The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-22

in the boiler shop, resumed operations
Wednesday morning after q lay on OF
wife. He observed the specified regula-
tons of the shops by distributing cigars
among the men of that department
No 5, the second Wednesday, vas com com
posed of a special train Of a diner and
five Pullmans carrying associates and ae-
tive members Of the BragaTlza edIning
company of Chicago to Arizona They are
going down to look over that part OF the
country with a view to finding a bonanza
s. A Mccoy, resident engineer for the
Santa Fe at Ottawa. has resigned his Pc
sition and viii probably go to Montana to
engage in mining engineering Mr. Nc
Coy has had charge of all the work in his
department relating to the betterInrenitss
which have been going on on the cut on.
James Finney was given an order to go
to work in the water service as a pipe
where he has been in the same departrnens
under the direction Of E. Mcdonald, ana
after a brief stay there will return to To-
work.
Mrs. John Peach and two daughters, I4u-
cy and Stella are here from Fort Madison,
Ia, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Atkinson. 507 Crane street. Mrs. Peach IS
wife Of the Santa Fe roundhOuse foreman
at Fort Madison and the family has many
acquaintance here. They viii be in To-
peka several days
There is a story floating around the shop
that Blacksmith D. Alexander. Engineer
Edward JOlley and Rev. Frank Mallory
pastor of the Third Christian churcn, Went
fishing down near the Sardou avenue
bridge the other night and stayed out I'M
til O'CLOCK a. III. without so muc1 as
robbing the Kaw of a single minnoW.
John Mespelt's tank gang is preparing
to go to Pueblo, Col, some time TINS week
or the early part of next, to put up one
From there the force goes to Colorado
SPRINGS where another Of the same class
viii be built After that there is a sea
sons work on the Chicago division, where
seven or eight are to be constructed.
The little son of John P1ath, a cabinet
maker who died Wednesday of spinal
meningitis had been critically Ill several
days. Five weeks ago the Plath home
on Clay street was placed under surveil-
lance of the health authorities. scarlet
has not been at his post of duty and for
some time it has been rumored about the
shops that members of the family We're
very sick.
Robert Ogflvy who was transferred from
| the resident engineers offlce mere 10 a
/ similar position at Fort Madison. Ia. has
been shifted again to Kansas City, where
Work on the foundation Of that structure
! has progressed far and it will be only a
few days before the steel frame viii be
! begun. This part of the job will be done
| who put together the skeleton of the new
machine and boiler shop here
G. w. Closson, Santa Fe fuel and ice
! contractor, left Wednesday for Newton.
where he is just closing up the storage of
10 900 tons of coal for the company. Thence
he goes to Dodge City to start the work
| of putting in storage the same quantity.
! The coal comes from the Trinidad, Col,
! district and 1t IS thought there IS no FISK
| of losses from spontaneous combustion or
| otherwise, such as was the case when a
big pile was placed in the field yard here
| last summer and smoldered for months
| before the heat was extinguished-
Leo Gabler is acting as recording secre-
| tary of the local lodge of the machinists'
union since the resignation Of Bert Webb;
will probably be chosen to fill the position
held saturday evening at which time nine
new candidates will take the degrees The
| orga nization is Strengthening all the time
| and the most sanguine hopes OF the
| are being realized. An entertainment is
being planned for date not far in the
future which will probably take the form
/ of a summer picnic
| John Lang, who used to work in the ma
! chine as helper, has been with the car
penters placing the rafters on the west
side of the new machine and boiler shop.
Threatening weather of Wednesday at
ternoon detained the teamsters from work
| ing on the excavation of the new power
house. The foundation of the big chin
ney is going forward and in about two
weeks it is thought the same part of the
concrete of the building itself viii be put
in. 1t will be only short time, too until
the cOncreters do their part on the engine
pits and the ducts for the hot air heating
system Of the machine shop
Steam hammer No. 1 of the new black
smith shop did its first stunt Wednesday,
! afternoon when Foreman Congdon took q
bering up of abcItt 45 minutes time. Nc
iron work was done by the machine, only
pieces of wood being beaten into spllnters
The hammer mas 1alilng Weigiht OF o.VsS
pounds which, being multiplied by gooo
many score, gives IT'S power d. d SAA4hCA
when running At its coming out party
Wednesday it acquitted itself in a highly
/ satisfactorily manner It vii mot go into
regular service for a few days longer
some slight repairs being necessary on the
! foundation, the same as is always the
case with machinery of this kind It has
been set since last December
| General Superintendent Resseguie start
ed on a special train Wednesday for tbs
Chicago division His private car. 20
pulled by locomotive o., was IN charge OF
Conductor Wilson and Engineer W Jones
I At Kansas City business car 213 of ths
Santa Fe was picked up and some of the
officials of the Wabash system also &C
companied Mr.. Resseguie on the trip j
is supposed that the tour has something
to do with the joint arrangement between
the Santa Fe and the Wabash for the u.s.
of the single tracks of each other about 3
miles east of Kansas City This schenl'
was undertaken several months ago, tn
two roads paralleling each other for tina
distance and the operation Of trains beinl
! the same rs though the two lines belonged
| TO either of the systems. one on which tbs
| eastbound and the other over which tbs
westbound traffic is run.