Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-22


tract on the Albuquerque Eastern, is
In the city.
Cheap rates are offered by the Santa
Fe company for all who desire to see
President Roosevelt at either Albu-
querque or Santa Fe.
The body of II. G. Profit, the young
railroad man who died at the Santa Fe
hospital, Las Vegas, was shipped for
burial at the family home in Raymond,
Kas.
The last issue of the Railway Age
contained a long illustrated article on
the work done By b. Lantry & Sons for
the Santa Fe in China Basin at San
Francisco.
The Santa Fe pay roll, at the local
shops, was materially increased last
month, and the major part of these
wages, If not all, was left with the
merchants of this city.
General Manager w. S. Hopewell, of
the Santa Fe Central railway, enter
tanned last evening at a smoker at
the quarters of the Pennsylvania club
on upper San Francisco street.
ne NUN oidlu NOhh
pleted the survey from Graham to
Throckmorton, Texas, and are now
running the line to Haskell. The citi-
zens of these two latter points are con-
fident the road is to be built at once.
Walter Bell, for some time night
clerk at the C~astaneda, Las Vegas,
has gone to Topeka to accept the i'm
o~rta-4 NActt;0, aa ooeI;o, 10, tL1 NAv,
Harvey house. Temporary Cashier j.
F. Shea is adding the duties of the day
clerk to his own, while Day Clerk r.
M. Spivey is taking the night shift.
Plans have been prepared by the
Wabash for doubling it's terminal ia
cilities at Detroit by the addition of
twenty-eight tracks to the yards at
Twelfth street. Through freight SER
vice is being arranged for between To-
ledo and Detroit by way of Milan and
the Ann Arbor road.
The memorable exhibit of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad at the Chicago
exposition in 1898 is to be repeated,
and perhaps, improved upon, in the
worlds fair next year, under the
charge, as before, of Maj. ]. G.. Pang-
born. The company has secured go, 200
square feet of space.
A verdict of SIS, 900 damages was
awarded by a jury in the supreme
court of New York in the suit brought
against the New York Central rail
road by the heirs of Alfred M. Perrin,
OF New Rochelle, former president of
the United States Paper Bag company,
who was killed in the Park venue tun-
mel accident.
The Santa Fe Is preparing for the
big rush of stock transportations
which are expected to begin about the
middle of May. Division Master Me
chanic Todd, of Topeka, posted notices
that engine crews would be needed for
the Oklahoma and Panhandle road,
and requested all who wished to
be transferred temporarily to notify
the round house foreman.
Hon. Eugenio Romero has returned
to Las Vegas from Manana and his
Santa Fe Central tie camps. Mr.. Ro-
nero reports track laying along the
line as progressing at the rate of two
miles a day from both ends, and says
it will be complete by not later than
July /. Dirt is also flying on the grade
of the Albuquerque Eastern from Nor
iarity toward the Rio Grande.
The local shops of the Santa Fe are
doing a great deal of work for the an
trys just now in the repair of machin-
cry from the cut off works at Belen.
There is a big pile driver In the yards
to be fixed up and made ready for ser
vice again and the Lantry engine, No.
10, is in the back shops. When the cut
off Is completed there will be a boom
in work in the Albuquerque shops.
President Frank Trumbull, of the
Colorado G. Southern, who has been in
poor health for some time, has decid-
ed to go abroad at an early day to take
q vacation and recuperate. He will
leave about the first of May and will
spend some time at the baths at Carls-
bad, Germany. Mrs. Trumbull will ac-
company him. During his absence
Harry Van Mater. assistant to the
president, will attend to his affairs.
It Is announced that reduced rates
from all points nave Deen MADE 10 OF,
Louis on account of the worlds fair
dedication on the basis of one fare for
the round trip, except in western terri
tory, where the rate will be n fare
for the round trip plus 81. From points
within 100 miles of st. Louis the rate
will be one and one-third fare, and sol
diers, sailors I'M other uniformed
bodies will be carried at one cent per
mile.
The Topeka State Journal says At
ter regulating the working time of the
men at the Santa Fe shops for many
years the big whistle, which is famil-
lar to nearly everyone in Topeka, is TO
be torn down and substituted by a lar
ger whistle. The bowls OF the new
whistle are to be sixteen inches in dla-
meter, four inches larger than the old