Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-17
Railroad Topics

c. Severns. who has been filling the
position of agent for the Santa Fe al
San Antonio, n. NJ, has been trans
ferred to Belen.
ID. b. Thomas and J.. B. Gould, two
civil engineers, left last night fol-
Williams, where they VIII join a Santa
Fe surveying corps.
Travelling Engineer John A. Ross Of
the Santa Fe, with headquarters al
Las Vegas. spent the day inspecting
the engines at the local shops.
DR.. J. p. Raster, chief surgeon OF
the Santa Fe, arrived in the city last
night, from Topeka, and spent the day
here on professional business.
Brakeman George Flaherty, who
was visiting with friends and relatives
in Kansas on a leave Of absence, has
returned to Las Vegas and has re-
ported for duty.
p. W. Zimmerman. the claim agent
of the santa Fe road. with headquar-
tiers here, was at Las Vegas yesterday
on business connected with his depart;
ment.
MIR. and Mrs. o. G. Parsley, of Chi
cago. passed through this city last
night for the Pacific coast. They
will stop a day at the Grand Canyon.
Mr.. Parsley is the general agent OF
Chicago.
D. NJ. Splitter and James Stuch-
berry, who have been special officers
in the employ of the Santa Fe railroad
at Needles since the machinists'
strike, are now out of the service be-
cause of the reduction of the police
protection of the railroad at Needles.
.
II. c. Rowland, a former Needles
resident and an employee in the office
of Superintendent John Denair while
in that city, is now assistant Santa Fe
agent in San B~ernardino, he lately
having been promoted from Superin-
tendent Hitchcock's office at that
place.
The big dynamo for installation at
the Santa Fe shops, Needles, is ex-
pected there daily. The present dy-
namo is overtaxed, but the new one
installed there will be nearly three
times the capacity of the present one
for lights and power. An electrical
crane will be placed in the shops for
the handling of the heavy pieces of
machinery as soon as the dynamo is
in use.
NAVAJoS TAKE THE
PLACE OF GREEKS.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
are employing Navajos to take the
place Of the Greeks who were taken
out last week. This is the best move
the road ever made. The Navajo is
a good worker and is faithful, and will
do more work, man for man, than the
Greeks.
One hundred will be employed at
$1.60 per day. every dollar of which
will be spent right here at home. We
congratulate the officers of the road
on this move.-Fal mington Times.
The investigation of the relations.
between the railroads and refrigerator
car lines undertaken by the interstate
commerce commission has brought out
the fact that the six leading packing
companies W $4,000 cars which in
1904 operated over a car mileage of
646, 100000 miles, and Commissioner
Garfield estimates that these cars
earned $4,S93 ,535. and that the earn
ings amounted to II PEI cent of the
capital invested in the cars.
BIG SURPLUS AND ALSO
DIVIDENDS FOR PULLMAN
The Pullman company's annual
meeting will be held in Chicago, Oct.
18th, with the expectation that an ex-
ira cash dividend of possibly 20 per
cent will be declared for the benefit OF
the stockholders. The Pullman COM
pany has to It's credit a balance of not
less than $12.O 0O, 900. It's total sur
plus was estimated Saturday at about
500, 900, 1000.