The Topeka state journal., 1902-07-10

to look over the plants of the company
out there
ter service. will address the men at their
gospel meeting in the Railroad Y. M. c. A.
rooms Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Joseph Cramer, who used to work in
the machine shop but who has been out
for year, is following the carpenter trade
and is working Highland avenue this
week
It will be but few days before all the
tiling Of the new MACHINE and boiler shop
part of this month.
the Florence Crittenden mission work over
the country, was expected to deliver the
address, at the midweek meeting at the
coach shop this week.
George Po1linger, who works for E. E.
jerks a ip 9r the & east erecting shop no has Ire, re,
for the first time Wednesday.
Mespelt's tank. gang which has been in
reservoirs is looked for to return the Tat. lat
ter part of this week. 1t will probably go
to Colorado Springs later for work.
Elmer Kelly, who has been running a
been transferred to the roundhouse. where
in in the the place fi Which he formerly i had. ID .
Arthur Gilyeat has been put on in the
drafting ORA ting room ,9 OF the car & department; par h He He
office of Mechanical Superintendent Ris-
teen.
u Il. cam, newly appointed general Su-
perintendent of the western grand divis-
ion, left Wednesday for La Junta, Col.
nis p5 fa MI Gam hy
c. F. Resseguie, attached to train No. L
There was a big crowd of Topeka people
Ludington. Mich, where they will spend
| the summer. 1t is expected that num-
Der Of others will go during the remain
! Edward Taylor, son of Machinist John
| Taylor, who returned recently from La
ia Fe in the capacity of boilermaker, has
gone to Denver to enter the employ of the
| Colorado Midland.
Twelve of the FORCES for the new black
smith shop have been put on their foun-
dations and were it necessary could be
building -
Clyde Swartz who until a few weeks
| ago was a molder in the brass foundry
Missouri Pacific near 0sawatomie That
company has cruSher and is making
extensive betterments on its roadbed in
| this state.
Mrs. G. P. Tilson. wife of a former car
nos for Las Vegas M where her eaVh sbang
i: in the Santa F'e hospital for lung trou-
is worse than he has been, there being
frequent hemorrhages of the lungs.
Owen Callahan of the water service pipe
and over BY a table planer in the mill
| Wednesday afternoon. At the time it was
| tnOuSnt tndt MS injuries were not IN any
way serious. 1t is the second time the
same accident has happened to him.
In order that it's telegraph wires may be
relieved of a lot of work that can be ham
died in this way. the Burlington is to es-
| tablish telephone system between Kan
sas City, Leavenworth. Atchison and St
| Joseph, the Missouri river towns of the
| road.
W; c. Nixon of the Gulf lines of the
to. No, l. west bound, Wednesday Mr..
| Nixon has been in Chicago a few days in
| connection with Third Vice President
| Kendrick, Superintendent of Motive Power
| Henderson and other officials
| Sixteen fiat cars are being re-decked and
| given steel drop aprons so that they can
be. used for handling dirt. in large guam
! titles. The apron is put down connecting
one car with another SO that the center
| unloading plow can be run along the full
length of the train without any difficulty.
| Locomotives 437 and 43S, which have been
| in Topeka shops for a number of weeks
being generally overhauled, have been sent
| to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe They
| will be used for handling the heavy pas
| senger traffic between C1eburne and Gal
weston, having been fitted up while here
| with oil burning apparatus.
| Work in the car shops has been heavy
for number Of days At this season