The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-28
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.


Engineer Peter Anderson has been lay
ing off a day or two.
Harry Cooper of the boiler shop was out
of his place Saturday.
Otto Lewis a machinist helper. has been
laying off three or four days.
Thomas Manix of the wheel shop has
Deen laying on two or three days.
G. L Peterson has been running a fire in
the blacksmith shop for a few days.
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One of the bolt lathes in the machine
shop is being converted into a crank-pin
grinder
Eugene yigneron. clerk in the office of
the shop lumber yard, is the papa Of a
John Fulford Of the water service has
been off duty day or two It Is supposed
he is sick
Walter Anderson, who has been running
the guide grinder, has gone into the drill
press corner.
Thomas .Mulvihill. formerly a boiler
visit in the east
Business car no which has been in the
paint shop for a few days. was scheduled
to leave Monday.
Edwin Powell. who worked in the round
house a long time. has bought cigar store
on East Fourth street.
Engine 1909, one of the new prairie loco
day afternoon for repairs.
John Butler of the boiler shop has been
confined to his home a week or more on
account of an attack Of tonsilitis.
Cal Alexander, who runs the. gang in the
boiler shop nights, has asked for a pass to
Welda, kan, IN about a week.
DR.. G. E. Caswe1 has been appointed
Santa Fe surgeon at Holiday, taking the
place of J. o. AIichaels, resigned.
Dan Lane and James White who usually
work downstairs in the paint shop, have
been on the second floor few days.
Engine 1856, which has been receiving
repairs at the hands of jerks gang in the
east shop, was out for trial trip today.
Clyde Swartz of the brass foundry has
gone to Osawatornie, where he VIII visit
patched for the Missouri Pacific.
Pat Griffin of the blacksmith shop, who
has had a bad foot and has been unable
to work for about week is getting bet
ter and will be in again before long.
P. J. Brown of the blacksmith shop is
at his post again after about weeks loss
of time on account of his wife's sickness
Associates of Joseph Horribly of the store
house assembled at his home Saturday ev-
ening and gave him a delightful surprise
party
Andrew Crews, who works on Baker
heaters and Pintsch gas, has been laying
off a few days on account OF the sickness
of his mother
chine shop boys as to how John Nichols
Of that department is arranging for the
board of his COW.
Charles Wheeler, a south shop machin-
tinker. using compressed air in cleaning
the works of timepieces.
Herman Gabler,. who has been working
in the machine shop at night, has come
out of darkness into light, having been
transferred to the day shift.
There was big delegation of shop fel-
the institution of a Knights of Columbus
council at that place Sunday night
There was a considerable absence of men
from duty Saturday afternoon. 1t is be-
coming common for the fellows to spend
the last half day of the week resting.
Frank Giblar night Zimmerman in the
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his post of duty Sunday night after brief
lay on of three months, caused by sick
ness.
P. B. Reading of the Baldwin Locomo-
tive works viii give a lecture this evening
at the jefferson Street mission on the
workings and handling of the compound
engine
William Lewis, a boiler maker who was
called to Topeka few weeks ago by the
sickness of his father, will return to his
place with the Santa Fe at Cleburne, Tex,
this week.
Another string of the new stock cars
which the American Car and Foundry
company of Terre Haute. Ind, has been
turning out for the Santa Fe, has been
received here.
one of the new piledrivers which was
lately received from the factory in Mich
igan. went out Saturday night for New
ton. from which place it viii be in service
hereafter
Trail Raub, who used to work in the
boiler shop here but who left in the mid
die of the winter for Cleburne Tex, has
gone to Horton where he has a Job with
the Rock Island
Locomotive 2415, a Pittsburg consolida-
ton, was pushed into one of the doors of
the back shop Saturday evening in time
for jerks gang to take a look at it before
the whistle blew.
Four machinists and a helper from Mar
tins south coach shop gang we're on duty
Sunday fixing up the 2299, a yard engine.
for an eastern wheel foundry company
to which it has been sold.
The lecture which Dr. D. NJ Fisk was
to have given Wednesday evening at the
Railroad Y. NJ. C A. on Pioneer kansas
has been Indefinitely postponed owing to
the fire Of Saturday evening.
Analysis of the water in the we'll which
was lately dug near the office of Mr. Hen
derson is being made by the chemists. 1t
is being used right along. and in the main
it seems to be of good quality
Gus Avs of the water service, who went
to La Junta q few days go with wreck
ing crane No. ;, which was on its way to