Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-07

tniue TOT tNt WY VI NiNN'so i'""' $3.50
Lake City, Utah, travelling in a special
car. He was accompanied by the
purchasing agent for his roa' and
his assistant,
Mrs. b. II. Newlee. wife of the
resident civil engineer here for the
Santa Fee company, has gone up %
Segundo, Colo, on a visit to Mrs. r.
d. Cornell in that place.
~
A na.iye laborer. whose name Mas
not learned, was brought up to The
local railroad hospital yesterday after
noon from Santa Rita, Grant county,
| N. NJ, where he had been employed
In track-laying for the Santa Fe com
pany. lie had been badly hurt In an
accident that befell him while at
work.
Fred Shaffer, a newspaper reporter
recently returned from California,
took the first Job that presented Itself
upon his arrived in this city and IS
now manipulating a pick and shovel
on the round house grounds. These
implements Of labor come harder for
the young man with the newspaper
instinct than the pencil and the scis'
sors, though the pen is said to be
mightier than the sword when oppor'
tunity offers itself.
VIM. w. Mcclure. a locomotive fire.
man. aged twenty-five years and un'
married. died of consumption on NO.
s passenger train near Algodones at
2 o'clock this morning. He was being
accompanied back to his old home at
Perry, Kansas, by his aged parents,
r. NJ. Mcclure and wife, but was not
able to stand the trip. The body was
embalmed at the Lewis undertaking
establishment today and will be ship
ned to Topeka on No. 2 this evening.
Tourist car No. 1881, built by the
Santa Fee company for exhibition q
the worlds fair, has now been placed
in service resr arly, making its IN
itial trip threngh Las Vegas III; other
afternoon. coast-bound. 1t Is con-
structed similar to standard coaches,
only for the absence of the plush
cushions, and is supplied with hot
and cold water and other modern con-
y%eniences for transcontinen,al travel
This class Of cars Is much more com
Portable to ride in in hot weather than
are the usual downy ones Of ease,
where passengers nearly melt, buried
away in the soft, yieldy cushions.
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innovation in Passenger Equipment
The Denver & Rio Grande railraod
company is now building a number OF
~open-top observation cars to be at
tached during the summer months tc
daylight trains running through the
ROYAL Gorge. Grand canyon OF the
, Arkansas. canon Of the Grande river
and he Black canon of the Gunnis0n
; These cars are of modern construction
. and have a seating capacity for sew
enty-two persons. low sides but nc
tops. being entirely open, thus Civ
, ing a free and unobstructed view Of
, the scenery Of the Rocky mountains
/, These cars will be completed AM
!. placed in service not later than June
| of the present year.
r q. c. Williams, engineer on the
%work-train that collided with an extra
freight on this side Of the Rator
mountains Sunday morning. will bt
remembered 10 have been in ths
wreck at Upton several weeks ago
According to a statement In the Trim
dad Advertiser. in the Upton wrecl
Williams saved the lives OF both tn
3 engineers Of the wrecked trains WIT
had been thrown unconscious into
pool of boiling water from the engtnl
boilers. In Sundays wreck or tn
mountain. williams was badly bruts
ed about the body. Virgil Smitson