The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-09

neGLVY on C0aI part OF the system ana the
is being given a thorough test.
Charles Richardson, who runs a drill
Fuesday. sun The end Of It was Caught hs in
the machine which he was running and
severely pinched. Richardson was of not
long ago because one of his hands had
been hurt by the same kind of an acct
There is talk that if the Santa Fe train
master is removed to Emporia the wreck
ogEcg n % a & Bomt tai kaen and Th ne
case they are taken te that point work
them on which they could put in regular
time.
George Huron, who was manager of the
Washburn football team, has the clerk
ship in the paint shop. Charles johnson,
transferred to the Office of General Shop
Foreman LawleSs, taking the desk va
for Texas.
Frank earle of Jersey City, N. J., is
here visiting his brother, Matt earle, of
He is superintendent of the Washburn
brick works in that city. and will proba-
ruary. in Kansas. He is accompanied by
a little SON.
Work on the conversion of the illurnin-
ating apparatus of the chair cars into
Pintsch from acetylene gas is being done
pieted this week Twenty of the cars
are being given the repairs here and the
other eleven by the Pullman people at
Chicago.
Ezra Cooper. an employee of the boiler
making department, will be married soon
Engine 9SS, the first Of the two largest
locomotives in the world to be received
by the Santa Fe, pulled more than 1000
tons out of Newton yards on it's way west
the other day
Within the last two days the westward
movement of passenger traffic has been
exceptionally heavy. In accordance with
the usual rule of harvest rates, nearly all
the coast are crowded with people going
there TO remain through part or all of
Andrew Byrne, wheeler in the black
smithing department who has been away
on account of the sickness and death of
his daughter, is still off. Byrne had just
months because of the death of a son who
was killed in the southern part of the
state. He has had his share of misfor-
tune.
Elizabeth and Bert Peach, daughter and
son sol OF John Peach, foreman OF the Santa santa
been in Topeka a day or two visiting, on
their way home from a two weeks trip
guests of George Atkinson, engineer in
the mill, and George Gerberick, foreman
of the air brake workmen in the car
shops.
Work on the engine hoist for Albuquer-
que shops has been almost completed by
the boilermakers and the machine will be
sent out shortly. 1t will be operated by
an electrical motor and is mounted on col
umns. The idea Of using hoist in hand
ling locomotives instead of doing it over
a drop pit as has been the method of the
Superintendent of Machinery Henderson
is putting into force and appears to have
many advantages over the old way.
Thomas Foy, field yard foreman, says
his good luck which brought him a quar-
country. is breaking. Several months ago
Foy went down. built a house, dug a well
rendered the place habitable. Then he
came back and moved his family on, it.
the water in the well which he had
thought. especially good, was full of min;
Il TTr1fff ffRT@T 10 Will
be still plenty of water on the claim. but
he is disappointed because the hole was
sunk nearly 100 feet and the vein appeared
to be unusually strong.
G. w. Closson, fuel and ice contractor
for the Santa Fsf has returned h from "trip trip
50 to. 90 cars of ice are being. cut each
day for storage at different points along
the line, chiefly now at San Marcial and
Albuquerque, n. NJ, and at La Junta, Col
Mr.. Closson says the fruit is beginning to
ments having been FASTENED on account
of the sever storms 9t a IF de% Weeks age
blown to the ground. So far it has not
tilation being all that is necessary to
keep them in good condition for placing on
the markets.
Slusser's gang of track workmen began
taking the rails from the trestle which
was built about a year, ago for local
storage track in the field. The wood will
also be moved away to be used for other
purposes. Last spring after it's compile
ton the dumping of coal from the drop
bottom cars was begun and continued at
intervals until more than 10000 tons had
been emptied. Soon after the mass be-
gan heating and made trouble for the
company as well as for the denizens of
that locality. Parts of the structure were
ruined by the intense heat and much of
the fuel was reduced to coke. The job of
loading it and Shipping it away was COM
pleted only a few days ago
Today the force of steel workmen un-
der Frank Hammond began unloading
material for the new machine shop and
by Monday the job of placing the frame
of that building will be begun. The men
came in Wednesday from Hardin. Mo,
where they have been repairing bridge,
but they will devote practically all the
time. to the new structure here until their
portion of it is completed. There is a
possibility that not all the stuff will ar
rive in time for them to be kept busy, 81.
though there are in the neighborhoOd of
35 cars. For the whole framework of the
building there will be 2050 tons of steel.
The factory has finished all of it, but the
of cars in which to transport it
is causing the delay.