Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-17

track was built in Texas during the
past six months.
n: lsaacs, travelling baggage agent
OF the Santa Fe Pacific, departed for
the west last night.
The Santa Fe continues to cut down
expenses. Seven machinists were dis
charged from the local shops yester-
day.
All the new trains on the Central
London railway are to be of fireproof
construction. steel and asbestos being
largely used.
After attending a meeting of rail-
way line stock agents at Denver, H. S.
Van Slyck, the Santa Fe line stock
agent down this way, came in from the
north last night n continued south
to FL Paso.
Ben. Johnson, superintendent of ma.
chinery of the Mexican Central, will
meet his wife and children here, they
arriving tonight from Topeka, Kan,
and from here the party will continue
on to the City Oh Mexico.
Claude Schrott is the new special
machinist apprentice, who went to
work in the local shops yesterday. He
comes from the mechanical engineer
ing department of the Cornell uni
versity and expects to spend the re-
mainder of the summer here.
d. The San Bernardino papers are ask
ing that a small hospital be establish
ed there for the Santa Fe employees.
The n nearest that city is at Los
Angeles, and it is claimed that the
distance is o great for men who are
in need of attention as is given them
at such an institution.
The management of the Rock Island
has definitely decided to move the
headquarters of the passenger depart
ment from Topeka to Kansas City.
The traffic department will also be
moved to Kansas City as soon as suit
able quarters can be secured. The
move will be made not later than Au-
gust l..
The Santa Fe correspondent If the
Denver papers and also of the Ell Paso
Herald, is sending out some very queer
and unreliable railroad news. 1t was
thought that these ~telegraphic I'M
truths would stop as soon as the
change in the Santa Fe postmastership
was made, but they still continue to
the detriment of other sections of the
territory.
The contract for the building of the
st. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado rail
road from Versailles to the northern
limits Of Warrensburg, Mo-, was let to
a Minneapolis firm. Work will begin
as soon as the right of way deeds are
taken up by the governor. 1t is stated
that the Colorado road will be com
pleted from st. Louis to Kansas City
by July, 1903.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company is credited with a
plan to secure control of the Ocean
Steamship company, which conducts a
line of steamships from San Francisco
to the Hawaiian islands, Tahiti and
Australian ports. The company is now
under control of John ID. Spreckels
and his associates. The steamship
company has a capital stock of 50 $780,
900 and is bonded for about the same
amount.
A. c. Turner returned to Santa Fe
from Kennedy, where he has been in
the employ of the Santa Fe Central
Railway company. He will go to Cali
fornia for the next few months and
will return to Santa Fe in winter. He
reports that grading camps Nos. 1 and
2 of the Santa Fe Central, are six and
eight miles respectively north of
Kennedy, while camp No. 3 is sixteen
miles south of Kennedy. The company
store at Kennedy is doing a thriving
business.
The Deming Herald says: Asked if
there was anything new in relation to
the Bisbee railroad passenger and
freight depot matter in this city, Agent
De Barry, of that road, said: NO, ex-
cept that the plans have been drawn
49, 1000 Tl@- - -
doubt that the depot will he built
promptly" None whatever. We are
now busy building a depot, a series of
Goa chutes and laying out a big yard
at H%atchita. and when this work is fin
ished | think the Deming depot matter
will be taken up"
The Topeka State Journal says:
William Wood, who presides over a
machine in the tool room, has returned
from a two weeks junket in California.
On the return trip Wood had a number
of interesting experiences: At Albu-
querque, N. NJ, there was a Chinaman
who had lately arrived in a box car,
afflicted with leprosy, and the terrible
disease had claimed already n foot
and a hand; at Ration, A. c. Whitford,
the conductor of the train, was struck
and killed by a bridge. Wood was in
San Francisco, Los Angeles and San
Diego most of the time.
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