Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-11-10
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Fireman Baker is at work again.
Engineer Schubert is back at work.
Fireman Morris has reported for
duty.
Fireman Heydt IS among the idle
ones.
Fireman conwell is laying off be-
tween trips.
Engineer A. Lowe is On duty again
after a short vacation.
Time is out of joint for Fireman
Brown, and he will rest for a day or
two to give the healing process time
to get in its work.
The position Of engineer on the fifth
u Of the Third New Mexico is va
cant. The first engineer in point cf
seniority Of service who applies be
fore November 16 will receive the APP
pointment.
r. S. Sumner, chief engineer Of
maintenance of way of the FL Paso-
Northeastern. has rendered his resig
nation, effective the 18th. 1t is under
stood that with the retirement Of Mr..
Sumner the position of chief engineer
will be abolished. Mr.. Sumner will go
with the Denver Northwestern Pacific.
Oficials Of many railroads are much
interested in the plan OF President Hill
Of the Great Northern to popularize a
new route for round-the-world passen-
ger traffic on the completion OF the
two great steamships which will ply
between Puget sound ports and the
Orient.
Richmond, Calf, is going wild over
: report that the Southern Pacific has
ordered the removal Of the big shops
from Sacramento to the former place,
which heretofore has been considered
as peculiarly belonging to the Santa
Fe. The reported removal Is authen
tic, and will tend to more than double
the population of Point Richmond
within a few months. Only the en-
CINE repair department will be re-
tanned at Sacramento.
The Southern Pacific company has
pulled off all passenger trains through
this city with the exception of one
each way daily. This Is rather a
strange proceeding at this time of the
year, as heretofore this has been the
time when they began to increase their
passenger service instead Of decreas-
ing it. Travel must be light, indeed,
to cause such a nov on the part of
the company.-Deming Headlight.
Hundreds Of refrigerator cars, and
nowhere to put them. That Is the pre-
dicament which is now facing the San
ia Fe in Southern California, and the
dispatchers are worrying their heads
of in vain in an endeayor to find Il
place to leave the freezers until they
will be needed when the thick of the
orange season comes out. The orange
shipments still continue, but only
amount to a h~alf-dozen cars a night,
and when the fact is stated that there
are 1000 empty refrigerator cars in
that section, the problem of securing
sufficient side track facilities Is appar
ent.
The first Of the railroads to be oper-
ated from the east is the Rock Island,
whose policy, recently adopted, IS to
bring the chief officials east, where
they may be In close relations to the
actual owners Of the property. This
is said to be the meaning Of the trans
FER or G. II. Warren, the first vice
president, to New York. Until recent
" he has been located in the west,
where he was the chief operating on.
cial. B. L. winchell, who was with
the Frisco, IS now second v~ice-presi-
dent and chief executive in the west.
The Rock Island company has taken
an entire floor at II Broadway, New
York, where President Leeds, Treas
mar