Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-02

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local railway shops, has returned after
spending a few days in Ell Paso.
There is a Chinese wiper in the
Galveston & Houston shops in Ell Paso.
who has been holding down the job
nineteen years.
The Ell Paso G. Southwestern bag
gage car, which was smashed in the
Sands collision, is at the local shops
to be repaired.
Railway mileage in the United States
has passed the 200 900 mark, which is
considerably more han two-flIths of
the entire railway mileage of the
world.
An eastern railroad company has
just been equipped with ten new sleep
ing cars designed and furnished for
the special accommodation of
The cars are the longest in The SER
vice, measuring ~ feet 6 inches.
From the first of January to the
first of June this year 100 miles of rail-
road were actually constructed in New
Mexico. 1t is estimated that between
June 1 and the 31st of December of the
present year $50 additional lmiles of
railroad will be built.
Circulars have been received here
announcing that the Southern Pacific
has changed its headquarters from
Sacramento to San Francisco, Cal. H.
j.. Small, who has been with the COM
pany for some time, has been made
general superintendent of motive
power.
Reports from the north say that c.
E. Langston, for the last year general
foreman OF the Santa Fe shops at La
Jnnta, Colo, has resigned to become
division master mechanic for the Colo
RADIO & Wyoming, with headquarters
at Trinidad. No successor to him at
La Junta has been announced.
Picturesque Colorado is the title
of the most attractive publication ever
gotten out by a railroad on the subject
OF scenery and resorts. This hand
some box is issued by the Colorado G.
Southern railway, commonly known as
The Colorado Road" whose lines
reach the grandest scenic portions of
the state and all the leading health
m pleasure resorts.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has agreed to pay the city OF New
York $75,535 yearly during the first
ten years for it's tunnel franchises I'M
der the Hudson river, Manhattan isl
oih ohu liNCi, H pllf,O'l year
ly for the following fifteen years. The
city will thus receive $z,47S,415 from
these franchises during the first
twenty-five years of the operation of
the tunnels.
While section men were burning
grass along the Santa Fe track be-
tween Fulton and Northam stations,
out west, the flames broke over the
fire line n were soon raging through
pastures, hay and grain fields, burn
ing everything before them. The
range of the -4aZe was an average of a
mile in width nearly five miles in
length, and the loss Will be between
S $500 and $4,000.
S. b. Grimshaw, formerly chief clerk
to General Superintendent Egan, of
the Denver & Rio Grande, at Deming,
will become trainmaster of the Ell Paso
& Northeastern, with headquarters at
A~lamogOrdO, N. M, the appointment
being made by Assistant General Man
ager Greig. While no official announce
ment has been made, the statement
comes from friends of Mr.. Greig, who
recently spent several days in Denver.
The Topeka State Journal says:
George p. Tilson, formerly inspector
OF air brakes IN freight cars in the
field, but who was sent west for re-
covery from lung trouble, is still at the
Las Vegas hospital of the Santa Fe.
Tilson occupies a small dog house tent
on the sanitarium grounds and has for
his daily diet ten raw eggs. He has
been told by the doctors that he m 81.
raise the number by two before they
will permit him to curb his appetite.
Eugene F. Felt n Frances B. Felt
filed suit in the district court at Pueblo
against the Denver & Rio Grande Rail-
road company for damages in the sum
of $4,000 on account of the death of
Charles r.. Felt, a son. According to
the complaint, young Felt was killed
at Florence last February, and it is
alleged that his death was caused from
injuries received while coupling cars.
They claim the accident was due to
the fact that in place of automatic
%couplers, the cars were provided with
the old fashioned link and pin coup
lers.
The New Mexican says: 1t is more
than likely that the Atchison. Topeka
& Santa Fe railway and the Santa Fe
Central railway will erect a handsome
union depot nea the site of the pres
ent railroad depot on The south side.
ihAo ~ Oh II PNit W lhSSC iOdOS
will enhance the value of real property
in that vicinity and naturally will be
of benefit to property owners. There
fore 10 obstacle should be put IN the
way Of this plan and the lands re-
quired by the Santa Fe Central rail
way for right of way, depot grounds,
etc, should be either donated to that
road or sold at a low figure,
One of the most beautiful and COM
plete railroad publications ever issued
in america IS being distributed from
headquarters of the Santa Fe road to
general passenger agents. The book
is a souvenir of the reeent annual con-
vention which met in southern Cali
fornia, but numberless interesting
views of the people and the country
visited en- route to the convention. The
pamphlet is a striking advertisement
of southern California. and the many