Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-08-14
NEEDLES IS NOT
SUMMER RESORT
SAY PASSENGERS.
Travellers Who Have Been
Marooned at Desert Rail-
road Town Are Taken
Away on Special Trains.
(By The Associated Press.)

NeedleS, Callf., Aug. l3.-ThiS
desert railroad town, which since
Thursday night has been the rest
ing place of several hundred pas
sengers on Santa Fe trains ma
rooned by refusal of the railroad
brotherhoods to move them. was
back to something like it's normal
population tonight.
The little parked spaces about
the railroad station and eating
mouse lacked the complement of
sleeping men, women an children
they had had for three nights. This
trains were gone. One. made up
of eleven cars carrying passengers,
railroad officials private car and
q carload of dressed poultry which
had been held here by the walk
outs, proceeded westward early to-
day, carrying all who cared to go
in that direction. even though their
tickets may have read for an east
ern point. The remainder, some-
thing over 100. were taken east on
a train late today.
Railroad officials and a regular
conductor made up the crew of the
the eastbound was not announced.
Three Funeral Parties.
The eastbound passengers In
cluded three funeral parties, each
with its pathetic accompaniment in
a box in the baggage car ahead.
General Manager Hubbard of the
Santa Fe made a personal plea to
brotherhood leaders here for their
assistance in moving the marooned
passengers.
Literal tears of Thanksgiving
were shed by some of those re-
lieved of the necessity for remain
ing further in the baking heat of
the cars or sleeping in the only
slightly cooler parks. The Their
mometer registered 11S yesterday
and 112 the day before. 1t has
stood high ever since the passen-
gers were marooned.
Three heat prostrations among
the passengers were reported dur
ing the tie-up here. One woman,
aged 80, another IS and small
child were treated and recovered.
Apparently there were no widely
known names on the list of those
who were isolated here.
There were tourists going to or
returning from California, travel
ing men, a few who were seeking
relief from tubercular affections in
the dry air of the southwest, at
least one who had given up hope
and was returning home to die;
some cattlemen. some wives going
east to Join husbands who had not
been able to spend a summer on
the Pacific coast: some children of
various ages, who suffered worst
from the heat: all in all. just the
ordinary average American crowd
to be found on any like number of
trains in the far west any day. ]
Too Hot for Exercise.
The passengers occupied them
selves with reading, lying on the
grass Ia the railroad park and
bathing. 1t was too hot for exer-
else.
Indicating an opinion that dep
uty sheriffs are protecting railroad
property the citizens here refuse to
deal with them. asserting their
presence is unnecessary. The dep
uty sheriffs all wear reviewers
conspicuously and keep on railroadJ
property. The town is quiet and
orderly and while there are many
strike meetings, one attended to-
dav nv a correspondent of the AS
ISOLATED Press was free from in
cendialy talk and devoted entirely |
to discussion of strike problems |
Sneakers counseled that order be
maintained.
passengers united in saying that
L. Of
done everything possible 10 MAKE
their stay endurable, even TO snar-
ing their homes with elderly per,
sons and children, vet the natural
conditions were such that II vote
of Places in which to be marooheo
along the western Santa Fe INES
had been taken by the passengers
Needles would have had no repre-
sentation on the ballot.
Picture Of Needles.
Picture a broad. sandy. almost
white plain. broken by little nils
and gullies or arroyas. Put sage
brush and Jonathan trees on 1t.
Run the Colorado river slugglshiy
along one. side. through a channel
at present about five sizes too large
for the water it is carrying. String
n few--a very lfeW-young trees
and green lawns here and there.
Scatter a small western town over
an area perhaps a mile square
when it might be compressed into
four or five blocks. Place over II
brassy sky, an intense penetrat-
ing heat and a hot breeze that dries
the marrow, and fair IDEA Oh
Needles will result.
Barstow. where other trains
were held for day or two Hbut re-
leased early yesterday. is much the
same, emitting the river ana
greenery. No trains came in from
the east today, although WORD was
received from Albuquerque that
No. 7. a mail train. was en- route.
There were sixty-five carloads OF
freight eastbound ac-
in the yard here and
these were being kept iced, but the
was unable to say when
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