Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-06
new ROUNDHOUsE
FOR SANTA FE
SHOPS HERE
OLD STRUCTURE GRAINED.
WITH BIG LOCOMOTIVE.
General Manager Hurley Says
Albuquerque is Getting the
Best End of i t Party of
Officials Here.

"A new Santa Fe roundhouse is to
be erected in Albuquerque. While the
present structure will not be entirely
dismantled, part of it will have to go.
on account of the constantly increas-
ing amount of traffic through Albu-
querque, and the number of engines
that run in here, the present building
canno hold all Of the locomotives"
remarked j. ". Kendrick, second vice
president of the Santa Fe at the local
round house yesterday afternoon.
Vice President Kendrick arrived
here abou 2 O'Clock yesterday after
moo from the east in a special train,
on which were General Manager ]. T..
Hurley, General Secretary and Treas
urer Edward l.. Copeland, Superintep-
dent of Transportation j. w. Kouns,
Assistant Superintendent of Motive
Power II. w. Jacobs and others.
Mr.. Kendrick, General S~uperintend-
ent Al. w. Sharpe, Mechanical Super
~intendent M. j. Drury of La Junta,
and General Roundhouse Inspector j.
#. Whiteford visited the round house
to decide what part of the old, but
substantial structure should be torn
down. General Manager Hurley with
several other officials spent the after
noon "honking" about the city in a big
automobile.
An this talk of Albuquerque being
given the cold shoulder by the Santa
Fe Is bosh,' sal General Manager
Hurley, Just because we are going to
divert the California fast freight east
via the Belen cutoff. The new store
house here is about ready for the car
penters, and the shops addition will
follow soon. The tie picking plant Is
being rushed"
Today the brass collars separate.
Vice President Kendrick and several
other officials leave for a trip over the
coast lines, while Manager Hurley,
Superintendent Sharpe, Secretary
Treasurer Copeland. Mr.. Drury, Mr..
Kouns, ]. +. German. freight traffic
manager, and Superintendent w. X.
Etter and T~ratnmaster Payson Ripley
comprise a party which will go to FL
Paso on a special train.
Tomorrow in El Paso a directors
meeting of the Union Depot company
of that place will be held, of Which
Mr.. Hurley is president. several of the
other Santa Fe officials being direc-
tors.
Frank Ray. an operator in the local
Santa Fe relay station, accompanied
by his wife and children left last night
for California and the Grand Cam
yon on a thirty days vacation.
The Santa Fe surveyors are busy
getting the ground adjoining the old
torehouse ready for the new building
which Is to be erected this month.
Considerable material has arrived and
more is expected daily. but Contractor
Arson has not yet started TO work.
$. M. Vauclain general manager of
the Baldwin Locomotive works, spent s
yesterday in the city with the party OF
Santa Fe officials. He returned east :
last night. 8
j. w. Kurn, superintendent Of the
New Mexico division. and Il. j. Gibson,
superintendent of the Albuquerque d. !
vision were in the city last night.
Thomas scully. division storekeeper.
returned home last night from New
ton, Kas., where he went to meet Mrs.
Scully, returning from a visit in Texas. e.,
Engineers Rydholm n Flemming {
Firemen O'Farrell and simmons r
We're deadheaded here yesterday from I
Gallup. Ia
A. r. Browning. distribution clerk ]
in the storekeeper's office and his I
bride, formerly Miss Lola StowelI. left
last night for Chanute, Kas.. on their
wedding tour. Returning home they b
viii visit i'm Colorado. a
N. II. Andrus, watch Inspector for
the Rio Grande division, will arrive
here from San Marcial Tuesday to ex- '
anime the timepieces Of the local
linn and visit the fair.
Engine 217s. an oil burner used on
The Valley division ~ the coast lines a
was turned out of the shops yester- p
day.