Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-17
TRACK AND TRAIN.


Engine s25 is on the yard tracks
for resetting Of the tires.
p. J. Maloney, recently Of Gallup.
is now firing out Of Albuquerque.
Cornelio Padilla Chavez has added
himself to the round house force in
the capacity Of wiper.
All the arrangements Of the Machin-
lists ball are made and the joyous
event is now awaited with Impotence.
Candalario Montoya is the name of
the new q who has entered the ser
Give Of the railroad company as wiper.
Two more firemen have tried of the
arduous duties Of keeping the big en-
gines under steam and have SEN in
their resignation.
Yesterday was pay day. The checks
were prompt in coming and a gener-
Gus smile lights up the ~countenances
OF the men today.
Engineer Frederick who wa sud
denly stricken with some sort OF a
disease Of the brain last Tuesday,
died at the Alamogordo hospital.
Manager Prichard states that the
lunch counter of the Harvey house at
San Marcial, is going to be remodeled
with new paper, paints. lights, etc.
Hatton and Brown have filed their
complaint in the district court at
Las Cruces to ~foreclose their lien on
the Southern Pacific, involving many
thousands Of dollars.
The water run is agaN advertised
on the boards. Engineer McQuiddy
who lad charge of the train which
supplied the water to Lamy has re-
signed The place and a new man is,
wanted.
The sight Of the old Santa Fe sta
tion building at San Marcial will 0
be covered with a nice growth of
grass, and this attractive feature is
to be fortified by the placing Of q neat
iron fence about the basis.
Machinists Tusher, McIsaace and
belong, Boiler Maker Helper Myers
and Machinists' Helper Hartman left
last night on No. s to take In the ball
given tonight at Ration by the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Firemen.
Business ON the Deming and Silver
City branch Of the Santa Fe railroad
seem to be picking up. Superintend-
ent McNally OF the Rio Grande divi-
sion has ordered an engine to Rim
con as 'pusher" for freight trains
going over the hill.
Engines 74S and 1927. which had the
misfortune to come together On the
Glorietta mountain night before last,
are both in the shops as a result Of
their little frolic. Neither Is In SER
ious condition and both will DON be
out on their regular runs again.
The Alamogordo Journal says:
Thomas L. Wilson, fourth grand
vice president OF the International
Association Of Machinists, came to
Alamogordo on the limited and ex-
pressed himself well pleased In the
way unionism stands for its rights In
Alamogordo. Notwithstanding that all
of the different grand lodge officers
were against us.
AL Graves, the courteous brakeman
on the Santa Fe passenger train, who
suffered . severely bruised leg, caus
ed by a fall from the top Of a a sew.
eral months ago, went to Topeka the
other day to enter the hospital there.
where he expects to undergo q sur
gical operation to remove pieces Of
splintered bone from the injured mem
Der, which now retard the wound
from properly healing.
The work on the installation OF the
turntable Is beginning to show signs
Of the end. The 22d Of this month
is the date set for completion. The
track in the pit Is already down; the
center stone III set and the big iror
nsssas