The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-23
ABOUT RAILROAD PEoPLE.

day.
p: 8: Marks, an inside hnisher has been
Machinist A W. Smith missed the first
two days of the week.
Edward Grafstrom, mechanical engineer,
went to Chicago Tuesday evening.
Alfred and Edward Cederholm were add
day.
George H. Wood has been employed in
the air brake corner under the title of a
| machinist.
Everett Steward and J. W. Chiddix are
smith sho<s-
Samuel McGill, a machinist has returned
IRON a Junket of two days in the vicinity
Walter Davis. a Riley county lad, went
to work in the store department as a
trucker Tuesday.
w. S. Wheeler, Northwestern passenger
agent for the Lehigh Valley at Chicago,
made Topeka Tuesday.
The wife of T. B; Campbell, a coach car
penter, who has been seriously sick for
several days, is convalescent.
Fourteen tons Of metal were recently
worked up into seven-eighths inch bolts
by the blacksmithing department here.
George w. Caskey and William F. Will
son are new car repairerS who began their
term of service with the Santa Fee Tues
day.
NJ ]. Corcoran, representative Of the
Grand Trunk in the Chicago territory, Wis
tied 1e the Santa Fe passenger people Tues
Conductor William Line, who runs out
of Argentine in the chain gangs, is fig
uring on vacation of a week in short
time.
Charles Chadwick and George Crawford,
boiler shop men, failed to ring in for a
day or two past, and it is reported that
both are sick
Ben Mellinger of the boilermaking de-
partment. who has lost some days lately
because he sick, is once more on
company time.
Fred Davis. clerk in the office of Shops
Superintendent Purcell, was handling the
at his home in Concordia.
1t is probable that Evangelist Williams.
who has been holding meetings in the east
| noon coach shop gathering.
has been noted absent something like a
notice of it was given Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles J. Cherry, who was fright
of a skyrOcket was reported Tuesday as
making excellent improvement.
Boilermaker Albert Schaeffler has ar
Col, whittier he accompanied Mrs. Schaef-
fer, who will remain there Indefinitely.
James Baird, coach carpenter who
ankle that had bothered him before was
| troubling hi magain. is still absent
Paul White. who for time has been an
has taken a position in the office of C. W.
kouns, superintendent of transportation.
! Another of the $50 horse power station
new power house, has arrived and was
unloaded Tuesday. There is to be still a
| third.
| Plans are on for a game of baseball in
| the near future between the Chicago
Bloomer Girls nine and the Santa F'e
Reds, Details have not yet been COM
| pleted.
| Edward King, clerk in the blacksmith
| shop. is home from visit of a week
| who preceded him there several days, ac-
companied him the return trip.
Both of the weed burners which were
, have been brought in temporarily In a
short time one of them will be sent to the
Usage City branch to scorch the crop of
| vegetation that has grown along the line.
Herman Gabler of the machine shop has
ne erh playing YIN to an engagement Of cholera
| much of this experienced by people all
over town lately, it being one of the most
| serious ailments of the season.
| locomotive 80, an eight wheeler which
| has been in the south shop for general
o over %h has been turned out for ser
| pound. was set in over the pit which ii
| vacated.
Cabinetmakers put a new desk in the
| that department Tuesday The table which
formerly had place in that office has
been moved to the adjoining room to be
used by the enginemen.
Foreman Congdon of the smith shor
has has exercised s S his Ingenuity spfficiently
are first cut and outside of that a hexag-
Onal cut is made, thus producing nut
| The scheme saves much time and labor.
| son of H. Wilcox of the water service
fell from Union Pacific bridge west OF
here while making repairs it Monday
/ and sustained broken arm. besides othel
| less serious injuries. He will probably b<
brought to his home in this city soon.
| A. G. Glidden, who three or four years
ago had a job in the paint shop here, bur
who has been with the company in Chi
cago as a member of that department, ha:
resumed his place at Topeka. He JOINED
| the force Tuesday.
Fireman Alexander Jones. who runs ou
OF Arkansas City on the Oklahoma divis
brought his brother. Charles Jones. a cal
repairer at that point. to the hospital ii
| this city, sufferer from typhoid fever.
Gus Bollette, who runs rod fire on
in the spring shop, went to the doctor.
Tuesday afternoon with his right eye ser
iously scorched by flying sparks. The liz
| had been burned the day before and thi
time the eyeball was injured
Mnlmen are kept busy now with 10
OF orders that have reached that depart
ment recently A few weeks ago Their
| was not heavy run of work. but it i
Il eXDecfed M on will he nj