Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-05
Railroad Topics

N. NJ. Rice, general storekeeper of
the Santa Fe coast lines. was a pas
senger for the west last night.
j. F. McNally, the Industrious sup
erintendent of the Rio Grande division
of the Santa Fe, came up from San
Marcial this morning.
The Ell Paso Herald says: Master
Mechanic Powers, of the Santa Fe,
went to Albuquerque yesterday to re-
move his family 40 this city.
w. x. Vanderbilt, Jr.. the inventor
OF an improved firebox for locomotives,
and one of the few sons of m~illionaires
who are worth their salt, passed
through the city for the east the other
night.
William Graves writes from Fergus.
Mich, for information of his brother,
John Graves, who is supposed to have
been shot at Las Vegas twenty three
years ago while in the employ of the
Santa Fe railway company.
Delbert Robinson, one of Albuquer-
QIe's popular young apprentices of the
local shops, is laid up with a badly
fractured limb and his many friends
will be glad to hear that he is getting
along nicely, but it will be some time
before he will be able to be out and
around again.
Fancy brass bars are being placed
at the outside windows of the Santa
Fe ticket Office. If this bit of precau-
ton had been taken when the office
was first occupied it might have pre-
vented the recent robbery. The rob
bers gained access to the office
through a window.
DR.. w. Seward Webb. a noted CAPT
talist of New York and also one of the
directors of the New York Central
lines, and party passed through Eel
Paso on a special train by way of the
Southern Pacific, en- route from New
York to California. where they are 60
ing on a pleasure trip.
Miss Nora Morrisey, head nurse at
the Montezuma. Las Vegas hot springs.
has resigned her position in that hos
telry and will soon leave for Pasadena,
Cal, where she has accepted a position
as private nurse. Miss Morrisey will
be succeeded at the Montezuma by
Miss Minnie Mathison, who has been
at the s~anitarium for several weeks
past.
F. II. Manters has been appointed
assistant general freight agent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad.
Manters succeeds J.. ". Tedford, who
resigned to engage in other business.
G. A. Arid was appointed general
agent of the freight department, sue
ceeding Mr.. Manters. Mr.. Arid has
been commercial agent of the Santa
Fe at Cleveland. He will have head
quarters at Chicago.
The firm of B.. Lantry Sons has pur-
chased from the Santa Fe an eight
wheel McKeon engine which was built
at the Schenectady works. The engine
is now No. lis, but when it is repaint-
ed it will be No. 10. Four engines were
painted for Lantry Bros. in the Santa
Fe railway shops at Topeka. two years
ago, and they were so well pleased
with them that they have decided to
have this one painted also at the To
peka shops.
The clerks employed in the freight.
passenger and telegraph departments
of the Canadian Pacific railway at Van
couver, B. c., went on strike Tuesday
to enforce recognition of the United
Brotherhood of Railway Employees. A
freight clerk, alleged to have peer dis
charged because of his membership in
the brotherhood was made the subject
of an ultimatum. The brotherhood de-
,NarlAl 1T. OIL rrLa,
this was refused arranged to strike.