Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-04
TRACK AND TRAIN.

he has been for several days in the
discharge of his duties.
A bad wreck occurred on the Silver
City branch Of the Santa Fe Sunday
morning A long freight train OF cars
going into Deming was wrecked and
thirteen cars went into the ditch. 1t
is reported that none of the train
men were injured.
The force of machinists of the Al
buquerque shops, which was reduced
by the big let out last fall, is being
filled up again. Fifteen new men
have been put on since the first OF
the MONTH The majority OF them
are coming from the Santa Fe shops
at Topeka.
Father d. W. Kendrick, of st. Louis,
the Catholic priest who fell off an ;.
P. passenger train at Ell Paso, Fri
day night, died on Saturday at the
Hotel Dieu as result of his injuries.
The deceased stepped from the train
before it had stopped and was very
u y
divine in st. Louis.
The report comes from Jefferson
City, Mo-, that one of the legislators
of that state has introduced bill re-
curing all train dispatchers to learn
how to operate a typewriter, and also
requiring the railroads TO keep one
in every little way station of Missouri
The legislator has an idea that if all
train orders were typewriter 1t would
lessen the number of accidents occur
ring because of misread orders.
President E. P. Ripley of the Santa
Fe system, is now directly interest
ed in the irrigation enterprise of the
lower Pecos valley. On or about jan
uary Is he subscribed for $4,000 worth
of the Pecos Irrigation company's
bonds, part of the $4,000 issue TO
build the big concrete fiume over the
Pecos, just north of Carlsbad. The
bonds are to be issued in the name
of the Pecos Valley & Northeastern
railway, and the stock is to be heid
Simply DIS du luNGSIlAcAl
Firemen on all lines of the Santa
Fe road west of Albuquerque have
settled their demands on the company
for an increase in pay Firemen, like
engineers, are paid for the number of
miles they travel, the scale OF wages
being fixed on a basis of 100 miles.
The wages to be paid are: For
freight, S2.45 to $40 for 100 miles
the old scale, s240 TO s2S5. For
passenger, $210 to $3.50: old scale,
$210 to 1925. The rate of pay is
higher according to the size OF the
engine.
The st. Louis Globe-DamOcrat says:
sThe Baldwin locomotive works have
Just turned out two locomotives with
petroleum burners. They will be de-
livered to the Atchison, Topeka 4
Santa Fe in a few days. In place OF
tender a tank is connected with
each engine for the fuel supply. me
tank is as large as an ordinary box
car, and is said to hold a supply that
would run a train 800 miles. me
drive wheels are 6 feet inches IN
diameter The engines are for pas
senger service
Bids are to be asked in a few days
by the Santa Fe for the erection or a.
new tourist hotel on the brink OF the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado III
Arizona The hostelry is to cost not
| less than $175,000. and will be built
about 400 feet from the canyon brink
at the head of Bright Angel trail.
The site is a commanding one and
the view from the upper balcony will
be one of the finest to be had. Work
will begin on the new hotel April
and contracts will call for it's COM
pletiUn by December 1. 1t will be IN
charge Of R. B. Burns, chief engineer
of the Santa Fe, who attends to the
| construction of all of the company's
buildings.
Chicago physicians declare that the
cocaine habit is responsible for many
of the street and steam railway ac-
cidents that are now SO frequent IN
| Chicago, says Chicago dispatch.
Railroad men are not allowed to drink.
They fear to break this rule. for the
odor of liquor will soon read to detec-
tion So in seeking substitute,
many of them have become cocaine
fends. The stuff is easily carried
I ~, <1,oiv n
not be detected until the user has
been for a long time a user of it. The
effect of cocaine is to deaden the
nerves and sensibilities. With that
comes a feeling of exhilaratiOn and
strength.
1t has been learned from reliable
source that a contract has been en-
tered into by the Santa Fe Central
railway with certain steel and iron
works at Youngstown, Ohio, for 100
carloads of steel rails and other neces-
sary track material for the construc-
ton of the Santa Fe Central rail-
the Ell Paso-Rock Island railroad.
These carloads of material under the
contract will commence to leave
Youngstown on the 9th instant and
will be hauled to Santa Fe by the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad and to
Kennedy, station twenty-five miles
Isoutheast of that city. on the Santa
Fe railway, by that road.
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