The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-26

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J. Weimeister went. to work as a new
laborer in the machine shop yard
| J. E Mcleod, chief clerk in the office
home from business trip to Fort Madi-
son, Ia
Samuel JQslin. who has been in Topeka
body else here, is recuperating in Kansas
CLYDE Bates. who works in the locomo-
tive truck repair gang, went to the sur
geon Wednesday with a piece Of steel in
one eye.
Ernest Porter of the boiler shop and
| John Butler formerly of the same depart
ment have resigned their places on the
base BAH team.
Peter Schneider, a water service man,
is patrolling the blacksmith shop nights
| during the temporary absence Of the reg
| ular Waterman
Grant Burgoyne, machine man in the
| boilermaking department, has taken up
/ his work again after being out several
| days attending his sick wife.
Morris Lang, who runs a drilI-press in
/ the water service. dropped a frog-ran on
one toe Wednesday and thereafter retired
for light repairs The injury is not a Sc
rious one.
Arthur Lawless of the water service fell
from hand-car the other day striking
| enc, side against rail and receiving
/ for him to remain at work
Henry Grow. distribution clerk in the
/ StorehOuse, is still unable to be at his
desk. He is out on account of an attack
| of dysentery which has produced a serf-
! Gus condition.
/ Frank Ammel, who has been assisting
| in the office of the machine shop during
a temporary crowd of business, has re-
turned to the brass corner to continue his
apprenticeship
Machinist Frank Wilcox was called
| home Tuesday by the serious condition of
his four-year old daughter. The child
/ was suffering commissions, but after
awhile was relieved and Wednesday VIII
cox was at his machine
When engine 1905 pulled Mol out of To-
peka Wednesday the tank was filed with
the Sans Bots brand of coal which is be
ing. given a test here. Tuesday the ex-
periments with it were in stationary boil
ers. and the results were fairly satisfac-
tory.
Ter on all the locomotives which leave
the Topeka back shop for trial trip, has
mately two weeks and will go down to
Indianapolis Ind. to visit kin. His place
here is being taken by Henry Delvin.
One large car-sin planer which was or
| dered from the factory at Boston, Mass
a few months ago has been received here
and will be unloaded for placing IN the
mill at once. 1t takes timber OF dImen-
sions 1918 inches, and will be located in
| the northwest corner of the building oc-
/ eupied by that department.
Railroad men say that the corn over the
! country is coming out in excellent shape.
/ In some OF the heids there are a good
/ due to the growth being largely below the
III, cllti4 nat ~
4 development will be above the ground and
it is thought that there will be sufficient
sunshine and warmth to bring it to the
proper condition.
W. J. Leatherberry. roadmaster for the
/ Santa Fee cutoff, has removed his office
from Emporia to Ottawa whence the bus
/ inesB relating TO his department here
after will be handled Roadmaster Brad
| lev of the main line there who has had
his office in the depot. has moved to the
general office building near the round
house.
Machinist Cy Burgett has sold his prop
erty at lG9 Clay street and he and ms
( frau will take rooms here in town. Mrs
| Burgett has planned to leave Tor the east
! ABOUT uIN 10, gong irst TO Boston Mass .
/ where she has sister whom she will visit
| for a time Then she viii come back as
far Huntington. Ind where she used
to live and spend a few weeks there, re
| turning to Topeka in September.
Dan Garden, a sheds employee who was
! released from the hospital a few days ago
I after being in for two or three months
| because of an operation left Wednesday
accompanied by his wife for Fort Madi-
son, Ia. where they win be guests of
James McGinnis, foreman of the round
| Garden. Garden will probably report for
duty within two OF three weeks.
Recognizing the heroic intentions of Miss
! Bertha Matter in tagging the st. Joseph
| passenger train at Rock Creek three weeks
has presented her with 80 Ihe voucher
was made out by General Manager Nudge
and delivered to the young woman BY
Roadmaster 7. 5 Canerty- 1t was more
money than the young woman had ever
possessed, and she was accordingly much
pleased at receiving 1t.
Subscriptions are being taken up among
! the EmpOria railroad boys for money with
| which suits for the base ball team will be
| purchased. There is always more or less
/ craftsmanship among the fellows in that
| town but the wet weather which has pre-
1 vailed so persistently this season has had
them almost ready to give up any plans
/ for a team this year until now when the
are ready to undertake the proposition.
The papers say that games already have
/ been scheduled with the Reds OF Topeka
With IS new Prairie engines. the Santa
J locomotive department viii De placed
in position better than ever before to
| handle the traffic which is coming to it.
This is what it win have as soon as the
/ additional 90 which were announced We'd
| nesdav as having been ordered from the
Baldwin works, are delivered. The Prairie
freight type is identical with that of the
| passenger except that the former has a
69-inch drive instead of a 79-inch wheel as
is the case with the latter. However. the
freight class has proven ltself equal 70
the officials are highly pleased in every
way with the manner in which they have
the Baldwin people will go on with the
construction. at the rate of about four a
week until the lot has been finished.
Tile roof is being placed on the new
| boiler and machine shop large space on
| nesday- One of the jobs which tests the
.tenderfoot working on that structure IS
that of handling the tile after it has been
There he has to walk back and forth on a
siX-inch timber with his load OF thing,
and sometimes he has been led 70 oeileNe
there was safer way of earning hv-
ing. The cost of this part of the building
is one of the main items of expense, each
piece of tile costing about six cents on
board the cars. there being 20 odd carloads.
Several cars of ballast We're being unload
ed a the south end of the building Wed
nesday afternoon to be used in the founda-
tons of the machinery which is to be
placed there. 1t is planned that the wa
ter service shall begin presently putting
| in the foundations. The Topeka Roofing
company is putting on the tile.
Several fireman We're discharged from
the service of the company at Arkansas
City recently according to reports on ac-
count of their refusal to clean locomo-
tiYes. It has been the custom for a long
time-mostly since the pooling system
went into effect that the men on the left
side of the engines should be obliged to
clean up a certain number every month
under the old plan. the man who fired was
expected to be responsible for the condi-
ton of his locomotive above the running
board. But it has turned out to be
somewhat of a school-boy rule and there
has alN avs been more or less Of wrang-