The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26

boy around the office of Superintendent
| of Machinery Player, expects to enter
the service of the Rock Island on Mon
| day. He will be in the Office of Super
| intendent Hubbell.
Material is being shipped to Los
Angeles, Cal. for a new 34-bin coal
| chute to be erected at that place. This
| would indicate that the use of coal as a
fuel is not being entirely supplanted by
the oil of the California fields.
Matt. Stewart, a machinist in jerks
gang, has been transferred to the night
| shift. He is boring out tires and as
/ there is an abundance of this class of
| work the change is made that the job
may be pushed as much possible.
| A Malmstrom will go to the general
| offices on November as engineer, TAX
| ing the place which Thomas Nichols has
held. Malmstrom is an old Santa Fe
| man, having been at one time scale in
spector for the Eastern division.
| Will Hays of the blacksmith shop has
| been married only few weeks, but al
ready he has found it impossible to go
home. His little brother is sick with
| scarlet fever and the house will be I'M
| der the quarantine flag until next week.
| The little son of George Root, of Pot
win, is seriously sick. 1t is a grandson
| of B. M. VanCleave, of the storehouse,
and the parents believe it has swan-
| owed some substance which is pre-
| venting the digestive organs from per-
| forming their functions.
len new OIL TANKS, all competed WIFI
| the exception of the braces and paint.
| have arrived here from the east and
| will receive the finishing work at the
| hands of the boilermakers. This is a
part of an order of $780, Ill of which
already have been turned out
Engines 100 and 100, eight-wheel Man
chesters, have been turned out after re-
ceiving a general overhauling. Although
not of the large type they have given
excellent service and it is expected that
with the 1874 and 112 they will be held
here for use on passenger trains
Mrs. P. r. Symmes. the wife of the
Fourth street fagman is i'll with what
is pronounced to be creeping paralysis.
She has been sick long Time with
times at which she rallied and seemed
to be on the way to permanent recov-
cry. Her condition now is not greatly
improved.
James Collinson, general master me
chanic, opened the meeting of the mas
ter mechanics and road foremen at the
Y. NJ c. A. rooms this morning His
topic was Prevention of Engine Fail
ures." There were ten subjects on the
list, and about twenty men from diff
ferent parts of the system were in at
tendance.
Nelson Naslund, sr.,an employee of the
sheds who was overcome with the heat
last July and who has been seriously i'll
most of the time since. sustained re-
lapse a few days ago after there had
been a slight improvement in his condi-
ton While getting out of bed he Slip
ped, suffering severe strain which will
give him considerable of a backset.
Engine 494, one of the big Rhode ISL
AndS running paSSenge trains east
of Topeka, hit a wagon over on the Belt
line of Kansas City the other day. The
pilot was considerably bruised and had
to be made over. One of the horses at
tached to the wagon was crippled, but
aside from that and the wrecking Of
the vehicle no damage was done.
John Neiswender, a boilermaker ap-
prentice, got mixed up in a runaway
Friday morning while going to work
He drives to the shops in a cart, and
after he had passed the avenue on
Crane street the horse became en-
tangled in its harness. Neiswender
was dragged nearly half a block. He
escaped with a few scratches, and says
he wouldn't have cared if he hadn't
lost his dinner. He lives long dis
lance from where he works, and had
to go without that meal
C. B. Goode, of the laboratory, went
to Kansas City this morning to look
after the feed-water tests which are be-
ing made. These experiments are for
the purpose of securing if possible the
use of the steam which goes out
through the stack every time the en-
CINE exhausts, for heating the water
as it is being conducted from the tank
into the boiler. 1t has been tried but
with only partial success. The claim
is made that about 1 per cent. of heat
is saved for every II degrees which the
temperature of the water is increased.
That means not only a saving in itself.
but also heat from source which
hitherto has not been utilized for any
purpose whatever.
T. S. Cafferty, roadmaster on the
Eastern division, came in Friday from
the east, where he has been for two
weeks. Primarily Mr.. Cafferty's trip
was for the purpose of attending the
convention of the Roadmasters' and
Maintenance of Way association, which
was held at the national capital. He
was prominent in some of the discus
SiOnS there on questions relating to his
work Thence he went to Philadelphia
and New York, and after run up the
Hudson went out to Union, N Y, where
he attended a Cafferty reunion. There
were SO persons of that name as
sernbled. some of them from as far
away as Los Angeles, Cal. A reg
ular association of that name has been
formed and annual meetings are held
There are a great many members over
that state.
Ben Johnson, engineer of tests who on
November l becomes superintendent OF
machinery for the Mexican Central has
been with the Santa Fe a large portion
of the time since 1879. He entered the
service as machinist in 1879 and re-
manned in the locomotive department
until 1888 when he was promoted to the
position of general shop foreman at
Argentine. Later he was employed by
the Westinghouse Air Brake company
an expert but returned to Topeka IN
1898 as master mechanic of the Eastern
division of the Santa Fe. Since June,
1900 he has held the position which he
resigns the first of next month. HIS
family will remain in Topeka for the
present although he will go to the City
of Mexico at once to assume his new