The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-23
ABOUT RAILROAD People.

most OF the summer
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Max Helman. an east side timer. has not
registered in this week.
A. A. Robinson. president Of the Mexiean
Central. has gone east
Victor Patnedane a machine hand in the
mill. has lost two days because Of sick
ness.
two large ones in the new blacksmith
building
Thomas Smith. rnachinist helper in
Martins gang, has gone to Springfield
Mo, for a brief stay.
Locomotive 5g5 has received transfer
from the, western grand division to this
part of the system
The little child of Oscar Meyer, lock-
smith IN the water service, is reported as
being sick with measles.
Tests were being made Thursday
new kind of inen-lined fire hose. The re-
suits were not the most satisfactory
Miss Irene Walsh of Los Angeles, Cal.
is here for an extended visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Myron Childs Of East Sixth avenue
One hundred cattle guards were start
ed by the mill Thursday. That department
has just finished an order of that number.
John Waldron, scale Fepairer in the wa
ter service, stepped on nail late We'd
nesday evening and did not ring in Thurs
day.
Charles Billings, a maehinist apprentice,
caught some metal in one eye Thursday
morning and had to take a trip to the
| hospital.
Clifford Baird has been named to take
/ the place of George w Cooper on the eX
! chine shop.
Mrs. John Isaaeson. wife of the planning
mill foreman, has been seriously Ill for
proved at last report.
! Water service employees are talking about
casag az IeF Paspa oe sBaa t See Peter
Butler OF that department
Carpenters are putting the treated TIM
bers on the concrete foundations by way
!! @ fi00 for the machinery which
to go in the new blacksmith shop.
Mrs. Fred Voller, wife of a coach
rora. Ind. Mrs. Vollxer was called there
/ by the sickness of her mother
Mrs. William Smith, wife of the former
shopman who: died last week at Guthrie.
1 Ok, will remain ar the home of her son-in-
| law. Tim MCNEIL, of that place for
while.
Mrs J. w White, wife of the Santa Fe
! division storekeeper at Ration, N. NJ, is
/ in Topeka for brief visit with relatives.
| She is on her way to her former home in
| Illinois.
Engine 852 q Pittsburg. which, after
| being out of the factory ten days was
brought into the shop for work on its
radial stays, has been returned to road
service.
Alexander Laird, division storekeeper at
| Fort Madison, Ia. and an old-time en-
ploye Of that department in Topeka, was
a caller at the office of General Storekeep-
One Of the weed burners which has been
/ at the shops all winter has been sent to
/ grand division. Another is being fitted up
for use in a few days.
James Ford of the boiler shop has de-
clared terrible vengeance on some heart
/ less rascal who appropriated his mother
! in-law' umbrella while ne was at an en-
/ tertainment the other night.
S. E. Kelly of the blacksmithing depart
ment has been entertaining for several
days Mr. and Mrs. John Hanson of Red
Cloud. Neb. Hanson has returned home,
| but his wife viii remain here some time
| longer.
III. IL.
/ carpenter, suffered a fracture to the lower
| bone of her left limb a few evenings ago.
/ In stepping from a bicycle the weight of
I her body was thrown in such way as to
break the bone.
Mrs. George Porter and two children
/ have arrived from Ration, N. NJ, and are
1 the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Israel,
S0S Madison street. Mrs. Porter is the. wife
of nachinist formerly employed for a
long time in these shops.
Mrs. William Kraighbaum, the wife of
former shopman; is visiting for few
3o5 Linn street. Mrs. Kraighbaums son
was a fireman who was killed in wreck
near here a few years ago.
| s. A. Mccoy. formerly resident engineer
for the Santa F'e at Ottawa, left Thursday
| afternoon for Battle, Wye. where he will
with his brother. R. z. Mccoy. a man Of
much experience in that work
Mrs. Lester Weaver of Wellington has
arrived here for visit with her sister.
Mrs Weaver husband is widely known
Panhandle division of the Santa Fee
For a few days while the supply of wa
ter which the rains of this week have ar
forde6 lasts, the water train which has
been running between Holiday and Edger-
ton will be annplled- It has been in ser
vice almost continuously since last winter.
Mrs. G. Shields and Mrs. J. E. Whitman
of Horton are here for a visit with friends
and relatives. Mrs. Shields is mother of
| Claude and Bert Shields of the shops and
Mrs Whitman is their sister. They are on
the way to Pratt, where they will live in
the future
Vincent Parkinson, for ten years station
airy engineer in the water service, has re-
Joined that department after an absence
of many months. being now employed on
the improvements in the new blacksmith
shop building He has spent most of his
leave of absence at the Topeka and Las
| Vegas hospitals.
r. E. Tayman of the water service may
deprive the Santa Fe of his services and
go to growing frog legs for the market.
| At his place. corner of Eighth and Blu
chanan, there is pond at the front and
one at the back of the lot and all that IS
| needed is to persuade the animals that the
location is healthy.
After the first of the month the scrap
iron gang working under Robert Graham
viii be brought under the jurisdiction of
the blacksmith shop Only. a few days ago
the force which was in charge of u NJ.