Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-14
SANTA FE OFFICERS
PREPARING NEW
TIME CARD
SESSIONS BEING HELD
NOW IN LOS ANGELES
Many important Changes TO be
Madei How Employees Time
Pieces are Kept in Repair;
Traffic Breaking Records.

General superintendent /. l.. HID
bard with superintendent j. Il.
Hitchcock, OF the Los Angeles divi-
sion, r. H.. futile, of the arizona /:
p. j. Gibson, of the Albuquerque, and
j. w. Walker, of the Valley, with
other officials, are in Los Angeles ar
ranging for the new time Gard which
goes into effeete June IA, and also a
later one which becomes effective
about July /.
The two time cards are necessary
from the fact hat on July IA the salt
Lake win start its Los Angeles Linn
tied and re-arIange its entire rain
schedule. The new Bengal-Parker
and Fullerton Richfield cut-offs will
not be ready for service at thai time,
hence the necessity for another card
when those two new lines are ready
to be thrown open for travel.
Checking Up Watches.
OF the many devices adopted by
the railroads to prevent accidents
none has attracted so little general
attention and none has achieved
greater results than the systematic
inspection of watches used by engi-
ners and conductors, says Harper's
Weekly. Every engineer and conduc-
tor on the railroad of one compre-
hensive system carries in his pocket
o little card, which contains a history
of his watch. This ard has to b.
verified and officially stamped every
two weeks. If the watch varies from
day to day by a few seconds it must
go to the repairers ana the local in
spector issues a '%'loaner watch until
his own can be fixed. These
watches are guaranteed to keep time
to the fraction of a second.
Before the timepieces OF the engi-
neers and conductors were regulated,
many accidents were traceable to
faulty time-pieces. an engineers
watch might be five or six minutes
slow and with orders to let another
train pass him at q certain place he
would reason that he had ample time
to reach another station, and take the
iisk Of getting there. All sorts of
watches were used in those days. and
Of the cheap ones would be 50
inaccurate that there would be a diff
ference of 10 or Is minutes between
the conductors and engineers time.
one railroad made an effort to
correct this difficulty years ago by
supplying all OF its engineers and
conductors, with standard watches,
but it did not pay. Some of the mon
exchanged, sold, or pawned their
standard timepieces and purchased
cheaper ones. Then the system of
inspection developed.
No particular make of watch is
accepted by the road, but certain
rules must gOveI their selection.
There are 81 different kinds of
watches, made in eight different es-
Adjustments, that have been APP
proved by the official time experts,
Ind the railroad men can select any
one of these. The watches are all
adjusted TO temperatures ranging
rom 80 to 95 degrees and to five
different positions. They must also
at least II jewels. The ex-
animation Of the watches every fort
light enables the inspectors to know
accurately the history and perform
Of the timepieces.
So perfectly do these thousands of
watches keep time that often one of
he fast Xpress trains between, say,
chicago and New York, win arrive at
Is destination on the second. The
engineers and conductors do not Ques-
ion the accuracy of their timepieces.
they believe in them against the cvi-
lencc of all the local clocks which
hey may pass On the road. All other
Watches may be fast or slow, but
heir tlmepieces are correct. Since
adoption Of this timing regulation
has not been IN accident on
he reads due to Iaulty watches, and
his alone has saved thousands of dol
to the railroads and many lives
# passengers.
Heavy Rails Now In.
Ration, n. NJ, June with the
reception of about 5000 feet. or less
han two miles, the second district of
he Santa Zee railway, between Ration
nj au NTnr,a .,I III -.-.
ant link in this great traffic system,
listens with new steel. The rails
re of 10O-pound steel and each was
lid with a plate separating the rail
the wood tie. This method Of
aying steel is a new departure on !
he Santa Fe. The plate lengthens
he life of the tie, and at the same
-me makes the track more durable
doubly safe. For several months
gangs of track layers have been
'orking on the second district of the
Mexico division. laying the new
Eel. A gang of fifty men has been
under the direction OF NJ. NJ.
section foreman. with head-fC
hcre,and one OF The pioneer >.
anita Fe employees. When the work -
this city and Ration is fin I
he'd. the second district will boasts
ne Of the best pieces of railroad :
ack in the United States. =
Traffic Breaks Records. /
Los Angeles. June 12.-Railway f
atfic throughout the west Is so h
hat even with the reopening ,
the salt Lake line on Saturday.
Ie Southern Pacific traffic business
to be so large that the II,
olden State Limited will not be dis '
during the summer. n
Up To the present year il has been Il
IL custom to attach other coaches to 81
e Limited during the summers
onths and reduce its speed, but this u