Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-24
REPORT CURRENT AND CEN
ERALLY BELIEVED THAT PRES
lDENT E. P. RIPLEY WILL RETIRE
George Is. Harris, President of the Burlington, May
Succeed Him ANumber of Surprising Changes
on Several Of the Big Railroad Systems,

Brakeman A, c, Neal is IN of the
road for Il few trips,
Deliveries OF ll5 locomotives for the
Rock Island system viii begin shortly.
G. II. Gray. special officer OF The
Santa Fee at albuquerque. made a trip
to Las Vegas on business,
Louis Rohn. n maehinisl In the local
shops, quit his job Saturday and has
gone 10 greener pastures.
|. c. Reynolds has assumed the
duties OF assistant foreman of the
Santa Fe round house in Albuquerque.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe rail.
way has just ordered fifty locomotives
from the Baldwin Locomotive works.
Engineer +. ID. Hansen OF the 900 Is
| wearing his store clothes today. his
seat in the cab being occupied by Fred
Schultz.
II. C. Smith, J. S. King, Frank Rich
and John Crum are new extra brake
men whose names were placed on the
pay roll Saturday.
Albert Luckett chief clerk 10 Div
ision Foreman r. ID. Gibbons is Will
ing away a day or two most ~agreeably
at La Junla, Colo.
The Santa Fe has adopted the steel
cab for its locomotives, and all en-
gines that are being o%yerhauled are
now receiving them at Topeka.
Engineer Sells went down TO waldo
Saturday to work on the branch in
place of Engineer tWm. Shaw, who is
detained at home by a sick o n
Engineer Barney Archibald. pulling
passenger with the 1854, is off the cab
for a few days needed rest. his place
being supplied by Engineer Wilson.
Engineers Ritter and Chambers,
running OUT of La Junta, have been
borrowed for the occasion and are
nov doing duty temporarily in the
second district.
Engineer Sam Smith of the 1927 has
been granted a short leave OF absence
and has gone down 10 albuquerque.
probably to invest in real estate while
the boom is on.
George Wilbur is now winning lau-
els as a brakeman in Conductor Jerry
Quinn'a passenger crew. in place Of E
p. Chapman who is smashing baggage
Tor a few trips.
David Branch, VINO died, in this city
Friday night, had long been in the
employ OF the Santa Fe company in
the caIacity Of interpreter at camps
strung along the line Of The road in
these immediate parts.
ENGINEER McQuiddy and Fireman
Davis Of the 937 are letting the world
wag as il will, while Engineer Bursl1
and Fireman Hardage are sweating
their brows on the e37. an obedient
iron steed if it be treated right.
Conductor Frank Smith. who lost
his position on the Santa Fe on ac-
count Of a collision between his train
and a limited train near Shoemaker,
is now located a, La Grange, Oregon,
having a run on the Oregon Short
Line.
Agent II. s. Lutz, of the Santa Re at
Santa Fe. n. NJ, has received a COM
munication TO send forty-five more
men 10 work on the construction at
Trinidad. He has already sen forty
men from thai city and the company
Is calling for more.
Firemen VIM. McGrath. w. J., Will
liams and VIM. Coulter. who came
down from 9aton 10 TAX the tine card
examination for engineers, ran the
gagntlet successfully and returned
home full-flodged engineers 10 handle
the throttle with or without gloves.
Fireman Frost, who has been Of
ficiating rs a scoop shovel artist on
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