The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-21
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

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ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Locomotive 293 took it's trial trip Satur-
day afternoon.
Brakeman Schrauger is in the Topeka
hospital for treatment for few days.
Fred Scheutzow. south shop machin-
ist; has gone to San Bernardino, CAL. to
follow his trade.
Cliff Gerberick is not welding brush
in the locomotive paint shop, having taken
furlough of a week.
j. w. Nude, who for a number of years
of craftsman, has quit the service.
Fireman r. H Lain, who runs on the
Florence passenger west of here, has
street.
Joseph Donohue of the south shop. has
taken leave of absence for week or
more and has gone to Colorado to spend
that time.
Robert Wells, car repairer at Sixth
street who no has been too ~ to work for
the DEPOT Saturday.
H. w. Lewis. scale inspector for the
western grand division, has been in the
hospital here for time, but is getting in
shape for release soon.
E. r. Owen, who for. about six weeks
has been in Robert Graham's scrap gang
at the shops. has drawn his time and will
devote himself hereafter to the sale of
Frank Cain, chief clerk in the mechani-
cal department at Chanute, was in town
Saturday. He is a brother. of D. E. Cain,
grand division.
The wife. Of George symmes clerk in
the the, office Of NJ Manson. car shop foreman,
where. she will spend a month or two Wis
iting her uncle.
Bert Nichols boilermaker who laid off
last week owing to sickness. was well
at Lowman Hill Saturday afternoon. He
expected to be in his place at the shops
this morning.
1t is now understood that Edward Grub.
brass molder who was taken down two
thought to be malarial fever, is now in
the clutches of typhoid malaria.
has made his home gathering place for
lovers OF music having recently p Sa.
been entertaining his neighbors.
John Devlin, a machinist apprentice went
to the surgeons Saturday morning with a
his right eye. 1t is thought no serious
suits will follow its lodging in the member.
Fred Smith. foreman of the trimmers in
the car shops who was overcome by the
intense heat inside horse express car
the early part of last week, has been re-
covering from the trouble rapidly and was
ing.
George F. Wolfe travelling freight agent
for the Chicago and Alton, headquarters
at Kansas City, and Mrs. Wolfe, passed
through Topeka Saturday afternoon on
| their way to Eureka lake, where they
The wife Of Claude Hudson, switch
man, has gone to Chicago to spend sew
eral weeks the guest of her parents. Hud-
son has been relieving the monotony of
the solitude since she left by devoting
himself studiously to certain mining in
terests.
Fireman Lewis G. Laws. who was de-
tailed to, take some of the locomotives
north that were sold to the Canadian
Northern road few weeks ago. has re-
turned from his trip; He turned the 10.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Sunday afternoon the Knights of Pyth-
las band played a concert for the beneht
of the Christ hospital patients at the hos
pital grounds The membership of the band
is largely represented at the shops and
organization has made excellent progress
Cast instead of wrought iron is the ma.
feria which is being H5e rom IN fhe neM SIX SIX
CINE room to the new shop plant, the
change having been suggested by the fact
wrought.
C. c. Hardy, transfer tableman at the
car s shops l is at home from sS Solor Tro
Hardy, who has been visiting in Wabaun-
see county for about the same length Of
time, is also home and the children who
accompanied her are expected to return
in a day or two
nere was aaf Ren the
filter in the water service. had been over
come by heat one day last week while hi,
1ahan went out there some time ago to
attend the Hibernian convention as dele
gate.
t One hundred feet is to be the deptn Of
tendent of Motive Power Henderson. II
has been found that at the present depth
about IS feet-water was not as pure as
was desired and the additional depth is to
be made with the intention of improving
its purity.
George H. Wood who has been engine
man the Santa FEE a number OF yeara-
lately running out of Needles, Cal. but
previous to that with the company at To
the Arizona division and left Saturday ev-
ening for that place to meet his wife. Mr.
and Mrs. Wood will return at once to To-
peka, where they expect to reside perma-
nently.
There was a train of old Santa Fe en-
gines went east Sunday afternoon, having
been sold some weeks ago to a Chicago
railroad supply house as scrap material.
Most of them are of a small switcher type
which have done good service at different
points the road but they have been
worn out and superseded by larger power.
Some of them were built good many
years ago. as the fact that one or two
are the old fashioned diamond stacks,
would Indicate Their numbers are 2223-
222s, 0173, Pal 1884 0175. 22s1, 2232 and 0226-
AT Marceline, Mo-. the Santa Fee has
| in operation in a short time. At Ration.
| N. NJ. one has been begun but there has
been delay In finishing it because the
carpenters who worked on the job were
called OF for other duties. The Topeka
chute is also idle, although completed sew
| eral days ago. owing to the inability OF
| the company to get hold of hopper bot,
| tom cars by means Of which only the fuc