The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-03

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recovered as to be able to resume work
Sunday night.
John Jacobs. a night heater in the
! afternoon. taking the place of Fred East.
who had to lay off and look after some
business matters
Charles Nagle who has been a helper
for two years. took out his apprentice
Barbee has been nut on the steam pipe
job vacated by him.
E. A. Austin, lately appointed trainmas-
ter to succeed j. W. Robbins, who became
division superintendent on the Gulf Col,
taken up his duties here.
George Pollinger of the east shop was
struck on one thumb Saturday by a piece
eeiVed a severe in injury Whieh nav keep
him from work few days
workmen finished PUTTING in the apparatus
Tor heating la5ss al of the down town OFFICES
of the mechanical department.
Blacksmith Thomas Astle will return to-
morrow from Galesburg, ILL.,, where he
family. which accompanied him, viii re-
main for a visit of two weeks.
Some of the office force of the Santa F'e
their pay day being the first instead of the
fifteenth of the month; which is the time
the shop men receive their wages
William Shilling. who has been handling
the distribution Of pay rolls in Mr. Hen
the headquarters of Mechanical Superin- |
tendent Ristine, where he will do the same
work
Conrad Heise an apprentice in the boil
ershop, was hit in the eye Saturday af-
out of service for that day. 1t is not be- |
lieved that the injury will result serious
".
J. H. HfIand and party passed through |
Topeka Sunday afternoon in private car
on 4 pbe th Wsy fTa HlManhee to Ghea
tenn.
at the Railroad Y: NJ. c. A., IS being |
fitted up light. which was sent here by |
the Pyle Electric company. The appa- /
ratus received a prize at the Buffalo ex-
position.
Cabinet makers in addition to a big run
of business in filling orders for the office |
furniture over the road, have been get |
ting tables and other fixtures for the new |
offices of the mechanical department head |
quarters.
Edward Robbins, who. until a few |
of o the machine i shop here, ' but Who Went
to San Bernardino. Cal, IS among the |
off there.
Oscar Mcintyre, a helper in the boiler
shop, who took sick about Christmas, has
brother of Edward Mcintyre. foreman of /
the sheet iron boys in the boilermalzing
Boilermaker John Batman did not ring
in Saturday and it was reported that he |
Recently he was obliged to lose about two |
weeks on this account and his recovery |
never was complete
evening passenger between Topeka and St.
Joseph, Mo, relieving A J. RAIDER, who
since Harry Griffin took the captaincy of
the Kansas City plug.
pied private car 21S. attached to one OF |
the east bound trains Sunday. The 21s
and has been in Topeka shops for two |
weeks receiving light repairs.
Benjamin F. Tumelty, a machinist. who
nearly ten years took his time Saturday
morning and viii leave at ONCE for St
trade with a road in that city.
About 20 engines of the 500 class are be-
ing brought back on this part Of. Of the San
few weeks ago. and in their places will be
sent the new 500 compounds which are now
arriving from the Baldwin works.
Frank Weeks, who runs a big planer in
the mill, is in charge again after two
dentist and his absence was necessary in
order that complete recovery might come
from the operation
Jacob Mueller, cabinet maker who had
the misfortune to slip on the ice and
break an arm when he was leaving the
shops one evening about a month ago, is
slowly getting better 1t will probably be
two weeks longer before he takes his
place.
Osman Bates. a machinist who was in
jured in the first freak of the seacow,
Shennte Where he Will visit his mother
and his brother Charles, who runs an en-
CINE in the yards there. He expects to be
gone a weelz-
Thomas Rowland, an old employee of the
company at Emporia, who came to the
covery from an injury sustained in a fall I
from a stationary engine, has returned to
his home in that town and is rapidly get
ing in shape for service.
John r. Harrington, who works in the
has invented a device for grinding gov
ernor valves. 1t is so arranged that it may
work done quicker ana with much less
labor than the case heretofore
the Sape noof the ne n1aea f eaPe nn %
be held a meeting to be addressed by a
Speak are: Mrs; j. p; McFarland,, Mrs,
Garter ana Mrs j. A. P. Garnahan. -
Instead of finishing the coal chute at
Working for some time , the force Of men
has been sent to Emporia to begin ON the
material has been unioaded in
the yards for the chute at Topeka, but
comes, when a masonry foundation can be
put in.
Six laborers, were laid off in the shop
lumber yard the first of the month. owing
to a scarcity of work which has existed
on the pay roll since last summer. when
lumber began arriving in large quantities.
department will probably have no excep-
tional run of business until the latter part
of the summer.
Seventeen hundred Benson switch lamps
have been ordered delivered to the Santa
Fee they be made There
are already in the neighborhood of 1880
in use and giving entire faction. They
are so constructed that they burn six
days and nights without requiring any at
tention and at the same time give light
as satisfactory any other lamp. The
inventor is Frank Benson. a timer in the
shops here.
G. P. Tflson, air brake tester in the field
yard, who has been suffering a few weeks
with throat and lung trouble, was report
ed being in a serious condition Satur-
day. The latter part of the week it was
decided that if any relief were to come it
must be by removing Tilson to another
climate and preparations Were made ac-
cordingiy to take him to the company |
hospital at Las Vegas. This, however.
will probably be abandoned because of the