Las Vegas optic., September 24, 1909, FIVE O'CLOCK EDITION, Page TWO, Image 2

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LAS VEGAS DAILY' OPTIC, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1909
IN THE RAILROAD WORLD
SANTA FE ADOPTS
OLD METHODS IN
BUILDING POLICY
THOSE EMPLOYED IN WEST TEX-
v AS EXTENSION PARALLEL
ED YEARS AGO
SHUNS EXTRAVAGANCE
Having Passed Through Ona Receiv
ership This Railroad Company Has
Learned a Lesson In Conservatism
Has Plenty of Funds to Complete
Texico-Coleman Cut-Off.
The businesslike methods empljyed
by the Santa Fe In going about the
work of building the Texico-Colemfin
cut-off and other lines in west and
southwest Texas is in accordance with
the road's policies early established.
The Santa Fe, with Its thousands of
miles of track, reaching from Chicago
to the Guf and to the Pacific coast,
was not built In a day, yet neverthe
less even young men of today can re
member when the railroad flrst en
tered Chicago and secured its ter
minals. Then that was considered a
great piece of railroad enterprise and
the actual accomplishment of the un
dertaking was a great surprise to
many, so quietly had the management
gone about its plans.
The Santa Fe, having passed
through one receivership, learned a
lesson in conservatism and this policy,
it is claimed, has been paramount
with the management ever since. Be
fore the work of the Texico-Coleman
cut-off was undertaken the company
had J27.000.000 in its treasury. While
It is true that a bond issue has been
authorized for this work, it- could have
been undertaken, at a pinch, without
Increasing the company's outstanding
securities. Surveys had been made,
routes selected and financial plans ar
ranged before the public had been
taken fully into the management's con
fidence. . Then work was started with
a rush, which will mean the develop
ment of a wide strip of almost virgin
West Texas land.
The Santa Fe adopted the same pol
icy in Its Invasion of Chicago in 18s6.
It was a great system In the west,
without a line to the great trading
center on the lakes. An entrance In
to Kansas City was secured without
much trouble, but engineering and
financial problems of great moment
confronted the management in build
ing to Chicago. The bridging of the
Missouri and the Mississippi rivers In
cluded both of these propositions.
Then, too, the purchase or condemna
tion of real estate in Chicago was a
financial question, which could only be
answered with legal tender.
. G. D. Bradley, in the auditing de
partment of the Santa Fe at Topeka,
contributes an interesting article to
the Santa Fe's Employes' Magazine
for September, which is entitled,
"Building the Road Into Chicago,"
The line from Kansas City to Chicago
was secured partly by building and
partly by the absorption of smaller
lines, among them being the Chicago
and St. Louis railroad, famous as the
"Hinckley Road," built by Francis C.
Hinckley and associated capitalists.
This line extended from Chicago to
Pekln, a distance of 158 miles. The
gap was closed between Kansas City
and Chicago (December 81, 1887. The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail
road, a Chicago company, was organ
ized with a capital of $5,000,000, for
the purpose of acquiring terminals. A
bond issue of ?5,500,000 was author
ized, but only $5,500,000 was eold.
The sum of $3,316,000 was paid for
real estate, which Is now worth sev
eral times that sum. June 1, 1890,
the Kansas City-Chicago line was for
mally taken over as a part of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe sys
tem.
RAILROAD NOTES
There were no extra men listed on
the board at the local yard office last
evening.
Conductors J. W. Wells and F. E
Yoakum have resigned their positions
with the Santa Fe here. ,
Engineer R. R. Green reported for
the 1601 yesterday, having been bump
ed from 1213 by Engineer A. W. Green.
W. P. Garside, district freight and
passenger agent for the Santa Fe at
El Paso, was In the city again yester
day. A train of deadhead equipment run
ning as second No. 2 arrived from Al
buquerque last evening in transit to
Topeka.
F. H. McGinnis has reported for
duty at the superintendent's office,
after a two weeks' vacation trip to
Chicago.
Engineer Clarence C. Roberts and
Fireman F. B. Connell took an extra
engine out yesterday, their old stand
by, the 1640, going in the shop.
A special car filled with honieseek
ers and land buyers was being taken
to California by the J. K. Martens Land
company on No. 1 yesterday after
noon. Conductor James Dougherty and his
freight crew have been down the
line with a passenger train which
they handled like the veterans which
they are. -
Firemen A. W. Green and C. F.
Spidel, who laid off to take the en
gineer's examination, have reported
for duty, firing again till an opening is
made for engineers.
Composite coach No. 2425 has been
restored to the hot springs branch here
and the local yard crew is now mak
ing daily trips out to the once popu
lar resort much more proudly than
when the boys were compelled by cir
cumstances over which they had no
control to occupy an old caboose.
The new Santa Fe fire department
house at Clovis, a two-stir brick,
with sleeping quarters above, is now
completed and the equipment for the
fire fighters already installed.
Charley Harper, who was formerly
roundhouse clerk here, with plenty to
do to keep him out of mischief during
working hours, came up to the local
railroad hospital from Belen yesterday
afternoon. . .
. Conductor R. S. Aird and his freight'
crew took a special train running as
second No. 3, carrying 75 delegates to
the National Guard association to Los
.Angeles, from Raton to Albuquerque
yesterday.
L. M. Hlnes is a clever new porter
in Conductor R. F. Hays' passenger
crew. He fills a vacancy created by
the resignation of L. J. Jackson, who
had held down the Job for the past
eighteen montns.
James Westfall, who was formerly
a brakeman out of this city, has gone
to Clovis, at which division point he
has accepted a position as bonus clerk
under James Kiely, the mechanical
superintendent there.
A stub train was run out of Albu
querque last night in place of the
regular No. 8 mail train, being com
posed only of a baggage car, a mail
car and a coach: Washouts are said
to have delayed the regular train from
California.
Harry Fouts has resigned his posi
tion at the First National bank in Al
buquerque and has accepted a position
as chief clerk for the Santa Fe at Gal
lup. Mr. Fouts was formerly ticket
agent in the Santa Fe offices at the
Duke city.
A surveying corps of forty-one men
was on the Lobato grant in Rio
Arriba county last week, headed by
the noted engineer, Harry A. Allen, of
Chicago. The party is camping at El
Rito and it is surmised that they are
running a line for the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad company.
A Santa Fe freight train on,' the cut
off heavily loaded, was wrecked just
one mile west of Willard, N. M., late
Monday afternoon. The accident was
caused by a broken flange, and eleven
cars were ditched, several of them los
ing their entire contents. No one
was hurt, the report reads.
Weather permitting, trains will be
operating between San Francisco and
Salt Lake City by the Western Pa
cific, beginning November 1st. But
seventy-five miles of the new trans
continental line remain to be con
structed and work upon this is being
rushed with all possible speed.
The Santa Fe Railway company has
let the contract for the erection of a
large new storeroom for company
material in Temple, Texas, to John
Borden, of Fort Worth, the estimated
cost being $30,000. The building will
be of brick and' concrete, and will
cover a nlot of eround. exclusive of
thl platforms, 200x50 feet. It will be
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struction, inside and out, and ad
vantage will be taken of the latest
labor and time-saving devices. The
offices of the master mechanic ,and
the division storekeeper will be in
this building, which will be located a
short distance west of the present
roundhouse.
Jess Winfrey, who left his home at
Elmira, N. Y., to fight in the Spanish
American war, eleven years ago, has
received advices from Elmira attor
neys that the last member of the
family died recently, leaving him a
legacy of $5,000. Winfrey is now a
section hand on the Rock Island rail
road at Fort Worth,, Texas.
News has reached Las Vegas of. the
retirement from active duty of H. H.
Sheppard, after a satisfactory service
of nearly or quite thirty years - as a
traveling passenger agent, twenty, of j
which were in the interests of the Chi-1
cago & Alton. Mr. Sheppard was one i
of the early conductors on the Santa
Fe, running a train out of Kansas City '
before either tickets or punches cama
in vogue. It is understood that he
will continue to make his home in
Denver with a son who has amassed
a competency for life, though it ianot
likely that the old man himself is as
poor as the proverbial church mouse.
The new freight depot which the
Santa Fe is building at C'Ovis, N. M..
is going to be a beauty. The crew
has been working upon the foundation
for more than three weeks, and it is
just about completed. The entire
length of the building and elevated
platform Is to be over 200 faet, a
portion of the building being two
stories. This building, with the two
story mission home for the employes
of the "Qulvera," the new Harvey
house at Clovis, which Is nearins com
pletion, and the $10,000 express office
which the Wells-Fargo company is
going to erect at once, will be valua
ble additions to the already beautiful
surroundings of the railroad grounds.
Failure on the part of the Pullman
company to pay any attention to a
'justice court judgment for $21, result
ed in a Pullman car being chained to
the track at Mansfield, Ohio, until
satisfactory arrangements had been
made with the constable for the set
tlement of the clajm. When the en
gineer of the train threatened to con
nect to the car and pull it away, the
officer told him that such a proceed
ing would result in his arrest for con
tempt of court. Officials of the Pull
man company then got into communi
cation with headquarters, and, after
the car had been detained for about
half an hour, arrangements were made
for a settlement, the company paying
the full amount of the judgment, and
costs.
A traveling freight and passenger
agent for the Harriman lines in Jop
lin Mo., told how often the railroads
carried a product before it reached the
consumer. "For instance," he said,
"cattle are Bhipped from the Rocky
Mountains to Kansas City to be Kill
ed. Their hides are then reshipped.
back to California and tanned, because
it is cheaper to ship hides than bark.
From California the hides are shipped
to Massachusetts or St. Louis to be
made into shees. Then the shoes are
shipped again to California. Of course,
as likely as not, they will then be on
somebody's feet 'in a Pullman going
back to New York. They must then
return home, so altogether that piece
of hide has had nearly six trips across
the continent."
Heavy traffic is said to be delaying
trains on the Santa Fe. Perhaps this
is so, but It is a fact of which the
traveling public is not ignorant that
the engines are not in as good a con
dition as they might be, as instance
the numerous delays occasioned by
engine failures. As an earnest of
how the people are flocking to the
west and southwest, for the better
ment of their condition in life, both
as regards health and wealth, it may be
stated that in six tourist cars coupled
into No. 1, which passed through Las
Vegas yesterday afternoon, there were
an even 200 passengers. It is stated
that frequently trains are,' late In
leaving Kansas City, owing to the
length of , time required to load bag
gage in the union depot at that ter
minal. The trains are said to take
their turn in backing into the sheds
for their loads. And, once on the
road, the schedules are so fast In this
day of competition that very little
time can be made tip by the engine-men.
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THE SEASON'S MOST POPULAR DRESS
The Moyen-Age Model
The accompaning cut gives a very accurate idea of this popular
garment. i-
Of course there are variations in the style, giving a large variety
to choose from Some have front panels extending the full length of
the front. Others have shorter pleated skirts and longer bodies than
the illustration Some are elaborately braided, while others are severely
plain. These come in all the popular fabrics of the Season.
$14.50 to $30.00
Splendid Values in Ladies'
Suits
Our assortment of Fall Suits is one upon which we spent many
weeks ot careful study. Only the best from the different Eastern
markets were purchased. In styles and qualities' our Suits are excelled
by none. All of the linings we guarantee for TWO Seasons. And onr
variety exceeds any in the Territory.
The prices are extremely low, ranping from (15.00 to 175.00, and in
any one of them you will receive full value for your money.
We do not charge for alterations.
Comfortable Shoes for Everybody
Our shoe stock is easily the largest, best selected stock in the Territory. Among the
new novelties just received is an extremely pretty Oxford in patent leather, short vamp
with the back stay extending to the highth of the avarege Shoe and tying with a ribbon bow.
They are the most dressy thing of the Season and sell for only $4.00. Another good
model is Patent Leather Oxford with suede tops, short vamp and high military heel at $3.60.
A very popular high shoe is an all Suede in London Smoke, having a short vamp and
perforated tip, at $5.00 One of our best models is a black Patent leather welt, very high,
having 15 buttons, with a tan upper and wide patent leather collar at 12.00, 2.E0, and 3.50.
For Men we carry the "Douglas" shoes at $2.60, 3.00, and 3 50 and the "Crossette"
shoes at $4.00, 5.00 and 6.00.
Pretty Effects
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Separate Skirts
Separate Skirts are in their usual
high favor this Season and are made
along the lines of the Suits Skirts the
Moyen-Age effects bring the favorites.
Some models are very plain some
elaborately trimmed with bands, plaids
and jets, while others are trimmed
with Soutache braids. We have an
excellent variety in all the Pall colors
and black, ranging in price from $3.50
to $25.00 each. Our guarantee as to
style and quality goes with every
Skirt. Plain and novelty cloth Skirts
are much in demand, though the
Voiles are by far the favorites.
CLOSED
ALL DAY
SATURDAY
On Account of
Jewish Holiday
we close all da.y
Saturday
OPENING AT
6 P. M. Saturday Eve.
THE POPULARITY OF THE SEPARATE
WAISTS
is as great as ever
Separate Waists are as muoh In demand as ever and the styles
are richer and more pleasing.
This Season there is a large range of styles and materials
running from the strictly tailored Linen Waists up to elaborately
trimmed silk models.
The Jersey Waist
is the greatest novelty of the Season. These Waists are made
from the same material as the silk gloves, only a triffle heavier
They are extremely dressy and very serviceable.
Black Taffeta
Waist are also a strong favorite and come in a large variety of
styles. Some are coparatively plain while others are tastefully trimmed with tucks, inser
tion and jets- They are made 'horn the best Taffeta and are guranteed for three months
from the date of Sale.
Ladies9 Sweaters
- a0 pop?r Mm?Dt? are more in demand than ever before, and we have Dreoared
for this demand by purchasing an extremely large assortment. We have them in dl the
desirable colors and color combinations, m both the plain ribbed and fancy effects Lemrths
vary from 27-inch to 42-inches and prices range from $3.00 to 110.00 There is o JEE??
which give, the service and general satisfaction that Sweat" do and this Season SSta
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Knit Goods
or aU kinds will be much in demand this Season. Knit Skirts in a varietv of color nrl
combinations, plain white. Wool Shawls, Ice wool Shawls and sUk Shawls in aU dX
able colors and sizes. Prices as low as possible, consistent with high qualities