The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE

to boring fues.
John. Ash of the roundhouse force is
home from a Kansas City visit
Several new men have been hired for
service in the shops lumber yard
John Bauer. furnaceman in the brass
foundry, has lost a few days lately
William Artery has been off duty for q
few days owing to sickness in his family
Harold Karlmyer, a water service car
penter of short term, has drawn his time.
Gus Smith, a locomotive painter has
been out on hunting excursion for few
S. N. Peck, head craftsman for the car
department has returned from a trip
| east.
Harry Richards, special apprentice.
haitian.
". A. Rolf. storehouse clerk. has
time in Colorado Springs.
James F. skaggs, a craftsman, has re-
turned from Kansas City, where he and
his family went for short visit.
M Manson, a general foreman of the
car department. IS home and at his Of
flee after a weeks visit in Canada.
Carl Clifton is a new employe of the air
been working in the Oakland wooden mill
Thomas Israel. springmalxer foreman,
| is out for a vacation of short time and
his place is being taken by John Mason.sr.
Charles Slusher. a roundhouse man who
| for a few days has been watching an en-
CINE on the cutoff, has returned and is
again wiping.
William Sheehan of the blacksmithing
department, who has been running one
of the inside bolt machines, has been
shifted to that on the outside
Chal Wallace, a machinist helper who
for some weeks was in the hospital suffer
ing from stomach trouble is able to De
out in the open air on pleasant days.
! George Hutton, a carpenter who went
down with typhoid fever during the latter
day he was seen walking around the
shops.
James McNeaI,a coach painter,is pleased
with a deal which he made recently by
4 driving mare McNeal likes blooded
Joseph Fentiman who has charge of
the bolt racks in the smith shop. rung in
Monday morning. but before evening had
/ to give up his place on account of sickness
and go home. He has been sick for some
time
Lee Osenburg. a machinist apprentice;
has reported for duty after a lay off of
two weeks, caused by his left wrist being
sprained He is running the horizontal
boring mill.
Charles Kaiser has been transferred
from the flange room of the boiler shop
to the new blacksmith building, where he
will manipulate the levers one of the
| big steam hammers
Scion Keifer of the wheel shop. who
has been in the company hospital here for
some weeks sufferer from typhoid fever,
| is up and around. 1t will require some
little time for him to be in shape for his
duties.
has been occupied for some weeks putting
in the foundation for the machinery of
up the west half of this job Tuesday ev-
ening. t
Water service men were moving a heavy
51-inch boring mill into place Monday af-
ternoon, it being a late arrival for the
new shop equipment There vii be an
other of this class of machine having Sc
inch swing.
Ralph Shaffer. babbitter in the brass
foundry. has returned FROM Gainesville,
4 Tex, where he has Been for a few days
Mrs Shaffer. who has1 bee11 spending the
last six months with relatives in that
1 city.
Within q few days there will be some
promotions to firenen at this point This
is owing to the fall rush of business and
is occasioned partially, also, by the short
age in that class of men which has ex-
listed here for some weeks
William King: who has been employed
that had a fire in the blacksmithing de
partment, has withdrawn from the Santa
with vi at the n Rock Island az at Horton IN.
Andrew Neugebauer has taken the run
which John Talley had on trains II and G..
Talley, who had one hand mangled so
badly that it had to be amDutated. at
Florence, Thursday evening, is reported
as doing nicely at the hospital.
John Cuff has terminated a service for
the Santa Fe lasting five years. He has
| been in the Topeka boiler shop during
that time and feels that a change of allie
glance would do him good. He may enter
the employ of the Rock Island.
r. B. Cunningham. formerly stenog-
lrapher and clerk in the office of the Rock
Island bridges and buildings foreman at
this point now holding a similar position
with the Erie City Iron Works at Chicago,
is the guest of relatives and friends mere
for short while.
There has been abundance of work
coming into the shops within the last few
weeks, and it is probable that before the
week closes night gangs of workmen VIA
be put on in the blacksmith and bohei
shops to assist in disposing OF the material
that has come in.
In the northwest corner of the new ma
chine and boiler shop has been placed On
building was completed-an angle-iron
bender. The location of other parts. Of the
equipment will be continued as rapidly as
possible until all is completed.
John Layne foreman of the painters
who are decorating the interior frame of
the new machine and boiler shop, says
that he expects his men to finish the mid
die section by Wednesday evening. He
has force of 35 painters and uses pair
of opera glasses in keeping track of them
William Boyes of the water service is
candidate for representative in the state
legislature in the Thirty-eighth district:
1.-THE Auditorium meeting last Friday night
his name was printed as Boyles, which
is incorrect.
Henry Prince a fireman on the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe, was brought &c
Topeka on No. 6 of Monday evening and
registered at the hospital here with his
right leg broken Just above the ankle. He
comes from Canadian, Tex, and in tina:
region received his injury in a wreck while
on duty.
Among other machinery which has late
iy arrived here for the new shop the fol-
flowing is in the bill of lading: One double
axle lathe. a six-foot radial drill press, d
small slCtter and a travelling crane for
handling the coal and ashes of the power
house, with a capacity Of seven and hall
tons.
AL Ford a machinist in the east erect
ing shop, is home and at work after q Ter
days visit in Lima and other cities OF
Ohio 1t was his first trip to the scene Of
his carly life in IS years. although wher
he picked up and came west the people
| there said he would be back within sir
months.
T. e. Prout, general secretary of the
i Railroad Y. NJ. c. A., was able to walk e