Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-05
Railroad Topics

Brakeman Frank wingate ~deadhead-
ed in from Winslow this morning.
]. A. Ross, resident engineer for the
Santa Fe at Las Vegas, is in the city.
The Missouri Pacific has 10000 new
cars to be added to it's freight carrying
capacity this winter.
w. o. Bixler has been transferred
from Flagstaff to be extra section
foreman at Garcia, near Laguna.
Since the transfer of George Fraser
from the local shops to Topeka. George
Durand is temporarily in charge.
A Mexican named Santos had his
head crushed while unloading material
in the Rock Island yards at Tucumcari.
The Eastern Texas railroad began
operations Monday between Lufkin
and Kennard, Texas. and work on the
extension is to be pushed.
The Texas & Louisiana road has
been opened for business between
Lufkin and Monterey, Texas, a dis
lance of twenty-three miles.
AuuillOHdl meu nave neeu put 10
work standard ~gauging the Rio Grande
into Creole, and it is expected that it
will be finished by October l.
The Missouri Pacific reports that the
movement of cattle is unusually heavy
on the Colorado division. The stock
goes to the Kansas City yards.
Conductor Copeland, who was so
badly cut up in a row a few months
60, has returned to Tucumcari and
will take charge of the yards there.
The northwest states are complain
ing Of a car shortage. The cattle move
ment from Billings to Nebraska is
draining the western country of cars.
Four of the most powerful systems
entering Denver are arrayed against
one another for the purpose of waging
a freight war west of the Missouri
river.
In st. Louis George Gould said that
the west had so much money because
of the development of the resources
that it was no longer necessary for the
west to call on Wall street for money.
H. w. Laird, a former employee of the
Santa Fe Central railway at Clark,
died Saturday night. He was well
known and popular, but had been on a
spree for the past three weeks and
died in that condition.
President ]. j. Hill says his North
ern system has cars enough to move
all of the immense wheat crop of the
northwest in five trips. The wheat
crop of the country tributary to his
roads amounts to about 95 100000
bushels.
c. o. Young, fire department inspec-
tor of the Santa Fe, has found that the
worst facilities for fire fighting at any
important Santa Fe point are at San
Bernardino, Cal, and he has inaugur-
ated a complete reorganization of the
fire department at that place.
Railway executives are greatly an
noyed over the growth of the ticket
s~calping evil, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. Despite every effort to
stamp OF these dishonest practices,
complaints are received daily from
passengers who have been victimized
by these sharks.
Quite a deal of amusement has been
afforded by the statement that the Off
cials of the New York Central railroad
have commenced a crusade against
kissing on the ground that iT hinders
traffic. The Central officials recently
ordered that rice throwing be prohib-
Iited in the train sheds of their road,
and now the ban on kissing is to be
promulgated. 1t is understood that the
company wants it known that it does
not care so much about kissing but that
osculation must be regulated. 1t may
be done in the waiting rooms, in car
riages and on the streets, but none of
fbic disnlaV of affection in tho train