The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-14


Olander comprised the absences from the
coach shop Saturday.
John jenkins Of the ronndhouse came IN
count of a mashed thumb
Brakeman Charles Matthews and wife Of
the eastern division have gone to CalIfor-
mia on 80 days vacation
Hugh Nation. clerk to Trainmaster Aus
tin, has been confined to his room day
or two because of sickness.
Train No ? ran in two sections Saturday
passenger business from California
Fred Terrain, who has been working in
the roundhouse has been transferred to
the bolt corner in the machine shop
#. H Frost, chief electrician, has re-
the Santa Fe, extending to Galveston,
Tex.
Water service men were busy Saturday
shop.
Charles Kaiser. jr.. son of c. A. Kali
employe here, is now with the Capital Iron
leave Tuesday for Chattanooga, Tenn.
visiting.
Three oil tanks. the last of an order of
ten to be used on engine tanks of the Gulf
lines Of the Santa Fee, were shipped out
Saturday
Joseph Euler. who runs the air com
pressor at the new shop, has been absent
from his post two days and 1t is reported
that he is sick.
Michael Sehoenfeldt, a scrubber in the
paint shop who took his time Friday, will
go to Denver, where he win work at the
carpenters trade
Earl Petrie. an apprentice in the machine
shop, has been running the wheel lathe
belonging to Walter Tasker during the alb
sence of the latter
henry Jones of Lexington, Mo, is here
for week 5 visit with his brother-in-law,
Eugene NignerOn, clerk to r. 3. Ford,
foreman Of the lumber yard
Floyd Vail office boy at the Railroad Y
M e. A is happy over the removal of his
parents from Carbondale He has been at
the association rooms about for or five
months.
Bert Stewart. a. boilernaker helper who
accidentally ran an iron rod through one
hand last week is rapidly recovering and
expects to be earning his money again in
ten days.
David Elder, a boiler shop employee who
was struck in the eye Friday by piece
Of lying steel was recovering from 70 the
for business today.
1t is probable that the air brake instruc-
ton car which has been under preparation
out on the line about May l. 1t has been
set in the paint shop
Charles J. Webb. formerly chief clerk in
the office of Division Superintendent Ne
Lelan, now head clerk to President E. P
Ripley, came down from Chicago Sunday
for a few hours. He returned on No s.
Duplicates of the blue prints, upon which
the records of the engines repaired in To
peka shops are kept, viii be sent to the
which these locomotives are assigned to
service.
Saturday night was the last for the
"chOre' yard engine which has been IN
service here for number of months dur
ing the rush Of business. 1t has been pull
ed OFF and thus threw three men on the
extra board
L. Peabody and Barton Phelps of the me-
chanical laboratory who went to La jun
tests on some of the locomotives running
between there and Ration. N. NJ, have re-
turned to Topeka.
Bert Brown the bridge workman who
fell from the new machine shop Saturday
afternoon, striking his head on one of the
draft timbers lying beneath, was reported
as being in fairly good condition at the
hospital this morning
George Cremer brother of William,
machinist and Samuel. 6, StorehOuSe en-
ploye has returned from Argentine, where
he has been working on a bridge and
building gang for the company He was
around among the boys Saturday.
Frank White Of the blacksmith shop has
filed protest against the trespasslng of
flock OF chickens belonging near his home,
at Fourteenth and Washington streets. He
says they bother him before and after
work and he wants them tied up
All the excavating for the big tank which
is to furnish the new blacksmith shop with
oil has been completed and now the main
1t win be a week or more before the res
ervoir will be lowered into its permanent
position.
Machinist Clarence Hopkins of the east
shop has gone to Hamlet, n. c., where he
will attend the bedside of a sister who has
been sick for several weeks. He expects
to be gone from ten to fifteen days. though
that Will depend somewhat upon the con
dition of his sister
Harry MeNair. a rivet heater in the
boiler shop has been obliged TO retire
from service short time because the blaze
in furnace puffed back when the door
severely. No serious results are likely to
come from the accident.
Beginning Saturday, a series of tests as
to the efficiency of the CimniP and n
pound ten wheel passenger locomotive was
begun here. Engine 45S, one Of the simple
will be 1927. one of the new Prairies, lately
received from the Baldwin works and put
in service here.
c. r. Joughins. recently appointed to the
position of mechanical superintendent of
Santa Fe coast lines. succeeding to the
duties formerly performed by George w.
Smith general master mechanic, was in
town Saturday on his way to his new post
of duty. He was due to take charge at San
BernardinO, Cal, Tuesday.
Twelve of the locomotives that have
served the santa re long and we'll, but
that nave succumDed to the modern rule
regarding motive power that the biggest
and best must survive, are to be consigned
to the scrap pile. They are of a class
heavy 70 wears ago, but pigmles compared
with the engines now in use
About dozen sheds employees, who have
been employed at the general offices since
last Sunday getting the repairs on the wall
defect in such shape that the masons
could work, have been sent back to the
quire several days before it is completed.
Lloyd Conkln, who about three years
ago quit the machine shop here. and who
has been in the employ of a number of
roads in the west. lately the Missouri Pa
cific al Fort Scott. was in town Saturday
renewing acquaintance. He will go to Ell
/ lis where he has job with the Union
Pacific.
Miss Leona Patterson, formerly EN-
ployed in the Harvey eating house here,
left Saturday for Carbonate. where She
spent Sunday visiting relatives before de-
parting for Las Vegas. n. M. where she
| expects TO remain. She was accompanied
( by Miss Blanche Shepard and Mrs. Will
liam Osborn
Lee Senter. assistant foreman of the
storehouse, was taken home Saturday af-
! ternOon with his left leg badly bruised be-
tween the knee and ankle. 1t was run
over by a reel with a string of heavy ca
BILE. and although it is thought no bones
were broken. he will probably not be able
to put in his time for a week or more
Secretary NEinslow of the Kansas City
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A is preparing for a
meeting A pril II between the board of Ci-
rectors and the membership Of the asso-
/ citation, at which methods will be discussed
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