laborers for the
road around Long Pine and Gordon to
do either section work or shovel coal.
The Germans have built a 24O-mile
railway in Damara1and. 1t establishes
direct communication between the sea
at S~wakopmund and Windhoek, not to
mention Jakaiswater, Abbabos, Kara
bib, and Okahandjana. And il is a
sweet boon to the world at large but
tough on the prospective brakemen
who call stations.
Circular III, posted in the Santa Fee
stations of the eastern division, has
excited some little curiosity among the
trainmen and enginemen. 1t is dated
September s and reads thus: Upon
receipt of this, see that no persons are
allowed inside telegraph Office except
station employees, and under 10 circum-
stances must train or enginemen be al
lowed inside of telegraph Office for the
purpose of getting train orders or
transacting any other business" Those |
A