Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-26
Railroad Topics

The pile driver of the Santa Fee Cen
trail Rauway company commenced
work this week near Galisteo.
Brakeman Council, VINO was one of
the front end brakemen replaced at
Las Vegas, has accepted a run en- the
Santa Fe branch.
The Santa Fe Central railway nine
is e~ndeavoring to arrange several
( games OF ball with the Albuquerque
Browns this season.
The Las Vegas Record says: Will
liam Holmes, the fireman, who has
been suffering from swollen cheeks.
is again avIe to be around.
G. l.. Lape, until recently master
mechanic for the santa Fe at San Ber-
nardino, Cal. will retire from active
railroad work to his old home in
Springfield, III. He was formerly in
the employ of the Wabash.
Vice President w. s. Hopewell of
the Santa Fe Central Railway com-
pany, and r. l.. McCance, treasurer of
the Pennsylvania Development CON-
pany, will return to Santa Fe today
from Torrance, Lincoln county.
A mass meeting will be held by the
ladies of Las Vegas railroad orders,
on next Tuesday afternoon. April 20,
at 2:30, at the Knight of Pythias hall.
that city. All the railroadersl wives,
mothers and sisters are requested to
attend.
So far the tests as to the efficiency
OF the Cafterty tie-plates which have
been put under rails in Topeka yards,
where the demands would be severest.
have given excellent satisfaction, al
though the experiments are only well
begun.
Rube Mcdonald. a well known Las
Vegas boy, who has recently been on
the ranch of his uncle, Parker Wells,
has secured a lucrative position as
bookkeeper at the construction camp
on the Dawson coal road. nearest to
Springer.
Several of the new 36-foot stock cars
which the American Car & Foundry
company is turning out for the Santa
Fe, were in the Topeka yards We'd
nesday. There are in the Deighbor-
hood of $500 in the order of both box
and stock.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Rail.
road company has decided to run an
extension from Weatherford, Okla, to
Taloga, the county seat of Dewey oun
~ ahu hOl Ii " tlclc W dlu,
s a total distance of 100 miles. Nc other
railroad traverses tnat country which
is very rich in cattle and agriculture.
Several samples of a new type of
tank spring have been received and
will be put in place of the former style
which have an y at the end The
new ones do. away with this, which
has always proven the weakest part of
the spring, instead of it there being a
casting in which the four pieces of the
spring rest.
The Topeka State journal says:
Carl Jolifka, of the Santa Fe machine
shop at Ration, N. NJ. was around here
Wednesday, the guest of William Lau.
terbach, of this place. He Is on mis-
way to Hays City and Aberdeen, S
d., at each of which places he will
spend a short time visiting before re-
turning to his work in the west.
Fred Batman. who used to follow
the trade Of boilermaker in Topeka
shops. and A. O.. Saunders, for about
six months in train service out of Ar.
gentiIe, have gone to Alanogordo, N.
NJ, where they expect to get jobs with
the Rock Island. 1t is probable that
they will find places in the department
in which they have heretofore worked.
The president sent to congress a
message vetoing a bill granting the
Arizona Central Railway company
right of way through the San Fran
cisco mountain forest reserves. He
says this action was taken on advice
of the secretary of the interior and
commissioner of the general land
Office, who says that the bill does not
properly safeguard the government
from destruction of property in the re-