The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-06
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
| j. H. Wear a brass foundryman, was
/ out Wednesday.
Charles w. Morris is a new car repaireI
! put on in the sheds
Boilermaker Bert Nichols who was sick
q week, is working again.
Bert Stewart, a oilermal1er helper, was
| off Wednesday moving to 423 Elm street.
| Concrete is being put in for the founda-
| ton of the third furnace in the new black
| smith shop
Tree Parker of the boiler shop has rung
| in for duty after weeks absence on ac-
| count of grip
Charles Slusher, member of the sheds
air brake force, has returned to work af-
ter short lay off.
James Coggins of the air brake. corner
has gone to Anadarko, Ok, to look after
business interests located there.
Lewis steinrauf, foreman of the inside
able to work for about week.
w. w. Richardson, who has been with
position of assistant bookkeeper at the
storehouse.
Frank Gibler. night hammersmith, who
has been out of service three weeks, has
not yet showed up for work, having suf-
fered a relapse
Friday evening at 314 Kansas avenue will
be held meeting of the Swedish Scandi-
navian- club, which viii elect officers for
the ensuing year.
The mother of Thomas Wallace a local
painter, who has been sick for some time.
is reported better. Her condition a part of
ldSI week Was SERIOUS
F. c. Maegley and b F. E. Marsh of
the general freight offices will go to Fort
I Worth Tex next week to attend con-
John Clupper, a wheeler of scrap around
the mill. h has ST, been out out day or two
the east side of Oakland
c. d. Spencer, mill traffic manager of
the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Chi
convention at Manhattan.
F. c. MaegIey, assistant general freight
Joseph, Mo-, attending, a meeting of other
office is also in attendance.
John Hardness of Chanute has been in
Topeka few days visiting his brother
Edward, who was brought to the hospital
here for recovery from an accident ten
2 A r. Davis, foreman of the machine
shop, is reported as recovering from sick
several days. Mrs. Davis also has been
ill. but is better.
James Bell. who is still down with scar
let fever, has been a messenger in the
office OF the superintendent of telegraph
Ster at the car shops.
Preparations are being made to send the
piledriyer which was recently sent here
will consume oil as fuel.
Henry Gillespie, who for little more
than year has been Stenographer to G.
w. Closson, fuel and ice contractor, has
taken similar position in the office of
George r. Henderson, superintendent of
motive power.
sawdust is being supplied by the mill
Neb. Newton. Dodge City. Kan, and
Pueblo, Col.,,. besides farmers without
number, who line up noon and night with
their wagons.
Thirty-one new bridges are being put in
on the lines of the Santa Fe in Texas and
1876 miles of new line are being relaid with
75-pound steel. 1t has become necessary
to make. these betterments as part of
the requirements since such great num-
Der of heavy locomotives We're put in SER
vice.
Fred East, a heater in the blacksmith
brother Hjalmer who is on his way to
aqae TO fro the he
was in the harbor of Colombo, Island of
Geylon; but ,, expected to leave Az there for
that place the United States transport
Crook had visited it,.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has
been holding two sessions during the day
night at the home of Mrs. Edward Maher,
given to engineers and their wives, COM
plimentary to Mrs; L. NJ Dolph, grand
inspector of the order, who is visiting the
local lodge.
There was a small lineup of workmen
in the boiler shop Monday when the
o'clock whistle sounded. most of them
having taken a leave of absence to attend
wife of a boilermaker. The boys of that
department contributed a beautiful floral
partment We're pallbearers: Jas. Thomas,
Edward Dustin, Joseph Mckeon, Al Peter
son. Elmer Schlegel and Cal Alexander.
Within a few days the turntable at the
will be operated by means of
compressed air supplied by the locomotive
which is being turned, a small TatloW en-
gine having been received here from Den
yer for that purpose. 1t will rest on one
of the ends of the table and will be con-
nected with one of the four small wheels.
This win be the second table on the .syss-
tenn run by. power, the one at Fort, Madi-
son, Ia, being similarly equipped
BY the dropping of a brakebeam Tues
day night half a dozen cars were derailed
of OIathe about three miles: The train
was stopped before any serious damage
had resulted, two pairs - trucks being
blocked for about eight tiO Irs that two
due to run the cut off were sent
around over the Lawrence branch The
Topeka wrecker went down and put back
on the track the cars of merchandise
done to the track, and no one was hurt
At the recent meeting of the A. o. U.
w. grand lodge of this state at Fort Scott
the beneficiary claim of the late Ira Miller
was paid up by special action OF that
shops here and dropped dead suddenly
about a. year ago. Through some coinci-
dence he had been unable to pay his dues
that in such a case the member stands
suspended. Not long after the regular
time Miller did pay his assessment and
would have been reinstated in the lodge
death came so suddenly that no action
had been taken The claim could not be
paid from the regular fund for that pur-
pose, but was donated out of the general
been a member of the lodge upwards of
20 years.