Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-07-04
Railroad Topics

Train No. %, from the south, was
an hour late today.
r. w. Hoyt, travelling auditor for
the Santa Fe. was in the city from
Las Vegas today.
A number OF shop men went to
Las Vegas last night, where today
they celebrated the Fourth.
Conductor Jack Mulhern is now run
ming a passenger in place of Conduc-
tor r. f. Hays, who has taken a
month of.
George w. Fraser, travelling mas
ter mechanic of the Santa Fe coast
lines, spent yesterday in the city on
railroad business.
George Buell., until recently an en-
ploye in the yards at Ration has taken
a position as fireman on the south end
out of that place.
Clarence Snyder, a conductor on
the middle division of the Santa Fe
fell under the wheels of his train last
Friday night and lost his left foot.
Conductor F. P. Hook is at Santa Fe
to relieve Conductor Barry on the
Santa Fe branch for some days. Con-
ductor s. c. Hill has been assigned
to Hooks way car temporarily.
A. J. Bishop, who was last week APP
pointed acting agent of the Santa Fe
Railway system in Santa Fe, has been
ahAnlrnd In onA hoe ouutInnnH tho
duties of the position.
Foreman H. e. williams, of the tool
room at the Santa Fe shops in this
city, left last night for Los Angeles,
where he will enter a hospital to un-
dergo treatment for his eyes. He
will be gone for a month.
Herman Sweitzer, manager of the
Fred Harvey curio exhibits in the
Southwest, returned to the city last
night from the east, where he went
two weeks ago to see his sister safely
started on her way to Europe.
w. c. Nixon, vice president and
general manager of the Santa Fe lines
in Texas, stated that it was the inten-
ton of the Santa Fe to relay the
track between Fort Worth and Gle
burne with %S5-pound rails. This work
state Mr.. Nixon, will be done this fall.
A. NJ. Real. for several years SUI
perintendent of the ella Valley,
Globe & Northern railway, has re-
signed, and will DOR take an ocean
voyage to Honolulu. w. r. Martin,
who was formerly superintendent of
the FL Paso & Northeastern railway,
succeeds Mr.. Real as superintendent.
William e. Curtis and wife left last
night for the west. They are the
guests of Advertising Agent Simp-
son., of the Santa Fe, and are travel
ing in Mr.. Simpsons private car. Be
fore leaving Nj. Curtis informed a
Citizen representative that he had en-.
joyed his days visit in Albuquerque
immensely.
1t is reported on good authority that
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
will spend $65, 900 on improvements at
'Chickasha, Indian Territory, in the
near future. The greater part of the
sur will be used In building a new
depot, which will contain rooms for
the division Offices, which are located
at that town.
Although there are upward of 1000
miles of new railroad under construc-
ton in the. United States, the mileage
of track laid during the first half OF
the year is less than that for any sim.
liar period since 1898. This does not
indicate that the total for the year
will be correspondingly small, for, al
though the official returns received by
the Railway Age show only 1924
miles of track laid from January | tc
June 80, on 1872 lines in SO states and