The Winslow mail., 1926-03-19
Toots From The
Round House
By Charles Erickson

They're sure maxim the dust fly
and l don't mean maybe. A GER
tain Mr.. Jones arrived in the
Meteor City the other day and made
himself known as the superintend-
ent of construction for the Robert
Mckee Constructing company, OF
Los Angeles. This concern has
'1et" the contract to enlarge our
local roundhouse and actual work
began last Tuesday morning. A
large number of Winslow talent
has been hired to do the work in
Guiding several Santa Fe employees
who are temporarily ''cut off, from
their regular line of work. The
first move is to tear down the last
ten stalls on the north end. 1t
will no doubt take all summer to
complete the "remodeling program"
and lots of inconvenience will have
to be overlooked by shopmen but
whatta we care just so up-to-date
roundhouse is built.
To Gallup. Chief Clerk Mark
Smith and his son Alton, journey
ed to the Land of Enchantment"
city the middle of last week for
business and social reasons.
Tommie Brennan, travelling store
keeper of the coast lines, is Wis
itor among us for a few days.
Glad to report that j. r. Chavez
is able to again resume work after
a short sick spell, but sorry to tell
the news that Pete Johnson has
had to lay off and go to his home
in Laguna on account of sickness.
Speaking of employees being i'll
reminds me that George Barstow
is unfortunately confined to his
home again. George has had rath-
er hard luck lately but it is sim
cerely hoped he will make a final
recovery" this time.
S. G.. (Bruce) Nomoto returned
from Los Angeles last Monday,
where he says he spent an enjoy
able short vacation. Naturally he
visited the Santa Fe hospital where
he found M. Kowasoki doing nicely.
The latter is expected back in a
few more days.
Everyone knows of the great sue
cess of Tex Rickard as promoter
of champion prize fights. Well folks
we have a gentleman at the round
house who has suddenly put Mr..
Richards name in small print. E.
A. (Possum) Kuhn is this new
match makers handle and he not
only referees his bouts but even
goes so far as to separate the con-
testants when they pay no atten-
tion to the bell" This news would
be easier to "savvy" if you had
seen Poss trying to separate cou-
pie of brownskin aggravated ma
mas" last Saturday noon.
E. j. McKernan, tool supervisor
was caller at the shops yester-
day, coming from Topeka.
The at of Ireland" was observ-
ed by practically all mechanical de-
partment employees. Irishmen, and
Swedes, Japanese, Italians and In
dians, all wore the green in honor
of old ST. Patrick's birthday. Anna
Pawley furnished everyone with
hearty ha-ha, and was. quite en-
barrassed too, when she came to
work all "decked out" in an orange
dress. She plumb forgot what day
it was. And to think that Anna
is Irish.
We have been doing quite a bit
of repair work On tools and equip
ment for the Adamana Oil company
lately. The drillers seem to be
very enthusiastic over the outlook
and it is said the stock has been
taken off the market.
A keen Studebaker is the make
of car now being driven by Roy
Retiring, general car foreman.
While talking with Mr.. Retiring it
was also learned that the car de-
partment are going to organize an
all-Indian basketball nine again.
The team was known as the rip
track Redskins" last year and fl
nished the season with an average
of around $50 Let's go again fell
lows.
Regret to report that seven men
have been temporarily cut off due
to the heavy decrease in business.
However the prospects are good for
their being called back within a
short time. The men are: Joe
Weiss and G. E. Matthias, machin-
lists; J. c. Mayes, Jr., Ed Jane
way and J. P. Cooper, helpers;
Polito Giego and V. Hernandez,
laborers.
A safety placard reads: "Prac-
ticing Safety is Like Making Love
to a Widow-You Can't Over Do 1t. .