The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
j. O. BrinkerhoffH Has Been With
Union Pacific Al Years.
Many Veterans in Rail Service
at Kansas City.
LIST OF OLD TIMERS.
George w. Hageirbuch With
Santa Fe % Winters.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Kansas City, Dec. 2O.-tYou are pretty
nearly a veteran in Union Pacific ser
vice. aren't you?' inquired friend of
H G. Kali, assistant general freight
and passenger agent of the Union Pa
cific
Veteran" Mr.. Kali exclaimed.
Why, I'm in the infant class. There is
J. o. Brinkerhof, superintendent OF the
Kansas division, with headquarters in
Kansas City, who has been in the en-
pIOy of the road for forry-one years.
Tom Shaw, who is in the city ticket Of
fee, came here about the same time, and
Andy Barker, a conductor on the Law
rence-Leavenworth branch, has forty
one years of continuous service to his
credit
Mr. Kali then submitted this list of
Union Pacific employees in Kansas City
who have been seventeen years or more
in the service Of the company:
]. Q. Brinkerhon, superintendent Kan
sas division, forty-one years.
Tom Shaw, city ticket office, forty-one
years.
G. NJ. Curtis. agent, twenty-eight
years.
H. A. Hawkins, chief operator. thirty
two years.
J. B. F'rawley, travelling passenger
agent, thirty years.
J. c. Hodgetts. operator, twenty-six
years.
A. D. Palmer, assistant superintendent
Kansas division. twenty-seven years.
P H. Shepard, cashier local freight
office, twenty-nine years
N. K Candee chief clerk to Mr..
Brinkerhoff, twenty-seven years.
r. d. Speck, city ticket office, twenty
six years.
H, G. Kali, assistant general freight
and ticket agent, twenty three years.
S. r. Hill, live stock agent, twenty
eight years
H L. Bronson, chief dispatcher. TWEEN
ty years.
teen years.
E S. Jewett, general agent passenger
department. and Charles E. Styles. as
sistant general passenger agent OF the
Missouri Pacific railway, are veterans in
the service. Colonel JeWett forty years
and Styles thirty-five years. There are
several in the thirty year class, includ-
ing NJ D. Darnall, commercial agent of
the Missouri Pacific; c. w. Jones. tick
ct agent of the Rock Island. and George
H. Foote chairman of the local passen-
ger agents association.
George W. Hagenbuch has been in
the Kansas City office Of the Santa Fe
railway twenty-five years. +. d. Papin
has been in the employ of the Illinois
Central in Kansas City twenty-fOur
years G. G. Ripley and William CIag
gett have been in the business here Tor
twenty three years, the former as sec
rotary Of the Kansas City Belt railway
and the latter in the Union depot ticket
OFFICE. Lynn s. Banks has been in the
Union depot ticket office twenty-five
years. and John J, Shine, general agent
of the wabash in Kansas City, began
selling tickets at the Union depot III
1887.
E. F. Edgecomb. agent of the Frisco.
J. P. Cummings, superintendent OF ter
minals of the Burlington have been with
their respective companies twenty years.
R. P. Isitt, agent of the Missouri Pacific
has been with the company eighteen
years. E. J. Sanford has been railroad
inc nearly forty years. He has been
and president of the
Union Depot company for nine years.
W. p. Trickett was in railroad office
for several years before he was made
of the Kansas City trans
portation bureau. ]. G. FURRY, train |
master of the Santa F'e. and H W.
Sharp, superintendent Of the Kansas
city division, have been here for many
years.