The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-24


Julius Carlson, coach carpenter who
has been laying off a week because of
sickness, has reported for duty
IF the brs sod OF has a Rd
Topeka.
molder, left Wednesday night for Larned
where she will remain for several weeks
to come
c. l. Short, the popular conductor on
the Kansas City plug, left Wednesday
evening for Chicago. accompanied by
At the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A next Fri
day day eyening. the young, people Of the
tainment and reception
w. r. Jones, who has charge of Pintsch
gas repairs on coaches. has returned from
a visit. His wife was with him.
b. P Humphrey, traveling passenger
Southern. with Headquarters at Kansas
City, was in Topeka Wednesday.
Henry c. Hall, who has hsd a job in
Mullen has been transfer r1r to jerks
gang in the east shop as helper.
ReI Frank Mal0Ty paStHT of the Third
Some Surprises in Religion" at the Rail
road Y. M. c. A. next Sunday afternoon.
Henry Winfield. who has had a job in
the roundhouse at night, has quit Victor
Bloiomquist ppoeh9bp ae o, Eari Bloom-
place.
Jack Minrow, dispatcher for the Santa
Fe at Emporia, was in Topeka Wednes-
trip. SO far the dispatchers have not
been moved from that town.
Four or five of the apprentices in the
machine shop ere planning to reduce the
about next Saturday. They expect to
hunt.
valner Clearinghouse of the brass foun-
dry, who was kicked on the leg by a
What is believed to be an abscess has
formed and he will probably be laid up
for some time
About twenty-five couples, mostly shop
men and their wives, gathered the other
on Davies street, the event being his 18th
birthday anniversary Dancing was the
principal diversion of the evening.
John Young, a machinist in the south
shop, was obliged to go to the hospital
Wednesday because of an ear which has
a while. 1t is not believed that he will
find it necessary to lay off any length of
time.
Since the reduction to a nine-hour day
in the storehouse that department has
been overdone in the attempt to accom-
in ten hours. Between % and 80 men have
been working overtime, some of them I'M
til .. M
John Peronto. a boilermaker formerly
ly returned from San Bernardino, Cal,
ny improving and will go west again
about November l. He will probably try
William Sherman, grandfather of VIM.
and George Sherman, Santa F'e engine
men running out of Topeka, is here from
Kin. He IS s. years old. but IS remarkabIy
Wen preserved and made the trip from
his home to this place alone.
William Amos. who went to Chicago
about two months ago to inspect the axleS
of cars being built Tor the Santa Fe, has
returned. The company ran short of ma
terial for the construction, and as it was
should be some need for his services
George Cooper, a machinist in Mitch
next month to inspect engines which the
Santa F'e has contracted. for in the Amer
An appointment of this kind can only be
complimentary to the man receiving it be-
able to do the work satisfactorily.
Oil is to take the. place of coal as a
been plying between Point Richmond and
San Francisco, There are four of these
steamers which do the business for the
company, both passenger and freight. Pc
troleum IS already being used by the rail-
roads in California for this purpose and
lately a great many engines have been
equipped for this purpose
Word was received from Ted Montgom-
cry, a Topeka boy who is assistant chief
electrician on board the United States
battleship Concord. The vessel is now
the California coast, expecting to be or
uered south to help protect American in
tereStS in Central America Fer that
son Montgomery probably will not get to
visit his relatives in Kansas until later
He has been gone from here a good many
months
Elmer Hunter secretary of the shop fire
department Other officers are: William
sistant chief. Saturday the men will get
out for little practice and after that it
training. A thousand feet of new hose
has been ordered and repairs have been
begun to improve the conditions under
which these men are to fight fire.
When the boiermakers move over into
their new building it is expected that the
roam now oceuped tRem at qd en
the brass workers have their headquarters
the river bank. Recently the volume Of Of
business for the brass workers has great
boiler shop is vacated an enlargement of
the plant will be almost imperative.
o. Swanson. who has the, contract for
building five of the new ice houses for
material for them and as soon as possible
be located at E5mporia, Wellington, Ar
Ne ei' Monday Mr.. Swanson viii take
gang of carpenters to IecOmpton to begin
the building of the new depot at that
place This job has been held up on ac-
but portion of the stuff is now on the
ground and it is expected that the work
will proceed without any further inter-
ruption.
Water service men are putting in the
blacksmith shop 1t is said that this job
VIII REQUIRE ABOUT ten car IoauS OF mater
finished. The heat from the fires will be
utilized by having ii pass through boilers
which are to be located directly above,
and in this way steam will be supplied
for running the hammers and other mo-
tive purposes. In the old shop there is
only one of the furnaces thus equipped
but the result is such as to show what
a saving can be attained by the proposed
plan for the new building Contractor
Swanson has begun already the hanging
of the DOORS
Seven members of the Railroad Y. NJ.
c. A. left this morning over the Missouri
Pacific for Fort Scott to attend the TWEEN
tieth annual state convention of the Y.
NJ. C. A. General Secretary T. E. Prout
is among the number and on Saturday af-
ternOon will appear on the programme,
discussing the Social Work of the Rail-
road Y N. c. A. Wilbur Stark Will give
the annual renort of the TODpIxa aSSOciaL-