The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-10
ABour RATLRoAp PEoPLE.

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Hammer No. was given a trial trip
Monday.
Track has been laid up the incline of the
new gravity coal chute.
Fred Ogden. a coach trimmer, was out
Of his place Monday.
Henry Jamison of the blacksmith shop
was off duty Monday.
Theodore HupD is a new employe Of the
boiermaking department.
Dan Lane. coach painter. has returned
from brief visit in Holton-
Frank o. Brien, an apprentice in the boil
ershop, went home sick Monday.
Adam Ekas. a coach shop laborer, has
been too sick to work for two days.
William Fargo a member of the cabinet
making force has been off two days.
Lewis SpendIove of the boiler shop went
home Monday afternoon with a strained
back
w. W. Pney, a machinist from George
town, O., was around the Santa Fe shops
here Monday.
Eleven oil tanks have been finished by
the boiler shop and have been shipped
west for service.
Edward Cleland. who runs a big bull
dozer in the blacksmith shop, did not use
his card Monday.
Trains 81 and g. viii have to get along
for few days without Conductor I1lford,
who is laying off.
John Anderson. an air brake repairer in
the car shops. is at his work after a lay
of of several days.
Emmett Whipple, Ulrich Koenig and
from the machine shop Monday
Mrs. I. Schlegel, wife of the wheel shop
foreman, has gone to Poynett, Neb-, to
spend the summer visiting relatives
Arthur Weeks wheel shop employee,
who has been detained from duty by the
sickness OF his wife, reported Monday.
Two or three passenger cars were re-
cefved for minor repairs Monday Among
the number was that of General Nudge.
Harry Zarker of the coach shop office
will spend his summer vacation as a mem
Der of the burn-on gang in that depart
ment.
R. H Grocer. Burlington. and A. l. Fish
er. Chicago and Northwestern. travelling
passenger representatives, made Tope-
ka Monday.
Mrs. L. Strain, left today for Circleville
o., to attend the funeral of Mrs. CraW-
ford's father.
Bruce Harmon OF the south shop has
taken the valve setting job in that depart
ment and Joseph Donohue goes IN the
roustabout gang.
H. S. Grout, who has been here from Al
buquerque, N NJ, several weeks visiting
former acquaintances, left on No. Mon
day for his home
George Kline, stenographer to Fuel and
Ice Contractor Closson, has been sick and
unable to handle his writing machine for
three or four days.
John Patel of the water service who
acted as special escort for a pile driver
from Topeka to KioWa last week, is at his
post Of duty again
T. A. McNeal, foreman of the blacksmith
shop at San Bernadino, Cal, has given
up that place to take a similar one with
a syndicate in Los Angeles
Mrs Sarah Suits formerly a resident
of Topeka, but now living at MeComD
Ill. is In town, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Kelly, 312 Elm street.
J. R. Richie, foreman Of the Santa Fe
boiler shop at San Bernardino, Cal, has
resigned at the request of his superior No
successor has yet been named.
J. Staples, stenographer to Superinten-
dent Of Motive Power Henderson, has re-
turned from the west and it is understood
that his chief is headed this way.
Conductor R. c. Scott took a lay off of a
week Monday evening to look after mat
tiers relating to his position as a member
of the trainmen's grievance committee
Carl AcGill will spend his summer vaca-
ton as a packer in the stOrehOuSe. He has
been attending school all winter, but some
time ago was employed in this department.
Charles Herboldsheimer of the boiler
shop went to the hospital Monday with q
bad order eye. Some substance mad lodged
in it and demanded the attention OF p sur
geon.
Mrs. william Lauterbach and two
daughters have gone to Lyons, where. at
ter spending a week, they viii go to Hays
City, remaining away from Topeka IN all
two months
Atknson's gang has completed the con-
crete foundation of the central engine Pit
in the new machine shop and Monday the
casing was being put in for the sides OF
the same.
Bert Grfdley, a Santa Fe enploye at
Arkansas City, has been released from the
Santa Fe hospital here after being confined
typhoid fever.
J. NJ Meade, resident engineer, who
seven weeks ago took to his bed and a lit
tie later submitted to the surgeons knife
at Christ hospital resumed the place at his
desk Monday Mr.. Meade suffered an m
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