Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-18

cial yesterday, and will fire" out of
that town.
The Pennsylvania railroad is about
to invest $4,000, 900 IN new cars. loco
motives and terminal facilities at New
York.
Passenger Conductor Charles Wells,
running from Albuquerque to Ell Paso,
has been with the company for twenty
five years.
The railroad shop employees and
other railroaders received their checks
yesterday, and the stores did a big
business last night.
The Santa Fe management says the
company will save So, 200, 900 annual
ly by using Beaumont oil and engines
are being changed as rapidly as o n
venient, to burn the liquid fluid.
Mrs. c. A. Sowl, who has been day
operator for the Santa re Pacific rail-
road at Flagstaff for several manths,
left with her two children for Los An
geles, Cal, to join her husband.
The office of trainmaster at Barstow
has been abolished and w. H. Mills
is again at his old job as passenger
conductor. This transfers Conductor
Halves tothe east end, says the Needles
Eye.
p. w. Zimmerman, claim live stock
adjuster of the Santa Fe road from
Ration 10 this city, and out west as far
as Needles, and Jose G.. Chaves, the
claim adjuster for all lines south of
this city, are here today on business.
This morning a letter was received
by H. B. Ferguson from President
Francis l. Gowen, of the Choctaw, Ok
lahoma & Gulf railroad, in which it
was stated that he is as yet unable to
fix a definite date for coming to New
Mexico.
1t was reported here yesterday that
Engineer Williams, of the i'll fated 4S2
which went down in the Franconia
wreck, had died in the Los Angeles
hospital from his injuries, but up to
this morning the report could not be
verified.-Needles Eye.
Harry Greogrey. for some months
past in the superintendent S office at
Winslow left the first of the week for
a Francisco, where he will locate.
Mr.. Hammond, formerly of Flagstaff,
has succeeded Mr.. Greogrey as Super
%intendent Hibbard's chief clerk.
The pooling system is a dead one
on the Santa Fe and the engineers
are glad. The announcement was
made recently that hereafter all en-
gineers on the Rio Grande division
would have regular engines. The as
signments are to be had at once
The new hospital to be erected by
the Santa Fe is 20 be located on Boyle
Heights, Los Angeles, fronting the Hol-
lenbeck park. The hospital will be
thoroughly modern, have aceommo1a-
lions for n hundred patients. AID
will take care Of any employees that
may be injured between Albuquerque,
N. M, and San Francisco.
H. Dixon, chief inspector of the
Santa Fe Pacific at Winslow, went
home to dinner last Tuesday and when
he returned to the Office about 1870 p
IN. there was a large grin spread over
his familiar features. Under his arm
he carried a large box of A l cigars
and all on account of a ten and a hall
pound baby boy, who made his arrival
Tuesday. Mother and son are doing
nicely.-Mail.
There is a m in circulation that
the Goulds had purchased the Santa
Fe Central railroad, and that all work
had been ordered suspended. This ru
nor is a mistake, like many other ru
mors put in circulation here. This
morning John A. Lee, a big First street
lumber merchant, denied the truthful
ness of the rumor, and states that he
received this morning a big order fol
material from the Pennsylvania Devel
opment company to be shipped to theil
camp up the road.
Extensive improvements are going
on at the Santa Fe shops in San Der
%nardino. The contemplated improve
ments mean an expenditure of some
thing like $500, 900. The new trackagt
will foot up to something like 25,00(
feet of steel rails, and the force at the
shops must be more than doubled t.
make such a vast outlay profitable
When questioned as to the recent lay
offs along the line an official said tina
already men were being taken back.
night shift is now at work, and afte
the beginning of the next fiscal yea
the force will be equal to that at worl
before the wholesale discharges.
The San B%ernardino Sun says
John Andrews, who has been connect
ed with the local Santa Fe shops 70
more than six years, the greater par
OF the time as master car DullOer. ma
been asked to tender his resignation a
rip track foreman, and has compile,
and is no longer in the service of tn
company. which he has served 70
twenty-five years-to all account
faithfully. Such is the reward O
earth. The first actual evidence tina
Mr.. Andrews stood in d~isfavor with tn
powers that be-" came to pass las
December when he was dislodged fror
the foremanship of the car department
to fill a newly created Office, that of ri
track foreman. And now. not yet tire
months later, comes the news of hi
final dismissal. lie will remain in Sa.
Bernardino for the present, at leas
until the end of the month. AS it ha
always been tie custom for the ca
shop foreman to manage the rip trac'
il is quite probable that the Office hel
by Mr.. Andrews will be taken of tn
pay roll" Mr.. Andrews was employe
at the local shops for years as forema
of tho car dppartmpnt