The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-01
SHOPS AND OFFICES.
Some News Notes of Personal and Gen
era1 Interest.

Charley P. Smith, of the machine
shops, who has been suffering from Sc
we're inflammatOry rheumatism for some
time, was removed to the Santa Fe hos
pital at Ottawa yesterday.
Foreman Archie Beard, of the Santa
Fe boiler shop, is building himself pri-
vate Office in the engine room.
Otto Seigg, of the Santa Fe shops, is
quite sick with lung trouble at his home
in North Topeka
L. Zellers, late foreman of the Santa
Fe blacksmith shop, who was buried
Sunday, was a favorite with many of the
shop boys and they sent several beauti-
full floral designs to his funeral.
The Santa Fe shop employees have
caught the bicycle craze in earnest and
many of them have wheels. Jud Coe
has just bought an elegant one. A par
ty of seventeen of the boys were out in
procession over the country Sunday in
spite of the rain.
The locomotive department of the
Santa Fe uhops is rushed with work just
at present
Sam McKibben of the Santa Fe shops
is going to take his family on pleasure
trip to Europe this summer to be gone
three or four months. They will visit
England, Ireland and France.
The young men of the Santa Fe shops
are busy forming their annual base ball
clubs. Half dozen are already formed
among them the Clippers, Oxfords and
Cosmos.
Mechanic Johu Ark of the Santa Fe
went to work this morning after a pro-
tracted lay off on account of Sickness
Engineer w. w. Frisby of the Santa
Fe, is laying off on account of serious
illness.
Santa lie Engineers Rowland and
Webb have been promoted to passenger
runs for few days.
Councilman Frank Stevens is taking a
lay off from the Santa Fe shops for
while to take charge of the affairs of r.
j. Stewart.
Switchman Monte Wells, of the Santa
Fe, is laying off for few days.
A. J. Wood, of the Santa Fe law office,
returned from Chicago yesterday.
The local Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers held its regular meeting at its
hall Sunday. but did nothing of import
ance beyond routine business. Seniority
was talked, but no action taken.
Ed. Birmingham is at work for the
Rock Island again, after a long sick
leave.
Half dozen men are at work tearing
down the old Whiting residence on
Sixth street, near the viaduct. and clear
ing off the grounds preparing to make
the excavations for the new Santa Fe
hospital building.
The Young Mems Social club of the
Santa Fe shops will give May Day ball
at Music hall this evening. Don Kritzer
and Jim Cummings are the leaders and
it will be very swell affair. Only mem
bers of the club and specially invited
friends will be admitted.
Thomas Israel will probably be ap-
pointed foreman of the Santa Fe black
smith shop, to succeed Edward Sellers,
lately deceased
Master Mechanic George Smith, of the
Santa Fe shops, who has recently
changed his place of residence from
North Topeka to Potwin, likes his new
home very much.
There has been some little talk of
shortening the hours in the Santa Fe
boiler shop, but no action has vet been
taken. 1t will probably not be done.
Electric headlights are fapidly sue
ceeding the old style and the first to be
used west of the Mississippi river will
soon be placed on ten engines on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
road.
The Santa Fe section men in W. II.
ElIiOtt's gang have had a raise in salary
from $1.1219 to $l-25 day.
Section men say that the old fashioned
rail cattle guards are better in every way
than the new steel ones.
COXEYITES AT COLBY
The Rock Island Asked for a Cox Car by
Kansas WeaIers.
The Rock Island officials received