The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-15

wallace ~. Johnson q representative OF
franklin, Pa was caller at the 4neehan
/ ical department OFFICES Monday.
Charles Aclley, q sheds carpenter was
4 at his bench Monday after being absent
seven weeks because of a hand which he
bruised while working chisel.
Jacob -Alsdorf. who has had a job in the
! Monday and viii 20 to Illinois Where # IS
reported he will go into a store
Pat Harlzins, George Gilbert and Harvey
Sells who have been handling scrap in
blacksmith shop for temporary service
N4achinist Charles Kistler of jerks gang
took hold of a hot bolt, burning the inside
! OF one hand severely. Monday afternoon
He was not compelled to knock off work.
! Byron Z. Davis. a machinist who has
| lost several weeks because of an attack of
| rheumatism, is still unable to be out of
the hospital and his recovery is extremely
No. hammer in the new blacksmith
shop has been placed after the new wreck
the Job So p' 077 = 00'''s Inc ili'iiis On
In a recent issue of the Railroad Gazette
convertible Rodger ballast and gondola car
six OF which have been ordered by the
W A. Rolf. a storehouse clerk who has
been in the hospital fve weeks for recoV=
at his desk next week
Wayne Jones. who quit Topeka shops
last October to take job as an appren-
I uce in the boilermaking department of the
--Efe1A-t
turned and may 90 on the rolls here.
James g lpdegraff, stenographer to Di-
! for vacation trip through the south
with Helena, Ark. and Memphis Tenn.
be gone ten days or Two weeks
+. r: Frost. chief electrician, who has
classes at the Railroad Y NJ G. A. all
winter, took the members to DR.. Brock
ray investigation Monday evening.
About is machinists and helpers who
eral weeks under the supervision Of Ira
Miller, have been distributed to the depart
ments from which they originally came,
Miller hlnseif returning to the link gang.
Tests which are being made on the sim
pie ana compound types of heavy passen-
ger locomotives have been instituted in
order to determine the comparative con-
sumption of coal. The engines are running
en- through passengers west of Topeka
Al Graham. formerly foreman Of a
but now holding the day foremanship Of
the Argentine roundhouse, was here a
short time Monday on his Wav home from.
Texas, where he has been about a week.
J. N. Sanborn, master mechanic of the
Minnesota and International road with
| headquarters at Brainerd, Mimi was in
town Monday, the guest of f. n. Risteen,
mechanical superintendent, of whom he
has had an acquaintance some time.
In game between the Bottom Rousta-
| pouts ana the santa Fe Flckups the first of
the week the Roustabouts won by a score
of II to 3. Batteries for the Roustabouts
were Dustin Sheets and Wilkinson; Pick
ups, Heise, Henry, Stellhorn and Pyetzki
Theodore F. Brush. who has inspected
| the Santa Fe axle electric lighting plants
at East Yard, Cal. has been changed to a
similar position at Argentine, succeeding
s. W. Everett resigned. Charles NJ Con-
cannon Of Kansas City gets the place at
Superintendent Mcclellan of the eastern
division has secured a motor tricycle.,
driven by gasoline power. and to be used
while making inspection trips over the
lines within his Jurisdiction. Superinten-
dent Aver of the western division began
using one several weeks ago.
resumed work Monday after lay off of
two weeks. giving broken rib oppor-
S-rnonths-old colt When the animal unex-
[ pectedly LANDED on his left side, causing
him
Switchman RolIo Quick was summoned
by telegram to Cincinnati, O.. Monday.
announcing the death of his mother Quick
was called home several months ago by
recently got back to work, after there had
been such an Improvement in her condition
as warranted his leaving.
Thomas Burke. chairman of the griev-
ance committee of the B. of L. F.. and
James Hurley holding q corresponding po-
day. Mr. Burke has been on the Pacific
coast for several weeks and is understood
70 be on ms way nome St Joseph. Mo.
Mr.. Hurley's headquarters are in Argen-
tine.
Lawrence Peabody has been sent to Chi
cago and Terre Haute Ind. to inspect
material which George E. Ward was to
Z detained by sickness. Ward returned from
: the east Sunday and went to the hospital
pronounced one of smallpox and he was
! sent to the pesthouse-
Merle c. LaMott. a graduate of Purdue
university at Lafayette Ind has entered
Topeka shops as special apprentice. BY
= a special apprentice it is understood a stu
dent who having completed his technical
training at some polytechnic institution,
2 desires to perfect himself in the more prae-
teal part of the work, and so enters the
S is according to a schedule different from
that ordinary dDDTHnfICG
Frank SchmittendOrf. who four and a
! half years ago entered these shops as a
machinist apprentice. went out of his time
Monday at 10 o'clock and that afternoon
severed his connection with the company
at this place. He eontemplates going to
Cleburne Tex. to follow his trade. having
9 made preparations to leave the latter part
nephew Of William Schmittendorf, fore
e man of the water service.
James Hart, car inspector at Galveston
Tex, has been sent to Chicago for a week
t | or ten days to acduaint himself as much
= as possible with the axle lighting system
Whch the santa re uses. Between Cal
t / weston and St. Louis the Santa Fe and
e frisco operate jointly number OF pas
senger cars Illuminated m this way and II
r IS for the purpose OF looking after those
s that come into that place that Mr. Hart
Frisco is SO well pleased with this manner
1 Of lighting trains that an additional mum
= Der of cars are to be similarly equipped.
About % Of the shop fellows. members oil
: Irwin lodge $50 of the A 0. IT, w art
5 scheming to get together a minstrel com
- can get in shape put production al
e the hall and later at the Grand Opera
}, horse. Already a chorus of y good voice.
has been picked for the work and an or
l. ehestra of six pieces, which is said to bs
: something rapid of its kind. can be Sc
q cured. The first rehearsal viii be held Fri
day evening at the home Of Nate Cafferty
,, bI3 Monroe street. Aurel Riding of tn,
s pattern shop is one of the prime movers
p At the meeting of the directors of tn
Kansas City. Mo. Railroad Y. NJ. c. A
L and the membership of the same, Thurs
2 day evening. General Secretary T. F
= Prout of the association in Topeka vii
talk on the means of securing a largi
!, membership Mr.. Prout has proven him
= self q strong man in this particular lin
of the work. and whatever he says shoult
L be valuable to the people across the line
The Kansas City association with all it
It opportunities for getting at the employees
I. has only a membership of 323. while tn,
Is Topeka organization has its rolls in tn
neighbOrhOod of $50 names.