The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-23
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Six more oil tanks came in Monday for
completion.
Machinist Thomas Smith has been off
day or two.
Henry Scott. a cabinet maker, was not
on duty Wednesday.
John Langen of the blacksmith shop
was out Wednesday.
James Stanley a storehouse packer, is
sick and unable to work
Locomotive. 800 was taken out on trial
John Casey. a switchman who has lost
two weeks, is in his place again.
D. S; Allen, a shavings wheeler around
the mill, was off duty Wednesday.
William Root was not on as a helper in
the boiler shop Wednesday morning.
Harry Goodrich, a south shop machin-
list, was absent from duty Wednesday.
Wilson Butler and Carl Wheeler of the
car machine shop We're out Wednesday
Charles Fisher, a laborer in the sheds,
was out Wednesday with an injured arm.
Blacksmith Miles Stevens was called
home Wednesday to care for sick COW.
Oscar Espelin. brass corner employe,
who has been sick three weeks, is better.
his place in the storehouse day or two.
Peter Marks is doing his work in the
wheel shop after a lay off of several days.
Engineer B. W. Client is marked up for
days.
Since the beginning of the year the
blacksmith shop has turned out 1210OO
bolts.
Joseph Euler of the water service took
town.
Hugh McGivern and Harry White We're
hunting in the vicinity Of Richland We'd
w. r Smith of the locomotive paint
shop is working after being out few
William Hobson a blacksmith helper.
went home Wednesday afternoon with
strained back
Two HTilla,. fo,a,,,ox, :, o,s+ e,o,, sxo mo
resumed his duties Wednesday after being
sick two days.
Clyde Boltz. an apprentices in the east
out eight days.
Brakeman Mordaunt is at the. hospital
about two weeks.
Pat Morgan of the blacksmith shop was
out Wednesday morning because of sick
ness in his family.
The wife of Michael Connell. machin-
list helper. is slowly recovering from an at
David Wisconbe quit the blacksmithing
department. Wednesday, where he had
been working as a helper.
Frank Steward of Hoyt was hired by
the blacksmithing department Wednesday
and went on duty in the scrap yard.
charge of the erection of the new rail saw
at Newton. has returned from there.
Coach 9O5 which is to be the air brake
burning off preparatory to being painted.
John Bostrom, chisel dresser in the
DlackSnltnlnS department., has been at
home a day or two on account of sickness.
Mrs. James Robinson, daughter-in-law
of Frank Robinson of the machine shop,
is here visiting relatives at $40 Liberty
street
Brick work on the first furnace in the
bla cxsmith shop is well along. The foun-
dalton for the third of the hammers is be-
ing put in.
Warren Owen. a boi1ermaker helper.
went to work Wednesday night after los
ing considerable time because of the sick
ness of his baby.
in the eastern division offices of the Santa
business in Topeka
C r. k1nsey, division storekeeper at
Newton, was at the general headquarters
of that department Wednesday comforting
with regard to the business.
Camille Van Laeys, a helper in Frank
Cramers MACHINE shop gang, has been
Charles Lye is filing the vacancy caused
by the change.
Oscar Wilson clerk in the office of A.
r. Davis, foreman of the machine shop,
who has been detained from his duties
more than week because of sickness, is
at his desk again.
At the coming meeting of the state la
Dor and industry bureau Lee johnson, Ia
bof a9d XII has 5ne i been
selected as alternate.
Jerry Dustin, well known around Topeka
maker max here, has been employed for some
tract shop at San Francisco.
Arthur Roberts. an apprentice in the
boiler shop. was struck on the funny bone
with a sledge Wednesday afternoon and
almost put out of service He was able
to remain on duty the rest of the day.
Harrison Euler, fireman in the mill
boiler room, was off duty Wednesday,
corner of Seward avenue and Elm street |
Arthur Wnmot was supplying in his alb
sence.
co9per Of the spring shop came in
made necessary by the sickness of his |
wife; Her condition had been critical, but
improved.
Switchman James E. Larkin. who has
been off the footboard ten days or two |
been playing to an extended engagement |
of quinsy, much of which time he has
been in bed
DIR. John P. Raster, chief surgeon of the |
Santa Fe, who was operated upon at the |
hospital ten days ago, has so far recov-
in few days.
w. j. Combs, chief dispatcher, was Off
his trick Wednesday. having been called to |
Cameron. Mo-, by the lines sof relatives
Edward Modlin. day operator at the divis-
ion telegraph office, was at the ch1efs
work
Late Wednesday afternoon of the
big pulleyS in the mill broke away from
It's Iastenlngs ana crashed TO the noor
thing. Strangely enough, though, several
men had been around under it only a few
minutes before.
There were many visitors around the |
shops Wednesday all day. They were
composed almost entirely of strangers in
the Midwinter exposition, but who ap-
peared to be able to crafty much of their |
curiosity in visit to the shops.
Since the Kansas Democratic F1ambeau
shop men, they will be interested to know
that the organization viii celebrate its