The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-20

shskelz lacking the deal had to be an
nulled-
Scrap iron workmen were unloading the
first car of axles for the new blacksmith
shop, Monday afternoon. They are worn
out material and VIII be used in making
slabs. The furnaces viii be fired up in a
short time
F. ". Thomas. engineer of tests. left to-
Day Tor Albuquerqqe, n M, where ne
the new Santa F'e shops and if conditions
are satisfactory accept it on the part of
the company.
Charles Swanson assistant general car
shops foreman at Topeka, has been in San
Bernardino, Cal, several days and the
that he is to get the foremanship Of the
car department there
E. w. Griffith, who came here several
months ago with two of the largest loco
motives in the world, turned out for the
works at Schenectady. N Y, has returned
to his home in the east
A I. Lovejoy, treasurer and manager. of
company of Hyde Park. Mass, was around
the shops Monday. As a part of the ex-
tension the Santa F'e purchased for To-
firm
Several of the large oil tanks which the
returned TO Topeka for repairs at the
hands of the boilermakers- They have
been leaking and in order to find the place
where the leakage occurs they are being
filed with water.
Frank O'Brien's Capital City baseball
nine defeated the machinists by score
of 25 to Is Sunday. Batteries-M Herman
and Austin, and Lewis and Barrett The
victors say that as a consolation reward
they are going to buy a croquet set for
the machine boys.
Pliny Finch, a south shop machfnist who
took his time here last week and went to
Fairbury, Neb., for a brief visit with his
parents before. starting for the Needles,
the west on No 1 Monday afternoon He
was accompanied by his wife
John Plath, cab carpenter in Henry
on Clay street fully four weeks ago be-
cause of the existence of scarlet fever in
been down with the conta gion since, and
Monday one of his children was reported
as being in a serious condition
Details of the transfer Of lightning
equipment on IA cars have not yet been
worked out but it is strongly proba Bile
that the old ones will be stripped in To-
peka shops and possibly as soon as the
they will be set in here to receive the cleo
lighted.
walls of the new machine and boiler shop
Monday and for the first day made a good
showing. There is a dearth of wOrkmen
Of this class, and as many more can read
lily be obtained will probably be put in or
der that the job may be rushed. The car
penterS already have commenced some OF
the wood work.
George Brucklach foreman of the ma
chine shop of the Santa Fe at Albuquer-
que, n. NJ, is slated to resign that place
within the next so DAYS and to take a po-
sition with the mechanical department of
the Mexican Central. His successor will
be Henry Stovel. who formerly held the
position and who; since Bruchacher has
been foreman, had a gang.
John Coldwell formerly secretary of the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. and now special
evangelist on the Gould lines, has begun
Missouri Pacific railroad men at Coffey-
vile. He is assisted by C. w Mcclure.
home is at Emporia and who is remember
ed by many people of Topeka
Byron p. Davis, nachinist who went to
the hospital several months ago with a
bad case of rheumatism which has kept
him laid up since, returned from Fort
Worth, Tex, Monday, where he has been
two weeks. With him were his wife and
is still under the Doctors care, but thinks
to be able for business in a short time.
Henry Derby of the machine shop tool
room; Al Olson, machinist, and Nathan
delegates Of the K Of F. lodge No. 50,
went to Wichita Monday to attend the
P band of this place, numbering 80 men
left on No II Monday night for the same
! place. They occupied special coach at
/ tached to the regular train
Joe Chatham, machinist, is recognized
as an authority on Horticulture, but he is
/ plants The other day he went to the new
| machine shop and on the site of that
he believed to be highly cultivated va
| riety of that flower. Investigation PROVED
I that II was what MS Iile1luS nave named
a pink bug rose,' and Chatham has an
other guess.
W. v Turner, who has been named tt
! take the position of instructor in charge OF
the instruction car which the Santa Ft
| is to send out over the system, is foreman
of the air brake and car departments al
! Ration, N. M He is q comparatively new
man in railroad work, but in the shori
! time he has devoted himself to it he has
1 shown marked ability. He is now prepar
ing to take the car out some day mex
| week. It will go from Topeka to Chilli
/ Gothic Ill, thence to Corwin, a suburb OF
| Chicago and after short time spent OF
! the Chicago extension will start over the
Gulf lines and from there west to the enc
| OF the Santa Fe proper and on the Sants
December 81 has been outlined. ] B. Nc
| Donald, who superintendent the fitting VI
of the car. was called east some week.
/ ago by the serious sickness of his mother
/ and has resigned the position of instruc
tor which he was to have taken.
Among the younger shopmen who are
members of Irwin lodge go A. o. u w
has been organized club for the purpose
of furnishing such entertainment to those
| belonging as can be had by putting before
ton. The organization has been given the
classical Latin cOgnomen of 'IWo-Sixty
| Famous De Plumas Myreitus Minstre
| company with A. A Rulings as manager
| under preparation for a long time and th'
| boys are willing that it shall be presented
| to the public at the lodge hall, 104-405 Kan
sas ave, Wednesday evening, May e. Ih'
! young men around the shops as follows
/ Converse tionalist, Leo Gabler; pianist
| Harry Cohn; orchestra leader, Prof. Franz