Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-05-18
RAILROAD NOTES.

ready for duty.
A. Barmann, connected with the
coast lines water service, was here
from Los Angeles.
S. ID. Lucas, head bookkeeper for B..
Lantry & Son, at Belen, was an Albu.
querque visitor Sunday.
The new San Marcial depot will
probably he dedicated by a grand ball,
attended by the railway people from
every station on the division.
ID. d. Franklin. with the Santa Fe al
San ~Bernardino. is in the city visiting
friends and relatives. He expects to
remain some time.
Contractor ]. A. Harlan, of San Mar
cial, was in Ell Paso seeking carpen-
ters to rush along the new Sar Mar
cial depot. He is offering them 81 per
day.
Engineer c. p. Mosbach Is enjoying
a visit from his mother and two sis
tiers and a brother, who are here from
Toledo, Ohio. They expect to remain
during the summer.
Charles Wellington, conductor on
the Rincon-Silver City run, has gone
to Pittsburg to attend the annual meet
ing of the Order of Railway Conduc.
tors. Mrs. Warrington bears him com
pany.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Britton left for
New York. After a short stay there
they will sail for Lancashire, England,
for a visit with relatives. Mr.. Britton
is a machinist employed at the local
shops.
Henry Haskell has returned to the
city and this morning again resumed
his work at the local railway shops.
He accompanied the remains of his
dead wife to Kalamazoo, Mich, for
burial.
Harry Andrews, formerly an EN-
ploye of the local Santa Fe Pacific
store keepers Office, but now in charge
of the Santa FEES oil properties at Bak-
ersfield. passed through the city yes
terday en- route east.
Bailey, a Santa Fe railway painter,
is engaged in repapering and repaint-
ing the San Marcial Harvey house.
When completed this work will make
the hotel more of a companion build
ing to the new depot.
Eugenio Romero and Serapio Rome
no, who have just completed their tie
contract for the Santa Fe Central. was
in the city Saturday. They are now
supplying ties for the Belen cut off and
the Albuquerque Eastern.
A. A. Robinson, recently reelected
president of the Mexican Central rail
way, passed through the city night en-
route south from an extended trip
east. He was accompanied by his
daugter of Pueblo, Colo, who will visit
in Mexico City.
Jose G.. Chaves, the live stock ad-
juster of the Santa Fee railroad for the
Rio Grande division, was in the city.
He says the river Is doing ONE dam
age in cutting away the bank at Tome,
but at Los Lunas the water has kept
pretty well in the channel.
j. w. White, auditor for the Santa
Fee coast lines, is in the city for a cou-
pie of days. Mr.. White says that the
accounts of the coast lines show a
wonderful increase in receipts the
past year. The receipts of the local
station show a decided increase.
]. A. Harlan, so long the building
and bridge foreman on the Rio Grande
division, and now the contractor for
the San Marcial depot, has accepted a
position as superintendent of bridges
and buildings on the Santa Fe cut off
!, with a salary of SITS per month and
1 expenses.
2 According to the United States In
: vestor forty-one railroads show ag'
gregate gross earnings for the fourth
week of April of $12,S33,6S3, an in
= crease of 81, 1857. $50, or IS per cent
| over the earnings of the same roads
in the same period of last year. Only
, four roads export decreases. From
July / to date these roads report ag'
| ~gregate earnings of s3S6,24 1858. in.
crease $50, sol Ala, or 10R per cent,
{ only six decreasing. Forty-six roads
[ earned in the month OF April s4S,525.
/, 224. increase Sc, 221 SIS, or Is per cent
A statistican who has been studying
the annual report of the Pennsylvania
Railway company finds that If half a
million men carried 100 pounds 20
G miles a day, it would take them &C
years to move the freight which the
railroad moved in one year. At two
dollars a day for each man. the cos'
would be about s24 900. 900 COCOON
siderably more than all the coined
money in the world. The railroad
moved it for about 500, OO0, 900. After
. regarding these figures n realizes
: how much cheaper it is to ride thai
10 walk
Too Great a Risk.
e In almost every neighDorhood some
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