The Topeka state journal., 1902-02-08
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
]. w. Reed car repairer, has quit.
John Etzel. a blacksmith helper. lost
| Friday.
Joseph Alder. laborer In the stOrehouse.
| quit Friday.
John Romerman. a blacksmith, was lay
| ing off Friday.
David Schultz. machinist helper in the
east shop, lost Friday.
| Ice from Concorclia is being stored in
| the Santa Fe house at Emporia.
Samuel Stewart; a carpenter in the Sixth
! street gang, has been laying off
| Engineer John Islip of the Leavenworth
| and Topeka branch, was here Friday.
James Eskridge, a blacksmith helper,
| duty.
| Charles Havens, a machinist in the east
shop, is in his place after an absence of
/ a few days.
| Joseph Aubrey, member of the down.
stairs force in the storehouse, took his
time Friday
The boiler of 35S. which has been given a
| general overhauling IN these shops, was
tested Friday.
James Stanley a packer in the store
house, has lost two or three days on ao-
count of a cold.
A. Knauer, foreman of the drill press
after an absence of one day.
3xe en has Been sp esp refPaisr sf bG b6s in "a
few days because of sickness.
DR.. J. P: freeman. secretary and treas
urer of the Santa Fe hospital association
went to Chicago Friday evening.
George Hutton, a coach carpenter, who
has been out a good part of the week be-
cause of sickness, is doing his work again.
G. E. Deweese, a machiniSt in MillerS
gang, who has been out all week on ac
count of sickness, is still unable to be on
duty.
John Boyer. a brakeman. who has been
in the service of the Santa Fe two years.
has taken his time He ran out of Ar
gentine.
Guy Dreyer, a south shop machinist
still unable to do his work, although he is
mending slowly.
William Irish, night fireman at the mill.
has been obliged to lay off bee because ,ss.2 Of
tuting in his absence.
Joseph G. Grusenmeyer, who a few
place, has returned from an extended trip
through the west and southwest.
John Custer, a clerk in the office of Su-
perntendent of Transportation Kouns, has
been confined to his room several days on
account of an attack of rheumatism
ship in the boiler shop at 9 a. m. Tues
DAY lay, and next & pay pa & day viii receive the
G. w. Hobson, blacksmith helper, who
has been at his home in North Topeka two
or three days sick was around Friday.
before long.
Quincy Fisher, a member of the black
hospital here for treatment for an eye
which was injured by a piece of flying
]. N. Greene. clerk in the office of C. w.
Closson. fuel and ice contractor has gone
the L es end Ia0 fta oIngf points m ON
nection with that office.
George w. Cooper. machinist who
two months in the capacity of inspector
of locomotives being built at Schenectady.
N Y, was out of his place Friday.
Locomotives S07 and sos, the two big
Baldwin freight engines which were re-
ceived and set up at Topeka shops this
k. EInDOria Friday.
out in charge of Conductor Withrow.
James Kay. chief actor in the terrible
at the shops at one time, first in the lum-
Der yard and later with other departments.
He was relative of Jacob Duffy of the
boiler shop.
Friday night a special train was run
renee 'n carTine 500 Students of Baker i Ini
versity to the annual 1 debate between rep
State university.
Henry Miller, the scrap workman who
dropped a car axle on one of his feet the
accident He is not being detained in the
hospital. although it will be several days
before he can report for duty.
Special 221. which has been rebuilt
for the use of Third Vice President Ken
drick. has been turned out of the shops.
it will be fitted up with Pintsch gas be
Harry wnkerson, helper in the black
sInithing department, who had one eye in
probably be off several days A Slight cold
has settled in the member, and is giving
little more trouble than was antici-
pated
Harry Eccleston, brother of Frank
Eccleston. a machinist, is working a trick
in the telegraph offices of the Illinois Cen
tral road at New Orleans, La He has
been there several months. but expects to
return to Kansas for a visit with relatives
before long.
Within the last two or three days there
have been distributed at the division Of
fees copies of the new book of rules and
regulations for the Santa Fe. 1t con-
tains, as suggested by the name, instruc-
men while on duty.
James Mullen's gang of engine scrap
pers has begun taking to pieces five aoco-
motives which on account of years of serv-
ice and diminutive size, along with other
reasons, have become comparatively
worthless as a part of the motive power.
Their numbers are 041, DAB, 045, 0133 and
O146
On account of the derailment on the
Chicago division Thursday night most of
the west-bound trains Friday We're late.
The Gates special which runs to Old Mex
ico was DELAYED six hours or more not
reaching here until about noon. The reg
ular traffic was not seriously laid out.
though most of the trains were off the
schedule
Work on the assembling of the steel
trusses for the new blacksmith shop is