The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-29
RAILROAD CIRCLES.
Gossip Among the Railroad Men
of Kansas.
EOTES ABOUT KANSAS RAILROADS.
Personal and miscellaneous News
Along the Kansas Lines.

Personal and miscellaneous News
Along the Kansas Lines.
About seventy-fiye railroad boys, in
Guiding the engineers, fremen and shop
employees. assembled at the Masonic hall
and presented w. E. Symons, the retiring
master mechanic, with a beautiful dia-
Inond ring and an elegantly bound Cen
fury dictionary, in recognition of the
esteem in which Mr. Symons was held by
them while under his supervision. The
presentation was made by John Jelfs,
and Mr.. Symons made a neat reply in his
modest and unique way-RatonReporte
Mr. Symons resigned his position as
division master mechanic, and was sue
caeded by Chas. n. Taylor.
Rock Island Conductor Henry Coons.
running between Kansas City aud Belle
vile, was taken suddenly ill on the train
between Kansas City and Topeka yester-
day afternoon. When the train arrived
IN Topeka he was taken to the Chester
field hotel, where he received medical
attention, and although very Ill, he was
able to return to his home in Kansas CITY
on the evening train.
". H. Traver, at one time master me-
chanic of the Santa Fe at Argentine, is
now a representative of the Rand Drill
company of New York city.
AAC HOSAlAOA III SaA Ia L . 6ut ab 1d1-
stead, which was made vacant by the
promotion of W. Ken Robertson, is being
Tiled temporarily by Edward Morton.
Conductor Harry Bankead of the San
ia Fe, aud wife, celebrated their twenty
fifth wedding anniversary at their home
in Argentine last Monday.
The $2,000,000 suit brought last spring
by General Torrence's Chicago elevated
terminal company against the Santa Fe
all h,e haa Il 1t
federal court.
Thomas Mitchell of Newton. an en-
pioye of the Santa Fe bridge gang, while
working on the Nickerson round house
last Monday fell from the roof and
fractured his leg.
The emergency rate of forty cents on
apples shipped out of Kansas, Missouri
and Arkansas, which has been in force
for some time past, will be declared off
December 10.
Al I. Evans, private secretary to Geo.
7. Nicholson, general passenger and
ticket agent of the Santa Fe, is visiting
In this city.
General Manager J. ]. Frey of the
Santa Fe has returned from Spring field,
No, where he spent Thanksgiving with
his family,
A Road You Can Write On.
Or road upon which you can write, or
road you can write about; take your
choice! either is true. We are talking
about the Lake Shore and New York
Central railroads between Chicago and
New York. A newspaper man who has
to send in ''copy" enroute appreciates it,
after travelling all over the United States,
when he gets back to a road you can do
this on while making so per cent better
time than on othe r roads which ioggle
your copy into illegibility.
This is ignoring the luxury of per-
feet diningcsr service, scenery. including
Niagara. which is a delight to the eye
and an underlying sense of security from
the consciousness of a block system
which may make the difference to you
between existence here and Kingdom
come"
Safety, speed and comfort: they are
all there; and when electricity makes a
hundred miles an hour practicable, it is
safe to say that the Vanderbilt roads
win be in it. The men who are harness
ing Niagara have got their eye on i'm
proved systems of applying electric
power, and nine hours and a half to
Chicago are quite within the possibilities
of the near future.-American Grocer