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

ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
Wednesday.
John Schmidt a car sheds laborer took
his time Wednesday.
Emmett Taylor has received his creden-
tials as a store house laborer.
Jesse Smelser of the car shops is plan
ming a trip to Wichita next week
Harry, Henry, an apprentice in the
boiler shop, was off duty Wednesday.
Burve Lewis boiler washer at the round
house, has been off duty a few days
T NJ. RamsdeII, general car Inspector. is
nome from his western inspection trip.
J. B Gibbens, a coach cleaner at the de
pot, failed to appear for work Wednesday.
Elmo Wilkinson of the blacksmithing de-
partment did not ring in Wednesday morn
ing
David Miller. a scrapper. went out of
service Indefinitely Wednesday on account
of sickness.
visiting his son, G. Dahlman, worker in
the cabinet shop.
The little daughter of George -Furman.
engine inspector helper in the day time,
IS suffering from stomach trouble.
Black IS the new color which the ma
cnlnes m the machine shops are being
given since the renovation commenced
Charles Miller, head stationary boiler
washer, was summoned home Wednesday
Sick .s0'u mat ms li'''9 enlio was seriously
Del Shay. an air brake worker in the
sheds, has lost a day two lately it is
believed on account of the sickness Of his
wife.
Ben Nfileham. a coach painter. was
shifted across the river Wednesday to put
some artistic touches about the Junction
ticket office.
One hundred cattle guards are just be
ing turned out by the planning mill, the last
OF big order which has lasted intermit-
tently since fall
Mrs. H. T.. Nudge, wife of the general
manager of the Santa Fe, left Wednesday
morning in private car 217 attached to No.
for Fort Madison. Ia.
J. w Godfrey and James Griffith, clerks
IN the OfflC6 OF General StOTel<PenpT Hilton
have been assisting down stairs since the
beginning of the invoice.
Gus Neubert, a Tnachinfst apprentice who
was put on the off list ten days ago by
piece of brass burying itself in the 1eshy
place. - ''1''1' -'''7 -+0' -'e4 - -'-7
Ludwig Pyetzli. a machinist in Mitch
ell gang, IS nome from a short recreation
trip to Kansas City, during which he was
accompanied by his wife and her little son
Gustav
Engineer I Wellman has taken a lay
off and Tuesday left for Norfolk, Va, to
attend the international convention Of the
B. of L. E.
H. C. Shields of the Wabash was around
the Santa Fe offices Wednesday discharg
ing his duties as travelling passenger agent
for that company
Complaints on account of a soft track
have come in from some of the western di-
visions where there was no rock ballast
and where rains fell every night.
Hereafter the blacksmith shop will have
having signified his Intention of Withdraw
ing from the employ of the Santa Fe
Wednesday.
one of the large fans for the blast fur
naces of the new blacksmith shop has
rived in the yards, although it still occu-
pied the car in which it was shipped,
Wednesday afternoon.
Pintsch gas workman. has been out of the
gang few days; cause, an attack of brOn-
cause him much trouble
Maehinist Byron Davis, who has been
SICK SO long from rheumatism and who
in
Fort Worth, Tex. will establish his home
at 402 Chandler street
The wife of Andrew Hartwick, a water
service emDloye who fell from chair
Tuesday morning and sustained a fracture
to one rib has suffered much since the
accident and her recovery is slow.
William Beeson, night engineer at the
mill, secured a lay off Wednesday evening
ode So f the sf R 7s Kansas 9g venue tIMan
He was relieved by George Rollins.
The wife of Frank Russell, who recently
blacksmith shop at Albuquerque, N NJ
IS IN town. the guest Of her mother, Mrs
Frank Kistler. of North Quincy street.
John Layne's paint gang occupied space
on the n0rthbound local Wednesday after
noon, their destination being AtchisOn,
where they are to put gloss on the steel
Single roof of the Santa F'e freight house.
Dan Fink, the car repairer in the freight
sheds who had his back injured Satur-
day by heavy timber falling upon it, was
around Wednesday, No bones were broken
and he viii likely be at his post of duty
in a week.
Sheds workmen have. been busy a day or
two repairing the body of a poultry car
few of this kind of equipment that it is
only about once a year that one Of them
gets into the shops here.
L. B. Wood, formerly on the requisition
desk IN the office Of General Storekeeper
Hilton, is here from Cleburne. Tex. for a
brief renewal of acquaintance. He is in
the office Of the general purchasing agent
of the Gulf lines at that place.
Two hundred and ffty-one cups of iced
tea and coffee were served to the patrons
of the coffee room at the shops Tuesday
noon hour-tae greatest number ever dis
posed of similarly in a single day since the
association began dispensing these drinks.
Delay to westbound through passenger
trains Wednesday was serious The linn
tied did not get IN until noon, No. was
in three sections. al of which were more
or less Of the schedule, and No. I was
! held a long time because Of the derailment
at Galesburg. Ill