The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-09
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

rangement, being considered part Of
| the Sunset road
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Blacksmith H. A. Ffske went home
| sick Friday.
| Lamp Inspector Hobson has returned
| from trip to Leavenworth.
G. w. Closson, fuel contractor, was in
| Kansas City Friday on business.
Paul Spurlock of the cabinet shop is
sick and unable to be in his place.
BoiIermaker Maurice Collins has
| moved from AIS to 412 Locust street
P. J. Laverty of the blacksmith shop
is off duty on account of the sickness OF
his wife.
Edward Wells, a worker on air brake
equipment on the east side of the sheds,
is laying off.
George Bishop of the iron gang of the
storehouse is laying off caring for a
bruised foot.
]. B. Eckerman. a helper in the black
smith shop is detained at home by the
illness of his wife.
Charles Kistler and John Purcell of
the east shop came in this morning af-
ter a brief lay off.
A Dahlstrom, a carpenter in the cab
gang who has charge of the work on
running boards is off duty.
John Sheffield, a truck workman who
has been out for week on account of
a bruised foot, reported for duty Fri
day.
James West, a coach painter who
went to Chicago a week or ten days ago
for visit, has returned and is running
a brush as usual.
George L. Stone, a switchman in the
north end. has been laying off entertain
came up the middle of the week
Joseph Dedier, a timer on the east
side of the tracks, has resigned effec-
tive today and will go west to accept
a position which he has his eye on.
Miss Anna Thompson, sister of Geo.
Thompson of the boiler shop, left Fri
day for her home in Albuquerque, N.
NJ She has been here visiting for two
weeks
u M Petit, foreman of a scrap iron
gang who has been under the weather
for two or three days with a cold, was
able to come down to the shops for a
short time Friday afternoon
A O.. U. w. lodge PA, which contains
rolls, gave an oyster supper and phono-
graphic entertainment last evening at
its hall. corner of Sixth and Quincy.
Another installment of the Sanderson
triple-dump coal cars has been set in
to receive repairs. The frame work of
them is found to be too light and that
part is being more strongly equipped.
Special car 220, that belonging to the
directors has been set in for some minor
repairs. 1t was only recently turned out
and was used by President Ripley on his
trip out west
F. J. Kelch, who was sent to the Pull
man works some time ago to inspect
II chair cars that were being built, has
returned. Fifteen of them are being
built by the Barney & Smith company
of Dayton, Ohio.
Coach 14O has been sold by the COM
pay to c. J. Devlin. Another coach
which was almost torn to pieces in a
wreck down south some time ago, will
be scrapped. 1t is the first to be SO ham
died in a long time.
Floyd Bush, a brother of Harvey Bush
of the blacksmith shop, had one arm
caught in the gears of cane mill on the
member was SO badly crushed that am
putation was necessary
c. w. Smith, formerly general man
ager of the Santa Fe, passed through
Topeka Friday. He was accompanied
by his wife and was on his way to Cal
ifornia where he has large interests in
a street railway company.
Charles Miller, car repairer in the
sheds, took sick Friday afternoon with
vertigo and had to be taken away in
an ambulance. His condition is not
thought to be serious and he will proba-
bly, be on duty again soon.
Every noon hour next week Rev. F.
w. Emerson, pastor of the First Chris
ton church. will speak at the coach
shop. The occasion is the week of pray
er which all the associations of the coun-
try are observing simultaneously
Water service men are busy putting
the heater pipes in the new oil tanks
About two hundred of them have been
a large portion of which are
already being used in handling the pc
troleum output of the Texas and Cali
fornia fields.
Edwin Reed, messenger in the Office
of General Master Mechanic Collinson,
has quit. Lewis Griley, who has been
working in the office of superintendent
of Machinery Player will take his place,
and Edward Erhart will be put on IN
Mr. Players office.
Assignment of enginemen to the limited
runs for the winter or long that
train remains in daily service have been
made. Engineer John Snyder and Fire
man Edward Ash go on between Topeka
and Marceline, Mo. West of here Evan
Thomas and Samuel Ash compose one
crew and I. Wellman and r. H Lain the
other.
Frank White of the blacksmith shop
is having a bad time with one of his
hands. The other day while on duty he
scratched the back of it on set screw
and somehow the wound became pois-
oned- The lower part of his arm is now
swollen and is giving him much pain.
He will not get back to work much I'M
der three weeks
Housebreakers entered the residence