The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-13

a rich color and is particularly even. Corn
growers all ove- this section are greatly
ABUNDANCE of moisture and hot weather
being the two principal requisites In the
growing of maize.
Three painters from the bridges and
buildings department have brought the
poria where they have been giving the
new gravity coal chute a coat ana have be-
gun painting the fence around the east
side of the Shop plant. The lob viii keen
them here three or four days longer.
Albert Arter's bridge gang which was
sent to the Canadian river south of Pur-
WaShouts resulting from the prevailing
high waters Of the last two weeks, has re-
and put in a total of 1856 hours apiece, or
an average Of little more than q hours a
Division Superintendent Mcclellan and
Bridges and Buildings Foreman Sayre
went out on a special Thursday morning to
complete the inspection of bridges which
was commenced last week but which was
interrupted by the washouts at two points
on the division. The train was in charge
OF Conductor Wilson and Engineer NeuEe-
bauer, with engine o.
Six or eight men in the mill will arm
themselves with air hoses Saturday after
noon and proceed to blow down the dust
from the ceiling Shafting and walls of that
This process is ALWAYS undertaken about
this time, there being a great accumulation
of dirt from the machines of that DEPART
ment. The machinery viii be covered while
the cleaning up Is in progress
Many of the shopmen will attend the
picnic of the Third Christian church Sun
day school to be given all day Saturday
sion Sa viii pro S 70 the grounds rom
the corner of First and Adams street.
where the Rock Island special train viii
be IN waiting for them. The time Of de-
parture is $500
Three or four car loads of scrap iron
from the Flagstaff. ATiz., wreck in which
the limited went through burned bridge
a few weeks ago, were brought in Thurs
day and a gang of truck workmen was
BUSY with the -Wrec1zlng crane all DAY un-
loading the tangled mass Some Of the
but otherwise the wreckage was in almost
as bad shape as it could be.
G. P Tilson. air brake inspector in the
field. who quit two months ago on account
NJ, and from a letter received there is no
Improvement in his condition When here
it was supposed that one lung was af-
fected, but since going west It has been
found that the trouble was with the
other.
A. T. Parfltt. foreman of the boiler shop
always has some way Of doing things at
a saving when there is an emergency pre-
sented. In the f1ue room where the flues
Of the new locomotives were so long that
they could not be easily handled on the
Machine adapted to reducing the size Of
hammer which is run by compressed air
and so located that the 19-footers can be
ience. Fastened to two perpendicular sup
ports the hammer works up and down at
q TdDzlltF OF SlToke LHaL Is IeEndI hdDios
beating the metal out to the proper size
in a short time. It is regulated by the foot
of the operator.
Locomotive $751; the biggest railroad loco
motive in the world, has been the object
of gaze to hundreds Of visitors since its
arrival IN Topeka yards Thursday. Its
advent was the signal for innmedia te
gathering. where It was stopped east Of
the passenger station, and from the APP
pearance of the steps of the cab It has
excited the same curiosity all along the
line The most impressive thing about it
at first view is the ponderous appearance
of the boiler. It's driving wheels are OF
much smaller diameter than many of
those under the passenger engines running
| in and out of Topeka, but for one single
piece of railroad motive power. the 967 GER
tainIy can give all of them odds and stil
walk off with the load of the strongest.
Ket Heustis, Gus Counter and David FL
der. boilermakers. who left Saturday noon
for Roswell. n, NJ. to so to work for the
company. have returned and are working
on the company's time here. Upon their
arrival at that place they were met by
4 the local tradeEmen of their class and ln-
formed that a strike was on. At that they
/ decided that they would take hand in
the affair and started on the trip home.
At Roswell there are only six men out