The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-30

Protected Ark will give pie social and
hall A number of Santa Fe men are
members of the lodge and are assisting
ful
GqEt Herman. al helper lEs in the black <,
are nge Willie o png ha9
mer the other day he missed the object
With So neh forc tt he ha been
able to work since
There is talk that the new gravity coal
located a few feet west of the present
one, and will be shorter but higher. It
cars. and will be equal to any on the sys-
tenn for convenience
The little daughter of R ]. Putnam,
clerk in the office of the machine shop
foreman, Scalded herself severely the
He eachd and pled on
hand a dish of hot gravy, which of course
Members of the railroad Y. NJ. C. A. who
went to the state convention of that Or
ganization at Fort Scott last week, have
at that place. Next Sunday afternoon,
instead of the regular gospel services,
who in attendance.
In, Inquiries ABOUT the eva way in which Col
fhe raroa nls m lae ON 1 Tuesday d he
break down at the last?" and What did
tons Regardless of party. everyone ex-
pressed himself as being satisfied that the
punishment melted out was none too ex-
treme-
John Wood. foreman of a truck gang in
the sheds. has returned from a visit of
ten days at his old home in Washington,
Ind. Wood had not been back for twenty
years, and naturally things were a good
deal different from what they were at the
time he left. He says Indiana is all right,
but he wouldn't feel just like going there
New sO-pound steel is being laid along
the main line of the Rock Island between
rails have been distributed as far as
Wichita and the new track has been
loads iad were received at Wichita. the other
day, and the job is being pushed at the
rate of mile a day. The old rails were
of 60-pound weight.
Sand and other material for the concrete
foundation of the new machine shop is
being unlOaded. 1t is expected that work
men will arrive in time to begin the job
Friday The contractors who are doing
the excavating think they Will be done by
the last of the week. and after that if
the weather and the house movers do on, not
out Interruption
Instead of single door to the fire-box
the new Vauclain compounds, which the
Santa Fe, are equipped with two. This
was made necessary by the immense size
of that part of the engine and in order
that the fireman without extra trouble
over every part These locomotives are
perhaps of a little less tonnage than those
of the Player type which have been built
in Topeka shops.
Blacksmith William Crawford was off
most OF Tuesday and may not come IN
sounded Crawford along with others made
| a rush for the registering, clock, and ma
left arm against a pile of hot truss-rod
keys. That member was scorched. his
and he was obliged to be put on the list
Of idle men, It is believed, that he viii
Most of the men in the coach paint
shop took a half day off Tuesday to at
which occurred at O'clock. Mr.. Warning
was employed here as a coach striper for
to PocatelIo, fdaha, to work for the Ore
gon Short Line, and after staying there
on the .M''' Colorado southern He suffered
an attack of throat trouble which after
caused his death.
While the shop fire ladies were out
for practice the other day a portion Of
speech by George Wilmarth. fire marshal
Of the city Chief Wilmarth made some
them how '1 necessary it Would be to the
success of the department to secure har-
undivided support to the new head Of the
department. His talk was. timely, coming
starting out under a new chief.
John Austin, of the boiler. shop. is mad
because the dogs slipped into his poultry
yard the other night and killed twenty
one chickens Among that number was
for three Years. and which during its life
was one of the natural wonders of the
was as i present about the time the dogs. had
finished their ravages, and as one of the
ma stiffs emerged from the hen house
dealt him a few timely blows which set
tied his case. The other by a swift
sprint around the end escaped and has
not yet been heard FROM
w. H. Conry, foreman of the machine
shop tool room. who recently returned
from a trip to the east, while away WIS.,
tied a number of big railroad shops. At
Chicago he inspected the plant of the
Northwestern and Illinois Central, and
then went to the American Locomotive
works at Pittsburg. Pa Later he went
to the Buffalo exposition For electrical
instruction in the classes at the railroad
Y NJ. c. A. during the coming winter, he
bought some apparatus, among other
things a triple stereopticon lantern. Mr..
Conry has the work of the educational
classes much at heart, and besides what
he brought with him, has arranged for
the delivery of more to the value of sew
eral hundred dollars later on.
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