Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-07-27
BETTER TRAIN
SERVICE
The Santa Fe Railway Company
is Willing to Restore Con.
nection With No. One.
OFFICIAL COR
RESPoNDENCE
1t Indicates That All Local People Need
to Do Is to Declare Present Ar.
rangement Unsatisfactory.


The following correspondence be
tween the Santa Fe Board of Trade
through it's committee appointed fol
that purpose and the postoffice depart
ment, indicates that Santa Fe can per
suade the Santa Fe Railway Company
to restore connection over the Lamy
branch with train No. 1, and at the
same time maintain the present con.
nections with train No. Z from the east
and No. 2 from the south and the west.
The following is the text of the letter
sent by the Board of Trade to the post
master general:
'The Board of Trade of the city of
Santa Fe respectfully but earnestly
protests against the reduction of the
mail service BY the abandonment of
the train leaving Santa Fe for Lamy at
7:10 p. m. and returning at $40 p. m.
"This train carries the mail both for
the south and west on train No. Z on
the main line of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway, and for the east
on No. and brings the mail from the
east that has come on No. T. This is
the principal mail of the day, and if
the train is discontinued, will have to
remain at Lamy until noon of the next
day. The afternoon official and other
business mail for the south and west
will have to wait until $40 p. m. of
the succeeding day; and the mail for
the east till 9:10 the next morning. In
short, it would delay those mails from
fourteen ITO twenty hours.
"The railroad company has recently
discontinued one train to Lamy to the
great inconvenience Of the people; and
the reduction now proposed would be
exceedingly injurious.
ut is to be remembered that Santa
Fe is the capital of the Territory, the
headquarters of the land office, of the
United States courts, of the surveyor
general, of the internal revenue col
lector, so that the official correspond.
ence is of much Importance.
eve earnestly hope that no such
reduction will be made.
Every respectfully,
L. BRADFORD PRINCE,
!. SPARKS,
s. SPITZ, Committee.
Thereupon Still P. Taft. superintend-
ent of the railway service at ST. Louis,
wrote J. P. Lindsay, general agent of
the Santa Fe system at Chicago, as
follows:
"Kindly note protest herewith from
the Board of Trade at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, relative to the discontinuance
of your trains, 724 and 725, between
Santa Fe and Lamy.
"Under new schedule with these
trains eliminated. mail from La Junta
and Albuquerque train No. Z, is neces-
sarily delayed about fifteen hours at
Lamy, and also does not permit of any
dispatch from Santa Fe for your No.
La Junta and Albuquerque train No.
Z carries the Denver morning dailies
which formerly reached Santa Fe by
your No. 725 and vigorous complaints
will certainly follow on account of de-
lay which will result in delivery of
these papers.
"Will you kindly take up with the
operating department and see what
can be done towards restoring those
trains as heretofore.
please have files returned as early
as practicable in order that I may adj
wise the department as to what can
be expected"
To this Mr.. Lindsay replied as fol-
lows:
Replying to your letter of June 81,
and railway mail service files $500, I
have to state that the situation has
been gone over with our general man
ager, who has accepted my suggestion
Ito establish a connection from train
z at Lamy. He states that if the re-
Quirements cannot be satisfied with
two trains he will put back the service
of the previous schedule. This will
probably be done within the next two
weeks"
President L. B. Prince Of the Board
of Trade, in conclusion, received the
following letter from Alexander Grant,
acting general superintendent Of the
railway mail service:
II invite your attention to the en-
closed papers indicating that the
Santa Fe Railway will put on q train
from Lamy to Santa Fe in connection
with main line train No. Z. This I pre-
sumo will remedy the trouble COM
planned Of"
Postmaster Walter, in reply to his
efforts to have connection with train
No Z, restored, received similar re-
plies, and has now taken up vigorously
the matter of having connection with
train No. restored as the eastern
mails arrive too late at present for
distribution the same evening, and the
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