Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-17
RAILROAD NOTES.
Interesting Paragraphs Picked Up
Along the Big System.
ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE.

p. w. Zimmerman, of the Santa Fe
claims department, Is at Las Vegas
from Albuquerque today.
Superintendent John Stein, OF the
Harvey system, left the Alvarado for
the FL Paso carnival last night.
Conductor N. H. Cramer, formerly
of Las Vegas, has Joined his family in
FL Paso. Texas, from Oklahoma.
The Colorado & Southern railway, in
connection with the American Tourist
association, will run a high class ex
| cursion to Old Mexico, leaving Denver
on January 2s.
Henry Pierce, the old time "a re-
| pairer, who has been laid up at his
| home in Las Vegas, with symgtoms Of
typhoid fever for nearly two weeks, is
slowly recovering.
John Roberts injuries in the Rincon
wreck are gradually disappearing and
he is about San Marcial with a ban
daged head as the only real evidence
| of his nrrow escape from death.
Passenger engine 1887 made a trial
trip from Ration to Las Vegas and
steamed all right and handled her
train nicely. She is the prairie type
with six connected drivers and engine
trucks under the fire box. The drivers
are seventy-nine inches In diameter.
The Southern Pacific passenger train
from the west, Thursday evening, ran
into a burro browsing on the track in
the Deming yards. The animal was
thrown about 100 feet to one side and
internally injured. 1t never got up,
but died where 1t lay. II was branded
Y. f. 3. on left hip and was the prop
erty of q young man named Oiin Cor
man.
The Union Pacific Railway company
has inaugurated a new pan on Its en-
tire system for the purpose of prevent
ing rear-end collisions. Every passen-
ger train will carry an extra brakeman
whose only duty II will be to protect
the rear end of a train. This new rule
will cost the Union Pacidc 800 900 an
nually. IL Is said other Colorado roads
will adopt the same plan.
At a meeting Of the Ration Airbrake
company held at Ration the following
directors were elected: c. NJ. Taylor,
W. V. Turner. A. II. Quick. J. II. Beggs,
]. F. White. w. B. Thompson and F.
IC. Farquaharson. The following Off.
GERS were chosen: c. NJ. Taylor, pres.
ident; w. V. Turner. first vice presi'
dent; J. r. White, second vice presi
dent: j. II. Beggs, secretary. and A,
r. Quick, treasurer.
The Ration Gazette says: At 6 O'Clock
Monday morning while the crew were
asleep in the caboose at La Junta an
oil car was kicked into them by a
switch engine. completely demolishine
their car and injuring Conductor Moul
lton and Brakeman C. F. Burns. Moul
ton had a shoulder dislocated ant
= Burns was injured in the back of the
neck. Both men were brought to theil
homes in this city where they are get
} ting along well. The other brakeman
) was not hurt.
} President w. S. Andrews and Vice
President w. s. Hopewell, of the Santi
Fe Central Railway company, have re
= turned to Santa Fe from a trip to E
/; Paso. While at the Pass city they pur
. chased the building material to b'
fused iE the construction OF the new
Santa Fe Central town OF Terrence a
!. the Rock Island junction. At Tor
renee will be located the southern con
4 ~struction headquarters Of the compa
; ny, s~torenouses, houses for employees
; and commissary department. The ma
(; I~terials are to be shipped at once owe
the FL Paso G. Northeastern and build
ling will begin forthwith. The new
town promises to BE one OF the best oil
; the line.
; The Santa Fe has decided to contes
I the ruling OF the California state boar
OF railway commissioners in the mat
ter of oil rates. The Santa Fe has CON
Imenced injunction proceedings In tn
United States court at san Francisco
on the ground that the new rates, s.
far as the SoI .hern California railwa,
is concerned, tends to confscate tn
parent company of its property with
out due process Of law; that the Al
Ichison, Topeka & Santa Fe company
lowner OF the San Francisco Railwa
company, is a foreign corporation, an
the Santa Fe Pacific obtained its chal
A. ter from the general government. Tn
q subject is being attended to by Cap
lie. N. Sterry, who is in San Francisc
o for the purpose.
81 In an article on "The Railroad an
ID the Deadhead." Geo II. Heahord, lat
lly general passenger agent OF tn
:; Chicago. Milwaukee 4 st. Paul, say
in the Saturday Evening Post, anon
rs other things: Theoretically, a pas
n Is Issued as "A compliment VI NouittS.
Practically, It is an illegitimate Il
IS some respects unlawfuD bid for bus
mess or influence. The ~jurists, IN
Legislators, the state and county of
'cers, the city officials from the mayo
to alderman. expect, and frequently d
p mand, annual passes. Even the p
r liceman has a pull at the pass sy
TEN. This prominent shipper-an
V. shipper is prominent who contro
a carload consignment Of live stocI
L. grain. coal. lumber, or other me
I, chandise-does not hesitate to app
D.. for either a season or trip pass Il
himself. and also expects the court
sy Of an occasional 'headhead' tick
for his wife and children. The er
ID ploye Of each railway company, I
8 matter how well or how i'll paid, fee
d a traditional right to demand a pa
is for himself and his family even
the kinship Of his sisters, his cousin
and his aunts."
A. All IAN Advertise.
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