The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-16
Topeka Writeup in Santa Fe
Employees Magazine.
Twenty-Five Pages of Interest
ing Reading Matter.
MORE is TO FOLLOW.
July Number Will Have Story
of Topeka Shops.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

In the current issue of the Santa Fe
Employees Magazine-the greatest rail-
way employees publication today-is
the first of a double series of articles
entitled Topeka and the Santa F'e."
This article is accompanied by pho
tographs Of Topeka and groups of en-
ployees and officials of the Atchlson,
Topeka & Santa Fe in this city. 1t
includes. also, complimentary mention
of Topeka business men, commercial
organizations and newspapers.
The article covers 20 pages in the
magazine. The editors promise % adj
dirional pages in the July issue. The
history Of the city as chronicled IS one
of the most complete on file and Will
serve as a valuable file for interested
citizens.
The employees groups Include the fol-
lowing: General officers; freight audit
ing department; Secretary and Treas
urer Copeland's aides; General Super
intcndent Parker and staff; Ticket Aud
itor Mitchell and assistants; general Of
flee telegraph department; General p IS
senger Agent Council and staff; Cen
eral Freight Agent Koontz and corps;
Chief Engineer selt and Office force;
Car Accountant Movers and assistan. IS;
Auditor of Disbursements Bunnell and
Office force; office force of General
Manager Kouns; claims department;
Tom King.
Below are a few clippings from this
valuable article that will be read by
more than 100000 employees of this
great railway system
with a prosperous, progressive flu
ture ahead of it, there is a constantly
growing city not far west of Kansas
City-a city well worthy of being the
capital of the great state i'll which il
has been built.
by most people claimed to be che
scene of the first construction work on
the Santa Fe-though in Atchison they
- do ,.I, lot tn
peka has kept pace with the great
road which now stretches far beyond
the confines first contemplated and
which has secured from among its able
citizens many of the past and present
prominent officials who have built up
the road so wisely and so well.
To-day the Santa Fe is the nerve net
work of Kansas. with over 1900 miles
of track within the borders of that one
state wherein it employs nearly 10000
men and records a payroll of 10 million
dollars a year exclusive of the many
private manufacturing concerns within
the state which depend upon it for the
patronage necessary for their sub
'sistence. And Topeka is the nerve CEN
ter"
Through all these periods of hover
ing clouds and cheering sunshine To
peka forged steadily ahead until today
she stands the most splendid city of the
Sunflnwer state.
Situated in Shawnee county. Topeka
is in the center of a great fruit and
grain raising district. Apples, pears,
plIms, peaches, cherries and other
fruits are bountifully harvested and
corn and wheat draw steady streams
of gold, while miscellaneous farming
fourishes prosperously throughout the
entire section.
But in Topeka. where once we heard
so many knocks, we are agreeabiy
surprised to note the constant boosting
for the railroads in general and the
Santa Fe in particular. Topeka now
realizes that the Santa Fe. with its
employees and its payroll. is mucn
better thing for it than is the editor
who tries to create disorder and lessen
employment OF the man who feels he
easily can handle his own business AMI
spend the time necessary to tell the
railroads how to run theirs
1.-THE citizens of Topeka are res LIKING
more and more as time goes on that It
is to the good railroad facilities of the
city they really owe their factories now
forming an important and expanding
factor in the prosperity of the COM
munity.
"And in securing the factories, in her
aiding tile advantages of Topeka and
in guarding the best interests of the
business men already located there, the
Commercial club, under the capable
management Of Secretary Bidders, is
aggressive business men, and a healthy
Commercial club is logically to be ex-
pected.''
Thus it is seen that the Santa Fe
takes the young men of Topeka AMI.
having trained them to a point of high
efficiency in the various departments
of the road, sends them out into other
cities and into other states, there to
continue to be boosters for Topeka and
for Kansas"
In the July issue will appear a write
up of the shops in Topeka, together
with the pictures of various groups of
employees.
THE LARGEST SCRAP YARDS.
Santa Fe Claims Honors at Corwith,
Illinois.
One of the largest scrap iron yards
IN the world is at Corwith, just out of
Chicago, on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad. The Santa Fe ships
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