Show MANY ANY MEN LAID AID OFF helper and adjacent towns affected by policy of retrenchment adopted by the KO rio grande system at helper last wt friday un an vi der was received from general superintendent stenger laying off ten enn en i V and thirty firemen from the desert 07 14 division also fifteen engin engi ecra and 1 oi thirty firemen from the 10 in addition several train crews have been dispensed with aa rui well as a number of round house employed emp loyes and others most of the trainmen are bre leaving helper and will seek employment ele elsewhere where many going to the union pacific the order also effects tho the and others at thistle gic cicen on river rivera tucker and other points with ita its freight and passenger business lusine 9 suffering fering euf a very material d decrease ec rease the denver and rio grando grande system is placed in the very peculiar position of having received the past week the first consignment of its insor or dei dr for fifteen hundred new coal and b box ox cirs cars placed nearly a atar vio the denver and rio grande has nearly 2000 parson the way to its denver shops now nearly of them have been delivered and are standing in the yards of the company idle ernest stenger superintendent of the rio grande vestern western returned from froin denver friday there is absolutely i 0 o visible indication that things arc are going gaming to pick up with us but some way there is a feeling in the atmosphere that they arc are just the same he said everyone in denver feels that way about it I 1 cant just explain what it is but I 1 believe that within sixty or ninety days the situation will be much brighter we have laid off about on one e half halt our gur and other employed emp loyes here and I 1 do not bellee we can put pu them back to work N ork for at least another un other month and a half |