The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-17

= 04N ALI HI ~ lAS041A1 "a
months ago and just as he was ready to
move in, it was burned supposedly by fire
fends.
Henry Mabie. q member Of the Sixth
street force. has been obliged to give up'l
his place few days because Of sicL-
ness.
Fred East, heater on No furnace in
the smith shop. has reported after being
obliged to lay off two days after he had
been overcome by the heat.
Joseph Nichols, an air brake repairer In
the car department, has been detained
from his duties two or three days by an
acute attack Of stomach trouble.
Locomotive $780, a ten-wheeler which has
been in the hands of jerks force some
d ia has been rseased ana IN was ready for
Misses Kate and Mamie Schwartz.
daughters of Andrew Schwartz of the. ma
where they will remain for a month.
Charles Cherry and William Wallace of
the handcar force were sick and unable
the game at and Wallace at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. Taylor. Harvey Gilmore and w.
Crawford, storehouse clerks who have
ming of the invoicing, some weeks ago,
have quit.
w. w. Richardson, a clerk in General
Storekeeper Hilton's office, has changed
his abiding place from 22a East Sixth ave
the invoice desk
met inc; shop, left today for Denver, where ne
viii devote the coming three weeks to
sight seeing and recuperat1on.
Fred volker, painter who went to
Chicago Saturday to surprise his wife as
in the east, is home and at work
Ernest Walters and Jesse Dix find them
selves inscribed as new car shop laborers.
DIX quit the t Santa Fe only few weeks
Michael Mulvihill, roundhouse truck
man, has taken a release OF month and
has has gone out Of town for Visit h dur1 h;g
daughter Kate.
r. Congdon, foreman of the blacksmith
shop is IN charge Of the men after an abb
sence of a day, changing his residence
from the corner of Jackson and Gordon
streets to 82S Jackson.
Pennsylvania, Wednesday, to be with his
kin for few weeks His father is d.
vision superintendent on the Lehigh VAL
ley road in that state.
Three employees of the shops lumber
yard have drawn their time checks and
have gone elsewhere for jobs Two Of
Kansas City and Denver
Switchman George Bigham has been of
it that he is repairing the craft with which
he has been compelled to navigate Soldier
creek since the floods prevailed, in getting
to and from his home.
Train No. of Wednesday evening was
the first to- get over the repaired breach at
Other trains are now on their regular
schedule over the main line.
Ellsworth Bryson, Cottonwood division
that was scorched by. hot cinder. thought
he would be ready for his release today.
His headquarters are at Emporia.
Now that the freight handlers in Chicago
have gene to work again there t viii be
road. The through trains which have been
exceedingly light for some time, will at
once resume business on a large scale.
Brickmasons from the new machine
shop was transferred to the new pattern
house Wednesday afternoon to do a short
job of repairing the shutter irons that
building which have been loosened by the
incessant swinging of the heavy DOORS
At Needles, Cal, the Santa Fe is just
teen-stall addition to its present round
house. making in all one Of 30 stalls. A
new brick storehouse 60x9O feet and an oil
house 18x20 feet are also nearly completed.
Fred " Rouse, for twenty-three consec-
! utive years the Santa Fe agent at Marion,
has resigned. He hopes to find less hard
work and better pay in farming. The
company, however. has not yet accepted
his offer to quit. Il
James Snyder and Joseph Aigner, ma
chinists, are dicker for the exchange
of some live stock. Aigner has offered
bird dog just coming into maturity, and
the whole shop is keeping tab on the deal.
Shipments of doors to be used grain
cars are exceptionally heavy just now.
There have been upwards of 10000 Of these
stored in Topeka yards for some months,
rate rate Of from 80 to 500 q day. They go all
| over the country, where the grain Is be-
| ing handled.
G. w. Closson, fuel and ice contractor
| for the Santa Fe, is in Wellington super
| intending the storage of from 5000 to TO-
iook s2s after the fuel end Of the BUSINESS
just p Of 9R Eea nonfs
| Andrew Adair,~ a car repairer in the
Sixth street force. accompanied the Kan
Sa pug se onee in Ia we IT be-
comes necessary for some of the gang to
| go along with piece of equipment to see
that it runs properly.
| Fred Smith, foreman of the coach trim
| mers, who was overcome while duty
smith Became so o,verheated While Working
| in a horse express car, drank some ice
water and afterward was taken so sick
| that he was helpless. He is still weak
| and unable to take any nourishment.
Three hundred and thirty-three kegs of
tie making nails have been timed at the
almost every part of the system west OF
Topeka, where picked cross ties are in
| ever, the most of them are to be placed.
Clarence Darby. has returned to his APP
R,o the m snop OF the
after a visit Of month with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs r. T. Darby Of Topeka Aka He i,s
| that city, one blacksmith and the other
doing desk work in the general freight Of
| fees
Eight car loads of material have. been
| unloaded at Emporia for the roundhouse
| addition which is to be made there. Con-
| tractor Richardson, who has been expect
| ing to get through with the Topeka coal
chute and receive his orders for the place
next, is still in town. although the struc-
| ture upon which he has been employed at
| this place is finished.
About IS members of the boys observa-
| ton class of the city Y. M. c. A. were
steered through the shops late Wednesday
afternoon under the leadership of George
| E. Lerrigo. general secretary OF the in
stitution. The lads took keen interest
| in watching the working of the machinery.
Another contingent from the same organi-
zation will call next Wednesday.
Charles Gerberick, who few weeks ago
| was graduated fl machinlst appreli-
| ticeship in Topeka shops. is spending a
! brief vacation at Lehigh, l. T.. before be-
| ginning his career tradesnan in full