The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-19
ABOUT RA1LRoAp pEopLE.

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Conductor R. c. Scott has been off duty
for two days.
Engine 800 was given its breaking-in run
Chal Wallace of the south shop lost the
first two days of the week.
Wi MIA Johnson. a blacksmith helper
Paul Brown of the. blacksmithing de-
partment was absent from his place Tues
Jacob schafer is one of the recent
quits" at the storehouse. He was la
A. N. Jewett and Frank Howe. Topeka
boys. went ON as storehouse truckers
the company.
j. B.. Gibbons. a member of Elliott's
work Tuesday,
r Il. Grozier. travelling passenger agent
in Topeka Tuesday.
Clyde. Mccain. a clerk in the office of
tieneraI St9rekeeper Hilton. is on duty af-
Porter MILFORD Davis. who has been rum
ming out of Kansas City far west
Dodge City, has resigned.
=, J t1Iia MCCOY foreman Of trucking gang
Emmett street. from go jefferson.
Engineer Fl. B. Stnlman and wife are
here from Argentine, the guests of Ma
chinist Frank L.. Coles. $50 Lane street
Nate Cafferty has been transferred to
the roundhouse from the machine shop
and his place will be taken by Fred
Fisher.
Vance E. Rice. who for three months
has been working in the shops lumber
yard. has quit and may get job in the
blacksmith shop
Boilermaker James Thomas. who was
kept at home several days by the sickness
Thomas is better.
Henry ottinger. a. boiler shop employee.
sotber Mart lay a t6 of and % go to fhe
pass reads for 60 days.
John. Russell of the blacksmith shop
company Tuesday He viii move out to
a farm near Osawkie.
Gust MERCER of the car, shops has re
turned from Carbonate. where he attend
ed the funeral of his father-in-law, who
had been sick for a year.
Morrisons company playing Faust
came. in from St; Joseph, Mo, Tuesday
omrgd e. ha sPnea the ear being re-
Edward Strawn a member of the sheds
air brake force in the sheds, scame in. this
necessary for business reasons
Joseph Raab of the blacksmith shopsfs
PTeRaEag to go to Knsh Center for 9ed 6rle J
his wife, two children and mother.
John Schneibel is running the big planer
olas, who was called to Harrisburg. Pa.
Monday by the death of his mother.
gang in the scrap yard, has been laying
off a day or two, with finger that was
mashed.
Albert Anderson of the plating room,
who was reported as being down with
with nothing worse than strong case of
humps.
tests were being made Tuesday on the
| $50 horse power boiler which is to go in
the new rail saw mill at Newton shops
Il will be shipped in few days, accord
ing to present reports.
Fred Nixon, the great western chimney
on. the smolxestaeks OF. the machine. shop
boilers. today began the job of painting
]. J. Hurley, a Santa Fe switchman at
Kansas City, had his left arm torn off
above the elbow Monday evening while on
hospital there for treatment
Two more work train crews were put on
Lebo and will help get out gravel from the
pit at that place which is to be used on
the new built track east of WellSville.
Tuesday the last two cars of steel to be
used in constructing the frame of the new
boiler and machine shop was started out
of Toledo, O.. and will arrive before long
provided there is no delay on the road
Fireman Lee Holcomb who runs on the
a leave of absence for 60 days and will go
to the new. Oklahoma country, where he
was lucky in drawing a claim last sum-
mer.
]. Adams, representing the Shiclxle, Har-
ris and Howard Steel company of ST.
Louis, has been at the shops few days
looking after an order of holsters which
but which it was found did not fit.
Lee Altman, extra fireman, reported
for duty this morning after lay off of
mother-in-law, Mrs. William Swank, of
ploye of the Frisco at that place.
Clyde Scheaffor, a hammerboy in the
blacksmith shop. was put out of service
hot axle on one foot The injury was
not serious, but will necessitate a rest of
several days
Dutscher. foreman of the tin shop, who
street, between Third and Fourth
The wife of John Bauer, a timer on the
east side of the tracks, received first prize
for the best costume at an entertainment
curity hall Monday evening. She was
gowned to represent the season summer"
foot stone arch which is 10 be put in on
the Kansas City branch. near Weaver, the
morning mo- and the remaiTder of It WIN 'd be
followed up as rapidly as possible.
Frank, Gibler, empIoye of the black
smith shop. who works nights but who
has been off more than a month on ac-
count of sickness is still in bad shape and,
according to present reports will not be
able to report for several months.
Tuesday morning the f1ue which carries
naces in the brass foundry caved in and
ment for the remainder of the day. Water
service men at once began the job of re-
pairing it,
B, fo Humphrey mn t tFsaysling passsnger
Southern dropped off in Topeka for a few
hours Tuesday. He Joined w. r. Jerome
lately appointed general western agent for
the Vanderbilt lines who was returning
No to Chicago.
George w Miller, who will assume the
foremanship of the machine shop April l.
is the head of the Erie mechanical
plant at Kent. o. He was foreman of the
ma chine shop at the Robinson Machine
works in Monongahela. Pa. when A. r.
Davis was master mechanic.
1t requires about seven car loads of ma
terial to complete the foundation of one
of the new anvils for the big hammers in
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