Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-10-13
CARPENTERS
NEEDED BY THE
SANTA FE
Car Repair Works at Great
Topeka Shops Makes In
crease in Force Necessary
$500 Men at Works.


Topeka, kas. oct, Il.-Reai estate
man may work da. and night in
their attempts to bring buyers and
residents To Topeka, the Commercial
club may devise all sorts of attrac-
tions to increase the population Of
the city, and the various industries
may increase their facilities now and
then-but the real pulse O. the
growth and prosperity Of the capital
city in Kansas is the Santa Re.
Every year Topeka sees the pay
roll oil the Dig railroad system climb
upward in local circles Every year
new buildings, new departments ana
new employees are welcomed by the
citizens.
Now that fan-the time OF the
year when every railroad brings out
its entire equipment. fills up its ranks
and gives work to everyone from the
train crews 20 the general officials
has arrived the blood of good times
and better traffic is running through
the veins Of the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe railway.
And Topeka is throbbing with the
Santa Fe.
There are in the big shops Of the
Santa Fe in Topeka today. $500 men
working from morning until night.
receiving fun pay. At this same time
last year, ven though business was
good on the road. there were but p
800 men employed in the shops in
this city. This mean that there
have been added to the pay roll and
brought to Topeka ~ residents, al
most 400 men.
But this isn't all.
If an army Of 200 carpenters we're
to march into Topeka this afternoon
and knock on the door of the general
superintendent Of the shops and seek
admission, the superintendent would
! ceive them with open arms.
Not onl" that. but he would line
them up in battle line again, rush
them to the east end Of the shop
of the Santa Fe yards and
each nan his tools he would
give the order 10 work-and o keep
working.
In other words the shops in To-
peka could and would employ this
200 more carpenters TO work
on the car repair work that IL being |
in this city. This, despite the
fact that there are at his time 500
WORKING in this line.
one thousand men working as car
penters repairing cars in the Santa
Re shops would not represent n snall
portion Of the shop population.
If the santa Re could get goo car
p%entera at this time they would be
started on IN full time in the morn
ing The average carpenter who has
learned the trade wen enough to he
Of use to railroad shops is
married. This means that the popu-
Iation Of Topeka would be increased
by 1000 people tomorrow morning
Il they would come and accept en-
oloyment.
For instance the Santa Fe IA re-
moving an OF the old wooden under
'iames from the oil tank ears over
he system and replacing them with
steel undeifrsmes There are 800 oil
ank cars under this process. This
means 2 general increase OF business
n several departments in the shops
fhe blacksmith shop, the machine
and the carpenter shop ell come
n under this repair work and their
'orce Of men are kept busy,
This Is but one OF Inc special as
sienments his fan and winter. The
Fe Is converting q big per cent
,f its pa ssenGer and freight engines
nto oil burners. This work &c done
n the Santa re shoDe in Tonala for