The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-12

them to take is the time card examina-
ton
Morris OLeary and John Mills. both
service of the company yesterday. O'Ieary
and Mills were both night men
Buffet smoking car No. 1908 and combi-
run into the coach shop yesterday, where
they will receive a general overhauiing.
Robert Mears, Santa Fe engineer run
80 day vacation. C. T. Brant of Emporia
is running on 102 while Mr. Mears is away
| The clerks in the telegraph department
at the Santa Fe general offices were moved
into their new headquarters yesterday.
They will now occupy the rooms vacated
| by the operators.
! Combination coach. mail and baggage car
| No. 2471 and coach No. $40 were turned out
of the shops yesterday for service on the
| in the coach and paint shops.
James Black of the Santa Fe store ac-
COMPLAINTS office Will leave Saturday for
short plsts,n n b trip to Denver He will
will be gone a week or ten days
Charles w. George and Edward Ehrhart
are both new men in the blacksmith shop.
They were employed yesterday and began
work this morning.. Ehrhart is a black
smith and George is helper.
Joseph Hanlon is a new switchman in
for the company Monday night. Hanion
was formerly member of the city fire de-
partment and was stationed at No. sta
ton.
Otto Faas, the Santa FEES representative
at Philadelphia, who went through here
special train from Pennsylvania. is an
uncle of Charles Faas, a clerk in the Of
flee of the Santa Fe ticket auditor.
Three sections of Rock Island train No.
| 9 will pass through Topeka tonight. The
first section is the regular Colorado flyer
and the other two sections are G. A. r.
trains. One is the official train from Mis-
souri, and the other is the second section
of the official train.
| w. H. Cundy travelling passenger agent
for the Denver and Rio Grande, with head
quarters in Denver, was in the city yes
tefday and made his regular calls at the
| local ticket offices. AS usual Mr.. Cundy
ger business that is being done in Colorado.
1t was announced yesterday that G. w.
Boone of the general storekeepers office
had resigned his position in that office. Mr.:
Boone'S resignation was unexpected and
came as a surprise to an OF the boys IN
the office. Boone has been with the COM
pany for a long time and is well known
and liked by all of his fellow clerks.
Charles Robinson of the water service
returned to work in the shop yesterday af-
ter an absence of two weeks. Robinsons
absence was due to an accident that he
weeks ago. Robinson was assisting in the
erection of the new hoppers and was work
ing on scaffold The scaffolding fell and
Robinson fell with it. He was severely
| hurt.
The work of lettering. and painting the
new Santa Fe supply car which is to be
/
| ing done by Joseph Horribly of the store
house. Horribly was the man who decor
ated the shelves in the storehouse and he
/ did it SO well that he was given the job
/ of decorating the new car. Judging from
| the work which he has already done his
work on the car will be every bit as good
as that in the storehouse-
The Santa Fe is stil having some trou-
bic in disposing of the freight destroyed in
transit during the floods at Kansas City.
The road now has several thousand dollars
worth of paper" for the Sells & Downs
circus stored at the freight house, which
the circus refuses to accept The paper
| at the time of shipment weighed about
three tons, but since its wetting it would
| tip the scales at three times that amount
| 1t could be dried out however, and made
to look as good as new.
John Helvie who has been firing the
! Colorado flyer between here and Newton
and who it was announced several weeks
ago had been taking examinations in hopes
of being an engineer, has passed all eX-
Fe engineer He has been given a switch
engine in the local yards John Is very
proud of his new position and wei ne might
be, for to be an engineer signifies that one
has passed successfully through an era
of hard study and hard work. II is nearly
| as difficult to get engine on a road like
the Santa Fe as it is to get a commission
in the army AS all the boys say, the
physical examination is something fierce
ton the man who aSpires to be an eng1-
neer must know nearly everything that
pertains to a railroad. All of the boys al
the round house are glad OF Helvle gooo
luck for he is good fellow and Is Wen
liked by all of them.