Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-04
TRACK AND TRAIN.
Sls is in for side rod repairs.

ne racine mutual INSURANCE coWe
pany.
u Dave O'Connor, q machinist formerly
Employed in the local shops. is in
town visiting friends.
\ T. G. Mulhern, roadmaster OF the
Santa Fe Central railroad, has tender
ed his resignation to accept q similar
position in Ell Pasol
E. A. McElwee, who was injured q
month or more ago at Torrance on the
Santa Fe Central railway. has left the
hospital and, is again on duty as brake
man.
In 1880 the south had but 20,500
miles Of railway. In 1903 there were
oyer fifty-four thousand miles, repre-
senting a new influx Of capital to the
amount Of $1.5OO,000,O 900.
President ingalls, of the Big-Four
railroad has offered to give $4,000
toward the erection Of the 100000
gymnasium at Purdue university, La
Fayette, Ind, as a memorial to the
seventeen students who lost their
lives in the wreckof the football
players train on October 81, 1908.
A. Van Tuyle, who came here Q
short time ago from San Bernardino,
Calf, is in the local railroad hospital
with a badly strained right arm. The
arm was injured at the local shops,
and it will be several weeks before
Van Tuyle can return to work. Al
buquerque Citizen.
President Loree and Vice-President
Winchell Of the Rock Island are not
afraid Of "hoodoo' engines. During
their trip over the Eastern Illinois
last week their special was hauled by
engine 100, known as bloody 100" in
1893 this engine al into a round
house and killed several persons and
its record since has been a bad one.
1t is reported that the Southern Pa
ciic will return to the old method OF
giving every engineer and fireman
Individual engines and holding each
responsible for their condition. The
pooling system now in use Is unsatis-
factory to the men and company both.
Too many are handling the engines
and the return to the individual sys-
TEN will be welcomed by the men.
In January the December payrolls
OF the railroads at Trinidad were
about $4,000 short Of the normal. This
month the payrolls for January will be
q gain Of more than $25. 600, and is
expected that the March payrolls for
February will be-nearly normal, Il con
ditions improve as they have the past
few weeks. Coal Is moving in con-
stantly increasing volume, and more
freight train crews are being added
by the several railroads.
Goes to the Denver Road.
b. w. Nudge, chief clerk Of the
Colorado division Of the Santa Fe rail-
way, a son of General Manager II. U.
Nudge, has resigned the position is
Pueblo to accept that OF chief
clerk of the genertl Offices
or the Fort Worth & Den
3 CITY railway at Fort Worth, Tex.
p. w Edwards, the time clerk in the
offices, will succeed Mr.. Nudge In
Pueblo.
II. w. Ridgeway's New Office.
II. w. Ridgeway, formerly super
intendent of motive power Of the +. 2.
& N. 4. at Alamogordo, now connect
ell with tne Mexican Sch'i"it
Hotel orndorff with his wife. super
intendent Ridgeway has recently been
appointed to a very responsible posi-
tion in the service OF the Mexican
Central, that Of superintendent OF the
shops at Aguascalientes. These VIII
be the main shops OF the Mexican
Central and are several hundred acres
in extent, giving employment to about
n men.-El Paso Herald.
Serious Wreck.
"A slight railroad wreck took place
Tuesday night about 1880 o'clock,
which might have been serious
but for the quickness Of the engineer
IA topping his train: Extra freight
No. 436, east bound, was moving along
at q rapid speed, when the journal
broke on n OF the cars as the train
was approaching Febens station. The
accident was discovered almost I'M