The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-07
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE


Frank MCGEE of the brass foundry failed
port him sick.
Charles Efllian of the south shop has re-
turned to work after a short absence on
account Of sickness
o. L. Tarvin is new man in the shop
service He is working in D. A BIood's
gang in the store house.
J. A. Rea is a new operator in the Rock
I Island telegraph office. Mr.. Rea was for
merly agent for the Rock Island at Nc
Farland
James Robinson. scale inspector of the
eastern division of the Santa Fe who has
now in Emporia.
General Superintendent H S. Gable Of
4 the ROCK Island went to Kansas City yes
tefQay Tor the purpose Of making investi-
+ cations concerning the Rock Island wreck
at Rock Island Junction Wednesday night.
D. n Jaime Of the store house is abb
sent from work on account of a bruised
leg and foot. He dropped a casting on his
4 leg Wednesday afternoon. The accident
days.
The Santa Fe engineering force has
I staked out a place for a new turntable
u the space east of the new machine shop.
The new table win be IS feet in length
! and viii 5e~used for turning. engines with
out their tenders.
Harry Jones. Santa Fe engineer, had
quite an accident the other day. As ne
was passing Lang station small sack on
Iorley eyssJ3 ~ l1is e ~ iie IT, 81 eiIl
in the Santa Fe hospital
The fourth room of the round house is
to be equipped with machinery for light
locomotive repairs Among the new ma
chimes viii be a small lathe. a drill press
aI a e SNAPPER. The power will be supplied
BY a i've horse power motor
The Rock Islands trouble with snow
and sand on the tracks in New Mexico is
nearly over On account of the snow be-
ing mixed with sand the snow plOws could
not be used and the work of clearing the
tracks had to be done by shovelers
Walter Horn, night ticket clerk at the
hqc cd u ic
here and will leave shortly for Albuquer-
que, n NJ: where he has secured the po-
sltlon of night ticket clerk at that point.
his successor has not yet been named.
q IS; Davis; a Rock Island brakeman,
was fatally injured by a freight yesterday
morning He fell between the cars of a
freight train that was running between
Pierce and Purcell. He received other in
juries, besides having a leg cut off He
was taken to the h0snital in ST Josanb
where he died yesterday noon
William Stewart. the repairer in the ma
chlne shop. who ran nail in his hand
about month ago and has since been in
the hospital on account of blood poisoning
/. setting IN IN his arm, was out visiting with
some OF his friends yesterday. His arm is
much better but he viii probably not be
able to return to work for a month yet
AS Santa Fe train No was pulling out
of Topeka Friday evening at about
> ! o'clock the air hose between the engine
and the mail car broke and the train was
brought to a stop. A hose from one of the
cars IN the yards was quickly made tc
take the place Of the broken hose and the
The machinery in the water service is t.
shortly be run by electricity. twenty
, horse power motor has been installed II
the east shop and Will be connected with
the new power house The big engine II
? the old machine shop which has furnished
, the power for the machinery for a gooe
many years, viii be taken down some time
next week.
Quite a number of changes took place al
the Santa Fe shops yesterday The office
= of F. N Risteen, mechanical superinten-
: dent for the Santa. Fe, was transferred
G mouse to the building across the street f
H. Adams, engineer Of shop extension. ha.
moved his office into the building vacated
The work in the Santa Fe round hous.
which was stopped about a month ago OF
t account of the building. of the new turn
table has been resumed. The new table
has been used and proves to be quite az
: improvement over the old one. Anothei
I | improvement that is being made is tn
> laying Of new track into the stalls of tn
/ roundhouse.
The first issue of monthly magazin
entitled Farming in the Great Southwest
is out. Hereafter this magazine is to b.
/ published regularly every month by tn
colonization agency Of the southwestern
4 been received at the Rock Island division
offices and will shortly be distributes
throughout the division
q The special train that was run by tn
q Santa Fe Yesterday between Ottawa ant
Z students of the different colleges to IN
. state oratorical contest which was held il
+ Atchison last night. arrived IN Topeka a
= 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. The train va
g wen loaded with big delegations from OF
= tawa, Baker and Kansas universities TIL
Q Ottawa delegation was composed Of abou
: Is students including the school band an
o orchestra. The latter took part in the pro
. gramme at AtchisOn last night. The dele
: cations from the other universities mum
: bered about the same as that from OF
. tawa- Washburn was also Wen repre-
sented A car was added to the train t
accommodate the students from Washbur
who went uD to the contest. The specia
train laid over in Topeka about 20 min
utes and during that time all was excite
j. ment around the depot. The boys yelle
: and the girls screamed. and during it a
J. the Ottawa band could be heard grindin
) out some popular air
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