The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-02
ABoUr RAILROAD PEOPLE.

Brakeman Wettlinz has been of his car
/ a day or two because of sickness
Harry Henry has been put to work IN
i the machine shop on bolt lathe-
! Conductor r. c. Scott has been laying
OF a day or two for business reasons
W E Hodges. purchasing passenger
/ agent for the system, was here on business
Tuesday.
Esngfne al. which has been in service out
of Ottawa, has been sent to the santa + 9
Examination in the mechanical drawing
/ class viii be heid at the Hahfoau l. NJ =
Mrs Molie Duncan of Salisbury. Mo-. is
visiting the family of Edward Stitt, a
A n. Jewett and David Henry, who have
4 been trucking in the store department,
have been put on as packers.
Construction work on new eating house
/ at Rincon, n M, has been commenced,
to take the place Of the one burned
William Busby, who used to switch IN
/ Topeka yards has gone to work for the
company IN similar capacity at Emporia.
Mrs. A. V. Pitcairn. wife of a Pittsburg.
Pa, steel magnate. passed through here
'.Riva.'
Locomotives $50 and s52. two new ones
Spencer.
Several Of the Canerty tie plates. the in
yention of Roadmaster T. S. Cafferty, are
/ being Put in along the yards where their
efficiency VIII be given q thorough test
Arrangements are being made to run a
/ freight through from Topeka to F,mporia.
at night, leaving here at IL D. m. and max
/ ing the return trip some time next morn
Clarence Coleman. formerly of the Rail
road Y NJ G.. A here: but now assistant
gone to that place to take up his new
elmer Young, Joseph /. Lebo and Jesse M
/ Sutton are the names of a delegation
truckers Tuesday.
John Collins. who for = long time has
oeen working in a barber shop and Is ac-
| run in and out of ToDel1a has taken a ion
/ IN an uptown shop.
Three coaches which have just been
, turned out of Topeka shops after receiv-
ing general overhauling, were given their
| maiden trip Tuesday. being sent west for
| the first time on No. 5.
For two or three days a number of the
boiermalSers have knocked off work at 5
eloek IN the eXenlpg partially 1t IS said
the floor Of the building in that depart
/ ment.
Reports from the coffee rooms at the
shops indicate that the consumption of
/ that drink is slightly lighter than it has
been throughout the winter. It viii not be
| viii be commenced
Locomotive 1892 has been sent to Atehi-
/ which came through here Tuesday after
/ noon on its way to Usage City, where it
ka shops for heavy repairs.
Sales A4sggtent Tourney Of the Mamolith
! carbon PANT company CT Chicago has
been here few days in the interests Of
paint tests which have been conducted
! with a view to securing the best article
for freight cars and tanks.
Col Stone an employe at the Emporia
roundhouse nights, has been brought to
Topeka hospital for treatment for an eye
| which was injured by some I've getting in
/ it. The member will be removed and it is
likely that he will lose the sight
George W. Davidson. who a number OF
/ times has worked in the brass foundry
here. but who has had JOB uptown for
/ in that department. He is son of J. B.
Davidson and a brother of James David
son, both molders-
Engineer Al Roberts Of Emporias who
| runs on trains and 8, between Topeka
and Newton, has taken a lay on OF a few
| days because or the accidental death OF a
brother-in-law who was switchman in
La Junta- Henry Kreitmeier caught his
turn out this morning.
7. s. Caferty, roadrnaster on the eastern
division, has had a letter from his son
Earl, who is with the regular army IN the
| Philippines. Young Cafferty~ was shot
/ while sounding the bugle in camp few
| weeks ago and since has been in q hospital
| in southern Luzon. He is recovering and
will probably not experience any perma-
nent injury.
Joseph Spend1ove. formerly a machinist
here, but who has been out two months
or more on account of a stroke of partial
q few days ago and visited the shops a
few times. but has been obliged to return
there. His condition is not serious, but he
is in bed most of the time.
Orders have been placed for the manu-
faeture of 80 new uniforms for the K OF
P band, which is composed largely OF
shop men The new suits will be blue
with black braid and red stripes about the
coat trousers haYlng tne reguiatl9en IN yeie
about April q and are to cost in the neigh
borhood of ST each,
William Hanson who for about g year
has been doing the work Of stenographeI
in the office of the master mechanic and
general shop foreman, has received q pro
motion. having been given a similar place
in the office Of F. n. Rlstine, mechanical
superintendent. Herman Pausch, who has
home in Columbus, o.
Two express cars that were a part OF
No. Z. the west bound passenger on the cut
off Monday evening, got off the rails near
North Ottawa and had to be pulled back
on by a road engine, occasIon1ng a delay
probably mainly due to soft track. result
ing from the repairs which are being made
in that part of the road bed
According to the present arrangement
Superintendent Of Motive Power Hender-
son will have his office in the southeast
occupied by the headquarters of the me
chanical department. as will also Assist
ant Superintendent of Motive Power Net
Teton Workmen are stil busy preparing
the place for permanent occupancy.
With the sounding of the whistle Tues
work and went home to take a hand in the
municipal election. there beng rev re-
tanned for special work A gang of six o.
seven water service men were putting VI
some shafting apparatus in the machine
shop ana a NUMBER OF SOU Sn1 5 =
were doing necessary work IN tnal oepsitt-
ment. In the mill all was idle, except thai
the craftsmen there We're on duty par
of the afternoon The BRASS Iounury nae
its regular force on duty. quitting at
o'clock. There was full gang on the new
were permitted to go to the polls, return
ing later The traveller is being shifted tc
the east side Of the track; passlng up tne
may be cleared for handling material as
needed.