The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-27
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.


ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
John Player has been spending a few
weeks in Wisconsin.
j. r. Magee blacksmith, was among
those reported sick Wednesday.
Engines 134 and 284 were taken out to
Meriden Wednesday on trial spins.
Caude Holmes, a coach cleaner at
Sixth street. went home sick Wednes
day.
Charles Ackley. a sheds carpenter. is
out of service briefly, with a bruised
hand.
Peter Brady, night machinist at the
roundhouse. has been off duty a few
nights.
switchman james E. Strain did not
follow his engine Wednesday because
he was sick.
Wash. James, a carpenter in the
sheds, has been kept at home a day or
two by sickness.
Wesley Merritt industrial commits
5 sioner for the Santa Fe, was in To-
peka Wednesday.
George Koeberlein, a blacksmith help
er, was called home Wednesday by the
sickness of his wife.
Miss Anna M. Parry Bundy will give
the entertainment at the railroad Y. M.
c. A Friday evening.
T. F. Jackson, helper in, the black
smithing department, took an order on
the hospital Wednesday.
The wife of Joseph Cramer, a former
employe of the machine shop, is recov-
ering from severe illness.
Thomas NJ. Granger is a new scrap
iron worker in Pettit's gang. He came
down from Hoyt not long ago.
Mrs. J. E. Wallace, mother of Thomas
Wallace, a locomotive painter, is suffer-
ing with bronchitis at the home of her
son.
locomotives $40 and 500, which were
lately turned out of the Baldwin works.
came in Wednesday morning to be set
Five of the boys in the blacksmith
shop have lately been granted an in
crease in stipend-small, but none the
less accepta BILE.
S. H. Cameron, steel bridge builder
in the employ of Frank Hammond, has
gone to the hospital, a sufferer from an
attack Of fever.
Benjamin F. Otley, representing the
Otley Cement company of that city,WaS
around the shops Wednesday on mat
tiers of business.
Preparations are being made by the
Santa Fe for the summer tourist rate
from Missouri river points to the health
resorts Of the west.
c. Morrison, who some time ago was
on the list of sheds employees, has re-
turned from Oklahoma where he has
been since leaving Topeka.
In addition to taking care of a severe
illness, Blacksmith Samuel Florence has
been entertaining a brother who came
here from Canada, for several days.
Mr.. Ingersoll, representative of the
Ingersoll Milling Machine company.
Rockford. Ill, was a caller at the offices
of the mechanical department Wednes-
day.
The wife of L. E Wilson, a clerk
in the office of Superintendent of Trans
portation Kouns, went to St. Joseph.
Nc, Wednesday evening to visit her
parents
George Ricketts, and Charles An
drews are new rivet heaters in the
boiler shop. Ricketts, is son of James
Ricketts,, an old employee of that de-
partment.
Edwin Powell, boss of the wipers. is
off duty for the remainder of the week
struggling with an attack of lung trou-
BILE. He. has lost much time recently
on this account.
On the new lantern globes which the
company is sending out is the official
cross-in- circle trade mark of the road,
adopted a few months ago and now
having generally displaced the old style.
Five of the tank cars which were sent
here from Chicago for finishing ulti-
mately to be used in transporting OIL
have been returned to the Chicago di-
vision for service on water train
Joseph Grusenmeyer, who formerly
fired out of here but who has been re-
cuperatfng in California until recently,
has been put to work on Hammonds
steel gang building the frame of the
new shop.
For the last two or three days train |
No. has been late, running from two I
to two and half hours off the schedule. |
The delay is unaccounted for on this |
part of the system, but seems to come |
on the western divisions of the road.
According to current report the |
work of the new decapod engines which |
the Santa Fe lately received has given !
such good satisfaction that it has been |
decided to order rs more of them at
cost of $1.500,000.
Unusually heavy shipments of steel /
rails are being made over the Santa |
Fe now for the south and west. This !
material figures in the enormous ex- |
pansion which the roads of that part of |
the country are experiencing.
Lewis Lynch. formerly a car repaher /
last eight months following his trade at /
San Bernardino, Cal, has arrived in To- /
peka for brief visit He expects to /
return to the west later
Brakemen Howes and Holman, who I
have been running out of Topeka, have
taken up their abode at Argentine /
where there is greater demand for /
men than here4 Holman only lately re-
turned from a trip through the west.
Now that the ground around the shops
is drying, the footpaths are being given
the comfort of the numerous pedestrians
who must walk every day notwIth-
standing the weather or conditions.
Martin Salyers, a scrapper in Pet
tits gang, who had his hands full +
scrapping weeks installment of /
rheuma tism was able to exhibit himself
around the yards Wednesday He VIII
not resume work for about week
longer
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