The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-28

nection with the Santa Fe.
George Etzel, who has been helping in
the old blacksmith shop. is handling the
levers of the new No. l hammer
Richard Steuhorn and August Kraft,
timers, who were in Kansas City with
the Arions, have returned to this place.
Engineer Wilson, who handles the throt-
tie on one of the day yard engines, is un-
able to do his work because OF a stiff
Martin Maglario of the boiler shop, who
was married about two weeks ago, is now
established in his home at 413 Jefferson
street.
There will be a patriotic service at the
coach shop Thursday noon the time OF
the regular religious mid-week gospel
N Getting.
P. Walsh, general baggage master, is
home from Chicago where he attended
the national convention Of railroad bag
gage masters.
senger Tuesday afternoon, his private car
19 being attached to No on its way to
FL Pasos Tex
William Shaffer, a scrapper, took ms
/ time the first of the week and has gone
to Oklahoma to work He has been here
but few months
There will be a game of baseball be-
tween nine from the shops and the Az
! burndale boys at lne Auburndale grounds,
Friday morning at o clock.
H. W. Morley. travelling passenger agent
/ for the Michigan Central in the Kansas
City territory and Arthur Moore OF the
Erie, were in Topeka, Tuesday
Clyde Bates of the rOundhouse caught
piece of steel in one eye, Tuesday after
noon. and on the advice Of the surgeon is
out for recovery for a few days
Maurice Sawyer of the spring shop is
expending his leisure time learning cor
rect bicycle riding, having purchased a
new wheel only a few days ago.
| Mrs. L. E. Stanfield, sister of Boiler
maker Bert Nichols, who was taken to
/ Christ hospital last week for a dlI1leult
I operation, is recovering satisfactorily
/ Mrs. H. L. Quail and daughter Blanche
7 of Pond Creek, Ok, have returned nome
after q visit of few weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. J. B. Mccoy, 1873 Emmett street
Fred Jansen of the east shop received a
blow on the right cheek from bursting
air hose Tuesday forenoon and was
obliged to go to the hospital for repairs
i Conductor Roos. captain of the evening
/ TOpeka-St. Joseph passenger, has been
relieved a weeks furlOugh and VIII
/ spend a part Of the time in Emporia
! Chris Kepperly. sweeper in the boiler
shop IS preparing to leave the iatIer part
! Of the week for the region Of klnsley'
where he VIII recuperate for a little while
| Machinist Edward Saunders has excit-
1 ed the Jealousy of other members OF the
gang by purchasing another new bicycle
Rainfall on the Strong City branch Of
the Santa Fe has made the track softer
/ than it has been for long time II mas
somewhat interfered with the movement
of traffic.
Members of Irwin lodge $50 A. Q. Y. W
have been asked to meet at the hail. 704
+ 706 Kansas avenue, Friday afternoon at
I l 80 o'clock to participate in the Memorial
/ day exercises
t conductor. 'DaQ GflIIltn, WHO - III
charge of the morning run between here
and St. Joseph. was absent attending
! Tuesdays meeting of the hospital asso-
! Paul Waizenegger an employe of the
wheel shop, who has been laying of sew
get a job in Albuquerque and will leave
at once for that place
! Bert Stewart. a boilermaker helper, who
pacity about two years, Withdrew from
/ that department Tuesday and says he will
work in the water service.
+ Train No. 3. the west-bound limited, mas
carried an unusually large number of pas
warm weather is at hand when the bulk
/ of the traffic goes eastward
Andrew Coakley. a pattern-maker who
has followed his trade in Topeka shops
( three or four months. has gone to Fort
/ " orth, Tex, 70 work Tor the OFT Worlh
& Denver, under Milton Player
Henry Grout is here from Albuquerque,
/ N. M, where he is employed in the Santa
F'e shops. Grout was a saw filler in the
mill until two years ago. and will spend
two weeks visiting his old acquaintance.
Train No. 6 was run in two sections a
4 part of the way west Of here Tuesday, the
+ regular train being badly delayed by a
/ washout and finally being annuled. The
/ Gulf connection got through before p. m.
William 3. Hoeck, general foreman for
the Fort Worth & Denver at Fort Worth,
Tex returned to the scene of his duties
Tuesday after spending two days in To-
peka. He took his family with him
Joseph Heinisch, who has had a bench
/ IN the east emu OF the TN snip mas DSSH
transferred to the Upstairs room, taking
/ a vacancy created by one of the gang
quitting last week.
George w Cooper, who was chosen by
Ben Johnson, superintendent of the Mex
lean Central to go to Dunkirk. N Y, and
inspect an order of locomotives which his
! company is purchasing there, left Mon
day
L. W. Lewis, the Emporia contractor,
| has shipped gang of men and the neces-
sary tools for them to work with south,
| where he has the job of putting two
bridges across the Arkansas river for the
William Schwalm, who recently began
| learning the machiniSt'S trade in these
shops, has been shifted temporarily to the
drafting room He is son of Henry
Schwalm. Santa Fe machinist of many
years.
putting up the outer structure of the new
machine and boiler shop, is also employed
erecting a building for the western grand
division officials at La Junta- 1t is OF
frame.
Locomotives 1850. 1882 and 1884. the first
of the new Prairie freight engines to be
seen here, came in dead Tuesday and will
be set up at Topeka shops. Others have
gone west, but it has been at night and
no one around here has seen them.
SchneibeI and Chatham of the machine
shop are struggling for the supremacy in
growing garden stuff from seeds sent out
BY the government. So far Chatham is in
the lead, Schneibel being unable to coax
those which he received to terminate
Harry Sharp. machinist of many
years employment here until about twelve
months ago has gone to Springfield, Mo,
to join the ranks of the Topeka crowd in
the employ of the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco at that place.
It is being talked that James Hogan,
foreman of the boiler shop at Fort Mad
ison, Ia, viii be appointed travelling
boiler inspector. The announcement does
not yet have official sanction, but It is
probable that it will be confirmed within
a few days.
Topeka, Knights and Ladies of Security
went to Kansas City this morning on q
special train of ten cars, leaving the San
ia Fe depot at 7:15 Conductor Richard
| Wilson. a charter member of the order
was in charge. and others Of the train
crew also belong to the lodge.
The De Plumas-N yreitus Minstrel CON-
pany of Irwin loege No. 260 A. 0. U. W
will put on an entertainment at the lodge
hall this evening The organization IS
composed of a crowd of young fellows who
have worked hard for weeks and who will
give the DeODia the worth ~ their time