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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
Would Pension Ineapacitated
Officers and Employees.
CASH GIFT OF s25O,OOO
Means a New Era of Friendship
Between Company and Men.
Rock Island Time Card Changes
Effective May 10.

Last week when Northern Pacific
stocks were soaring slkyward a Topeka
man remarked regretfully that if he had
only possessed the necessary common
sense to purchase stocks Of that system
years before, the fuetuation in prices
one day would have made him rich Il
worked for the Northern Pacific at a
time when employees were urged to buy
shares he continued They were away
down below par them This policy on
the part of the Northern Pacific in sell
ing stock to its employees has been fol-
lowed I'D also by the Illinois Central,
both roads taking it as a means Of rails
ing the standard Of efficiency of en-
ployes.
On the Illinois Central formerly it was
not an uncommon thing for engineers
and brakernen to attend the meetings
of the directors and to have a voice IN
directing the affairs of the road.
But since the rise Of the value of the
stock above par employees have prac-
tically stopped purchasing it, and Pres
ident Stuyvesant Fish was confronted
with the problem of devising some other
plan for bringing them into close and
friendly relations with the company. He
was also impressed with the need of
making some provisions for the old and
faithful employees OF the road who be-
come incapacitated by age and infrnf-
ties for effective service.
After much elaboration President
Fish and other officers of the road de-
cided upon a railway pension system.
the details of which have been carefully
worked out and which will go into eff
feet July I. Under this plan officers
and employees between the ages of 81
and 20 who have become incapacitated
for any cause and who have been ten
years in the service of the company
may be retired and pensioned. The
amount of the pension ranges all the
way from 10 to so per cent of the salary,
depending upon the time the emplOye
has been in the service An engineer
under this system, whose average pay
was S125 a month, would get. after 30
years service, $3.50 a. month pension,
or $3.50 a. year. An engineer who had
been frugal and industrious enough to
save a country home out of his earn
ings could live very comfortably on this
pension for the remainder Of his life.
To start this pension system the com
pany makes q cash gift of $3.50 900 to
the pension fund, and in addition agrees
to pay any amount needed for the pen
siOns up to 100000 a year. The plan is
projected upon a scale of liberality that
sets a new pace for the corporations.
The placing of the employees Ga@ the Hill
nois Central and of the Chicago and
Northwestern under pension systems
that recognize the obligation of railway
corporations to secure old and faithful
employees against want augurs a new
era of friendly relationship between
railway companies and the thousands OF
men employed by them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
SANTA FE LOCALS.

Eighteen members of the sophomore
class of engineers at the state univer-
sity visited the shops Wednesday.
They were in charge of Prof. w. K.
Palmer. of the engineering department.
II. q. Nudge, general manager; c. F.
Resseguie, general superintendent; w.
B. Storey, chief engineer, and w. c.
Nixon, superintendent of the G. C. &
s. f., went over the cutoff Wednesday
in a special train
Switchnan George L Stone is taking
a vacation today.
Conductor J. H. Griffith, of train 10s,
IS sick and unable to do his work
Fireman Elmer Conway has re-
turned from a five days visit in En-
poria. He expected to leave today for
Gallatin. No, after which he will go
to Osceola, Iowa, spending in all two
weeks away from Topeka.
Blondine Bland, who works in the
round-house, has returned from a trip
to Lake View. He brought with him
five pounds of fish which he claims he
caught during his two days absence.
The storehouse department will be-
gin its annual invoice next week. The
actual work of invoicing. will occupy
only about ten days. but the full re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
FRoM ALBuoUERouE.

Matters relating. to the proposed new
opera house on railway grounds are pro
the former article. the idea Of the opera
house originated with the Santa E'e arcri-
tect, Charles F. WhittleSey. He made a
trip to Chicago and laid the matter pe-
fore President E. P. Ripley of the Santa
Fe system, and was accorded much en-
enlargement. Mr.. WhltteSey has dis
cussed the proposition with a number of
Albuquerque business men, all of whom
Engineer Talbot and Fireman Banning
have gone to Lamy to relieve Engineer
Fuller and F1reTT an e Evans, who have
been working there for some time as an
extra crew.
During the past week the walls of the
vanced with reasonable rapility. The
second story of the We1lS-FargO build
ing was begun yesterday. The cement
work on all the els and the annex has
been completed, and attention is now be-
ing given to the three-story part of the
H Van Slyce, live stock agent for the
Santa Fe, with headquarters at Ell Paso
passed through the city the other night,
When Jack Bruce, passenger engineer
of the Southern Pacific, was chosen as
out President McKinley's special it did
not have any effect on him. He is used
TO hauling presidents and knew how It
Ielt before ne hauled Mr.. Mckinley When
President Hayes passed over the South
ern Pacific, Jack ran the engine that took
his special over one division and when
President Harrison was here JACK held
the throttle of the engine which pulled
his special from Ell Paso to Tucson So
Mr. Mckinley was the third president that
has ridden behind Engineer Jack Bruce
Jack is a Democrat, and all the presi-
dents he has hauled were Republicans
but he didn't ditch one of them
Passenger engine No. 42S went out new
as they come in, are being relettered with
gold leaf. The deeper yellow will be used
IS before on the freight engines. The
2172 has been about finished. The 426 was
brought in for repairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
NO THREATS OF ANY KIND.
Santa Fe Shop Men Resent Certain
Intimatious

In connection with the recent adj
Yances of pay to the Santa Fe ma
chinists the men appear to generally re-
sent any limitations that there We're
made any demands Of the company for
the removal of any foremen.
Mr. Geo w. Cooper, a member of the
machinists' grievance committee, is
very emphatic along these lines. He
says that certain impressions which
were created were very unjust to the
men, and furthermore that the state
ments made in some quarters were
Mr. Cooper says: 1--WE went to the
company like men and tried to get what
we thought was just. We made no
threats of strike and had no intention
whatever of striking. Mr. Player met
with us. we presented our grievances,
and he took hold of them and adjusted
them to our satisfaction. Everything
was done pleasantly and in a business
like and straightforward manner.
There We're no threats or intfmida-
tons of any kind, and none were
thought of. We did not suggest the
removal of the fOren en- who had been
given positions under the Barr regime.
We did not mention the name of the
general shop foreman, Mr. Hickey, or
the name of Mr. Newmark. machine
foreman, in any manner These men
treated US all right; we had no COM
plant against them. They were not in
any way connected with our grievances,
and we simply did not bring them up.
We had no occasion to; 1t had nothing
to do with our case.
We are very sorry that these erro-
neous impressions were created. Our
relations with the company have been
most friendly. Mr. Player is an espe-
cially fair n an; fair to the company
and fair to the men. He told US there
was nothing he liked better to do than
to make wrong right, but he would
not make a right wrong.
Whoever gave your reporter any of
these wrong ideas referred to has done
the men a great injustice. 1t was furth-
est from our intentions to make any
boasts of any kind We want to con-
duct ourselves in every way as machin-
lists who viii command the respect of
each other, Of the company and of the
public generally. We don't seek any no
toriety. We simply regret that things
have been said which nnisrepresent our
actions. motives and methods and we
want to be set right before ALL"
Aside from any charges of threats or
intimidation upon tine part OF any Santa
Fe men the newspaper dispatches from
various places over the country asserted
that a general strike. sympathetic or
otherwise was likely over the United
States May 10Th. if certain differences
with the machinists were not adjusted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
TWO PRISON CONTRACTS.
Progress of Construction Work at At
lanta and Leavenworth.

Washington, May lev. S. Eames,
of St Louis. is here. He goes TO At
ianta. Ca. in the morning. and viii be
accompanied by representatives Of the
department Of justice and of the super
vising architect of the treasury. Mr..
Eames has been interested in the con-
struction of the new government prison
at Atlanta, and goes TO consult with the
government officials as to the best man
ner of furnishing it At Atlanta the
party will be met by Warden McClaugh-
~. of the military prison at Fort Leav-
enWOrth. Kan There will be a consul
tation after an inspection of the work
which has been done on the prison
From the description given by Mr.
Games of the prison, 1t will be a model
of its kind and easily the finest in the
United States 1t will be ready for the
occupancy Of 400 prisoners by next No
vember, and by putting two prisoners in
a cell can be made to accommodate 500.
The power plant, kitchens, laundry and
all facilities of kindred nature have
been designed to accommodate 1,2O0
prisoners, which, 1t is expected, viii be
the ultimate capacity of the prison
when further appropriations are made
by congress
Mr.. Eames is also the architect of the
prison at Fort Leavenworth but says.
owing to the use Of the prisoners for the
labor, the work has not progressed as
fast as it would have done under other
conditions He has Just come from
LeavenWorth where he conferred with
the warden and a representative of the
department OF Justice. and formulated
plans for the year and for the letting Of
contracts for about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars worth OF work
such as plumbing, wiring and a class of
work which cannot be done by prison
labor. In his opinion the prisoners can
not be moved to the new quarters for
another year. There will be work for
them for a number of years to come
After the work has reached a point
where the prisoners can be quartered in
the portion Of the buildings completed,
much better progress viii be made. Those
in charge have been much handicapped
by the fact that the prisoners have to be
marched nearly three miles from the old
prison to the new. cOrralled, count
and parceled out in gangs and assigned
to the different kinds of work, brought
together again for meals and at even
ing marched back three miles to the old
prison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
MADE WALLS RING
Twenty-Five Hundred People
Sing in Auditorium.
Sunday School Convention a
Pronounced Success.
ABOUT 1900 DELEGATES
All Are Cared For in Topeka
s Homes.
Mrs. HamilI Talks of Training
of Children.
ABOUT 1900 DELEGATES

Between 1900 and 800 delegates are in
Topeka attending the meetings of the
Kansas State Sunday School association.
When the services opened Wednesday
morning only about 800 delegates were
present, but the morning trains were
crowded and by noon nearly all the dele
gates had arrived and much difficulty
was experienced in providing places for
them. While the managers of the con-
vention assured all that there would be
about 1,2s9 delegates here. they did not
make prepare lions for that number.
The convention seems to be the most
successful one of its kind ever held in
astic over the meetings.
Last night about 25O0 found their way
to the Auditorium, where a song service
was held before the meeting. Prof. Elk
cell seems to be able to get nearly every
was never heard before in the Audito-
rum.
H M HamiIl, one of the members of
the International party spoke On the sub
Ject The Book We Teach" He took
the position that the Bible is not his
torical work, although in it we find his
tory not obtainable elsewhere; that it
could not rightly be called a book of BIZ
ogra ply, although it told of the lives
literature. although it is perhaps the most
beautifully written and most powerful;
and that it was not book on sociology,
although all writer's on this subject went
to it Tor their wisdom. He said it was
Gods detective OF sin and the revelation
Of Jesus Christ as the sole Savior of
man.
He made 8. strong plea for a closer
study of the Bible, that the students
study it as a whole, and get the whole trend
of thought brought out by such study
and not to pick it to pieces and study
little paragraphs and sentences.
The address of Mrs. Hamill on THE
Teaching and Training of Children was
one Of the good things Of the .conven-
ton. Her ideas about the training of
the young were new in many respects
and her hearers were greatly impressed
with the Importance of early training.
This is the golden age of childhood"
she. said. Never before in history have
children. occupied so prominent place
in the life OF people as now. It is a
wonderful thing to be a teacher of little
children even secularIy, but more SO spir-
itually. When we teach the children we
should not lose sight of the fact that
we are moulding character Little chill
dren are like wax to receive and like
marble to retain. Hence the teacher
must know three things-the Lord. the
Bible and the child, SO that the impress
sions given the child will be correct
OOeS.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
NOTHING TO Do.
Railroad Commission Find Trouble in
Keeping Employed.

The railroad commission sees fruits of
effort in the satisfactory endings that
are coming to the complaints filed with
ing company reported this morning that
it withdrew its request for the com
pulsory building of a connecting switch
at Stafford from the Santa Fe to the
Missouri Pacific. The firm states that
it has made satisfactory arranG ements
with the Santa Fe for switching facil-
tiles.
The first case fled has also been with.
drawn and reported as satisfactorily
settled The merchants of jamestown
claimed that it was Disseminated
against in rates. The railroads acknowl-
edged their claim just and rearranged
them. The scoopshovel men have no
more complaints to make. S. c. Miller,
of Robinson, reports to the commission
that he gets plenty of cars now and in
dependent dealers generally are report
ing no trouble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
ARRESTED on OLD CHARGE.
Man and Wife Held For Shortage
Which Had Been Made Good.

z. D. Anderson and wife. Mary Ander-
son. were brought to Topeka Wednesday
under arrest charged with having de-
frauded the government while in charge
of the postof6ce at HavensvnIe. Kan.
The arrest was made by Postoffce In
spector r. NJ. Fulton The alleged Of
Tense occurred over a year ago. and Mr.
Anderson made up the shortage. SI95, and
resigned the office He moved to Okla
hon1a- where he was arrested
The United States officials here are in
clined TO look uDon the arrest as unnec-
essary. They say that the shortage NAV
have been occasioned simply by careless
bookkeeping- 1T is claimed that while
Mr. Anderson was in office he conspired
with his wife to pad the cancellation
returns about one dollar each day. thus
increasing his income by just this sum.
Nj and Mrs Anderson gave bond yes
terqay Tor SEQ each and were released
Mrs Anderson is a daughter of Thos
" Aayes- editor OF the Kansas City News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
Rock island Makes Time Changes

The Following changes IN the time
card of the Rock Island are effective
after May 10: Train No. which now
leaves Kansas City at 10 D. m. will de-
part at 9:45; it win arrive at Topeka. at
las instead of at u o'clock as hereto
fore. Leaving Topeka at 1901 it win
reach Mcfarland at 1.15 in time to con-
meet with No. Is which leaves Mcfarland
at 100 a. m. for Lincoln, Omaha and
points on the Clay Center line. No 36
will leave Topeka at p. m. instead of
at 7:10 as at present, and will arrive at
Kansas City at o'clock. The most i'm
portant change is III the time of No. 3
whereby one leaving Topeka at mid
night may be in Lincoln or Omaha the
next morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16

Gerry for over 100 years This will make
the se-enth time Bill has crossed the
water; he was a fireman on the ocean
and he has been nicknamed Steamboat
Biz by the Santa Fe boys.
No men are better pleased over the ap-
pointment of Geo Matthewson as city
clerk than the round house employees
whom he was associated with so long.
Fireman Morgan Lauter is moving to
All State street.
Fireman Dan Hamilton is laying of
for a few days
Engineer Grady has gone to Buffalo to
attend the Pan-American exposition
Fireman Jason Austin has gone to Abb
lene to relieve Fireman Morris.
Engineer Hutchins is running out of
Strong City on Engineer Richardson's
turn.
Engineer Morrison has resumed work
again after a siege with a poisoned hand
The coal storage plant, south of the
round house. will be one of the largest
on the system AL coal will be dumped
from the cars
Engineer N. w Smith is laying off and
has gone to Newton to move his family
to this place, where he has bought a
home Still they come, one by one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
ROCK ISLAND BALL TEAM.
Spend $3.50 For Supplies and Talk
Like Champions.

Max Maeir, stenographer in the Of
fee of superintendent of Rock Island
lines west of the Missouri river, c. H.
HubbeI, went to Kansas City last even
ing to spend $3.50 for baseball supplies
for the Rock Island baseball team.
The team is composed of boys who are
in the Rock Island offices in this city.
They have spent considerable time in
practice recently and declare they are
able to beat any amateur team in this
vicinity, not barring Washburn. The
LoWman Hill grounds have been rented
by the association and games will be
played every Saturday afternoon
Maeir brought back with him nine
sweaters, ten caps, several baseball
bats baseba1ls, half a dozen gloves
and sundry other articles needed by the
members of the team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
Mexican Central Appreciate Robinson

The Mexican Herold prints the follow
ing resolution passed by the directors
Of the Mexican Central: THE newly
elected directors Of the Mexican Central
railway passed the following resolution:
That the members of the present board of
directors, some of whom have served
continuously since the organization of
the company twenty-one years ago, de-
sire to place on record their appreciation
Of the faithful and conscientious man
ner in which Mr.. Robinson during the
last eight years has performed the
duties Of president of this company, and
of his remarkable success. as indicated
by the constantly increasing earnings
and steady Improvement of the property,
which has resulted from his able man
agemeut =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
SAY 1T Is A GOOD TRADE.
Purchase of sterne Property So Re-
garded by State officers.

The executive council expects to have
the plans for the State house heating and
lighting plant from the architect in time TO
advertise and let the contract three
weeks or q month hence They consider
the Sterne property no bad bargain. Tire
building on it cost $1,000 and the property
sold in the boom at SO 900. In letting
the contract the specifications will in
clude the salvage on the present building.
which is expected to reduce the cost OF
the lots to about $4,000 Available ma
terial in the old building will be used in
the new.
There is a. saving of 300 feet in the con-
duit to be constructed as compared to the
Van Buren, street site For this. conduit
the lowest bid is 50 a foot. The state
officers say the plant can now be re-
moved within the $1,000 augmentation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
FROM EMPORrA

1t was remarked by an old miner work
ing on the coal storage plant that it was
a shame to haul coal and stack it up
over what he claimed would be a better
grade He said he was satisfied that
there was coal there and good grade.
Better hurry that prospect well.
The reported increase in machinist
wages over the Santa Fe system is an
evident fact that mechanics are in de-
rnand everywhere. and the company either
had to come to time or other corporations
would secure their men.
Fireman w. H. Smith will leave shortly
for London. England. where he goes to
settle an estate which has been in cham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16

ports wilIgnot be made for several days
later.
John r. Black, who paints the front
ends of engines when they come into
the round-house, will go to Las Vegas
for his health.
Edward Crum has reported for duty
in the boiler shop after a layoH of sew
eral days on account of sickness.
Switchmen John Crawford and
George Mclaughlin viii go to Osawkie
Saturday. where they will try their luck
at fishing.
Thomas S. Stevens, signal engineer,
has returned from q. trip to Chicago.
Engineer Del. Morrison, of Emporia,
who has been in the Santa F'e hospital
on account of a poisoned hand, has re-
turned home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
FAILED TO APPEAR.
Directors II vinewood Park Company
Overlook q Meeting.

The Topeka Vinewood Park railway
directors were scheduled to hold q meet
ing in Topeka Wednesday for the purpose
of making arrangements for the operation
of VinewOod park during the coming
summer, and also for the transaction Of
other business of the company. But the
directors failed to appear, and the meet
ing was not held. The meeting viii
be probably held within a few days
The Vinewood Park railway, and
Vinewood park. are owned by capital
lists who live IN Peoria, H.. and In Bea n
mont, Butler county. Kan.
Frank G. Kelley, secretary, says the rail-
way company is having some braces
made for the curves in the Vinewood
park track, and that when this is done
and the track fitted out with guard
rails. it will be possible to operate the
new engine which the company has pur-
chased.
It don't think it viii be necessary to
make any very radical changes in the
track said MI Kelley. Il believe the
rails win be heavy enough"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16

company was represented at the meeting
and the vote was unanimous The hold
ers Of preferred stock also approved the
Issuance of $6.900.0O0 mortgage bonds for
future requirements.
By the purchase of the Rio Grande
Western the Denver e. Rio Grande Sc
cures half interest in the Colorado
Midland, the only competing line across
the state of Colorado
The general offices of the Rio Grande
Western at Salt Lake will be discon-
tinued.
1t was announced by President jeffrey
that the new stock authorized has near
w all been subscribed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
NOT COD-LIVER OIL

but SCOTS emulsion of cod
liver oil They are not the
same; far from it.
SCOTS emulsion is cod-liver
oil prepared for the stomach.
Let codliver oil alone if you
need it. When your physician
orders toast. do you breakfast
ON hourF
Pure cod-liver oil is hard to
take and hard to digest. A
man that can keep it down,
can saw wood. He thinks he
is sick ;she is lazy.
N7esussnd you Iitsle to try if you Ike
SCOTT 8 BOVINE go Pearl street. New York