The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-27
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

Adult hA4HhOAO FEOPLE.
Charles Toates. a trimmer, is in Chicago
for few days
Hammer No took lay off again Tues
day. broken piston, as usual being the
cause
c. ]. Burghart, a blacksmith helper, has
been sick and unable to work for a few
days.
Joseph Mellinger,- first heater on No.
hammer, has failed to ring in for day
or two.
Jack Catron, helper on No. hammer in
the blacksmith shop. went home sick Tues
day morning.
Pat Donohue of the machine shop tool
room. who has been in the hospital for an
operation is gaining.
Oscar Fspelin, machinist, has returned
from Albuquerque. N. M, where he has
been for two weeks.
George Carlson. a machinist apprentice,
who was in Cleburne for a few days, has
taken his place as usual.
Samuel Short. nachinist who COM
planned of rllt INA tism Monday, did not
appear for "olE Tuesday.
~, Michael S schulmeisster, a furnace man in
ness after a short lay off.
Runs for firemen are vacant on trains 5
and 8. west of Topeka, and II and Is, east
of here, open until August 20.
Peter Miller. wood machinist. has been
off duty few days. giving his time to the
harvesting of a crop of onions.
Geor-e J. Gould has left for a tour of
inspection to extend over all the lines
bearing that name of the southwest.
The wife of Vincent Parkinson. water
service man, has been summoned to De
Soto by the serious sickness of her mother.
Joseph Dedier timer who worked
among the east siders until a week ago,
according to reports has gone to Chi
cagO.
La Junta several days~visting his brother
in-law,. Master Mechanic Giegoldt of that
place.
Martin Maglario of the boiler shop had
a call to Abilene Tuesday afternoon by a
message saying that his mother-in-law
was c~iticall. i'll.
few weeks ago and suffered a fracture to
one of the bones of the arm, was around
the plant Tuesday
Locomotive 229S, which is being rugged
up for yard service here, will have crane
attachment whereby it will be possible to
handle scrap material.
Philip Slusher of the coach shop has been
detained at home by the sickness Of his
daughter. who is reported as suffering
siege of typhoid fever.
Night Chief Dispatcher Stanley has been
off duty a few nights. Edward Modlin of
the day telegraph force is supplying during
the time that he is away.
Harry. Stephens, a clerk in the office of
Mechanical Superintendent Risteen. has
resigned his position and has engaged his
services to an uptown firm.
A. D. Miller, a helper in the blacksmith
department. who has been on nights, has
gone away for short visit before taking
his place with the day shift.
Charles Dodge, Frank Gandra and
service work. Chase is a pipe ftter and
Gandra goes on as laborer.
There a second section of No. 10
delayed while No. was having difficulty
at the other side of Dodge City.
A. r. Imbler, a scrap iron worker. has
been out of his place several days on ac-
count of the death of his mother. The
funeral of Mrs Imbler was held Tuesday
morning.
gether, he has been employed here a long
time, but only recently came back after
firing on the Katy out of a Texas division
point.
There are vacancies for firemen on trains
8 and 4 and and 8, between Kansas City
and Newton and on the Usage switch en-
51st.
1t is planned that the Scranton CORE
spondence school which is passing
through the shops for light repairs, will
September 10.
Richard Treble. former east side tin
ner, is employed in an uptown shop. He
was caught by the reduction last week,
but went to work in short time after
leaving the Santa Fe-
-Four trestles of wood are being turned
out by the cab carpenters for use in the
boilermaking department. They are par
ticularly strongly built, oak being used in
some Of the parts.
Mespelt's tank gang has completed new
standard size size steel water tank at
North Ottawa and in a day or two will
be ready to commence on the erection of
similar one at Chanute.
John Cannon, a clerk in the office OF
General Storekeeper Hilton, Is at his desk
again after spending a week climbing the
hills, breathing the air and drinking the
mineral water of Colorado.
Fireman James McKiernan is home from
Wichita and Wellington. where he has been
since last week He was with the Knights
of Columbus team which put on the inttia-
tory degree at the former city.
Alfred T. Bailey, who for two months
has followed the fortunes of a coach
cleaner nights, have severed the ties which
held him to that job and expects to quit
the state within short time.
There was a special train today from
Melvern by way Of North Ottawa and
other cut off points to Excelsior Springs.
Mo. 1t was run by the Modern Woodmen
of America
John Brown and Francis Man1ey, ma
chinists who served their time in Topeka
shops, quit Tuesday afternoon and 1t Is
understood that they may go to Little
Rock, Ark, to get employment with the
Iron Mountain road.
Engineer Byron Smith, who laid or a
long time ago and went to some of the
coast summer resorts for his health. has
reported for duty. He went out the early
six months
Emmett Wood, who used to help in the
Topeka boiler shop, has returned to this
place after an absence of two months or
more. He has been in Chickasha, 1. T..
doing work for the Rock Island, but Il
not pleased with the situation down there.
He says the water is bad, the weather hot