Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-13

Tue Odutd re-, Is IN the CITY. |
Ben williams, special officer for the
Santa Fe, arrived from the west Sat
urday.
Trainmaster E. j. Gibson, with Office
at Winslow, spent Sunday here with
his family.
James Foley has succeeded e. l..
Bartlett as clerk in Master Mechanic
Barnes office.
The Colorado G. Southern railway
granted ar increase of IL per cent for
freight men and Is per cent for pas
senger men.
J.. v. Key, superintendent of con-
struction on the Santa Fe cut off,
passed through the city this morning
en- route east.
Engineer w. z. Spade has written to
friends at San Marcial that since his
return to Akron, Ohio, his little boy
passed away in death.
Engineer and Mrs. f. w. Davis, of
Las Vegas, who have been spending a
couple of weeks in the city visiting
friends, returned home this morning.
Fireman James Cosgrove, of the
Santa Fe, has resigned and in the
future will devote his time to the paint
brush, identifying things of the city in
general.
The two Leseman boys, of San Mar
'cial, have accepted positions in the
railway shops in this city. 1t is their
intention later on to take up the ma
chinist trade.
A system pass on the enlarged Rock
Island system will enable the holder of
1t to ride continuously for the rest of
the rear without going by the same
red barn twice.
Edwin X. Frank, of Topeka, has ar
rived at Belen, N. M, where he will be
put in charge of a force of surveyors
at work on the Eastern of New Mex
ico,a road being built by the Santa Fe.
w. H. McMillion, the real estate and
employment agency man, shipped nine
laborers Saturday night to Grant
Brothers, contractors, who are doing
railroad construction work in Arizona.
George E.. Roe, district passenger
and freight agent for the Santa Fe,
with office at Ell Paso, passed through
the city this morning bound for Las
Vegas. Mr.. Roe said that he would
return to Albuquerque in a few days.
M. Calvin has been appointed road
master of the Beaumont division of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee, from
Sommerville to Conroe. Charles Paine
has been appointed roadmaster be-
tween Conroe and Silsbee, on the same
division.
G. B. Dolan, formerly ticket agent
here, later station agent at Rincon,
has left the services of the Santa Fee
in New Mexico and gone to Chicago.
Mr.. Dolan has something better in
sight. He is succeeded at Rincon by
G. A. Hallock.
General Manager w. s. Hopewell, of
the Santa Fee Central railway, who has
been looking after railway affairs
along the line of the road in Valencia
and Lincoln counties during the entire
week, will return to Santa Fee this eve
ming or tomorrow.
1t is said that T. w. Masters, a fire.
man on the Southern Pacific, is about
the largest man in the railroad bust.
mes. He is 6 feet 5 inches tall and
weighs $50 pounds and is built from
the ground up. Mr.. Masters was in the
city last Saturday, and, in company
with several local railroad employees,
made a pleasant call at The Citizen
Office. He went south last night.
j. M. Johnson, third vice president
of the Rock Island, whose resignation
was announced a few days ago, will go
with the Gould roads. He will become
assistant to A. G. Bird, who was re-
Gently made traffic director of all the
Gould liens. Mr.. Johnson had been
prominently mentioned as the sue
cessor Of Charles A. Parker as chair
man of the Colorado Railway associa-
ton.
The San Bernardino Sun says: The
Temecula and Perris local was delayed
near the former town by a growth of
grass and weeds which INSTRUCTED the
rails. The plentiful rain and the fav-
orable weather following has caused
the grass to grow at a phenomenal
rate along the roadbed, and yesterday
morning a strong wind bent this across
the rails, o~bstructing traffic. 1t was
cleared away by the section men after
the train had been delayed for an hour.
The Topeka State Journal says:
1t was announced that G. r. Naylor
had been appointed chief clerk to Me-
chanical Superintendent F. N. Risteen
to succeed r. H. Barber. who goes to
Los Angeles as chief clerk to Master
Mechanic Todd of the coast lines. Mr..
Naylor comes from La Junta, where
he has been chief clerk to the master
mechanic there. He will be succeeded
at La Junta by Christopher Wise of
the office of d, e. Fitzgerald, motive
power accountant.
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