The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-07

Sixth street yards. Work in that depart
ment has revived recently.
The remains of the infant OF Arthur
Weeks which died three days ago, were
Weeks works in the wheel shop.
H. S. Grout, at one time an employe of
TIE santa santa ts here, viii speak to 70 F1ose
road z. NJ. c. A Sunday afternoon
Zaek Reser, a blacksmith helper, was not
noticed working over his fire Friday and
it was reported that the OBTAINING cause
was the sickness of his little daughter
! Locomotive ass, big Brooks, is in the
shop Tor repairs on a broken frame A
has experienced this same ailment a num-
/ Der of times.
Byron David a machinist who lost sew
era1 months on account of rheuna tism, re-
/ turning to his place about two weeks ago,
was off duty Friday.
Here is problem which somebody in
/ the shops would like to have sol wed. Il
/ q train travels at the rate OF % miles an
/ hour, how much viii it travel in a min
ute2
Both of the engines which were sold to
/ the Durango Central road a few days ago
have been sent out to their destination,
! leaving here on the local Friday morn
ing.
A. D. Jones. who has been tending a fur
| mace nights in the blacksmith shop, and
| Clarence Smith, a helper in the same de-
| Partment and also on the dark shift, have
| been transferred to daylight jobs.
There was the usual number of absences
/ from all departments around the shops on
Friday, the rain always OBTAINING some
/ of the men at home when It comes in the
| early part of the day
| Mrs. William Asrnussen of Wamego, who
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. James
| her home. Miss Myrtle Mullen went with
/ her for a stay of a month or six weeks.
Foreman Painter Anton of the BuTling-
ton q Missouri River shops at MeCook,
Neb., was at Topeka Friday looking over
the Santa FEES methods of doing this line
| of work.
Since it has been decided that the boil
| ermakers and machinists will play bail at
| Atchison picnic day, the team from the
/ planning issued
winner of the game.
There will be a game of baseball be-
teams of the Democratic Flambeau club
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 on the Lownan
hill grounds Both mines are well repre-
| scented at the shops.
If the foremen in the car shops think
they can play ball they will find game
! awaiting them any time with the clerks
on that side of the tracks There has
been some talk about such a contest, but
no definite move has yet been made
Alexander Dalstrom, the bric1layer who
fell from a scaffold the first of the week
and was rendered helpless by the injuries
which came, is better. Friday ne went Up
against the table for his three meals and
in a few days he will be manipulating the
trowel-
Mrs. Eva stehr has gone to her home in
seneca, n \, after a visit OF three weeks
Short, of this place She was accompanied
as far as Chicago by her sister. Miss
Frankie Short, who will stop off there a
short time, returning home next week
Engineer Andrew Neugebauer is running
on 113 and ia pending the assignment of
! merly held the place. has taken the job
of pulling trains 8 and 10: the new flyer
| between Kansas City and Topeka.
All the boilermakers which the Santa Fe
! caused bT the strike are being piclled m
in Chicago, where advertisements are be-
ing printed in the papers that the COM
pany wants them to go to Albuquerque,
w E. Finley Of Pittsburg. Tex, the To-
cal agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as a lnat Pol1l Is IN 4opS4hd E!sillng nls
nephew, A. B. Boatrlght- Mr. Finley lived
in Kansas until ten years ago, and was
employed on the Central branch Of the
Missouri Pacific
Furnace No. was ready for business
| Friday night and this morning it was in
/ tended that its coming out party should
be held lasting all day The plan was to
kindle the oil burners today and keep
| them running until the masonry in the
interior should become EhoIoug1.iy dried.
California Ostriches have constituted
some of the recent shipments which the
Santa Fe has made In an ordinary stock
car about 20 are crowded together ana
placed in charge of two keepers, who see
that they make the trip across the coun-
try in good shape. They are being shipped
to France.
Aaron J. Rodland is the name of the
clerk in the freight car sheds, who sue
ceeds to the position held until this week
by Fred>Swanson- Swanson left Friday
for the scene of his duties in the office of
the division master mechanic of the Santa
F'e-Pacific at the Needles Cal.
Hot weather of the last few days has
~AAASAAN
Osman, foreman of the brass workers in
the machine shop. and the result is that
of a fan. located in the ceiling Of the
building near the center of that space set
apart for them
Rain has hindered the concreters work
ing under Foreman Atkinson on the new
engine pit at the new machine shop. It
has been dug so that every hundred 1eet
there is a low place for the water to col
! lect from the locomotive boilers, and it is
in these places that pools OF water have
been standing lately, making It difficult
for the workmen to do business
It has been found by measurements that
the new oil tanks which the Santa Fe is
building have a capacity of $500 gallons,
or nearly 100 more than those which were
turned out some months ago and which
it was supposed would hold the same
quantity. The difference seems to be in
the shape of the end, which in those last
made is more rounded than those of the
other order.
Let Heustis. Robert CrandaT. Gus Coun-
ter and David Elder of the boiler shop
left Friday for Roswell, N. NJ, where they
will go to work for the company. So far
as can be ascertained there has been no
difficulty among the employees there but
the call for more men comes as a result
of those who have been there quitting,
| The weather all over the south is hot
| right nOW=recentIy it was $50 above zero
in the sun at the Needles. Cal, and it is
a hard matter to get craftsmen who can
stand such a heat for a long time, with
the assurance in mind that they can get
| jobs in cooler places if they care to make
a change
George W. Smith, formerly general mas
| ter mechanic or the santa he coast lines,
| with headquarters at San Bernardino. Cal.
is now holding the position Of general mas
| ter mechanic for the Illinois Central at
| Waterloo Ia, and in charge of about $50
miles of road. His jurisdiction is limited
to the territory between Freeport, H.. and
| Omaha, Neb. It is understood that he is
| well pleased with the situation there, hav-
| ing control of a good class of men and the
motive power of the road being in first
class shape. Mrs Smith is still in Los
! Angeles, Cal. where one of the children
| has been attending school, but will prob
ably start east to rejoin her husband in a
| short time, when the school year ends.
It has been long time since any re-
| port caused such numerous inquiries
| among the Topeka shOpmen as that re-
| garding the resignation of J. ". kendrick
| third vice president, and as such the head
| of the operating department of the road
| Mr. Kendrick has many friends here who
| would be sorry to know Of his Withdrawal