Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-11-13
TRACK AND TRAIN

~lOHnSqulSl OF the local OInceS Is
10 be relieved from that position.
It has also been stated that G. +.
Cloyd, chief accountant to Mr.. Young
quist, Is to succeed him in that posi-
tion,
Mr.. L. ]. Meyer has opened the old
Santa Fe Route hotel, 225 Railroad
avenue, which he has entirely re-
painted. papered and refurnished. He
is now ready for guest by the day,
week o. month. Reasonable rates.
11-74
Earl Freeman has been advanced
from his position as stenographer in
the Santa Fe offices here to the posi-
tion Of amanuensis to Superintendent
Hubbard. 1t is DG.iayed that Arthur
Xix of San Diego will promoted
to Freeman's place in the local Of
fces.-San Bernardino Times-Index.
There is a report to the effect that
Senator Ghauncey M. Depew and par
ty are in the vicinity of Ludlow, look
ing after the formers mining int
.ests at that point. The local dispatch
er's Office, which is always kept posted
with reference to the movements Of
special cars on the Santa Fe, has re-
ceived no intimation Of the senator's
presence nor Of any car which may be
inhabited by his party. If he is really
in the west and expects to get in on
that special session of congress, hell
have to hurry
The Salt Lakes construction camp
located at Calientes, has been rein
forced BY a new automatic device for
laying tracks, with which the en-
gineers expect to save much time and
labor. The machine is mounted on
fat cars and lays the rails upon which
it proceeds. Ties are dropped into
position by the car load and the rails
run out on them and are spiked, all by
machinery. The apparatus uses
thirty-three foot rails, three feet long
e. than any heretofore used on this
coast. 1t is capable Of laying three
miles of track a day.
In a bulletin posted up at the G.. II.
board in Ell Paso, the superintendent
calls the attention Of brakemen 70
the fact that he has noted a brake
man occupying a seat in the obserya-
ton car, to the exclusion Of one 81
uie passengers. He says that the
brakeman must hereafter carry a
camp stool in the observation car and
sit in the rear of the passengers, So
there shall be no obstruction of theiI
view Of the varied and beautiful
cener Of the Southern Pacific from
El Paso to Yuma and thence across
the vast and arid desert.
The wreck OF the Chicago flyer neal
Pueblo, Colo, some days ago, cost the
santa Fe company in wrecked equip
ment about $15O,OOO. Engineer Johr
Walker is the only one whose liz
vas lost as a result OF the wreck, ht
diving some hours afterward az IN
Pueblo hospital. Walker had asket
for 4 lay off, and the reply from head
quarters granting 1t was received
inst as the train was due to leav'
Denver. so he stuck to his post. ~
had been in the employ Of the SAINT
re about thirty years, and was con
sidered an engineer Of exceptions
merit. His fireman, J. +. Bates, oscar
ed without injury.
ON the coming 18th, or pay day, be
tween $4,000 and $4,000 over an
amount Of the previous pay days wi
\ he handed out to the employees OF tn
santa Re in San B%ernardino. Wit
the Los Angeles pay roll the TOT
amount paid by the Santa Fe III
month will be close to $4,000. Their
are several things responsible Il
this large pay roll. The machini'
helpers and boilermakers' helper
have all been given a raise, which !
the aggregate amounts to conslde
able. and besides there has been
large night force at work. y IS :
large, il not larger, than any pa
roll in the history Of the shops.
Did you ever see the boys whe
.ho n.htctto btoua1 II would do W