Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-21
TRACK AND TRAIN

duty.
Fireman Myers has reported for
duty.
Fireman Baker gets rest for one
trip only.
Engineer Caldwell is enjoying a
short vacation.
Fireman Williams is ~indisposed.
Nothing catching.
Fireman Hill is reported for duty
after q very brief vacation.
Fireman Wiggens is getting all the
fun he can during a short lay-oh.
A good whole holiday for Engineer
Phares, a man who lays OF but sell
dom.
Engineer Hyre is enjoying poor
health" and will keep away from the
cab for a bit.
A report is in circulation that the
shopmen at Ration have gone out.
This is denied by passengers from the
City.
Engineer Graham still fingers in
his downy bed. 1t may be the ell
feet Of the baseball for he hasn't been
on the acting side since the game.
One of the two boilers being erect
ed outside the shops is now doing
yeoman service. 1t will be some days
before the other is ready for business.
The amount Of freight being pulled
over the Rio Grande division at pres
ent is said to be simply astonishing.
Twenty-six freight crews are in service
and the men are said to be rolling up
big mileage.
Five plasterers are at work Oh the
Santa Fe depot buildings at San Mar
cial. Every part Of the work is being
rushed. and the structure promises to
be d credit to the contractor, Mr.. J.
A. Harlan, to the railway company
and to the town.
F. G. Kopp, day machinist at the
%roundhouse is looking forward with
anticipation to the early arrival OF his
better half from Moline, Ill. The
young man likes the Meadow City and
has determined to remain
One OF the interesting exhibits at
the St. Louis exposition will be a To-
comotive Of the old red-wheel type,
: which used to run between Hannibal
and st. Joseph, Mo-, before the war,
connecting at the later town with
Buffalo Bills famous pony express.
Altar several month of preparation
work has actually begun on the clear
ing OF the site of the mammoth sta
ton to be built by the Pennsylvania
in New York on the four blocks
bounded by Seventh and Ninth ave
nues Thirty-frst and Thirty third
streets. The various buildings will
he turned over to the wreckers as
fast as possession can be secured.
While much sympathy Is expressed
by shopmen here for the La Junta
men who walked out, the position Is
taken that the grievance is entirely a
local one. that 1t isn't q union strike
and therefore not q ase calling for
the action OF outside organizations
The avowed intention Of the Santa Re
to abandon In Junta as q shop town
will II carried out be almost q death
blow to that now prosperous commu'
nifty.
New Master Mechanic-The topic
of chief interest at the shops this
morning was the replacing Of Divis'
ion Master Mechanic Sulier by A.
Harrity, OF Topeka. The change be-
ZONES effective at once. The new
man is said to be competent and to be
popular with the employees generally
The appointment is made by Mechan'
ical Supt. c. M. Taylor and is endors'
ed by supt. Of Motive Power @. II
Henderson and General Manager H.
U. Nudge.
Recent statistics show that at the
close Of 1901 the railways In opera
ton In the world represented a total
length Of 507, 1889 miles, or the equi'
yalent Of about twenty times the cir