Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-17
TRACK AND TRAIN


Engineer Gray has his name marked
up on the layon list.
Fireman Carleton is laying off to
rusticate a bit and to enjoy the warm
weather.
Fireman Garahy has been marked
up on the board as resting easy for a
few days.
The Office of night car clerk Las
been abolished on account Of the slack
UP In business.
Fireman Mckenzie has tired of ser
vice on the road and Is marked up on
the lay-off board.
Engineer Langston has marked him
self up as laying of and hied himself
away to the mountains.
Brakeman Cards has tired Of his
onerous duties and is marked up with
those who are laying off temporarily.
Brakeman La Due has been sent
down to Waldo to work on the branch
and it is said that it is a regular job.
T. M. Ramsdell, superintendent Of
the Santa Fe car department, passed
through the city en- route to his head
quarters at Topeka.
Brakeman C. B. Jackson has laid
aside the brake club for a short per-
iod and will rusticate and regain
some Of his lost sleep.
Fireman Tighe, the man with the
peculiar name has tired of handling
the scoop continually so is marked up
for a few days of.
The Big Four has decided to run a
special train to San Francisco for the
veterans Of the Grand Army attending
the national encampment.
Conductor Towner is taking a short
lay-off to secure some much needed
rest and Conductor Sheppard is hand
ling the way bills in his stead.
In a short time trolley cars will
run from New York to Jersey City un-
der the Hudson river. Over 5000 feet
of the 1000 foot tunnel is finished.
Brakeman W. A. Richardson has
handed in his resignation and will
leave for other parts where he hopes
to secure a position more to his taste.
The Decapods and the All Stars will
surely play the championship game
Sunday. Don't fail to miss it as the
best players in the city will partici-
pate.
Conductor Burke, better known as
Silver" who has been laying of sew
eral days wrestling with a severe at
tack Of tonsilitis, is reported much
better.
Conductor Flomerfelt, and wife,
Fireman Billy Holmes, Miss B.Smith
and Miss r. Coors left this morning
for a days outing in the vicinity Of Ell
Porvenir.
Conductor Scudder, who has been
laying of enjoying a rest up for sev-
eral days past, has come forward AMI
announced himself as ready for duty
once more.
Agencies Of lines in the Gould sys-
tenn will be increased In some direc-
tions anil consolidated In others. Those
at San Francisco and in southern Cal
ifornia will be combined.
Machinist Frank Roper left yester-
day for Michigan on q thirty days
leave Of absence. Before leaving the
boys around the shops made him a
neat present which wa greatly appre-
ciated.
British railway managers are re-
trenchins and economixing. Last year
they reduced expenditures e13, 8 900.
The paid-up capitalization is $685.
100000, an increase Of $107,000,0 900 in
a year.
J. w. Records, formerly foreman Of
the Albuquerque roundhouse. Is In
that city seeing his old friends. He
Is now master mechanic Of the San
Ia Fe Central with headquarters at
Torrance.
A. B. Sanford, formerly general
freight agent of the Santa Fe. Prescott
& Phoenix railway at Prescott, Ariz.,
but now on Paul Morton's stan at
Chicago, with the Santa Te. vas in
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