The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-03
SPIKES AND SPARKS.
News Among the Shop Employees and
Railroad Organizations.

News Among the Shop Employees and
Railroad Organizations
| Foreman George Summers of the Santa
! Fe yards is not working for a few days.
| Switchman ]. E. Verlin has been pro-
NOTED to assistant foreman of the Santa
Fe field yards.
Engine 154 came in to the Santa Fe
machine shops yesterday from the South
ern Kansas division and will be rebuilt.
The young men of the Santa Fe boiler
shops will give club dance at the hall
at VinewOOd park next Saturday night.
Wilcox's orchestra of four pieces will
furnish the music and the boys say they
are going to bave the hop of the season.
Cars will leave Monroe street at eight
o'clock.
Fireman Harry Chapman of the Santa
Fe is having a new roof put on his home
on Klein street.
Al. Sherwood. gang foreman at the
Santa Fe machine shops was taken sud-
denly i'll with heart trouble yesterday
afternoon and his condition was very
alarming for few hours. He is at work
again now.
James Love of the Santa Fe machine
shops, who has been laying off on ac-
count of his eyes, has returned from New
Mexico and will soon be at work again.
John Godfrey who has been nursing a
felon on his thumb has returned to work
in the Santa Fe machine shops.
The Santa Fe shop boys are beginning
to look forward to their annual excur-
sion. On one day in each year the Santa
Fe has been in the habit of giving its
Topeka shop employees and their families
an excursion of one day to some neigh
boring town. As there are several hun
dred of them to go it requires three or
four special trains and to pay expenses a
round trip rate of fifty cents is exacted
for each person. The excursion this year
will probably be to St. Joseph and occur
some time in June.
George Marshall, of the Santa Fe car
penter department, is off on sick leave.
John Narsey, who has been off for
some time on sick leave. has returned to
his work in the Santa Fee carpenter shop.
VIM. Connor who has not been WORK
ing for some time because of a mashed
finger, has returned to his duties in the
Santa Fe locomotive works.
After sick spell Otto Seigg is back
at his place in the Santa Fe machine
shops.
The ball game between the Santa Fe
Clippers and the Stars for next Sunday,
has been declared off, and the Clippers
will go to St Marys instead, to entertain
the college Champions of 1890" The
Clippers will be composed of Hindman,
E. Heck, McGaffn. Swain, Johnson,
Cummings, Early, Ash, and A Heck.
Hindman is an old league pitcher, and
with the above support the "Champ ions"
won't be in it.
The May day ball given by the young
mems social club of the Santa Fee ma
chine shops, at Music hall, Tuesday even
ing, was a particularly pleasant affair.
About seventy five COUPLES were in at
tendance, and the music was furnished
by Bannister's orchestra.
Mrs. Frank Leslie was a passenger on
the Santa Fe yesterday, hut she missed
Topeka, going from Emporia to Kansas
City.
The Santa Fe car shops have entirely
rebuilt Colorado Midland baggage car
No. II.
Brakeman Libby of the Santa Fe is
now working in the field yards.
Jim Lane, late of the santa Fe shops.
has taken charge of a stock farm near
Oakland.
Did you ever see big Pete Butler and
little Amos Beeler walk down the street
together? If you never did, you've
missed something.
Some of the cosiest little residences in
the city may be found on Klein and
Hancock streets, and they are the homes
of railroad boys.
ALL ALONG THE LINES.
Railroad News Items Interesting Rail-
readers and the Public.
General Attorney M. A Low Of the
Rock Island, returned from Fort Worth
yesterday.
+. D Norton, superintendent of the