The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE
William H. Wood was hired Wednesday
to reDair cars.
Engine 2255 has been completed and sent
out for trial trip.
Harry Barnes, car repairer, has been
under the weather few days.
E. A. Austin, trainmaster. was sick and
unable to be at his desk Wednesday.
Walter A. Wood of the machine shop
now holds forth on Jefferson street. His
former abiding place was east of the
shops.
Alexander Tuer, machinist, is home af-
ter vacation of a week. He and his wife
were in Colorado.
Charles Brown, who has. been a painter
In the field yards. has been transferred to
work on coaches.
Elmer, widau, junior member of the
smith shop force. has reported after the
John Pritchard, a coach painter who was
obliged to lose week owing to sickness,
has reported for duty.
Charles L. Sullivan president of the
Handy Equipment company of Chicago,
was in town Wednesday
Machinist Emmett Whipple has been
kept in his room for two or three days;
rheumatism in the right ankle.
]. A. Mcneil of the physical laboratory,
has returned to Topeka after a short time
spent in. Denver inspecting wheels.
Charles NJ. Scheafor machinist helper
for E. E. jerks, withdrew from further
service with the Santa Fe Wednesday af-
ternoon.
William Shine. an inside paint finisher
who has been in Colorado on a vacation
trip of some days. will probably get home
tfi. weel--
H. P. Richards a special apprentice, who
has been out on the coast lines getting a
catalogue of car brasses, has gone to work
in the south shop.
/ All the work of placing the motors in
the new smith shop has been completed.
Whenever the Juice is available the shop
VIII be ready for use.
F. r. Frost, electrical engineer was
looked for to return today from La Junta
nected with his department since Tues
Gay.
Bert Gorham, who works in jerks gang
and assist in caring ' for az brother Who is
| seriously sick in one of the hospitals
| here.
| is a ten wheel Santa Fe which has been
held in the shop for several months-most
of the time in the boilermakiEg depart
| mert.
| Thomas Mulvihill. who in the past had
a job in Topeka shops. is now following
the machinists trade with the ST. Louis,
| Rock. A-ls-
| ]. D. Mason springmaker, has been
sickness of his wife. Mrs. Mason has been
| sick for about week and since Monday
| she has grown worse.
William Oliver, "a Santa Fe machinist
at Emporia, is enjoying a visit from Mr..
and Mrs Carl Erickson of this city; Mr.:
| the Wolff Packing company
William Pennington, who helps repair
coach trucks, is fixing to leave next week
for ESkridge to attend a conference and
camp meeting held there for ten days by
! the Wesleyan Methodist church.
Preliminary tests were being made Wed
New York air brakes The expert
| ments were witnessed by a number of the
heads of departments at the shops.
| Special car 21S, which used to be occu-
pied by Second Vice President Morton. has
| been. set in the coach shop and according
! to plans of the present will be given a
complete overhaulirg inside and outside.
Frank Bovey. who usually presides over
| wheel lathe near the border line of the
east shop and the machine shop proper.
| is laid up with sickness. Fred WOODBURY.
| has been in charge of the machine during
| his absence
Frank Weeks. who has been away from
| the big planer in the mill since last Friday,
! has been ordered to go to the hospital
and remain. there until the physicians see
! fit to give him release. He is suffering
from heart trouble
Louis Barnett, who six months ago en-
rolled as a member of Mulens stripping
| to quitting he mashed one of his fingers
| badly, although he will probably not lose
| any part of the member.
r. B. Ford, foreman of the shops lum-
Der yard resumed charge of that depart
| ment Wednesday after a weeks junket
| but accompanied him home
John Gunther, a machinist who was
lald OH last week, mas gone SOUTH TO nnO
job that looks favorable to him. Wher
| last heard from he was in Oklahoma City
although he declared before starting that
he planned to make Newton his head
quarters.
Lee Paddock. who used to have a table
in the drafting room of the car Shops will
be home from Springfield Mo. next Sun
day. He has been with the Frisco system
at that point since leaving here severa
months ago and is well pleased with the
situation.
Ira Miller, formerly. gang foreman here
but now in charge of the Fort Worth anG
Denver roundhouse at Childress. Tex.
planned to return today to the scene o.
his labors with that company. He has
been in town visiting relatives for only 6
few da.s.
The wife of Clarence ChiIson. formerly
shop employee, but now connected with the
Chimney Construction company, is seri
ouSlv sick at her home in Oakland Shs
is so low with typhoid fever that within
the last few days three doctors have beer
at her bedside.
Fred Roehrig, formerly a Topeka timer
but last week transferred to Needles, Cal.