The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-30
ABOUT RAILROAD People.

Craftsman Alexson is off duty on ac-
count of sickness.
Henry Kester OF the brass foundry is abb
sent from work on account of sickness.
Bert Askins is a new man in the brass
foundry. He was employed Wednesday.
Morris Leonard of the blacksmith shop
was absent from work yesterday after
Frank swalwen of the Santa Fe black
smith shop is visiting friends in Sa-
lima.
A derailed freight car delayed eastbound
Santa F'e train No. 10 several house yes
terday.
Ralph Bush, an apprentice in the Santa
F'e tin shop, is laying off on account of
A J. Rhodes of the Santa Fe drafting
office spent last Sunday at his home in
Manhattan.
c. r. Kinsley division storekeeper for
the Santa Fe, was up from Argentine the
first of the week.
Milton Heberer of the store accountants
office will spend next Saturday and Sun
day with friends in St. Joseph.
Santa Fe switch engine No. 2416 was ia
ken out on her trial trip yesterday after
being repaired in the machine shop.
Harry Zane fireman in the pool at the
Santa Fe roundhouse, is laying off for
several days on account of sickness.
Miss Jennie Chrisman Of Omaha is in the
city for two weeks visit with the family
of John Stafford of the paint shop.
J. D. Garsuch. division storekeeper for
the Santa Fe at Newton, was in Topeka
Walter Gilmore of the Santa Fe pattern
shop has returned to work after a two
weeks vacation trip to Elmdale. Kan.
Herman Clinton of the Santa Fe machine
shop is spending his vacation in southern
Kansas. He will be away for two weeks.
w. E Barton, general foreman at the
Santa Fe shops, passed the cigars yester-
day in honor of a new son, born last Mon
day.
Horse express car No 1854 was turned out
for service on the road yesterday after
r-arNra4 r~raf4 fln ooh
shop.
The Third Christian church band, which
is composed mostly of shop men, will play
at a lawn social in Oakland Saturday
night.
The Santa Fe is putting in a new steel
girder bridge across the creek at Waka-
rusa- The old overhead bridge will be
torn down.
Walter Service. clerk in the office of the
foreman of the boiler shop. win return to
work the last of the week from a two
D. E. Page, Santa Fe engineer on the
passenger run between here and St Jo-
seph, is laying off for several trips on ac-
count of sickness.
James Black of the accountants office
will spend his vacation on trip through
the principal cities of the west His trip
will occupy about two weeks.
Engine No. 406 arrived yesterday even
| ing on No. from the west. The engine
is to be run into the shop; where it will
undergo a general overhauling.
1t will not belong before all of the men
in the brass foundry will be moved into
the cid boiler shop. Already several men
are al work in their new quarters.
| Charles Vail of the Santa Fe pattern
shop has quit the shop service and has ac-
cepted a position with the Kansas City
Hay Press company at Kansas City.
G. F. Wetling of the Santa Fee store
accountants office will leave the first OF
the month for a vacation trip in the west.
He viii be gone about two weeks.
The old riveting plant in the boiler shop
was loaded yesterday for shipment to
San Bernardino Cal. where 1t will be used
in the Santa Fe shops at that point
Mrs William Boyes wife of the assist
ant secretary of the Railroad Y NJ. c. A.
| is slowly recovering from a ten days sick