The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
ABOUT RAILRoAp PEOPLE.

William Root is new employee of the
Santa Fe water service. He began WORK
yesterday.
Secretary Prout of the Railroad Y. NJ.
Kansas City
W. j. Heaiy. freight auditor for the
Santa Fe. was in Kansas City Wednesday
on business for the company.
Local ticket agents report a big sale
of tickets to Kansas City. Many Topeka
people are going down to attend the horse
show.
Mr.. A. f. Cooper, division passenger
agent for the Rock Island, has returned
from a short business trip over the lines
under his supervision.
Mr.. l.. e. Letter. clerk in the office of
the Santa Fe freight auditor, has quit the
service of the company. Mr.. Letter will
work elsewhere in the city
1t is announced that Mr.. ]. K. Withers
has been appointed agent for the Choctaw
railway at Anthony. Kan. MI Mtthers
was formerly a grocer in North Topeka.
Thomas L. Layden. assistant engineer
of tests for the Santa Fe, left Wednesday
afternoon on No. l for short business
trip to points in Oklahoma and the In-
dian Territory,
The noon meeting at the Santa Fe coach
shop today was addressed by MI. Herbert
Buffum, travelling evangelist from Cal
ifornia. Mr. Buffum is a good talkeF and
pleased the men.
Bert Lewis, a boilermaker for the Rock
Deka for a few days. Lewis served his
time in the local Santa Fe shops and is
well known here
Engine 921, one of the big freight en-
g.nes that are being built for the Santa
Fe by the Baldwin company, was sent
out on a trial , trip Yesterday after being
1t is reported that the Rock Island will
begin work on improvements at Chicl1a-
sha, I. r. The roads shops at that poin;
size and plans have already been prepared
for new depot.
]. NJ Gruber. general superintendent OF
he Tcfo -hn an- eli eaf ie
home on Topeka avenue for the past week
is reported TO be improving. 1t is thought
that MIR. Gruber will De able to resume his
work about the first of next week.
Santa Fe engine No. 400 broke down
Wednesday as she was pulling into Pau
line with the California limited One OF
the big prairie type had to be sent down
to Pauline to bring the train into Topeka
The disabled engine will be run into the
shops, where she will undergo repairs.
Elmer Miller. a former employee of the
Santa Fe, is visiting in Topeka for a few
days. Mr.. Miller is now working under
his father in the pattern shop of the Den
yer and Fort Worth at Childress, Tex
The senior Miller was formerly foreman
of the Santa Fe pattern shop here.
1t is announced that Mr.. Albert A. OIL
son and Miss Eunice Miller of this city
were married Wednesday evening. Mr.. Oh
gang in the Santa Fe MACHINE shop. Mis-,
Miller is the daughter of S. r. Miller, for
merly foreman of the Santa Fe pattern
shop.
To aid in salvfng as much as possible
the m1uch-vexed question, of car short.
age, General Superintendent Thornwel
/ Fay of the Southern Pacific has Offered
prizes to the company's agents for the
most successful car loading during the
coming season. Santa Fe officials should
adopt this plan.
A party of passenger men were in To
/ peka yesterday on business for their re
! spective companies. They We're: Fl. II
Moies. travelling passenger agent for th'
/ Nickel Plate railroad; Sc c. North. trav
] cling passenger agent for the Illinois cen
trail Robert Crozier. general agent for III
! Burlington. with headquarters al St. Joe
Santa Fe passenger traffic was excep
/ tionally heavy on Wednesday. Tuesday
was the day of the homeseekers' rates u
that road and all west bound trains wer'
/ crowded with eastern people who took ad
vantage of the rates. No. l was carryin:
Is cars and No. had so many passenger
7 that it had to be run in two sections eaci
( one of which was a heavy train.
4 report comes from New Orleans t.
1 the effect that on Monday last d specia
train of the Illinois Central. carrying tn
general passenger agents to their annua
! convention in that city. los miles il
90 minutes. including stops. and that
speed indicator in one of the cars regis
\ tered as high as @.4 miles nour q
some places. One stretch of IS miles i
said to have been traversed in ten min
utes.