The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-04


nosegays Of his cultivation.
George B. Campbell of the coach shop /
h tFiB gone to Pennsylvania On a vacation
Il is limited that the night gangs IN
ns'st Of the departments may be put on |
ditss soon.
J. B. Davidson has been detained from
his work in the brass foundry by an at !
tack of rheumatism
Batman, has been seriously sick with
cholera morbus for a day or two
w. D Chapman, helper in the boiler
shop, has returned from Hutchinson.
where he has been visiting since Thurs
Fred Ober, a son of Jacob ober, janitor
at the mechanical department Offices has
been put to work in the chemical laoo-
c. T. Brand, a Cottonwood division en-
gineer, is here taking the run Of James
Rollo on the fast mail between Topeka
Carpenters are putting up a new build
ing Tor storing the paint used on fre aRla
given up to other purposes.
Richard Bancroft of the water service
has lost two or three days, spending the
time with relatives who are here from
Birmingham, Ala, for a visit.
Barton Phelps has returned to his usual
duties in the mechanical laboratory after
between Kansas City and Newton
Walter A Mitchell, foreman of gang
in the east erecting shop, who was sent
west week ago to inspect a lot of
engines which the company was getting
ready to sell, has returned
Edward Brennan, Joseph Donahue, and
James Dryer have returned to their
places in the shops after being out
/ few days They attended Knights of
7 Columbus gathering at Salina-
Bricklayers on the new machine and
/ boiler shop have finished part of the
wall on the west side up to the gables;
/ The number of men working has not
| been as large this week as it was last,
/ but the dearth is only temporary.
CSe- 1r1r 10,
chinist, but absent from here for the past
two and half years. was q caller at
house foreFn:n for Tho st. Louis & San
! Francisco ct Saruipa, I. T.
Engine 1893 allowed It's pony trucks to
get OFF the rails near the Second street
/ viaduct Tuesday morning when starting
1 out with the Argentine local. and con-
it back in place It has just been turned
out of the south shop, after receiving
a general erhauling
/ William Evelsizer fireman at the mill
power house, is about the first heat vic
tim of this season: Tuesday afternoon
/ he was obliged to ring out and go home
/ The boiler room where he works is a
1 particularly hot place and the. stokers
! perature every summer. His condition
1 was not serious.
Talk around the shops now indicates
/ that both Marshalrs and the Knights Of
Eythias bands viii accompany the shop
men on their EXCURSION TO Forest PARK
number of good musicians to the K. P.
! organization as well as persistent prac-
/ has improved it wonderfully of late
Track workmen were taken out on a
4 train today to complete the repairs on the
rails which were moved ten feet or more
/ out of line by the rush of water down
| the valley of Brush creek Saturday even
| ing They were busieo chiefly with clean
/ ing out the bitches and unloading cinders,
and several days' time will have to be
consumed in getting matters back in
1 shape. Engineers have an order which
requires them to run slow over that part
! of the line
There viii be a meeting of the board of
/ directors of the railroad Y. NJ c. A. this
evening at the association annex, and it
! is believed that the members then will
finally decide upon the location of the
new home of that organization About
S5,SJ mas Deen raised among tne men
| thus far and by the end of the week it
/ IS thought the total sum can be brought
up to $1,000. tuesday evening the mem
| bership committee held its regular month
~ session and reported SS7 members, the
] largest yet reached.
Thomas Madden, who was foreman of
! the boiler shop at Albuquerque, n. M,
until a few days ago and who was ex-
take a similar position, has been made
boiler inspector on the Santa Fe lines
west of that point with headquarters at
/ san BernardinO. 1t has been suggested
from good sources unofficial that James
/ Hogan foreman of the boilermakers at
| Fort Madison. Ia, will be appointed to
a similar position on the eastern grand
To the Davis sisters, who Saturday
evening dressed in mems clothes walked
! q mile or more, part OF the way through
water that covered the track which they
/ followed and came upon a section man
/ just as he was Tagging the evening north
! bound passenger before it ran into the
/ breach produced by 200 feet of track being
/ washed away, should be ascribed as much
honor as was given Kate Shelley. Miss
! Shelley crawled across the Des M0ines
/ river bridge near Boone, Ia, one dark
stormy night about twenty years ago and
/ would have signaled the fast train on
the Northwestern had it not been held
/ by the dispatchers at point east of
/ that stream. The trestlework had been
undermined by the swollen waters, and
! she realizing the danger, CROPPED her way
across at great peril and was ready to
flag the heavily laden passenger train
/ She did not have opportunity, but
her heroism was rewarded by the COM
/ pany in herself and all the mem bers of
/ the family receiving life passes over that
/ road. So far there has been no recogni-
! ton of these two Kansas girls, one
knowing of it except a few railroad men
who We're connected with the operation
of the train. Had It not been stopped it
would have plunged into twenty feet of
water and many people would have lost
] their lives.