Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-19
TRACK AND TRAIN.

90 CAME III sCSeCAudS loI siiSnt
oyerhauling.
SS2 is on the yard tracks for re
pairs on the rod work.
The machinists' ball is approaching
and those who do not attend will miss
4 good time.
74S was fired up this morning pre-
paratory to taking her leave. Of the
hospital department.
Engine $50 has been transferred
from albuquerque to the third district
for temporary service.
The big new turn table has been
set upon the pit and will be in work
ing order within q day or two.
Word came from Topeka yesterday
that the a men art hereafter 10
work but eight hours a day.
Ramundo Angel. boilermaker helper,
has received a leave of absence and
gone to Chihuahua, Mexico, for a Wis
It.
A number Of the round house men
were of duty this afternoon to attend
the funeral Of Facundo Valdez, who
was run over by an engine yesterday.
VIM. Lewis, car foreman at the
shops, went down to Albuquerque yes
terday on business of the company.
He will spend a few days in the Duke
City.
The B. r. G. OF A. will give a social
in the Knights Of Pythias hall on the
evening Of March Is. Besides the
members Of the order, their families
and friends are invited.
The wrecker was called out last
night to a wreck at Watrous. II got
as far as Onava, when word was re-
eeived that the car which were off
the track we're back in place. The
wrecker returned to its post again.
Machinists Tusher, Kolar and Help
er Hartman came down last night from
Ration, where they attended the ball
given by the B. of L. f. There are
others of the local boys to be heard
from. All report a successful affair
and that a good number Of the Ration
people are expected down at the ma
chinists' dance Of the oath at Rosen-
thai hall.
Cuban Route to the Fair.
The Cuban government has desig-
mated the Southern Pacific Steamship
line and the Illinois Central railroad
as the lines over which Cuban exhib-
its and government employees should
move to the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition. Within a few days the exhlb-
its OF the island, which will show the
agricultural and other resources of
Cuba, will be shipped over this route
to st. Louis by way of New Orleans.
and such passenger business as the
government shall control in connec-
tion with the exposition will be routed
In the same way.
Time Table Rights No Good.
The American Railway association,
at the April meeting, will present a
set Of rules authorizing the movement
of trains on double tracks against the
current Of traffic by the use Of block
signals and eliminating time table
rights, book Of rules superiority and
train orders entirely. The signal will
be the instructions to the engine man
and the conductor as to how to pro-
coed, and they will depend entirely
upon the signal. This is an original
step by the association, as there are
no roads In the country which are to-
day operating in this manner.
Conductor Was Converted.
Captain Charles Smith Of the Saliva
ton Army, who arrived In Prescott
with his wife recently 10 take charge
OF the work there. was with the Santa
Fe Railway company in the train sery.
ice for q number Of years. He was
for a long time conductor on the lin
tied out Of Chicago. On being con.
verted and taking up the Salvation
Army work, he decided his property
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