Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-07
Looks Rather Hopeless.

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Looks Rather Hopeless.
When Robert Mather, general
counsel of the Rock Island, was in
Kansas City the other day, he said he
didn't know when that town would
get its new union depot.
.Do you believe any action will be
taken this year?" was asked.
"No, / do not believe that there will
be-" he said. "The matter is gradu=
ally working to a point, but | don't
know when it will be reached"
Mr.. Mather said that until the
Worlds Fair travel is over and until
the crops have been moved and bust
ness quieted down, there was little
probability of any action whatever.
He said the first of next year some
thing definite might be known.
Mr.. Mather left his car during its
thirty-seven minutes stay and walked
up and down the depot platform. He
inquired about the removal OF the
shanties and glazing signs which have
adorned the side of the west bluff.
1T will be quite an Improvement
he said, when all the stuff Is torn
away" NEE
Injured on Grand Canyon Line.
Pete Wilcox and Lewis Show
were the victims of an accident on
the Grand Canyon road last Thurs.
day. They were working on the road
bed recently damaged by the high
waters when an embankment caved
in, catching them beneath its falling
volume. Wilcox sustained a fracture
of the right leg, while Show sprained
an ankle and wrist. They We're taken
to the Los Angeles hospital.
Still Cleaning Up.
The cleaning up process is still 60
ing on at the A~lamogordo shops,
saws the News. When Superinten-
dent Dawson took charge of the El
Paso and Northeastern shops here
one of the first things he did was
to put a force of Mexican laborers to
work cleaning up, and this gang of
men have been at work two months,
and as has been stated before, things
about the shops are beginning to look
like somebody with ability has mat
tiers in charge. At the time MI. Daw-
son took charge the shops were in a
d~isgraceful condition.
Santa Fe Insured for $30,ooo,o0o.
The insurance Of the entire Santa
Fe system, amounting to more than
100000, 900, and said to be the largest
railroad line in the country, has just
been awarded to d. w. Burrows and
the Manley McLennan agency of Chi
cago.
After September ] the entire line
will be handled by the railroad office
of the Manley McLennan agency. The
insurance has been placed for ten
years by Frank q Dubois of New
York, largely through the eastern
syndicate.
MIR. Sullivan, general superintendent
of the FL Paso q Northeastern, is a
genial fellow He smokes almost IN
~cessantly, and If there is a rule IN
the shops that he regrets, 1t is prob.
ably that which forbids smoking. His
energy Is little short Of marvellous. A
little more than a year ago a journal
list took a trip with him over the
Dawson line that I'M consequence Of
unforeseen difficulties lasted over
eighteen hours, During the whole
time he was on the move and moth
ing seemed to escape his notice. He
inquired after the location of certain
cars as a school teacher might after
her pupils. To tell a man to do a
thing was d longer process than to
do II himself. He was hail fellow
well met with one and MI. from the
newest section hand up. Under the
circumstances his advancement was
no surprise,
The management Of the Rock Is.
land have put on d corps Of train
auditors for the entire system. Five
have been appointed SO far, and are
operating ON various portions Of the
lines. The system has been inaugur-
ated for the purpose of keeping As
nearly as possible a check on the re-
ceipts Of the train auditors. 1T ISL
claimed that the plan has not been
instituted as a challenge TO the hon.
esty Of conductors. The train audi