The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23

| Mexican Central, was around the shops
| Friday. Mr.. Mason has many friends
here, having been at one time clerk
in the office of John Player, superin-
tendent of machinery.
William King, engineer at the pump
| house, who lately returned from Enid,
| Ok, is now working the night shift.
| Henry Foth is in charge of the engines
| in the daytime and William Gilpin,
| who has been supplying the vacancy,
| has returned to the shops.
Lloyd Conklin, who served his appren-
| ticeship as machinist in Topeka shops,
| but who has been working at his trade
| for the Kansas City Southern at Pitts
| burg, may lose one finger as the result
| of an accident which happened to him
| while on duty a few days ago.
Most of the passenger trains were
| late Friday. There appears to have
been no definite cause for any of it ex-
cept in the case of those which were
| laid out by the wreck near the Nee
! dies. A strong wind such as blew Fri
| day made it difficult for those running
| against it to keep up to schedule time.
| Mrs Caroline Thymian, who died Fri
| day evening of dropsy and malarial fe-
yer, the wife of Max Thymian who
runs the transfer tables at the car
| shops. She had been i'll since last
! spring, but previous to that had been
a woman of unusual health and vigor.
The funeral will occur Sunday after
noon at o'clock.
| Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon, who ad-
dressed the railroad men in a monday
meeting lately spoke upon the topic
of his address was that happiness
come not from riches or position but
from a contented mind. The attendance
was exceptionally large, there being 260
shop men present.
For the use of the class in electricity
: he Nj A a71 ax,.A
headlight has been received from the
Pyle National Electric Headlight COM
pany 1t is the same was used by
that company in it's exhibit at the Buff
falo exposition, is nickel-plated and its
worth is estimated as being in the
neighborhOod of $1,000
Brakeman A. o. Saunders has report
ed ready to go out on his waycar again.
About ten days ago Saunders fell part
way through a culvert while on duty
over near Neosho Rapids, tearing the
skin off one leg so badly that he has
lost all the time since then. He was
only doing extra service on that part
of the road and will not return there
now.
The following assignments of engine
men have been made: Engineer James
Mcmillan and Fireman James Helms,
trains II and between Topeka and
Kansas City; Engineer J. Gossard,
and between Kansas City and New
ton; Fireman w. D. Kelly the EN-
poriaOttawa local, and Engineer Hen
~ Decker, the water train between Hol-'
liday junction and Edgerton.
r. H Lain, fireman on the limited
trains between Topeka and Newton.
came in Friday evening from Denver
where he went the first part of the
week. Mr.. Lain was unaccompanied
by his sister as was expected. but she
will follow Sunday Monday. His
brother, D. H. who has been in a hos
pital there for several weeks recovering
from an operation. is getting along
nicely.
Frank Brooks, wiper in the round
house, shoveled cinders in a pit the 9TH
er night until he was thoroughly heat
ed. Then he came out, cooled off and
not long afterw5 I'd began paying the
price of it all with a severe case of
cramps. The next morning he came to
the roundhouse with much difficulty
and asked for an order on the hospital
for treatment to restore him to his US
ual health.
Locomotives s99, 4s3 and 221O have
been sent to the Santa Fe Pacific for
permanent service. The first named
was the last of the big Player COM
having been completed only a few days
ago. and is well fitted for mountain
service. The other two also of
high tonnage rating and will do good
Work on steep grades.
Tonight the local lodge of the inter-
national association of machinists will
give an oyster supper preceded by a
short musical entertainment. The event
is for the members and their wives and
is the first which the organization has
given this season 1t will occur in the
new rooms which the union has secured
at Lincoln Post hall and will be largely
attended by those interested.
Santa Fe men who run east from To-
peka say that in the town of Marco
line, Mo, where there is a division for
the through trains, scarcely any rain
has fallen within two years. The COM
pany has been obliged to haul much of
it's water for use there from other
points. Rain was falling there Friday
however but it is not thought to have
been heavy enough to do much good
Sunday afternoon at o'clock Rev.
D. M. Fisk, pastor of the First Congre-
gational church. will address the rail-
road Y M. c. A. gospel meeting. An
orchestra of ten pieces will play two
selections, there will be two numbers
by the male chorus and Horace Goss
will sing the Holy City" At 3 o'clock
the personal workers Bible class, led
by General Secretary Prout, will meet.
J. c. Layne's gang of painters has be-
gun the job of patching the roof of the
blacksmith shop. They have just fin
ished the new water tanks at Argen-
tine, Edgerton and Neosho Rapids.
Some time ago they began going over
the Kaw river bridge here, but after
finishing one span work was abandoned
for the present and probably will not
be finished now until spring. Repairs
on the covering of the blacksmith shop
will be especially accepta BILE, as it has
been in bad shape for some time.
Six cars of ballast and three of sand
were being unloaded at the new ma