Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-23
Track and Train
To curtaiI Passes.

To curtaii Passes.
Railroad presidents generally have
sent out orders to restrict the issu-
ance Of passes more rigidly than ever
before. Eastern trunk lines with a
view to avoiding unnecessary crowd
ing during the rush to st. Louis, are
turning down by the wholesale appti-
cations for passes from employees who
have heretofore been favored.
Trunk line records show that more
than 5000 persons were carried free
to the Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1898.
and about as many were carried free
to Buffalo during the Pan.American
exposition two years ago. Traffic
managers say that the aggregate
Of railroad ~deadheads to the st. Louis
exposition will be cut down fully 66
a-3 per cent below the Chicago and
Buffalo totals.
All Of the important railroads have
agreed upon one point; that is. no
employees will be carried free tosSt.
Louis after August 18th. During the
1 Chicago fair the Vanderbilt lines and
the Pennsylvania railroad ran special
trains periodically for the free use Of
their respective employees, furnishing
sleeping car service free, and arrang-
ing for special rates at hotels and res
taurants.
The men employed in the Santa Fe
shops at Needles were released from
fhe stockade last week, and are now
being cared for in the town
Alvin A. Hayes. Of Topeka, has
been appointed chief claim clerk Of
the santa re, one Of the most import
ant positions in the freight auditing
department OF the system.
Owing to the fact that the traffic
On the FL Paso & Northeastern rail-
way is very low at present and train
men are making poor wages, quite a
number Of them are preparing to leave
for Kansas to work IN the harvest
fields, expecting to return to Alamo.
gordo in the fall, when it is expected
that traffic will be heavier on the rail.
road.
&. "A. Rathbun ofsDenyer, sLo has
lately been with the Colorado South
rn,arrived iieshrdluou Ipou nononnn
ern, arrived in Santa Fe to assume
his duties as cashier at the Santa Re
railway depot. Mr.. Rathbnn is not
a newcomer to New Mexico. He was
4 resident several years ago Or Las
Vegas. being then engaged in raising
cattle in San Miguel county, He has
Travelled extensively over the Terri
tory and is well known to many peo-
pie. Returning to New Mexico is
like coming home TO him.
Because the S-Spot and n~eighboring
saloons tend TO demoralize the en-
ployes Of the Santa Re and are cen
stantly causing trouble among the
shopmen, the oflctsls Of that road are
now considering the ACCESSIBILITY Of
purchasing the land on which the a.
Icons are erected and building
tenements in their stead. The mef.
lality III these dens is said % ae So
low, by those in charge of the local
shops, that all who come within their
influence sooner OF later feel the re-
suit.
Especially since the present troaJ
has the Santa re been seriously han-
dicapped By the ever present influence
OF these dives, and IL Is said by those
who have made a study of the situa-
'tion that lneir removal would be a
benefit to the men working in the
shops and the city al a whole as well
as the railroad. Officers of the city
and the railroad state that the saloon
caters ID the lowest class Of trade,
and many hesitate before being drawn
within the atmosphere Of such places.
but they have noticed that it is only
II question Of time when their proxim-
fly to the men finally causes the EN-
ployes Ia succumb to their influence.
Albuquerque Journal.
KENTUCKY LAWYERS