Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-11
TRACK AND TRAIN
Fireman j. Nelson is off.

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Engineer Lynch is laying off.
Engineer E. Davis is taking a rest.
Fireman Mckenzie Is at work again.
Engineer Evans has reported for
duty.
The second Of the stationary en-
gines outside the roundhouse Is about
ready for business.
Contractor J. A. Harlan will turn
the new San Marcial depot oyer to
the Santa Fe company in a few days,
Engineer Amos Sober, who was re.
Gently transferred TO San Marcial
for temporary service, has returned
to Ration.
Mrs. William Daze, wife Of Trav-
cling Engineer Daze has returned to-
Winslow with the children from a de-
iightful sojourn at Santa Monica and
Los Angels.
The machinists will hold a regular
meeting this evening. They have
made most elaborate arrangements
for the ball which is to be given at
the Montezuma casino August 22nd
in connection with the Ration picnic.
C. H. Gaunt, s%uperintndent of tele-
graph for the Santa Fe, left Topeka
Thursday on No. / for a business
trip over the western lines of the
road. Mr.. Gaunt will go clear
through the coast. He is travelling in
Santa Fe Pacific car No. II.
The second story of the e rail.
road Y. M. G. "A. building at Topeka,
is nearly finished. The building prob
ably will be ready to be occupied soon
err than expected. The association
expects to be installed in its new
headquarters about the last Of Septem-
Der.
Another Rate Advance-The an
nouncement is made upbh reliable
authority that, beginning September
/, the railroads in trans Missouri ter
ritory will make a sharp advance in
rates on freight of every description.
It includes almost every line Of
freight carried and runs from n to
fourteen cents.
Third Vive-President j. w. Ken
drick is expected to leave Chicago in
a few days for southern California,
and he will be met at Albuquerque by
General Manager A. G. Wells. It is
understood that economy has been
sounded all along the line. and MI.
Kendrick Is going to California for the
purpose Of inspecting the company's
coast lines in order to advise Presi.
dent Ripley where proposed improve
ments may be deferred.
General Tie-Up-Larry Curran,
president of the International Freight
Handlers union Is reported to be pre-
pairing for a general tie-up in the
freight houses OF the Chicago and Al
ton railway. Instead Of going to M
agara Falls as reported, 1t is said
that he has been making a trip along
the line Of the principal towns and
functions, preparatory to making
fresh demands upon the road. While
the strike has been abandoned and the
pickets withdrawn, II Is declared now
that Curran will upon his return to
Chicago demand that the strikers be
re-instated or he will call out the men
all along the line.
Safety Equipment-The interstate
commerce commission on Friday or.
dered another temporary extension un-
I'll October Is, Of the time within
complete their safety equipment. The
lsnm spBoIIIsI % I9qmnu . qoTua
commission will meantime consider
the further extension of the law and
the question Of the location Of grab
irons on engines. Among the roads
granted the extension are the Pennsyl.
vania, Erie, Santa Fe, Denver & Rio
Grande, Colorado e. Southern and
Boston & Maine. The Colorado
Southern wanted time for equipplng
power-driving wheel brakes on narrow
gauge passenger locomotives and the
Santa Fe wants the requirement Of
grab irons on front or sides Of loco.
motives dispensed with. The appeal
81 the other roais related 10 the
equipment OF so per cent Of the cars
IN all trains with air brakes.