The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-09
ARouT RAILRoAn PEoPLE.

visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona The
capitalists are travelling in special cars.
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Charles Weber. a wheel-borer, was off
duty Thursday
Boilermakers have had No 5 boiler in
the mill under repair for day or two.
Frank Hamilton is at his post of duty
days.
Roy D. Taylor has been recruited lately
house.
Coaches 1 and Of the Leavenworth and
Topeka run have been set in the car shops
for repairs.
A1achinist Herman clinton has been out
a a, few days but was able to come In
Thursday.
Harry Sullivan. a night hammer man.
who has been out for a short rest is at his
P. ]. Harkins, an employee of the black
smith shop at night, has been. laying off
on business.
Samuel Adams. formerly one Of John
for a day or two.
Bert Barnett. a timer on the east side
spent IN moving
]. A Renyer. who has worked in a
grocery store here. took job in the store
house Thursday
G. c. Grout of the water service accom-
panied the Topeka songsters to the Kan
sas City musical feast.
Harvey Bush who has been helping in
the spring shop, has gone to heating in
the blacksmith shop proper.
Smokestaek No ! for the big furnace in
Thursday. It is 50 feet high.
The wife of John Leonard, a machine
shop employe, is able to be around She
has been seriously i'll three weeks.
John Norton, was absent from the coach
shop today and will be out today Personal
business is demanding his attention
T n oh, I7o
has been detained from his duties half the
week on account of a bad hand, is work
Locomotive SIS. a Baldwin which has
| been occupying the attention of the south
f fFi9I t g9Ds for several weeks is out for
Theodore vogel a brother of A. A Vo-
gel of the car shops, who has been down
a long time with partial paralysis, is now
able to walk.
J. T. Wha!en, general, passenger. agent
Ior the Mexican central, who maintains
I his headquarters at st. Louis, was in To-
/ peka Thursday.
G. s. Stiles. who. has. charge of the cleo
! trical equipment for the new shop plant.
I has gone to Chicago on business relating
! to his position.
Dorsey Green has gone to work in the
! NIcNeal of the paint shop and has been
! living at Usage City.
James Norris and William Shay, who
( have been members of the tank room gang
/ in the rOundhOuSe have been shifted to
/ the back shop temporarily.
! The wife of Conductor Joseph Dahoney
! of the Beavenworth branch is here from
/ Argentine for a visit with the family of
! Night Depot Master William Butler, GA
/ Chandler street.
The volunteer fire department for, the
santa Re roundhouse at Emporia has been
! organized Ihere are ten members.
Conductor Peter Forster is out of his
way car a few days.
! J. NJ Meade, resident engineer. who
went to Christ hospital a few weeks ago
for an operation, IS improving and is now
! street for some days
James Hoffman is being INDICTED into
/ the duties of storehOuse office boy. He
now mailing clerk Hoffman has had a
place in Klingaman's tobacco store.
Frank Thomas, who has been appoint
He left the Baldwin locomotive works.
/ where he has been inspecting engines, a
/ week ago and is due in Topeka any day.
Dad Butler. a veteran engineer on the
1 Santa Fe Pacific, who is widely known
among the men on the rail has been put
! on day Waterman at the shops
which the company is erecting at Albu-
| querque, N. M.
| Foreman Closson, has gone out on the
! western lines of the Santa F'e for inspec-
! ton of matters connected with that bust
ness. His trip will take him as far west
as Rincon. N NJ.
John Polhammer. mill hand who re-
! Gently returned from a ten days trip
somewhere, asked for his time Thursday.
He says he is going west, nobody knows
| where. POlhammer has been in the service
about six months.
Thomas Mulyihin, known among all the
| bOllermakers here. but who has been
! away from the Topeka boiler shops about
Two years mas gone to work for the ROCK
/ Island at Horton. He returned only
| short time ago from Indianapolis, Ind.
| Frank Silk blacksmith shop employee,
| who has worked here off and on twelve
! years took his time Thursday and will
| leave at once for Springfield, Mo, where
he has q job under John French in the
same department of the Frisco road.
Mrs. John Nick. Miller, wife of a clerk
in the office of Foreman Stewart of the
| where she has been receiving treatment
| for eleven months. She viii be here two
weeks and will then return to that city.
Newton Thompson. Clarence ChiIson and
have gone west day or two ago, have
| postponed the time of their departure to
| Sunday. They viii go to La Junta to
! take Jobs in the bonermaking department..
| William Doyle, a coach painter who
| quit here a few weeks ago is in the en-
| ploy of the Colorado and Southern at Den
| yer He has been in poor health, but
| thinks his condition is a little improved
since the change of climate was effected.
Lee Paddock a car shops craftsman
Atchison and St Joseph. No. before
starting next week to Springfield. No.
where he has accepted an excellent posi-
ton IN the same department Of the St
| Louis and San Francisco road.
Mrs. James Frew, wife of the roundhouse
! foreman for the Santa Fe at ChillicOthe
| Ill. has been in Topeka a few days visit
ing the family of John Player, consulting
leave presently for Colorado Springs, where
she viii remain for her health Indefinitely.
One hundred and eighty-five cups of tea
and coffee were served Wednesday at the
/ considerably below the figure which was
reached mum Der of DAYS ago when the