The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-06

J MIS-. cara GOQQln2IQn. mother OF AOu-
| ductor Clint Coddington of this division.
is up from Kansas City for a brief visit.
John Romerman of the blacksmithing de-
partment, who has been in session with
/ the munps three weeks, is working again.
P. Walsh, who accompanied the club w0-
mems excursion to Los Angeles, Cal,
week ago, was expected to arrive home
! today
There is an unconfirmed rumor around
| the tank room that George Ganetly OF said
| department is acquiring a reputation as
barber.
Cabinet makers have received an order
| for a set of oak switchboards to be used
in the telegraph department at the general
Some additional equipment for the new
blacksmith shop, consisting OF punches
and shears. was unloaded in that building
! Monday
Frank Owens is watching the drin press
! in the boiler shop which he had to give Up
I'VE weeks ago because of an attack OF
Charles Cross inspector in the car sheds.
| IS entertaining at his home Mrs John
| swearingen of Kansas City, a sister Of
/ Mrs. Cross.
Preparations are complete for the work
! of constructing the new box cars which
the Santa Fe has ordered with the Pull
man company.
Willie Dix. son Of William Dix of the
/ car shops, who disappeared from home
two weeks ago without apparent reason,
is still at large.
George PoHinger of the machine shop
who had to give up last week on account
of sickness, is said to be in line for a siege
| of typhoid fever.
Charles Goulding. foreman of the east
! side timers. was out Monday and Frank
| Vogel was director general in that depart
ment in his absence.
| Enoeh Thomas of the machine shop has
given up work long enough to attend a
| gathering of his Welsh countrymen in
Kansas City this week.
! Thomas Norton and Gus MERCER. men,
bers of the paint shop force, have returned
! to their regular places after week spent
| in the general offices building.
Hollis Frazier has quit the oil house
after term covering a period of two
years. He viii go to Colorado; where he
John Crawford and Duke" Thompson
! of the boiler shop have succumbed to the
| temptation held out for men at Needles,
/ Cal, and Monday left for that place.
John B. Mccoy, foreman of an unload
/ ing gang IN the storehouse, IS ENJOYING
Quail and daughter Blanche, OF Pond
Tests which have been going on two or
three weeks with the simple and COM
pound engines west of Topeka have been
| concluded, though the results have not
been computed.
John WaIdron, J. N Greene and Wilbur
Stark are the representatives Of the Rail-
road Y NJ C. A at the state Temperance
Thursday and Friday.
John French, foreman of the blacksmiths
at Springfield, Mo- was IN town the N lrst
part of the week. French formerly held
! similar position in Topeka.
Locomotive Sc. an eight wheel Mcqueen
which has been pulling trains and out
of La Junta, was pushed in on the scrap
track Monday evening and before being
released will be given heavy repairs.
Brakeman H Shufeldt has been assigned
| to the Topeka Emporia local, taking the
! place made vacant by the promotion of
| Cary Johnson, who has signed up for the
run on 121 and the extra freight between
| those places.
Alfred Swanson son of o. Swanson of
/ this place and himself a resident engineer
! Tor the Mexican central at SaI 1qS mex MEX
4 leo, is expected to come TO Iopeka TINS
week for a visit with relatives and for
other business reasons.
/ All except eight of the thirty-three new
/ passenger coaches which the Pullman
/ works has been turning out for the Santa
! Fe, have been delivered Eighteen new
! chair cars are well started in the factory
/ of the same company.
John Peronto. who used to be in the To-
peka boiler shop but who has been with
/ the Rock Island at Horton few months,
has taken his time there and is transfer
allegiance to the Santa Fe.
/ Carl Broberg. a brother of John Bro
machinists, is inspecting a part of the new
| box car equipment which the American
/ for the Santa Fe at Terre Haute. Ind
Machinist F. w. Scheutzow of the south
shop is making pilgrimage to the home
of his younger days near Buffalo, n. Y.
| The most interesting part of it to Scheut-
zow is that he is going back to his mother
| whom he has not seen for seven years
Eight cars of cement which will be used
on the walls of the new boiler and ma
chine shop were unoaded in the new
/ blacksmith DullQlQR MONDAY. DtSlQ6S d lOL
Of lumber to be used IN making the VIM
dow and door frames for that structure
! 0. S Pirkey. who dispatches the first
| trick on the main line here. has taken
brief lay off and has gone to Indianapolis,
! Ind. He is being relieved by l. G. Messlck,
| manager of the division telegraph Office.
Edward MOdlin, operator, has MeSs1ckS
regular place.
Ben Dustins Bottom Roustabouts. COM
posed of the younger crowd Of ball players
foot "a AGAIN iH'7 The first of the week ths
Eighth street nine administered defeat
which reads Is to in favor of the Eighth
street lads.
Brakeman Jesse Howes has been assign
| ed to a run on the Topeka-Argentin local
who quit the service of the company last
week to engage in farming north OF tow ";
about five years.
William Evnsizer, who only a short time
ago entered the mill boiler room, has
] reached the place of first fireman there
| owing to the numerous promotions and
| transfers that have taken place recently
| among the force of stationary engine and
| boiler men in the water service.
Louis Deutscher. foreman of the timers.
| is at his bench again after three or four
! days spent in the shops OF the Chicago ano
| Northwestern at chicago, where ne mas
been watching the manipulation of q
stamping machine to be used soon on the
tin and copper in his department here
Foreman Richardson. who has charge of
the gang building coal chutes on this di-
vision has brought his men to Topeka
up the structure here was begun. They
have just completed one at Emporia sim
liar to the one which will be erected here.
There was a second section of No 2
Monday afternoon composed entirely Of
dead head equipment which had been used
in carrying the delegates to the woman s
federation meeting at Los Angeles. Cal.
last week. number of empty cars have
been carried lately on the regular trains.
Locomotive 1851, one of the new Prairie
freight engines which the Santa Fe is
getting from the Baldwin works at Phila-
delphia, has been given test in passen,,
ger service on the Chicago division and
50 far the results have been gratifying to
those who are interested in the expert
ment-
There are ten pounds less Of fish in The
KaW as the result of a few hours which
Edward Brown of the coach shops spent
one day this week on the banks Of that
stream near Silver Lake Most of then
we're not under tMo-ponnders and It wa.