The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
WHO IS The BOSS
Question of Authority Over State
House Care Takers.
Custodian Collins Absolute
Command Is Disputed.
.DAYHOFF is USURPER.
Assumes Control of Those Whose
Jobs He Secured.
Uses JanitOr as Extra Clerk in
His Office.

mo man can serve two masters, for
either he will hate the one and love the
other; or else he will hold to the one
and despite the other Matthew 6:24.
There has been a head-on collision of
authority at the state house between
State Superintendent Dayhoff and Gus
todian ]. c. Collins. The Collins spec
ial, running at the rate of so miles an
hour under orders from the executive
council giving it the right of way,
crashed into the Dayhof instruction
train, which was occupying the main
track when it had orders, it is alleged,
to take the siding.
Reports are to the effect that the
Dayton train, being of light weight was
derailed and ditched
List of injured:
Insley l. Dayhoff, engineer of the in
struetion train, feelings badly hurt; will
recover,
Walter Evans, Hutchinson, janitor on
DayhomS train, Jared off the train ana
somewhat bruised and sore, not serious.
]. G. Collins, conductor of the special,
suffering from nervous shock.
Operating officials of the road are
very reticent about the wreck, and re-
| fuse to make any statements until the
causes leading up to the collision are
thoroughly investigated.
1t appears that there was a conflict
of orders somewhere along the line and
the blame may finally be placed upon
the shoulders of some minor dispatcher.
Dayhoff, the engineer of the instruction
train, asserts that he had right to oc-
| cupy the main track, and that it was
| the duty of the Collins special to take
| the siding and wait for him to pass. AT
| least this is what some of the paSSen-
| gers on the Dayhoff train claim. Mr.
Dayhon has left town, and therefore
his statement could not be secured.
| Conductor Collins, of the special. was
seen. shortly after the collision, and
made this tatement:
This man Dayhoff has been getting
| in my way for some time. He appointed
| Walter Evans as one of his 1anitOrS
| his Office. He has refused to allow him
| to do any work except in his office. The
result has been that Jacob Zahn, the
| janitor appointed by Secretary of State
Burrow, and Evans together, have been
| doing just half as much work in looking
| after the main floor of the north wing
as the one janitor has who looks after
the south wing, main floor. The Other
| janitors did not like this, and called
| Evans a pet
when the new law went into effect
reducing the number of janitors to II
I found it necessary to make a COM
plete Encouragement of the work in the
| building. 1t was necessary to increase
| the work of each janitor, ana when
talked. to Dayhof about it, he said that
| Evans knew all about the work in his
office, the fling of papers, ETC., and he
| didn't want him disturbed. Then talk
| ed to Mr.. Burrow, and he said to me
| Collins, you are the boss of this janitol
business, and whatever you say goes.
| Then I told him that the only way out
of it I could see would be to move both
| Evans and Zahn, and put them some
where else, giving the janitor work ir
| Dayhoff's and Burrows Office to a new
man. That is satisfactory to me- SAID
| Burrow.
so I gave Evans the keys to the
state library, and told him to take
| charge of a certain portion of the Sec
! ond floor. Evans was willing to dc
this, but said, Dayton appointed me
! and if I don't mind him, 1 viii lose my
| Job I told him that Dayhof was moi
| the man who elected him; that foul
| members of the executive council voted
| for him, and that he owed his job t.
| the council.
evans therefore accepted my auth
ority, and took charge of his new work
| The executive council had given orders
| for the changes in the rooms, and the
moving of the bird collection to the tor
floor 1 instructed all the janitors te