Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-20
Railroad Topics

stage and had the porters headed off
at La Junta. They settled in full, In
der threat of being brought back and
tried for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Conductor l.. F. Clifford has returned
tc work after a short lay off on ac-
count of sickness.
Lawrence B. Smith, a popular young
railroad official at Winslow, enjoyed
the Sabbath in this city
Mrs. II. H. Brown, of this city, has
arrived in Topeka and has entered the
Santa Fe hospital there as a patient.
Thomas Legion, of the mechanical
test department of the Santa Fe, is
here for the purpose of inspecting
some engines for the Santa Fe.
James Carroll, the engineer, who
took a lay off and spent the time Ii:
southern California, has returned to
the city.
Twenty-Five men, the first detach,
ment of an order for 100 laborers to
work on the Santa Fe Central, left
here last night for Kennedy. From
Kennedy they will be sen along the
line and engage in laying steel of the
new road.
Engine No. 10, the engine which the
Lantry Bros. purchased at the Santa
Fee shops last winter and which was
repaired and painted and decorated at
Topeka, is now at Belen, N. M, where
the Lantry Bros. are doing some work
for the Santa Fe.
William Johnson of the Office of John
Purcell, superintendent of shops, To-
peka, has quit the service of the Santa
Fe. Mr.. Johnson will leave shortly for
the City of Mexico, where he has Sc.
cured a better position with the Mex
lean Central railroad.
An order has been placed for twenty
seven more way cars to be constructed
in the freight car sheds, of the Santa
Fe at Topeka. The men are now
working on an order of fourteen cars
and as o as they have finished
these they will begin on the new order.
Announcement has been made from
the headquarters of the Santa Fe sys-
tenn in Los Angeles that the road
would o o install oil burning locomo.
tives on the Seligman-Winslow divis-
ion in Arizona, adding about LAG miles
to the mileage now covered by oil burn
ing engines on the Santa Fe system.
The Rock Island has just issued a
booklet, which, for advertising pur-
poses, is yet unsurpassed. Although
it is simple in design, the book is print
ed on good paper, is well bound and
contains reading matter that is both
useful and interesting. The title of the
book is Men Wanted" and it contains
an alphabetical list of all the towns
along the line of the Rock Island and
what is needed in each town.
1t has been learned that all cars
which are now being built for the
Santa Fe by the different car anu
featuring companies of the country
are to be equipped with what is called
the Barber bolster. This bolster is
quite an improvement over the bolster
now in use. 1t rolls from side to side
and allows the car to give" and con
s%equently ride easier. The bolster now
in use is stationary. A swing bolster
was formerly used.
The twenty-ninth biennial conven.
ton of the Order of Railroad Conduc.
tors, of the United States, Canada and
Mexico, will meet at Pittsburg, Pa,
May ~, and the local committee is
making elaborate preparations for the
entertainment of the delegates. The
convention, ii Is said, will be the most
important held for many years. About
5000 delegates are expected. A fight
for the next convention is already on,
Buffalo, Boston and Salt Lake having
been heard from.
The Topeka State Journal says: The
family of N. NJ. Rice, the new general
storekeeper of the Santa Fe, who has
his headquarters in this city, will ar
rive on Saturday from Albuquerque,
where Mr.. Rice's headquarters were
located when he was storekeeper of
the lines west of that point. Mr.. Rice
has rented a house on the corner of
Fillmore and Ninth streets and the
family will move into it Immediately
on their arrival. Their new address
is 901 Fillmore street.
The management of the Santa Fe
has announced that the legal battle
which is being made by a pioneer of
Arizona to obtain the title to the
Bright Angel Trail will not interfere
with the construction of the new hotel
which the company is planning to
erect on the rim of the canyon. Thus
far the pioneer seems to have the best
of the struggle, but the Santa Fe will
construct another track to the river
bed, provided the courts deprive them
of Bright Angel Trail.
Makes a Clean SMeen