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

machine shop, is here from San Bernar-
dino, Cal.,. where he has been for the past
| west
Sturgis Bechtol of the boiler shop. who
| of some ulcers on his hand and arm, will
not be able to report for work before
Irwin lodge $50 of the A o. u w. will
give a reception this evening to the K p
band at the hall, corner of Sixth and
Quincy street The event Will be for MEM
bers only.
Frank Ludington, a car repairer who
| hand caught and broken between a couple
OF pairs of wheels, went to work again
| Wednesday.
Milton Hounsom. a laborer in Pettit's
scrap iron gang, was obliged to go to the
hospital Wednesday on account of some
foreign substance that had lodged IN one
of his eyes.
David Chairman. a cab carpenter who
cars h Insd arm fhugnI bl e"1 70 yist
the shops but probably will not report
for several days.
Frank Russell has been added to the
This department is especially busy. just
ty-five men on the after dark shift
g. w Hamilton: timer, has sold his
gan street, which he has owned for four
teen years, and has moved to the south
AZ East Eighth
Gus Osman who, two months ago gave
up the foremanship of the brass corner
n. M, resumed his old place Wednesday.
W. l. Jury, who has been in charge of
the men SINCE he left, has gone back on
a lathe
Lee Holcomb. fireman who was among
en tae nd lotry G I'm tn fe%
| lahoma He has a claim of well Watered
lana phhP5y bo5f0 o It IS ana ba
twenty acres of timber on it.
James Shay, section foreman for the
| with the duties of RoadmaSter Cafferty
curing dur the 1at lat a6ssnee in Washjng
the Leayenworth extension from Hollo-
day to Hawthorne and the Leavenworth
| and Topeka branch.
Work on the manufa curing of a thou
sand Benson switch lamps has been begun
within the last day or two. These lamps
are the invention of Frank Benson, a
] Client for giving light, reduce the cost Of
care and attention to miniI lin There
| use the system.
| j. NJ Packson, pastor of the Euclid
Avenue M. e. church, addressed the shop
men this noon. Tomorrow evening John
| Macdonald, editor of the Western School
sa M f tak abeaf fp to ct
The enrolment in educational classes con-
has IS and sIectTicity A. CLASS for Bibie
| study, under the direction of Rev. F. w.
Emerson has been organized.
| About twenty-five men are digging on
the foundation Of that building. -Excava-
| made, besides that for ten or twelve
piers. The surveyors have registered
good hard kick on the slowness with
| which the ground is being cleared. There
| are seven houses and a number of barns
| they considerable of a hindrance to
the work preparatory to construction
| 1t is given out on extra brakeman
authority that the Santa Fe is on deal
| for the sale of 26 engines which have been
| pronounced ready for scrapping. A Chi
cago company seems to be figuring the
| contract Most of these locomotives are
| of a type now regarded small, al
| though twenty years ago when many of
| them first went into service, they were
| big. Possibly in two decades the monsters
| of the present may size up rather diminu-
| lively alongside the products of the loco
motive building industry of that time.
Charles Berg, a. former shop man, GER
| tainly has experienced his share of dis
| tress in this world. Until four years ago
Berg employee of the bla cksmith
| department, hale and strong. weighing
| over 200 pounds At that time he fell sick
| and ever since then has been belfast
Within the last few weeks his condition,
perhaps, has become aggravated. He has
! borne it all as patiently as one could ex-
pect, but often says if he could only be
| allowed to walk through the shop and see
| some of the men with whom he used to
| work and know how many changes had
taken place since his time. he would be
satisfied. He lives in a little house on
North Klein street, near the river, and
| is cared for by his family and by the
| faithful friends who visit his bedside.