The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE


returned home from pleasant trip to
Salt Lake City and Ogden.
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE
Walter Merritt of the roundhouse has
quit
blacksmith John Romerman is lay
ing off.
Trains five and six were run in two
sections Friday.
Switchman E. E. McFadden has been
laying off a night or two.
Charles Lungstrum has been put on
as helper in MitchelIs gang.
William Fletcher, of Shorey, is a new
helper in the blacksmith shop
Herman Gabler, an apprentice in the
round-house. is laying off sick.
Alexander Esplin is new bolt
heater in the blacksmith shop
A. J. Henderson has gone to work as
a laborer in the car machine shop.
Robert Stockwen, of the storehouse,
has been laying off for few days.
William Dummer of the storehouse
has gone to Colorado for a visit of ten
days.
Entertaining kin is said to be a re-
cent subterfuge for laying off on pay
day.
Joseph Philips. a painter in the
coach shop, is suffering with rheuma-
Green goods men have been plying
their trade among some of the shop
boys.
Charles Killian has returned to work
in the south shop after lay-ofr of thir-
ty days.
L. c. Juneau. blacksmith helper
who was put on only a few days ago.
quit Friday.
Y. NJ. Parkerson, engineer at the
boiler shop, went home sick Friday
Al. Coyne relieving him.
Edward Harmon a StOrehOuse labor
er, who has been unable to work for a
few days, is on duty again
c. Adams, who works on tracks in
the sheds left Friday for Denver where
he will visit for two weeks.
Machinist R. K Wallace has been
spending a few days at his father
farm out near Tecumseh.
George Bradshaw, an apprentice in
the east shop, will leave tomorrow for
Buffalo. He viii be gone 80 days.
sister of Joseph Donohue, Of the
south shop, has returned from a visit
Of several months in st. Joseph
Frank schmittendorf, of the brass
corner, has returned to work after a
short layoff on account of sickness.
superintendent of Machinery PLAYER
and General Master Mechanic Collin
son have returned from Chicago.
Edwin Powell, boss wiper, has been
laying off two days with a bruised foot,
caused by a pinch bar falling on it.
John Platt of the cab shop left Fri
day for Chicago where he will visit for
ten days. His family went with him.
E. H Berry. who works in the labora-
tory, has returned from PawpaW, H.,
where he has been visiting for ten days.
Machinist Elmer Miller of Graham's
gang viii start Sunday for an extended
trip through Colorado and New Mexico.
Frank Weeks. a blacksmith helper,
who burnt his hand two weeks ago and
has not worked since then, came in Fri
day
AL Blair, a machinist who has been in
the service of the Santa Fe at Ottawa,
viii go to work in Topeka shops Mon
day.
Engineer Byron Smith. who runs
from Topeka to Newton, has reported
for duty after a layoff of nearly
week
George Chase. a member of Cramer's
gang of helpers in the machine shop,
viii leave Monday for New Mexico on
a SO-day jaunt.
AL Hickox, who has been visiting
Machinist c. f Baird, decided to stop
here awhile, and has gone to work for
the Overton company.
Martin Reardon, foreman of gang
of Iaborers in the car sheds, has two
new men on his force They are Frank
Newberry and Del Shay
Willie Butler. the son of William
Butler night depot master, went to Col
been there for about two weeks.
Engineer H. G. Rust. who is on the
through passenger runs between Tope-
ka and Marce1ine, Will ask to be re-
lieved for 80 days and Will go west for
a vacation.
Firemen Arthur Bronillet, William
Rhodes and W. NJ. Roberts. of the
Ration division, will come to Topeka in
a few days to take the examination
for engineer
Carl Bloomquist. who has been work
ing in the blacksmith shop for some
months, has been transferred to the
roundhouse. He began work there last
night as a wiper.
Engine 70 has been turned out after
receiving repairs and has been assigned
to trains 113 and ia. west of Topeka.
taking the place of the So. which goes
on the east end run.
Louis AIsdorf. who quit the boiler
shop a few months ago to go on a farm
in Missouri is expected to return here
the first of next week and resume his
old job as fiue setter
Jack Reeser of the blacksmith shop
has been out for several days on ac-
count of poisoned hands, supposed to
have been the result of rubbing up
against some poison ivy