Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-07
TR A(k AND TRAIN

Fireman Banning is off.
Engine $40 is in the shope for side
rod repairs.
Fireman Fishburn has responded to
the call OF duty.
Fireman Bunnell takes q leave Of
absence for a short time.
Engineer Schubert is among those
who are taking life easy.
Fireman Snyder is devoted to his
profession and is back at his post.
Engineer E. w. Davis. finding the
life of toll too strenuous, is seeking
comfort in a lay-of.
Fireman Lynn loves labor rather
than ease and is consequently back to
keep the Goals glowing.
Thos. Fitzimmons, who has been
acting as agent at Ribera has gone to
Wagon Mound al night operator.
Thos. Scully, the new division store
keeper from Topeka. who takes the
place Of M. E. Todd, resigned, is at the
store desk. He arrived day bef0e
yesterday.
Only six people out Of 32,000,00O
travelling in Pullman ears have been
killed in the last three years. Now,
you know why you are asked to pay
So; not for luxury, but for safety.
r. E. Marshall, who has been In the
east on a ninety day leave of absence.
has returned to his duties as station
agent at Glorieta, relieving Geo. A.
Selleck, relief agent who now goes to
Ribera to accept what will probably
be a permanent position as station
agent there.
j. A. Smith, the machinist who went
to work only two days ago, has evi-
IDENTIFY found something in the Las
Vegss air which does not agree with
him. He passed in his resignation
yesterday and declares that he will
seek a more favorable habitat in a
more southern cline.
The railroad clerks Of Alamogordo
gave their ball Thursday evening at
Knights Of Pythias hall and it was at
tended by a large and jolly crowd
who thoroughly enjoyed the music and
dancing. The occasion was a success,
socially for the boys. Rhodes orches-
ira furnished the music.
The tide of employees which has
been ebbing at the shops has reach
ed the minimum point. The flow in
the other direction will begin in a few
DAYS. New machinists and new lab
orers are to be added and the merry
hum Of renewed business after the
holiday quiesence will soon be heard.
A new passenger engine. the l224.
has arrived and will be put on duty
between La Junta and Ration. She has
been making good records in the trial
trips and giving first.class satisfaction.
II is a simple engine and Is meeting
with much favor among the engineers
as compared with the compound class.
C. H. Warren, first vice-president
OF the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad, has been requested to re-
sign and will leave the company. The
news of reelection to that position,
which came from New York, proved
to be untrue, as did the report Of the
reelection OF W. b. Leeds and the 9TH
err officers of the company.
The Way Out.
How many of our citizens have ever
counted the bands Of steel reaching
out from the city Of San Bernardino
to the surrounding world for trade
and profit? says the San Bernardino
Times-Index. We have fourteen railway
outlets, and there are more to come be-
fore many months roll around.
More Freight Crews.
More freight crews were put to
work on Sunday, one Wednesday and
Thursday, say the Alamogordo AID.
vertiser. This makes eighteen freight
crews at work on the main line, ex.
elusive OF the Captain branch and
mountain line and also about three
more crews than have aver been EN-.
ployed before. There r fifty.three
engines on the division counting
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