The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-07
ABouT RA1LRoAp pEoPLE.

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Locomotive 1913. one of the new Prairie
passengers, has been brought in for cylin-
der repairs.
Indianapolis, Ind. owing to the serious ILL
ness of his mother.
At the coach shop Thursday noon the
captain of the Salvation Army in this city
will speak to the men.
c. w Kouns, superintendent of trans
portation for the Santa Fe, went to Chi
cago Monday afternoon.
Charles Billings. a rnachinist apprentice
has been out of his place for a few days
and it is reported that he is sick
Thomas Paxton. superintendent Of ma
chlnery and equipment for the Colorado
and Southern, was in Topeka Monday.
Charles Sheets of the machine shop has
been obliged to give up work for short
time and lay off on account of a sore eye
William Nelson OF the machine shop,
who has missed several days on account
of the sickness of his wife, has reported
for duty.
Rollo Quick, switchman. has been
obliged to lay off for a few days. He got
wet in the rains of last week and a cold
has resulted
in the water service. but now in the train
department IS papa OF a baby girl. Euler
is running out of Argentine.
Machinist Harry Goodrich has taken a
respite of few days from the valve-set-
ting job in the south shop and has gone to
Kansas City to attend the carnival.
II1lA IocIlSOii d tlCttldilcdl department
craftsman, has returned from Newton,
where he was summoned last week to at
tend the bedside of q sick brother.
T. Whitmer has taken a position as bill
clerk with the Rock Island vice j. B. Jorz
resigned. Mr.. Jorz has gone to the Santa
Fe in the capacity of storehouse clerk
AT Ration. n. NJ. and Barring Mo, the
Santa Fe has taken charge of the new
gravity coal chutes. They are both about
the size of that in Topelxa-twenty pockets.
George Elliott of the east erecting shop
Obliged to make q trim the hOSnifal
Monday forenoon to have a fragment of
steel which had imbedded itself in his eye,
removed.
Water service men are busy putting in
tn f1ange furnace of the new boiler. shop.
It is to be located near the big Hanging
machine and its dimensions will be about
10 by 20 feet
Reports from the coffee house thus far
this month show that the number of cups
tanned during the same length of time four
weeks ago
Harold Lawless and Edward o'Hare.
for some months in the mechanical de-
partment. have been entered on the rolls
of machinist apprentices.
Oscar Wilson, formerly a clerk in the
office of Maehinist Foreman Miller, is now
holding a clerical position with the Swift
Packing company of st. Joseph. No He
spent Sunday in Topeka.
Fred Semon, who has had supervision OF
a force of laborers around the machine
shop has been taken to the hospital suf-
of his place about a week
Engineer John Snyder who was called
last week to Gettysburg. Pa, to see his
sick mother, arrived at her home too late.
When he reached there she was dead. She
had been sick for some little time.
Charles Kaiser who had a notion of go.
at Chicago as a blacksmith helper. has de-
cided to remain near his folks and has
taken job of helping in the Topeka
boiler shop zs-f- -...t.,--.-
Thomas Williams. travelling superinten-
dent of the Baldwin Locomotive works,
was in Topeka Monday looking after the
which the Santa Fe has been purchasing
from that plant.
Excavations are being made for ths
heating conduits of the new boiler and
machine shop. Four large engines for the
fan-houseS have arrived rand two more
carloads of material were on the track
here Monday afternoon.
Gus Dreyer, a south shop machinist,
went duck hunting Saturday. but the story
told upon him is that he saw only a few
tracks of the fowl on the water and they
were so faint as to be scarcely discernible.
No ducks were in sight.
There was big east bound business
today. the occasion being the Kansas City
carnival which is in progress this week.
In order to handle the traffic out Of the
city tonight after the parade a special
train will be run to Emporia.
Richard Robinson, who has been in the
service of the Missouri Pacific at Council
Grove. has come to Topeka and hired to
the Santa Fe as a scrap iron worker He
is a nephew of Frank Robinson, foreman
of the machine shop laborers.
One of the incest special cars which any
of the show compa nies have used in this
part of the country was the Hazel. II, "
occupied by 1.-The Hottest Coon in Dixie"
people who came in over the Santa Fe
from Leavenworth Monday morning
William NIcNoun. formerly employed in
the Topeka boiler shop, lately with the IN
tine, Tex, is in the city for visit with his
parents. He has been in poor health owing
to the climate of that locality and it is
unlikely that he will return there.
Duke Crawford of the blacksmithing
department has reported for duty after
lay off of about three weeks. He and Jo-
seph Euler of the water service are in af-
ter a hunt along stream 40 miles north
west of Topeka. There are a good many
possunls and coon, so they say, but rab-
bits are scarce.
Earl Edgeworth who quit a machinist
job for the Missouri Pacific at Osawatomie,
is in Topeka for few days making prepa-
Santa Fe. He liked the place at Osawa-
tonic, but SAYS he received some letters
asking him to go south and he finally de-
cidcd to do So
George Stinson. a machinist, is at his
place after vacation of two weeks. He
was in Aurora. H.. where Mrs Stinson
has been for a visit of some weeks. She
horneward Journey as New Cambria, No,
friends for q short time
| There will be a meeting of the member
ship of the Railroad Y, M c. A at the
associa ton rcclGs tonight. The reports
may show a slight decrease in numbers
within the last MONTH but only very
slight and by~ this time the record of last
month has bee n oVerreachcd. Wednesday
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Three condemned box cars have had the
trucks removed and the bodies have been
set down or the platform north of the de-
pot to serve as a baggage room while the
building is under repair They were placed
end to end and the partitions removed SO
| that they II ale practically one room. The
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