Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-14

done in rock and by Lantry's. Heavy
steel is to be laid on the new roadbed
and the light steel from Las Vegas to
Galisteo is to be replaced with eighty
pound rails. The steel for this part Of
the track is already on the ground.
II Might Have Been Worse.-Train
No. Is had a narrow escape from what
might have been a serious wreck and
had it not been for the careful vigil
ance of Conductor Ed. Kitching there
is no telling what might have hap
pened. When a mile or so south of
Winfield, Kan, the odor of burning
wood was detected. Mr.. Kitching made
an examination of the train and dis
covered that a journal was broken. Be-
coming hot it had ignited some of the
woodwork of the car, although it had
not as yet broken out in flames. The
journal was in such a bad condition
that it was found necessary to take
the head erd of the train into Win
field, return and get the bad order car,
and make a third trip for the real end
of the train. This made a delay Of
several hours, out the passengers and
all concerned are fortunate that II was
not more serious.
HopewelI Hopeful-Hon. WIS. Hope
well has returned to Santa Fe from
this city and he told the New Mexican
that the engineering corps which start
ed out from Albuquerque is not being
sent out either by the Santa Fe Gen.
trail or the Albuquerque Eastern rail-
ways, but that some of the men inter-
ested in this new project are also in
terested in the Santa Fe Central and
the Albuquerque Eastern. The corps
will go il a northwesterly direction but
Mr.. Hopewell said significantly that
does not necessarily mean that it is
bound for Durango. Mr.. Hopewell re-
ports that the 100 mule-teams he has
secured from A. H. Hilton, at San An
tonic, Socorro county, are on their way
to Kennedy and will be placed in camp
No. 4 on top of the mesa. After their
arrival work will be pushed across the
mesa toward santa Fe at q rapid rate.
The pile driver has reached the arroyo
Hondo and August Reingardt, bridge
superintendent, stands in need OF
bridge carpenters.
The Twentieth Century Limited
Keeling off 4S1 miles in 400 minutes,
the Twentieth Century Limited" on
the Lane ouOIt N Nllthi6oh
road on last Saturday smashed records
for fast running on hat system and
verified assertions made by officials
that a sixteen-hour schedule could. if
be maintained between Chi
cage and New York.
The train, forty-five miles west of
Buffalo, was two hours and twenty
eight minutes behind its schedule and
then it was that the engineers were
given a clear track and ordered to
make their best time over the various
divisions.
The train covered the 1874 miles be-
tween Brockton and Cleveland in 131
minutes. From Cleveland to Toledo
it pushed along over the 113 miles at
some points at a speed reaching 80
miles an hour, covering the distance in
103 minutes. The run to Elkhart, Ind,
1873 miles, was covered in 1l5 minutes.
The run into Chicago from Elkhart
was slower on o OF the neces-
sity Of slowing down while passing
through three towns where the speed
of trains is limited by ordinance. Slow
downs were also necessary for the
grade crossings In Chicago.
Despite these delays, the 101 miles
was covered in Ill minutes and the
train. which was due in the city at
9:45 a.. m. arrived at the grand GEN.
trail passenger station only twenty
eight minutes late.
BoiIermakers Deny Statement.-The
striking boilermakers of the Santa Fe
at San Bernardino entered a protest
against the statement made by the
company that the seven men who have
left the shops, and especially the three
that left on Wednesday, were fired
for incompetency." The men say that
while the new men were not what
could be called first class men, they
we're among the best of the contract
men brought here, and they left OF
their own accord.
The tried to hold the
men," said the boilermaker who en-
tered the protest, but couldn't do 1t.
They even went so far as to tell the
men they dare mo- leave under their
contract, but they called the COM
pany's bluff.
mo. there is absolutely nothing new
in the situation and we look for moth
ing now until the trouble on the Union
Pacific is settled. We are content to
wait. One settlement may do for all"
The company's official, who told
about the contract men being "let out"
insisted yesterday that his statement
was the truth, regardless of what the
strikers may say. Don't you believe
for a minute" said he, that those men
left So per day wages, with board,
lodging and barbering thrown in, of
their own free will. Not much. They
were well satisfied. Had they been
going to go, on account of sympathy
for the strikers, they wouldn't have
waited a month to leave. No, sir, the
men were replaced by better mechan-
les, that is all there is to It."
No matter how they went or why,
the mel have gone to a certainty and
their places have been flled.-San Ber-
nardino Sun.
Big Train on the Santa Fe.-Thurs-
day morning an east bound freight
took the siding at Sterling. Kan, says
the Bulletin. There were eighty cars
in the train and il contained 1900 900