Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-18

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q speed OF twenty-five miles an hour
In local service, reaching a maximum
speed OF torty.fve miles an hour be.
tween stations. and hauling two hun,
| dred tons. In express service, a speed
OF from sixty to seventy miles an hour
can be maintained with a train weigh.
ing two hundred and fifty tons. For
heavier loads two or more locomotives
can be coupled together and operated
from the front cab by n engineer.
RAILROAD NOTES.
Fireman Tack Is taking a short lay
OF.
Engineer Hartley is marked up for
duty.
Fireman McCabe is laying of for
fifteen days.
Fireman Malloy is out of service
for a few days.
Firemen Trainor and Bailey are both
laying off for a few days.
Boss night hostler Johnson Is TAX.
ing round house foreman Benefits
place for a few days.
Alb. Puttuff Is deeply interested in
his new position as stationary engi-
neer and is getting along excellently
Engineer Brennan went bear hunt
ing this morning. He also intends to
shoot any ducks which cross his path.
Engineer Martin, who gave up the
900, and who has been waiting for
another engine. has been assigned to
1915. Ns4,
d. B. Thomas and l.. B. Gould, two
civil engineers on the Santa Fe, have
Joined a surveying corps near VIII.
liams.
Firemen Trainor, Stevens aud Jes-
soy were duck hunting yesterday, but
did not turn up in time this morning
to tell Of the luck. "
c. Severns, who has been filling the
position Of agent for the Santa Fe at
San Antonio, N. NJ, has been trans.
ferred to Belen. 3
Travelling Engineer John A. Ross Of
the Santa Fee. with headquarters al
Las Vegas, spent the day inspecting
the engines at the Albuquerque shops.
DR.. j. P. Raster, chief surgeon of
the Santa Fee. passed through this city
Monday night on his way to Albu-
querque on professional business.
Fireman Baker. who has not been
well for some time, has received a ten
days leave of absence and has gone
to his home in Missouri. His sister
will accompany him on his return to
this city.
Machinist Albert Crotzer. who has
been in the Santa Fe hospital for some
couple Of days. His many friends in
the shops will be glad TO see him
among them again.
A. G. Ridgway. general manager o.
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
company. has announced that +. A.
Dempsey is appointed superintendent
of dining car and hotel departments,
vice G. II. Gregg, resigned.
u. M. 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.
H. C. Rowland, a former Needles
resident and an emp'oye in the Office
of Superintendent John Denair while
in that city, is now assistant Santa F.
agent in San BernardinO. 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 light and power. An electrical
crane will be placed in rae shops 70
the handling Of the heavy pieces Of
machinery as soon al the dynamo is
in use.
The Ration call boys. Of the A., T. 6
s. r. railway have everything undei
way for their annual grand ball O,
the opera house at that place Wed
nosday night. Oct. Is. The call BOYS
are verv energetic and their annual
events at the opera house have always
been very successful. This year they
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