Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-26
TRACK AND TRAIN.

A. ]. Harland of st. Louis, the chief
promoter of the proposed railroad
from Ration to Elizabethtown was in
Ration the other day on business con-
nected with his railroad project.
Engineer Brown, who was nurt IN
the derailment Of a freight train on
the Mexican Central, is still seriously
ill at Aguas Calientes. He sustained
injuries to both his legs, and his right
arm was badly burned.
w. w. Sylvester, vi~ce-presiden. of
the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railroad, who has gone to New York
city for the purpose Of placing securi-
ties for the two construction com
panies now building the Orient in
Mexico.
The Rock Island ard El Paso-Nor.a-
eastern general passenger depart
ments now have up a proposition to
put on a special car between FL Paso
and st. Louis for the Worlds Fair, to
run into st. Louis v the Wabash
system.
It is reliably reported at Houston,
Texas, that Thornwall Gay. vice-pres-
ident of the Southern Pacific Louisi-
ana lines, will succeed C. H. Mark
ham, who has been appointed general
manager of the Southern Pacific at
San Francisco, succeeding Julius
Kruttschnitt, effective April |.
Charles B. Sloat has been appointed
general agent of the passenger de-
partment Of the Rock Island system
at Denver in place of A. H. Moffat,
who has resigned. w. L. Hathaway
has been promoted from city passen-
ger agent at Minneapolis to district
passenger agent of the northwestern
district, with headquarters at Mime
apolis. "A. Il. Steece succeeds Mr..
Hat away AZ city passenger agent AT
Minneapolis.
The Ell Paso & Southwestern, as a
result OF the heavy business over
that line, has found it necessary to
place an order with the Pressed Steel
Car company for forty additional
pressed steel one cars, which will be
used iii the hauling OF ore over that
line. The new cars will be Of one
hundred thousand pounds capacity
and unloaded by means Of an air at
tachment. The cars will be similar to
the thirty received some time ago.
kid Bolt, who on March 16 van
pushed kid" Bean, in a lively glove
contest at Snnnyside, has accepted
the position as night Waterman at
the shops Office building. Bolt did
not become vain over his success In
the prize ring and enter himself into
the professional class as most sue
cessful amateurs do, but will continue
in the service of the Santa Fe. How
ever, he will accept a challenge from
any one in his class Albuquerque
Citizen.
Machinists who were among those
let out in the recent cut force az the
Santa Fe shops are beginning to leave
San Bernardino in search Of employ
ment elsewhere. Machinist Taylor
and Mrs. Taylor were passengers
aboard last nights overland for
Springfield, Illinois; Machinist Hoeg
and wife were aboard the same train
bound for Texas, while Mr.. and Mrs.
Moore, the former a machinist, We're
on their way to Topeka, Kansas. A
number Of others will leave for the
east this evening.-San Bernardino
Sun.
There Is also something doing"
in Albuquerque as regards force re-
Juction. Forty men have been drop.
ped. This reduction is due to the dull
season OF the year and the fact that
the company has recently added some
forty new engines to the west end OF
the road. which will not need extern.
sive repairs for . matter Of six
months. The reduction is Q temper
sry one. and the force will remain
at It's standard Of q year ago. The
men laid OF were practically all new
men who have been added within the
past few months. Time OF service,
capability and the fact OF the employ.