Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-01
Railroad Topics

Eastern papers still insist that G.
w. Smith will take a position with the
Mexican Central.
The engine in the new Hotel aivar-
ado is receiving an o~verhauling today.
and some needed repairs are being
made.
The Santa Fe Pacific base ball boys
are anticipating a good time at their
benefit dance which is to be given at
Grants hall tonight.
The Frisco Is about to complete it's
300 mile road to Vernon, Texas. which
taps a rich country and opens its way
to build on to lie great southwest.
Mr.. Pierpont Morgan. having secur-
ed control of some of the London sur
face railways, is now turning his at
tention to those lines under ground.
Engine 1856. which has been in the
back shop for some time past, was
moved out into the front shops yester-
day and will receive a thorough over
hauling.
David Patterson. master mechanic at
Ration. whose field of labor extends
from La Junta to Ell Paso, and who
was recently appointed from the Colo
RADIO Southern, is due here today.
General Manager Mcfarland. of the
Cananea, made an offer the other day
:, in BisDee to bet that the Southern Pa
cifc company will be running it's
trains into Naco inside of six months
time.
There is a certain young man work
ing in the mechanical department of
the local Santa Fe Pacific shops, who,
a week from next Sunday, will wed a
certain charming young lady from Los
Angeles.
T.. f. Roberts. an old conductor on
the Choctaw railroad. died in Alamo
gordo the other day. The remains
were shipped to his home at Alexan-
dria, Indiana. His wife and brother in
law accompanied them.
Thomas Apodaca, of Albuquerque,
came up to the city Saturday to see
his wife. who is here under the pro-
fe~ssional care of DR.. Upton. Mr.. Apo
daca is foreman of the Santa Fe paint
shop at Albuquerque, says the Las We
gas Optic.
Testimony was taken last Friday at
Roswell before A. j. Nisbet, commits
sioner, in the case of w. A. Johnson VS..
the Santa Fe Railway company. John
son claims 81 900 damages for injuries
sustained last August. While in a pas
senger coach a transom fell on his
head. The suit was brought in the
circuit court of Jackson county, Mis-
souri,.
A force of men were busy yesterday
removing the water jacket from the
large air compressor in the main en-
CINE room of the local Santa Fe Pacific
shops. It's emoval was made neces-
sary by the leaking of the air pipes on
the inside. 1t will require several days
to make the needed repairs and in the
meantime air will be supplied by the
small Westinghouse air pumps.
The Santa Fe system, according to
dispatches from Topeka, has donated
to the Seventh day Adventists the old
Montezuma hotel at Las Vegas for the
purpose of converting it into a sanitar-
-ium. The church has asked for it and
have signified that they will put in a
sanitarium equal to the famous Battle
Creek sanitarium. The old hotel
while a magnificent building has not
been a success financially and as the
new one at Albuquerque will soon :
opened the Santa Fe people will have
no further use for it.
President E. p. Ripley is quoted as
saying that the Santa Fe railroad will
probably not comply with the recent
ruling of the interstate commerce com
mission in the Los Angeles citrus fruit
case, in which it was held that the
practice of the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific railroads of taking into their
W hands the matter of selecting the
route by which fruit shipments from
southern California to the east shall
be sent, is Illegal. Our course in re-
gard TO the ruling of the interstate
commission in the citrus
fruit case will depend on what the aw-
yers advise said Mr.. Ripley. Il do
not expect that we will comply with
the ruling, but will LEI the courts de-
eide if we are right or whether the
fruit shippers are right. | do not think
the ruling of the shippers is equita-
ble."