The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-27

Superintendent Mcclellan Mr.. and Mrs
Gillian viii live at % East Sixth avenue.
Three new. smoke stacks which are to
be used on the furnaces of the new black
smith shop have been rolled and will be
p pa1rnt gets into its new quarters. They
are to be 10 feet high, 80 inches in dame
ter and win be the largest ever constructed
in Topeka shops.
Friends of Boilermaker David McMil-
Ian who had one eye in5g g whe w9TE
shops at St Louis, Mo-, have received
further word that there is possibility of
his losing not only the sight of the mem
Der which was struck, but also the other.
Mcmillan was employed here until a few
Harry Brill, who some time ago was a
painter in the shops here; has quit the
yuma hotel at Hot Springs, near Las We
gas. N. NJ, and gone to San Bernardino,
Roscoe Mallock, who left here six months
ago, is doing the painting work around the
The foundation for the fiue of the first
furnace in the new blacksmith shop has
been placed Saturday a car of furnace
building. by water Service men. They are
nodded by John Seaton of Atchison, who
F'e and then they are sent to Topeka shops
to be dressed down and prepared for plac-
Another. batch of snow plows of the
butterfly type is being placed on the
here tell of an unusual experience in
It says that when one of the big engines
dashed by. little station big pile of
windows of the building and nearly
smothered the operator.
After sundry attempts, with loud hiss
ing of steam and shrieking of it's partic-
ularly keen whistle. engine S24, the, oil
burner which is being tested. here had
its coming out Saturday morning when it
left town at the head of the Argentine
local. There have been numerous at
for regular service, but each time there
was something to hinder until day before
yesterday the start was made with much
gusto.
Word has been sent to the postoffce de-
loss of large quantity. of mail in the
collision of Monday at Midway No. 6,
being partially consumed by the fire
which followed the crash, contained closed
and Colorado Springs for points in the
east and all of this was lost With the
the mail was saved.
William Happe, who for the last four
years has been on the pay roll of the
happy by the announcement of the COM
pletion of his apprenticeship. This event
mechanic and one Which the company
usually reminds the boys of by paying
apprentices in the shops here begin at %
cents day and continue at that rate for
get s1.O5. the third $1.S5 and SLIGO for the
f f{iitd stan Iies gay for boiler shop
James McGivern, who died Saturday af-
ternoon, was an old time employee of the
car shops. having been there for the last
be had up to his first sickness of three or
helper. At that time he was taken i'll one
Saturday evening while on duty in the
cabinet department and his condition was
such that it became necessary for the
night watch, who found him in a stupor,
to summon the police patrol ! to have him him
steadily gone down. McGivern was ma
tive Of diyerP9ol En- Eing!a1 1.if 80 years old;
sons and little daughter. He was
member of the Catholic church.
Because of the increased size of the
new Baldwin passenger compounds it has
been found necessary to rebuild the "fiue
making them more re, than a foot longer. It
will be understood by the layman that a
fiue rattler is large REVOLVING ,, eyldingderr
churn and is used in rolling the flues of
locomotives about after ,5ed :, they have becSms
is found in all the water of this, portion of
the country. This is done to clean them.
ermakers piano. because of the harmo-
NOUS sound which several scores of loose
80 feet. -
Sheet iron boxes about six feet long and
sixteen inches wide and of the same depth,
with a sloping top, are being constructed
In the ends are small places for the two
kinds of oil used and in the middle is
to to Be Be placed. There ere is talk of metal cup
boards being constructed for the use OF
the workmen. and it is certain that all
smiths will he provided with the boxes
already being built Fire. which recently
did much damage to company property at
Point Richmond. Cal, was the result of
spontaneous combustion, caused by oily
mulate. and every possible precaution is
being used against the recurrence of such