The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-26
but it was not and he has almost entirely

but it was not and he has almost entirely
recovered.
Frank Henry. a boilermaker, has been
off a few days visiting in Chanute-
Robert Maze is able to respond to the
sound of the whistle after lay off of two
weeks.
be equipped for service around the yards
here.
There were a number of absences from
the wheel shop Monday. evening owing to
shortage of work
Engines las and 2So have been sold and
will be turned over to their new owners
after being given general repairs.
Samuel Cooper, clerk in the office of
General Storekeeper Hilton, has been in
Colorado a few days with his family.
James Finnie, who has allowed the water
service to run since pay day without his
presence, is in again at his post of duty.
G. M. Webster. storehouse clerk, was
obliged to knock Off work at his desk on
Monday afternoon and go home. He was
sick.
D. Alexander blacksmith, took his
place Monday morning, after an absence
his baby.
Another new hosecart for the shops fire
department is to be built by the water ser
vice. 1t will be similar to those already
in here
Water service men have completed new
four-inch water line around the boiler and
machine shop, it being placed just above
the second floor.
Ira Miller. foreman of the Fort Worth
charge of a gang of machinists here, has
been in town for a day or two.
Noah A. Sanderson. who for about four
months had a job trucker in the store
house, has quit and will go to weighing
coal for his father on East Sixth avenue.
Elmer Hollum, who has been assisting
corner and J. L. Hamilton of the night
force has taken the place vacated by him.
| Robert Lees and Samuel Mccain of the
Topeka boiler department, are In Law
renee for few days making some light
repairs on the heating plant at that place.
| Dane Smith has been given control of the
| bulldozer in the boiler department and
| James Ford, who used to have charge of
it, has been put out in the shop on boiler
| work.
| Hugh McGivern and Bert Nichols. boil
| ermakers who were caught in the retrench-
| ment move of last week, have gone to Her
l ington. where they are on Rock Island
time.
Frank Canard a machinist who was in
| Colorado during the lay off and returned
! to find that there was nothing for him in
Topeka shops, will remain in town for the
| present.
John Petzel will probably be ready to re-
| port for duty in the water service We'd
nesday. Petzel has been out with the pile
| driver but he viii remain here COR the rest
| of the season. SO far as Is now KNOWN
! John Mcintosh and Richard Hartshorn,
| water service men who have been with
| the company here some months, have re-
| signed their places and vii leave at once
| for Scranton, where they will mine coal.
| VIM. Burt. who was some time ago
machinist in these shops, but now doing
| ity at Atchison, is in Topeka for short
! stay with friends. He was at the round
house Monday.
his apprenticeship in the boiler shop and
| went to work in that department for the
Rock Island at Horton, was in town Mon
| day arranging business affairs preparatory
| to going back there for permanent stay.
| Two work trains busy filling in the
| great mass of broken stone which is to
| strengthen the breach in the line caused
| by the ravages of the Kaw at Lake View
several weeks ago. It will take considera-
| BILE time to bring to completion the task
undertaken.
All of the night gangs have been trans
| ferred to the day shift. The Nachinists
| were put on Monday morning and the two
! blacksmithng gangs which have been in
working nights took charge OF the large
/ hammers in the new blacksmith shop Mon
| day forenoon
| A. A. Hope and Peter Quaney are new
men hired as car repairers Monday; Hope
| vice, but several months ago drew his time
and since then has worked on the new
| coaling plant here and the roundhouse
betterments at Empor1a-
1 Much of the ground upon which the new
home of the Topeka Railroad Y. M. e. A.
| will stand has been partially or wholly
| cleared. The friends of the institution are
especially interested in getting, the move
| ment started as soon as possible for the
| erection of the structure.
| Fred Roehrig, a timer who quit here
last week and started for Needles. CAL,
d
| recalled to Topeka Saturday by telegram
| announcing the death OF his father He
| was 81 miles on this side of Albuquerque,
! N. M, when the message reached him.
H. p Richards special apprentice, who
| was sent west to prepare new car brass
catalogue, has returned. His duties took
| him far west as San Bernardino, al,
| though he spent some time in Needles and
| Albuquerque. He goes to Cleburne, Tex.
in a few days to complete the work on the
| Gulf lines
Let Heustis and Joseph Shaffer. boiler
| makers who used to be with the Santa Fe
| here but who for some weeks have been
with the Rock Island at Horton,d their
time Monday with the intention of leaving
at once for San Bernardino, Cal, where
they will re-enter the employ of the Santa
Fe.
turned from a stay of a few weeks IN
Texas along the Santa F,e's Gulf lines ano
the Fort Worth Nor Ia AND Denver poa ID tb a
| department who remained behind for
short visit with his parents in Tyler, Tex
before returning to his college studies al
Lafayette, Ind, next month
Mark Symmes a son of P. R. Symmes
Fourth street fagman and member o
Hammond's steel gang, had the misfortune
knee by piece of steel which produced
a painful wound. It is understood tina
he has been able to work since the acci
dent, but he will be in Topeka the latte
| part of the week, presumably for a brie
rest, giving the injury an opportunity t
completely heal.
There is a story in circulation that tn
Alphonse Custedis Chimney Construction
company which is erecting the big stacl
! at the new power house. may commenc'
the manufacture of its patent brick in To
| peka. 1t is the custom Of the company t
| install its own machinery for manufa ctur
E he u u t5e w1 pa
them a royalty on what product is manu-
! featured The Alphonse Custodis connpan,
4 has the prospect OF building stack To-