The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-03

a week on a visit, is expected to arrive
home Saturday and report for duty Mon
day.
plants which the Santa Fe is putting in N
western Kansas and Colorado. there will
be still another at Crozier. Ariz.
All the engines and generators which are
70 become fhe vitals Of the new shop pIs Mt
have arrived from the eastern factory
Only the air compressor remains TO come.
Albert Nichols. who until short time
ago had job on air brakes in the Greight
sheds. is now working on the farm OF an
uncle near Marathon Ia.
Mrs. Edward Doyle has arrived in San
Bernardino, Cal, from Topeka to join
her husband who is blacksmith for the
place in that department at this point
Earl lsdgeworth. who quit the Topeka
machine shop few weeks ago ana a since nee
burne, Tex, TO work at his trade for TIE
Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe.
Peter Butler, who has been prazing BUSH
ings in the tin department. has been given
a change of vocation, although still in that
shop. He Is doing the general stunts which
Isaac Renshaw will sweep the first sec
ton Of the roundhouse since the promotion
of Pat Lamb, who, until the first of this
month, had that job, and Steve Riesz. a
man new to the Santa Fe. will work in
the second.
George Bennett, who entered the water
has been transferred to the machine shop
proper. He is known as one of the best
machinists of that trade in the depart
ment.
Engineer George Crossen of Las Vegas.
N. M, is here for a visit after an alb
sence Of several years. Crossen fired for
some time out of this point and was ''set
up to engineer here, though immediate
ly after that he went west.
Representative Kent of the office of w.
A. Hodges, purchasing agent. has been
down from Chicago for a few days check
invoice of which has been in progress this
week
Eli Elenberger and David Warren win
represent the pattern makers at the com
ington; They left for the national capital
Thursday.
been in the service about year has
drawn his time and viii go to the Indian
Territory, where he is to become grain
From the hospital the report is given
out that c. ]. Moore, stenographer to
Mechanical Engineer Grafstrom. is doing
nicely. He has been down two weeks
with typhoid fever.
Buffet smoking car San Bernardino
was pushed out of the paint shop Thurs
day morning, showing up beautifully after
its general overha uling. 1t will be put on
the California limited.
Carpenters were busy Thursday cutting
in two the double doors on the north side
of the paint shop. They will be made to
fold back so that they will be out of the
tended.
There were three rush trains of freight
over the Kansas City branch Thursday
morning two of green fruit and one Of
cattle. The stock traffic has been heavy
for some time and the green fruit bust
ness has only lately revived after a slump.
Hammer No. of the new blacksmith
shop was running Thursday morning, but
in the afternoon it was shut down. One
to supply it with material was being lifted
to place by Anderson Boyd's water service
gang.
Claude Hardy. transfer table engineer
who heretofore has been under the juris-
diction of William Schmittendorf, foreman
of the water service has been transferred
Manson. His duties will remain the same
as heretofore
in the store department has laid his plans
for leaving the middle of the month for
the Cherokee nation, where he will secure
Arkansas City will drive over the country
hunting and fishing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Gatchel who were re-
gas. N. NJ. where they win live perma-
nenuy. They we're only recently married
and were met at the train by numbr of
friends who welcomed them. Mr.. Gatchel
is Santa Fe employee at that place.
Arthur Gilyeat. messenger in the office
of Mechanical Engineer GrafStron, will
leave Sunday for Argentine. where he will
machinist apprentice. He has filled a num-
company in this city and all satisfac-
torilv.
G. w. Closson. fuel and ice contractor.
will have his office west of the alley near
the present location of the East. Fifth
street, soon as the old buildings In that
vicinity are moved about and matters be-
come settled. The changes are made Incl
dent to the reconstruction of tile passsn-
ger depot.
Announcement was issued by the wheel
shop men Thursday morning that Gott-
fried Hoag. who works in the bolt corner
of that building. had recently been mar
ried and the runor seems TO have been
we'll founded. for Hoag distributed num-
Der of cigars among his associates through
out the day.
Pete Brady. the night machinist who was
called to Lincoln, Neb-. a few days ago
by the announcement Of the death of
brother ftlle second brother who had died
within a manth). has returned and IS at
| his post of duty. Edward Sheets, who has
been filling the place since he left, has re-
turned to the da-r shift.
Tests were being made Thursday fore
noon on the new auto-coupler. a sample
of which has been received at the physical
/ laboratory. 1t is, calculated to make the
connection Of draw heads as easy on
] curves as on straight track, an obstacle