The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-01

DOTeT TUESDAY.
Earl Petrie, machinist apprentice. in
to attend the autumn festivities.
Joseph Cramer, form ~ly a machinist in
Topeka shops, has been engaged in the
painting of the Sixth street viaduct.
Henry Ottinger found his place in the
boiler shop Tuesday after being laid up
three weeks with cold on the lungs.
Brakemen Cook Holmes and Slack have
been engaged recently to assist the train
department in handling the stock bust
ness
Robert Stockwen, a. packer in the store
department, VIII leave soon for vacation
trip of ten days. 1t will be spent in Chi
cago.
Elmer Hollum, who assisted the day
oiler, has been on duty nights for a short
time while a gang of men has been en-
Dloyed.
The little son of Thomas Hairsine of the
boilern1aking department. who was taken
severely sick with Group one day last week,
| is better.
Peter schrcch. who has found a liveI-
| hood in Robert Graham's scrap gang, has
been shifted to the pool of laborers in the
machine sho2-
Clyde Wilson. an operator in the office
of the Santa Fe dispatcher at Wellington,
! will commence running or the road as 4
brakeman at once.
! Frank o Brien, who served his time in
the Topeka 4, boiler shop has gone s to Den EN-
with the Rock Island.
| William Mitchell of the night force in
the machine shop has gore south for a
latter part of the week
| Fred Semon, foreman of a force of la
borels in the machine shop, has been out
for about a week owing to siege of fever
with which he is affected.
Arthur Gnyeat, who has been doing mes
senger service in the office of Mechanical
Engineer GrafStrOm, has gone to Argen-
tine to work for Master Mechanic Hamil-
ton.
There were a number OF absences from
/ the ranks Tuesday owing to the work
1 engine 261 in the south shop, which kept
a large gang on duty all of the night pre-
vious.
| a transfer from the lumber yard to Floyd
Jones gang, repairing Pintsch gas and
Baker heater fixtures in passenger
coaches.
S. N. Peck. head craftsman in the car
department, and A. c. Magargee, one Ct
his subordinates, left todoy for Chicago to
attend to business affairs for the Santa
Fe company.
General Secretary Prout of the Railroad
| eight weeks, is able to be out Tor short
drive on good days He has been suffering
from typhoid fever.
Warren Owen, boilermaker helper,
drew his time Tuesday This time he has
been in the employment of the COMPANY
only few weeks. but before that he was
| here number of months.
All the brass foundry employees were
| given a rest Tuesday aft arnoon while the
| storehouse people went over the stock Of
raw and finished material. This invoice
| taking occurs once year.
w. R. Carter. who has had contracts
for most of the new shop buildings, also
has been given the job of erecting the two
| Laboratories in the vicinity of the other
/ structures of the new plaEt-
| One of the new pieces of equipment
| which the water service has drawn re-
Gently is a lathe which has peen set up
| and put in operation in the corner of the
east wing occupied by that department.
Pat Todd, q helper in the boilermal king
| department, had to make trip to the
hospital Tuesday morning in the interests
Qf healing a wound caused DV living
piece of steel biting him in the forehead
1t is announced that the new in
City is about half completed. An out
station is to be built, but the job has adj
vanced little beyond the blueprint stage
t NJ. Ramsdell, general car inspector,
has gone to Chicago to inspect the new &c
frigerator cars which the American Car
and Foundry company IS constructing for
der der $3.50 -
George Veal Of the boiler shop had his
hand bruised about week ago by some
hot rivet scales. At first it got better. but
Saturday it took a turn for the worse and
probably he will not get in under another
4 week.
Ernest Gustafson, the field yard painter.
who last week was named to go to Los
Angeles, Cal, and take charge of the
today. He has not been long employed in
Topeka.
i Anderson Boyd had his force of water
service men getting out the mat erial for
the four new fan houses of the boiler and
machine shop today. There will be more
of the material to follow to De used Tor
this purpose
John C1upper. coal shoveler at tht mill.
has been laying off for a number of days
owing to poor health. His daughter Daisy;
who recently left home surreptitiously and
then returned only to take to her bed, Is
now UP and around
| Richard Brownfield of the Santa Fe dis
patcher'S office ct Wellington, is recover
ing from severe illness which has kept
him in Topeka hospital for some weeks
After his release from that institution he
expects to take a rest of 80 days
p. Donovan, foreman of the air brake
room in the machine shop, was expect I'd
to be in charge of his men today. after
an absence of a week spent in Cleburne,
Tex, where he was putting in some equip
ment for the same department of the Gull
lines
Mrs NJ P. Holland is, here from St
LSus Mo- tRe guest Gr her Of TeneK
shops She was accompanied here by her
husband, who went on TO Mangum, OK,
and after a short while she VIII JOIN MIN
there.
1t was necessary for the Topeka wreckeI
to retrace the steps which it took Monday
morning and go back Tuesday to the scene
of the derailment on the Leavenworth and
Topeka branch. Since the new steel wreck
ing derrick has been put in service it Is
much easier for the. crew to accomplish
it's purpose in clearing the tracks and get
ting derailed or disabled equipment back
held here and used for odd jobs.
Louis Roehrig foreman of the tank build
ers, brought his crew into Topeka Tuesday
morning and the same afternoon the mer
boarded No. 1 for Dodge City, where they
are to erect some tanks to be used BY the
Kennicott Water Softener company for is
operation in freeing the water which the
Santa Fe engines use of all ;Rcrustants
The gang mas had under construction q
water tank at Williamsfeld, Ill.
Thomas Paxton, superintendent of ma
chinery and equipment for the COLORADO
and Southern. was around the shops Tues
day Mr. Paxton accompanied the Other
OFFICIALS of that road on their journey
!. | home from ST. Louis, where they had beer
for the purpose of placing an order FOL
cars. Mr.. Paxton went with his son Fref
to Lafayette. where the young man has
enrolled as a student in Purdue univer-
sity.
George w. Smith, whose promotion VA:
announced two Gays ago, becomes toda,
travelling mechanical super intendent. hay