Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-12-29

iailIoHuh to get trains INTO BOSTON
and New York with AS much dis.
patch as is desired.
Harriman's Idea.
Some months ago there was con.
siderable feeling among the men
working for the Southern Pacific,
more especially the engineered, be-
cause false signals were given them,
says the Lordsburg Liberal. An on.
gineer would be pulling his train
along and find a stop. or slow down,
or some other signal at an unexpect.
ed place, He would answer the sig.
nal and find a man who would tell
him to so on. he a all right. Again
the engineer might be called up on
The carpet and asked why he did not
heed a certain signal at a certain
time. He would have to own up he
never saw II, and then listen to a
discourse on watchfulness, and be
told that he was hired out to watch
out, and heed signals. The men did
that this was done by the personal
order of Mr., Hartman. He was in.
~vestigating the cause Of many ac-
cidents, and found that a large per
cent of them were caused by care
lessness, and he concluded that he
would find out how many OF his men
were careless. The first series of
experiments showed that GA per
cent OF the signals were needed. The
work was continued and the men
from Portland to New Orleans learn
ed that they had got to keep their
eyes open and watch out for signals
at any old place, for an accident Is
liable to happen at any time, and
there is where a signal is import.
ant. In October there were 932 sig
nal tests on the system. and only five
failures, making a percentage OF 99.5.
which is considered very satisfactory.
1t Is probable that the signal tests
will be continued often enough to
keep the men alive TO their duty.
Slated Wheel Twenty-Five Miles.
Conductor Jones and Brakeman
Markham and Forest of the Albu.
querque-Winslow division, were on
trial in Superintendent Gibson's car
for careless conduct. 1t is charged
that this train crew slid a wheel ON
a car loaded with chickens from La
guna to Grants and that the wheel
was so badly worn by the constant
rubbing on the rail that the flange
reached the ties on the inner side
of the rail. 1t required five kegs of
spikes to replace those cut off by
the damaged wheel. All three men
are laid off pending the decision of
the trial.
The Colorado Midland Railroad
company has been sending out some
very artistic advertising for some
years past and as the years go by 1t
is gettiong more artistic all the time.
There has been distributed the latest
picture issued, the head of a Rocky
mountain lion, almost life size, in a
handsome frame and covered with
glass. In one corner of the picture
Is a reproduction In miniature OF the
last former picture sent out, an In
dian brave in war paint mounted on
a fiery steed.
Six miles OF the st. Louis, Browns
Vile & Mexican railway is TO be taken
up and moved outward a half a mile.
As newly laid, the track will describe
the arc of a new moo This piece
Of work will be on the main line OF
the new road In Cameron county,
Texas. The object Of 1t is to get
off OF land which has gotten into the
courts as the basis OF a preplexing
legal tangle.
Jarvis and Schwindler, the two
men arrested at San Francisco and
taken TO San Bernardino charged with
the killing of Express Messenger Rob.
erts two weeks ago, were discharged
by the grand jury last week, there
being insufficient evidence TO hold
them.
The No. 10, Chicago fast mail
train. touches the high places be-
tween FL Paso and Las Vegas, and
thence on east from this city This
train does all local work, and makes
limited time.