Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-14
Track and Train

Superintendent OF Telegraph c. iii
Gaunt passed through the city on his
way from Topeka to California.
w. w. Webster, assistant engineer
Of tests on the coast lines passed
through this city on his way back to
San Bernardino from an eastern trip.
President E. p. Ripley, of the Santa
re system, passed through the city
on No. Q last night, accompanied by
his wife andsn party Of friends on the
way home to Chicago from Santa
Barbara.
. L. 3. Hays, an engineer who was
injured while in the employ Of The
Gull, Colorado & Santa Fe, was award
"a damages in the sum Of $4,000 In
tie district court at GAINESVILLE, Tex.
as, last Saturday.
The Ell Paso & Northeastern com
pany is now piling their coal at yar!s
ons points along the right Of way
The coal stored at AlamogordO Is
about sixty cars and a similar amount
at Carrizozo. The reason Is said to
be THAI the Galveston & Houston.
y Is not taking the coal and 1t Is being
stored.
Two freight crews were pulled on
the Gallup division yesterday and
Conductors E. B. Jones and r. B. Pat
ton are on the extra board again. rs
reduction in the force Of brakemen re
suited in the discharge Of O. II, Young
andfC. ". Taylor. Brakeman Q. AZ
Harper resigned and will take a trip
to Mexico.
Heavier steel is being laid along
the line Of the Santa Fe. a gang of
men is at work on the coast lines.
and down in Kansas q large force of
men Is at work. improvements afe|
being made all along the line not
w~ithstanding the statement Of ne
officers that this year would be oESSsof
retrenchment.
The Pennsylvania will soon adopt
the more modern block system, IN
which white is not used. Under the
new system the semaphore set for
caution will be painted black, n
the edanger or stop signal will be
yellow. The Erie is now using on
one of its divisions yellow and green
signals al is also the L~ackawana COM
pany.
The gross earnings Of the twenty
two roads for the fourth week in
April we're. s6,5l2,7O4, against $6S97,,
267 for the fourth week in April, 1903,
a decrease Of $3S4,563, Eight roads
show increases and fourteen decreas-
=. Since July LIST the roads referred
10 above earned $216,127,322, an In.
crease of $12, 1924 over the 5000 $40.
ess reported for the corresponding per
iod Of last year.
Fireman Loubeck, who lives at San
Marcial, was injured yesterday in Al
buQuerque. He is firing on the S79
and was on the engine when n OF
the yard goats butted into it and jar
red the coal down onto the worthy
fireman cutting several gashes in his
head and Otherwise bruising him. He
was placed on a train and taken 70
his home. Neither the engine nor
goat" were much injured.
The railroads are competing with
each other In their efforts TO secure
early traffic to the Worlds Fair in st.
Louis. One far IL charged for 2
round trip and expensive advertise
nlents Of all kinds are being sent out,
the latest being : beautifully illustrat-
ed three color pamphlet which, upon
application, II furnished by the West
shore railway. The result Of the re-
duced rates and extensive advertising
has already started much traffic and
ali trains from the west are heavily
laden with those who wish to see the
fair before the rush Of the summer
reason.
The question as to which road Is
10 receive the bulk Of the worlds
Fair traffic from Colorado is very like
IL 10 terminate in a very pretty little
scrap between the Burlington, Rock
island and Santa Re roads. II these
three lines get in a rate war II will
be cheaper 10 90 to the worlds Fair
thar ~ etay nj home. Al feature OF