The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-28


have been worn out and superseded by
larger power. Some of them were built
good many years ago, as the fact that
on one or two are the old fashioned dia-
numbers are 1928, 1929 O173, 2241. 1894.
2175, 2231, 2232 and O226
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE
Engineer I. Wellman is out for short
time.
Locomotive 1905 has been held in for fiue
repairs and a touch of paint.
Plans for the new Railroad Y. M. C. A.
building are to be opened this week.
The wife of John Cooper of the boiler
shop has gone to OskaiooSa for visit
with relatives.
Lee Taylor of Newton has been in To-
peka hospital on account of an attack of
typhoid fever.
Martin Schultz of the car department
was sick and unable to be at his post of
Locomotive 2259 was brought in out OF
the wet Saturday and will now be found
in Mitchells gang.
turned from a visit in Milwaukee, Wis,
and along the Great Lakes.
Runs for firemen on trans III and 112 for
the first half of the week have been adver-
tised. Bids will close July 81
Fl Frank NIX Bramley, storehouse packer
ness. is again putting in time.
Charles Anderson of the coach shop left
Saturday for Colorado, where he will spend
Twenty nine thousand pounds will be the
total burden of the. weights for the win
dows on the new boiler and machine shop.
Mrs. r. s. Stockwen and daughter Will
ma have been in Kansas City for short
time visiting relatives of Mrs Stock
well.
of the Santa F'e news service. headquar-
ters at Kansas City, was in Topeka Sun
day.
George Perry a trucker in the storehouse
| who was out two weeks ago on account of
sickness. was able to resume operations
| this morning.
| Engineer John P. Kelly, who has been
off his engine week because of sickness,
| ready for duty.
| E. L. Woods is running tool lathe in
the machine shop tool room nights. The
cause OF the overtime work is the arrival
of new machinery.
ia Fe. at Emporia, has been in the hospital
at this place for some days. He is down
| with typhoid fever.
| J. R. Painter, a helper in the smith
shop , who has sb been spending few days
ready for business.
Master Mechanic Forster of the Frisco
at at. Kansas City made social call on the
partment here Saturday.
| Charles Sheets, who works with the
considerable time within the last seven
days on account of sickness.
Thomas Metzger and Allen Lauclx. clerks
fishing on the Cottonwood
| Charles Miller. carpenter in the car
Saturday afternoon and had to GO to the
hospital to have it dressed
| After August 1 the track mileage and
crews of the Howard branch running from
Emporia to. Moline are to be turned over
! to the Southern Kansas road.
/ Barton Phelps of the physical 1abora-
| tory came in Saturday from the Chicago
division, where he has been for month
testing passenger air brakes.
| Clarence Alexander of the store depart
last week by the sickness of his child, but
| is now able to be at his post.
H. C. Boltz, a machinist who has been
in the employ of the Capital Iron Works,
arv 1e RHa t I'm affer ar TO WORK
| Let Heustis, former boilermaker in
/ these shops but now with the Rock Island
at Horton, was giving the boys here the
right hand of fellowship Saturday.
Additional train crews are being put on
lately on the western divisions of the San
ia Fe the movement Of green fruit stock
Machinist Halves, who has served the
Santa Fe year at Emporia, has returned
| entered the employ of the Michigan Gem
trail.
Owing to a necessary shifting of the
has been found essential to move the
switch shanty there to the south and
east.
for some time new gravity coal chute
| under construction and it will be opened
for service In the course of another two
| weeks.
Louis Porcellon. laborer in the smith
shop who has been at the hospital some
days. was able to visit the shops Sarur-
day and expected to report for duty this
morning.
General Manager Nudge occupied bust.
ness car 218 for Kansas City On No. 6 OF
sunday afternoon. At that place he is te
presumably to be taken to ST. Louis.
There were IL cars in the train which
the Santa Fee handled Sunday from Kan
sas City to Topeka, bringing $50 excur
under the auspices OF the Woodmen of thu
| World.
Fireman Thomas Cloud of the flyer. wht
\ runs between Topeka and Newton wa,
lrecently discharged from Topeka hcspita
4 after siege of three weeks of typhois
fever. and has gone to his home in Irf
| diana for visit
Two cars Of cement have arrived for tn
use of the water service men who are t
| do the concretfng of the foundations To-
planned that the work should be com
menced this morning.
/ Compressed air Is to be brought int
use Of the men who ice cars Of perishable
done much more expeditiously than b.
hand. Newton is an important point 70
stocking up the supply of refrigerant.
Engineer Robert Mears, who for a yea
| or more has been in southern Missouri
looking after extensive mining interests o
a stock company. has returned to Topelt
and was around the roundhouse Satur
day.
Mrs. Robert Cole of Ellis is here for
visit of indefinite length with the famil
street The husband Of Mrs Cole is ger
era1 foreman for the Union Pacific at tina