The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-06
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

Bert Manley of the machine shop is out
for ten days.
Fred L. Boyers is scrapper, new on
the pay roll.
Hostler James johnson has been LAYING
on day or two
Charles Hoyt has been put on as a
polisher of brass.
John Mills, a coach carpenter has been
SICK for a day or two.
Henry DeCamp. a south shop machinist
went home Friday forenoon.
There appears to be a scarcity of work
In the upholstering department lately
Harry Ward mot the minstrel mani is
day. '4se
Burve Lewis, a roundhouse boilerwasher,
has reported after being out four or five
days.
Walter Mills is presiding over the brass
Dencn IN the coach paint shop for a short
time.
Elsie Anderson of the store department
reported for duty after a lay-off lasting
all week.
William Grubbs, a storehouse trucker,
went to Kansas City this morning to re-
main two days.
Locomotive $40 took its first spin Friday
afternoon in time to get the full effect Of
the rainstorm.
Clyde Bates of the roundhouse force has
returned to his place after a three weeks
rest in Colorado.
j. B. Frawley district passenger agent
for the Union Pacific at Kansas City, was
in Topeka Friday.
T. L. King. city passenger agent for tho
weeks in New York.
w. J. Black, general passenger agent
for the Santa Fe, was expected. to arrive
from Chicago today.
John Carlson, an inside painter finisher,
has been missed all week from his place.
1t Is believed that he is sick
Andrew Harmon, a storehOuSe packer,
was obliged to quit business and go home
Friday forenoon owing to sickness.
W. S. Bassinger. general passenger and
freight agent for the Leavenworth, Kan
sas and Western, was in Topeka Friday
Paul Ost, who spent the summer with a
corps of engineers on the Eastern Okla
homa extension, has returned from Law
renee.
John McHugh. dispenser of paints at the
paint shop '.bull pen, is at his post. He
was sick and unable to attend to duty for
several days.
Secretary T. E. Pyout of the railroad
Y. NJ c. A. is able to sit up in bed and
after few. days of Improvement may be
given his clothes.
Lawrence Bell, the brass corner en-
ploye who has been detained from his du-
ties owing to an. attack of tonsilitis, is
able to sit up in bed.
Frank Stallsmith is in charge of a new
locomotive headlight polisher which has
5ft up up s ths pfafing has
w. Y. Black of Pueblo, Colo, who was
recently appointed to the position of main
tenance clerk with Headquarters in this
city, has arrived and will take charge i'm
mediately.
Frank Wells, the machine hand from
the planning mill who was taken to tho
hospital ten days ago suffering from heart
trouble, is reported as being in a serious
condition.
Walter Anderson, machinist appren-
tice. has been granted a leave of absence
covering a period of 80 days and he will
go at once TO Kansas City to spend part
of the time.
Harry Sharp, formerly a machinist at
this point but now serving the St. Louis
and San Francisco at Springfield, Mo-,
similarly. is in Topeka for few days re-
cuperation and visit with railroad friends
George Stevenson has taken a clerkship
in the office of Machine Shop Foreman
Miller. Mr.. Stevenson is strange in To-
peka but not new to railroading; he for.