Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-24

w. r. Brown. division freight and
passenger agent at El Paso for the
Santa Fe. was looking after business
in Albuquerque today.
Travelling Engineer John A. Ross,
OF Las Vegas, arrived in the city last
night and spent today inspecting San
Ia Fe engines at the local shops.
w. d. McFerran. the Wells, Fargo
Express company's route agent, who
went north the other evening, was at
Las Vegas yesterday on business.
Jas. e. Preston, commercial agent
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway who is located at Denver,
was in Pennington looking after the
interests of his Dad in that section.
Reports from Guam, on the Santa
Fe Pacific. are TO the effect that a
heavy NOV has fallen in that vicinity
during the past t~wenty-four hours.
This is the first snowfall Of the year
in western New Mexico.
The Swiss ic.road booking clerks
have just been provided with ma
chimes for measuring the height of
children travelling over their roads.
and have been told that all children
over three feet tall must pay full fare.
Arthur B. Faulkey, the Santa Fe
fireman who was seriously injured,
May 9th, while his engine was taking
water at Rincon, n. NJ, was given a
verdict for $4,000 in the federal court
Wednesday.
The FL Paso Railway Journal says:
Engineer w. ]. Clark, who came
through here about six months ago,
accompanying his mother to Albu-
querque for her health, left Thursday
to again take his old position at Pu-
eblo, Mexico.
George Arnot, general manager for
Gross, Kelly q Co, has gone to Chica-
go to attend the national rate confer
ence AS a delegate from New Mexico.
The conference will begin on October
26, and will discuss freight regulation
and allied matters.
There was another reduction on the
engineers board, al Needles. last
week. and several men who have been
running engines for the past year
were put back to firing temporarily
The present lull in business is the
cause Of this reduction.
.
Effective November /. A. B. Smith
superintendent of construction OF tn,
Great Northwestern Telegraph com
pany at Toronto, Canada, has peer an
pointed general manager of the tele
graph department of the Grand Trunl
Pacific, with headquarters at Mon
treal.
In a decision by the Shelby circui
court, of Kentucky, the Louisville
Nashville railroad is ordered to opel
ate local trains on the Shelbyville cut
OF from that city to Christianburg
The line was leased to the Chesa
peake & Ohio. and was used only 70
through trains.
D. NJ. Splitter, who has been a Sar
ia Fe officer at Needles for the pas
year, is now located at Ludlow, wher
he is stationed as a railroad Officer
The necessity of this has been cause
by the number of men which has bee.
brought to Ludlow because of tn
building of the Borax railroad mort.
from that point.
Track laying on the narrow gaug
line to Pinos Altos, Grant county
was commenced in earnest the othe
day, for the track bolts, which hav
haan lnnO dn1oUal L., cAg--.z- .L-a
ed that day. A large force Of mel
was put to work Immediately, laying
track on the main line and this fore
is to be augmented as fast as me
can be secured.
Work commenced on the wood worI
OF the Denver & Rio Grande depot a
Pennington last week. The buildinl
VIII be large and c~ommodious, an
will be a credit to that town. 1t vii
take about a month to complete tn
building, after which the workme,
Will begin work on the Aztec static.
which will be a good building, beini
only ten feet smaller than the one a
Pennington.
with their pilots standing less tina.
six feet apart, two passenger trains
one a Salt Lake train and the other
Southern Pacific, stopped Wednesda
evening on a curve a half mile mort
OF Riverside Junction. It was a nal
row escape from a fearful collisio
n the passengers ana train crew
heayed a sigh of relief when the
found how narrow the escape ha
been.
With the receipt of
that rates over the Mexican Centr;
would be granted as far as Parral, IN
transportation committee for M
American Mining congress was not
fled of the special rates from a
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