The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-19
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE


Con. Lenard has been put on as a helper
in the mill
William zeems is a new pipe filter
helper in the water service
Tho boilers for heating the roundhouse
are being put in by the water service
Fred Freeman, machine hand in the
mill has reported for duty after short
William Williams, who works in Ger
Derlck gang on air brakes, laid on
Eric Walgren, a machinist apprentice
in the. south shop, has not rung in for
several days. 1t is supposed that he is
sick
Fireman r. H. Lane. who runs on pas
Sengers between Topeka and Marching:
Chandler to 1872 Adams street
The order was posted late Wednesday
afternoon closing. the shops all day to-
president. William Mckinley.
Mrs. Fred Stauffenberg, who has been
i'll with fever for some time, is better.
Her husband was formerly an employee of
the Santa F'e, working in the general Of
fees.
Edwin Mcintyre. foreman of the sheet
iron gang. has gone to Chicago, expect
ing to be away about two weeks. Bert
Bresett is In charge of the men in his alb
sence-
c. F. Resseguie. general. superintendent,
left in his special car attached to No 6
Wednesday evening for Kansas City and
Fort Madison, Ia, where a tour OF IN
John Hartley. master car painter for
the Santa Fe, has returned from Buffalo,
Convention Of his fellow tradesmen last
week He has been absent from the
shops about ten days.
There has been some suggestion of win
ter chiefly in the air. though here is the
carpenters has begun building three new
snow plows. About the same number is
constructed in this department every fall.
The homeseelzer traffic from the east
was unusually heavy Wednesday,. There
were two sections of all the west-bound
through trains, and this partially aug
mented by the Homecoming of the Pan
American visitors, made business lively.
w. b. Wright has quit the Santa Fe af-
ter connection with the company ex-
Most Of the time has been spent as en-
gineer at the general offices. but he has
been in the water service department at
the shops for about six months.
Engine 437, the big Player compound
which has been in the back shop for
general overhauling for some time, went
will probably be assigned to trains / and
2 between Topeka and Newton, as soon
as ready for regular service
The cool snap caught the heating ap-
paratus at the Santa F'e depot taking a
hands of the mechanics and it viii be
several days at best before they can be
folks around there can only shiver and
look blue.
ing about the reported strike at San
Bernardino, Cal. There has been a de-
mand for boilermakers throughout the
west for some time. and Wednesday there
was an opportunity for six men of that
Bernardino. There is $3.50 per day in it
for the fellows there, as compared to s3.25
at Topeka
Thomas Hannigan and Henry Blair,
machinists who left here a few weeks ago
for. the west, have returnd for stay Of
a short time in these parts. They We're in
Salt Lake City a week ago. just in time
to see the general offices Of the Oregon
Short Line burn, and say the fire fighters
Of that city don't understand the first
Of their jobs.
Fireman Henry o. Brien, who regularly
keeps q. switch engine hot in the yards
here. has been off for several days.
While putting in the fire. recently it puffed
out, catching him in the face, burning
part of the hair on his head his eye
brOWs, mustache and his mouth to a
blister Wednesday he able to be
out of the hospital for the first time, but
viii probably report for duty soon
Some righteous indignation was ex-
pressed over the recent sneerine utterance
Of a shop man regarding the death of
the president 1t is always bad form to
speak dispara gingly of a mans character
and particularly when he is dead and I'M
able to defend himself. But when such
remarks involve a martyred president of
the United States the author of such
proves himself all the more lacking in
good sense as well as in patriotism.