The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28


beginning that they planned to have the
structure ready for occupancy by Deem
Der L.
Philip E,ngstrom. a south shop machin-
list. has been off duty on account of the
sickness of his wife. Some of the boys
for the purpose of arranging for the re-
ception OF seven dozen little chickens
purchased incubator
Eleven inch air pumps have been made
one of the standard sizes within the last
have been eight and nine and half
inches, but with the increasing length OF
trains and the building of larger locomo-
tives, the increase of the size of the ia
cll1ties for handling the trains is a nee
essary consequence.
Henry Hamilton, porter on No. 6,
was Slightly burned by the explosion of
reached E iH the ot 1haP evening. Some
OF the passengers were scared but not
Every once in no while these I lamps pon Dc
some prank that is not altogether funny,
ever been injured.
Some time within the next six weeks
or Two months it is expected that spe-
Santa F7e railway on its way from New
delegation of Knights Of Columbus. Which
other at Los Angeles. It will probably be
joined by few people as it passes
through Kansas.
Engineer James Rollo, who on August
10 was in a headend collision between the
main line short distance south of To-
peka, has reported for duty. Rollo was
Frank Mah haa one bp baby hlh 6Tnsad
o when ne III; Jumped; Wahl has SO far re-
for duty some time this week.
about a boxing contest that the Fellows lows
pelt and Joseph McKeon and the length
has been suggested as referee and VIII
liam Reddy and Ben Dustin, sr., sec
ranged the time and place of the event
will be announced later.
Napoleon Tulip, formerly saw fler in
the MILL was in town Saturday packing
up to go to Albuquerque, N. M. Some
weeks ago Tulips lungs became affected
emery Wheel over tsri Which he W. Worked. He
went out west to. try the climate with
helped by the change and has since been
transferred to Albuquerque, for which
place he left today.
Aut Maze of the boiler shop wishes to
deny the statement made a few days ago
that his wife had sued for divorce. He
been dead for Some ' time e'' More ' than ana
year previous to that time he paid her ali
mony, and after the first separation she
manifested a desire to come back and
live, with him: He. however. refused,
ment over a stepchild, which he says was
the start of all the trouble.
Jacob Lewis finished the third year of
on Saturday night Previous to taking
that JOB he lost an arm while serving, an
he became a clerk in the office of the di-
B Bra,pt master s i mecnanic and finally
gether he knows about every turn about
railroading. AS night call boy he has had
great many varied and valuable expert
ences while on duty some of them thrill
ing, too. His father is an employee of the
mechanical department..
Harry W. Wey, formerly stenographer
to Edward Grafstrom, mechanical engi-
neer, will not return from Ohio where he
accepted a position at the shops of the
Penn;s IS i;,.i read at Denison @ Deni-
bus and Pittsburg and it is believed that
Mr. W cyl has an excellent JOB in some Of
there; Newton Jenkins of Columbus, O.,
who has been filling the vacancy caused
by his absence from here, will continue
as Mr.. Grafstrom's stenographer.
At Mcfarland the Rock, Island has fin
ished a large standpipe which it has been
constructing there for some time The
company has also purchased 500 acres of
rest which viii accommodate 1000 ami
mails The object of this is to give stock
west. an opportunity to unload and feed.
good marketable shape This place being
furnished within three hours run of the
Kansas City or st. Joseph market. gives
wh plg o sa6 gver r e9n nd }
placing the sheep before the buyers.
There is a possibility that the Santa Fe
will make its own air pumps. Heretofore
the Westinghouse Air Brake company
the railroad !, pishing part Of the APP
work can be done here with saving as
soon as the mechanical department has
secured the additional room which the
new shops will afford. This will give en-
ployment to perhaps six or eight skilled
workmen. The experiment of changing
the old style air reservoirs used on
freight cars to fit the quick action triple
valves is also being made About the only
alteration made is in substituting a three
quarter inch air pipe for one three
order includes twenty-five reservoirs.
Eugene Vigneron, clerk to r. B. Ford
foreman of the lumber yard, handles
a pen in an artistic way. He has just
finished a watchman's bulletin for the
shops fire department, neatly and
legibly done. This hangs in the head
quarters of the department, and it's
purpose is to show at any time of the
day or night the location of the mem
is a peg with a number painted on the
end. Below the list of firemen are the
names of the places where watch is to
be kept. Whenever a man goes on duty
set opposite his name is taken out and
put in the hole beside the printed name
of the place where he is watching. A
glance is all that is needed to determine
just how the fellows are placed.
If the words OF a man who returned
from a SOJOuTn III the east are
to be believed, the trains which west
ern roads are running just now far sur
pass in equipment those of the eastern
lines. 1t is difficult to understand why
this should be so. Perhaps the fact |
that passengers as a rule do not travel
such long distances there as they do
out here is a partial explanation of
this. 1t does not require so much time
to go from one city in that country as
it does here; that is, per passenger the
must be much below that of
travellers in portions of the United
States not so thickly settled. The new
chair cars which the Santa Fe lately
placed in service surpass in elegance
anything that the company ever has
offered to its regular first-class pas
sengers, who pay no extra fare fol
special privileges. They are elegantly