The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-08
setting brakes for the Rock Island out of

setting brakes for the Rock Island out of
Caldwell.
blacksmith shop, took his time Saturday
night after serving the company for two
years
Joseph Mcmillan has been designated to
fire in the car shops. taking the place
made vacant by the withdrawal of Wilson
Forsythe.
end switching crew nights. has been sick
and unable to be in charge OF his gang for
a few nights
Three bunk cars which have been fitted
up for the use of the telegraph linemen,
were turned out of the sheds ready for
service Saturday
At the Railroad Y NJ c. A. Sunday af-
ternoon there was no advertised speaker.
the hour being given up to song and
praise service in which all participated.
Fred Woodburn of the machine shop has
relinquished claim to the wheel lathe for
few days while he recuperates in Chi
caeo He left for that city Saturday af-
Charles Wallace of the water service is
guarding in the yards, taking the place Of
William Puett who is down with typhoid
fever Puett is reported as being little
better.
Edward Mcintyre. foreman of the sheet
iron boys in the boiler shop, will leave
weeks in Chicago and La Porte Ind. His
mother will accompany him.
Robert Silk, helper in the smith shop,
has taken a lay off of few days to visit
with his mother, who arrived here from
the east. Mother and son had not seen
each other until now for seven years.
So much progress has been made by the
workmen who are putting III the new
equipment for lighting the shop plant that
day afternoon they were putting in the
wire downstairs.
OFFICIALS are pleased with the showing
made by the Prairie type freight locomo-
a train of IS cars between Newton and
Emporia in three hours, besides sustaining
a delay Of 25 minutes.
F. w. Thomas, engineer of tests, is pre-
pairing to move into the residence at 1875
Topeka avenue. Mr.. Thomas was only
he now holds and since coming out from
Virginia few months ago. has bean
boarding
road. which has lately been overhauled in
Topeka shops, preparatory to being sent
from the Santa Fe to that company. 1t
is small ten-wheel Baldwin and was for
merly the $685.
George Bradshaw, who learned the ma
chinists' trade in Topeka shops, was up
from Parsons over Sunday. Bradshaw is
not working for few days, owing to a
steam chest cover dropping his left
hand. MASKING two fingers too badly for
him to use them.
There is to be a musical al and literary
church the evening of September II The
band of that church. largely made up of
Vinton Phenis viii whistle and there will
be other attractions.
BY shifting of the clerical force in the
Ian today, Frank Bailey becomes general
clerk and Frank Gilyeat succeeds to road
masters CLERK waiter az Gfics 1e VII 90 the
taking the vacancy left by Gilyeat.
Mrs Amelia White has gone to Chicka.
sha, I. T., her home. after a two months
Ahlbran dt. Mrs Whites husband is a
brother of Harry White, a Topeka boiler
in n a n
partment for the Rock Island at Chick
aSha.
! There is an abundance of work for the
! repairs on all kinds of freight equipment.
| The company is keeping it's stock cars in
! IS lots of work on box cars for the grain
movement, as well as every other CLASS
| of cars.
There has been nothing doing on the
new smokestaek at the powerhouse for
| some days owing to the sickness OF two
! of the brick masons. Only four men can
| be kept busy on the structure: the space
one or two Of them are ncapacitated the
| remainder must lie idle.
Fireman E. w. Gorham, who has been Ill
| with typhoid fever at the hospital for sew.
eral weeks, died Saturday afternoon and
| the residence of his mother, 1900 Harrison
| street Although his condition had been
| critical for some time IT was thought ne
| City.
| International Correspondence School car
! 106 was expected to take its leave from To
| ton of two weeks in this place. 1t goes to
Kansas City and thence to the Chicago,
Mwauk x ana St Eau for en shd pan anxt Dein ve
| months. 1t will make the division points
in the Dakotas first.
Aside from hanging a number of win
| dows there is not much to be done on the
! new boiler and machine shop after the In
| side of it has been whitewashed. That job
fI7a< a<lf0
e eompany. and although Il win be cons
paratively rapid, will require perhaps as
| much as two weeks.
| j. w Kendrick, third vice president; H
| Y. Nudge, general manager, and J. r,
| an inspection party over the cut off today
| Mr.. Nudge and Mr.. Hurley, in their prf
vate cars 217 and 216. respectively, met Mr.
| Kendrick at Kansas City this morning
where his business car. the 221, was at
| tached and the trip over that line made.
man at the car shops. who left last Ma,
| for his German fatherland, IS reported now
| to be sailing the Atlantic on his way home
panied by his two sons and it was report
| ed for a while in Topeka that he might
not return to this place but according t
ted States
Rendle Congdon, who retired weel
ago from the position of master black
smith, has been heard from, writing from
ST. Paul, Mimi, where he has gone in thu
| interests of the Morrison Manufactures
| company as their representative at thu
| Minnesota state fair. 1t will be part o.
Mr.. Congdon's new duties to travel abou
from place to place where exhibits of ag
ricultural machinery are made In Orde
that he keep posted on the needs of thu
firm.
H. L. Hutchinson, formerly clerk OF
the lumber desk in the office of Genera
Storekeeper Hilton. has withdrawn from
the Santa F'e and has gone into the emplo.
of the Rock Island. Mr. Hutchinson ha
not been at mis- place for some days, owinl
to the critical Illness of his father, who !
| physician at the state refOrmatory, Hutch
inson The elder Hutchinson is in Colora
do Springs, where at last report his cond1
| ton was discouraging.
J There were more men retained on dut,
Saturday afternoon than at any time sine
| the order early in the season to have tn
| departments shut down at that time dur
| ing the summer months A gang of paint
| ers were at work, the sheds had full forcs
| the planning mill was in operation, a fore
| of truckers held forth in the coach shoI
| great number of machiniStS ate thei