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

many Of the men in Inherent departments
rested; IN one which has its rolls seven |
teen workmen, seven failed to show up
after the 1 o'clock whistle blew.
Two cars Of Raymond " hitconb excur-
sloIllsts passed through Topeka Saturday
afternoon on No. ?. east-bound. A diner
was sent out from Kansas City to Usage
city and dinner was served from there in.
George Aye. a machinist apprentice,
cropped driving box on one wrist late
He was taken to the hospital and viii be
obliged to lay off some days for recovery.
General Superintendent Resseguie went
to Anterior, Mo, Saturday morning on a
special train composed Of his private car.
215 ana engine o.. It was in charge of
Conductor A. O'Byrne and Engineer W.
P Beeler-
There is some talk about the shops that
gin shutting down Saturday afternoon.
This was practiced formerly during the
last season.
Repairs on the tracks in the round-house
nave almost been completed. Heavier steel
mas oeen lald and the rails over which the
motive power continually increasing IN
ter condition than formerly
Plans are being drawn for a new wheel
shop which will likely be the next building
to be constructed, after the power house
% feet IN dimensions and will probably be
located south of the power plant.
John Layne's painters on the frame of
the new machine and boiler shop, have
made a big showing within the last week,
favorable. Saturday however some of the
men We're OF because of the wind and for
other reasons, but the job is being pushed
rapidly and viii be finished before long
There were two excursions on the East
ern division Of the Santa Fe Sunday. The
retan clerks OF Kansas City went to OF
taWa in a special in the forenoon, return
ing 7 IN me evening" ana a train loaa 81 col.
ored people started from Cherryvale IN the
morning, reaching Kansas City in the af-
ternoon and remaining until late in the
| evening.
Twenty of the Prairie freight locomotives
which the Santa Fe is having built at the
/ Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia,
have been completed and delivered to the
/ company None of them are working out
of Topeka, having been put in service both
east and west of here. It is probable that
most of them will BE assigned to the noun
/ tain divisions.
was pulling the east-bound Limited at the
/ time of the deranment near Cana. No.
from Fort Madison, Ia, Sunday morning
and was ready for the return trip in a lit
! the accident and was little damaged but
has not been in service since
John Austin and Mark N1aglario boiler
/ shop employees, who have been going out
with the tank gang every summer, have
I given up their rights in that force and will
! able to be away from home so much, and
their places viii probably be taken by
/ younger men who have no families It is
expected that the Worklnen will go out
soon.
Arrangements are on for the temporary
! transfer of six engine crews from the East
! Santa F7e during the rush Of stock from
! the pastures of the south northward It is
| thought that a number of Topeka men will
i be included IN the change as this point
| and Argentine are the ones which will fur
nish the full quota They will run out of
/ Cleburne, Tex.
Tests are being made with a new air
brake signal on the St. Joseph freight. By
means Of a connection with the air pipes
| the conductor from the way car can open
a small valve which blows a whistle in
the CAP, the same as is done by pulling
/ a cheap one, and II the experiments prove
| it success it viii probably be put in use
4 on all the freight trains.
Sixteen years ago today Edward Fuller
switch tender at the Second street cabin
entered upon the duties which have kept
/ him there ever since Previous to that
Fuller switched in the yards here and suf-
fered injury which cost him one hand
and laid him up in the hospital about eight
months. The time which he has lost since
beginning work has been about the mini
mum with which man can get along.
| Arrangements are being made by the
vvbere6y- fhe former road is 70 pet for a
few weeks one of its new Prairie freight
engines-the 1069-for experimental pur-
poses on its line between Kansas City and
! siderable testing of this sort within the
| last few months, and the present plan
| the Prairie freight locomotive for all
! around use passenger as well as freight.
There was almost a contagion Of dig
itaI accidents among the boys IN the east
shop Saturday morning. Nate Cafferty,
| LnaCh1n1SL. dropped a driving DOX on one
| finger. MASKING it so badly that he was
compelled to give up work for the re-
! mainder of the day. A little later Her
man Gabler got a finger pinched though
not so severely that he had to quit; and
Jesse Campbell completed the list by hav-
/ ing three fingers bruised so that he had
! to go to the office and have them cared
! for.
Maehinist Martin Gunther will relnquish
his place in the shops Indefinitely, begin
| ming today. and will go to the office of En-
gineer of Shop Extension Adams to assist
/ in making the arrangements for the loca-
ton Of the machinery for the new shop
plant There is deal of work attached
to this part of the change from the old
to the new quarters, it being necessary to
figure not only on the places which the
new machines will occupy. but likewise
those Of the old It Is not known how long
Gunther will be out of his usual job.
Worknen have finished the excavation
for the chimney of the new power house,
after reaching a depth of ten feet. The
force will next turn its attention to dig
ging a place 40 feet long in which the
automatic machinery which is to handle
the coal and the cinders for the boilers will
operate A large gang is stil kept busy
leveling the ground east OF the new ma
chine and boiler shop likewise that at the
south end and inside this structure A part
of this will probably have to be hauled
away, but at present that which is being
removed from the south part is being
dumped in the uneven places to the north.
William Charlton, who worked in the To-
peka boiler shop a few months ago but
who since has been in that department at
La Junta, was in town Saturday, leaving