PAYMASTER I ANY employes on the Frisco railroad proper have M never met Paymaster F. Billit W. Young, of St. Louis. Mo., who will celebrate his forty-sixth year in E of continuous service on March 1% 1928, but there are few who do not know and welcome his eignature which has appeared on pay and time draft8 totaling more than a billion and a half dollars during his entire service. He is a native St. Louisan, born June 16, 1868, at Thirteenth and Washington Avenues, then - -mm
Page 5 RETIRED ENGINEER RECALLS OLD DAYS N February 12, 1928, Mr. a house. Later, just like the snap and Mrs. J. S. Hart of 1220 0 of your finger, the towns began to Summit Avenue, SprIngiIeld. J. S. Ha rl and His W j f spring up! It seemed nothlng Mo., celebrated their fiftieth wed- ding anniversary. And along with the flfty years of wedded life, thirty-nine years and one month of the time Mr. Hart served as a Frisco engineer, with Mrs. Hart faith- fully sharing the hardships of early railroading life, and enjoying the com- forts which were added later to their lot in life. They were elaborately entertained at Eagles' Hall, on the nlght of Feb- ruary 12, by the <strong>Springfield</strong> Chapter of the Grand International Association of Engineers. Mr. Hart began his railroad service in August, 1881. in the Frisco car de- partment, at Springfleld. He then went with the bridge gang, butiding false work before the track was laid from Winslow to Van Buren, Ark. Re- turning to Springfleld he went on the road as a brakeman, running between Springfleld and Newburg, Mo. From this position he transferred to that of fireman, and was promoted to the position of freight engineer June 7, 1887. Hls promotion to passenger en- gineer came in 1897. He was retlred in 1922. Both MP. and Mrs. Hart were born in Cole <strong>County</strong>. Ill., and were married at Mattoon, Ill., in 1878. "I can remember well that wedding ceremony." Mrs. Hart said. "You know, In 1878, there were not many paved roads. I recall that Mr. Hart brought two horses, and after the wedding ceremony had been perform- ed in the old home in which I was born I put on my riding habit and we mounted our horses to proceed to the home of Mr. Hart's uncle. The distance was too great to make that night, so we stopped half way at the home of one of my girl friends, where we had our wedding reception." Mr. Hart recalls vfvfdly railroading forty years ago and compared it with railroading today. "I notlced in a recent interview with Mr. Kurn where he mentioned that seventy miles of track, between Afton and Tulsa. Okla.. would be replaced soon with 110-pound rail. When I used to run an engine over that fame stretch of track, we had 66pounll rail under om engine wheels. There was not even so much as a small village where the thriving city of Tulsa now stands. There was, however, across [rom the little depot, a half-way hotel run by an Indian. We got our water for the engines out of the river at Celebrate Thcit GoIden Wedding Ann ioevso ry # short of miraculous. Tulsa with its sky-scrapers seems incredible. for I have recollections of a roiling plain with numerous prairie chickens and rabbits running about, where the city now stands." Mr. Hart recalls pioneer days In <strong>Springfield</strong>, when North Springfleld and South <strong>Springfield</strong>, were distinct towns and blackberry patches were numerous between. "I was sitting in front of the old Jackson House on Comrnerclal Street, North springfield, one day-and you know the old Frisco depot was down that street, just at the end of Benton Avenue, and one of the women guests of the hotel came Out and asked me if I'd mind going across the way and cutting her a snuff stick. The weeds and brush wae as high as my head, so the request was easily filled." Mr. Hart could not stress enough two marvels of railroading, the air brake and the automatic train control. He drove engines before either of MR AND MRS. J. S. HART these devices were known In railroading, and he remarked that the feeling Tulsa and it was so muddy we could of confidence which they give the enhardly use it. The ac~mm~dation~ gineer can not be described. Mr. were so bad at Tulsa that we used to Hart's first engine was old 71, known go on over to Red Fork where the as the Baldwin consolidated, and now Frisco had an old caboose fitted up numbered in the 2700 series. During with a cook stove. We used to buy his last years of service he operated Potatoes, bread and meat and cook it a 4100 class engine. ourselves. The Harts have attended three re- "But we had lots of fun with it all. unions of the Frisco Veteran Em It was pioneer railroading, and as we ployes' Association. "We never wish didn't know any better way of doing to miss one as long as we live," reit, we just buckled down, joined hands marked Mrs. Hart. "At the last one like brothers, and did the work. Hours I talked to our president and thanked were long, pay was not so good, but him for the many favors extended to we loved the work. the pensioned Frisco employes-ur "That was a great stock country at passes and pensions ttnd hospital perthat time and we handled many train .mits-and I told him what a wonderloads of stock to the market. Over ful thing it was, and in return he told that 56-pound rail and with those little me all he wanted was for the pensionengines we were required to come ers to take advantage of those priviin from Red Fork to <strong>Springfield</strong> in six leges." hours." A married daughter, Mrs. H. M. He laughed heartily when he recall- Beckham, resides in San Francisco, ed a certain incident of early railroad- Cal., and Is the only daughter of the ing. "Our mixed passenger train com- Hart's. For some time they resided ing in from the west was run on very with her; but their many friends in slow schedule. In fact, it was so slow and agound <strong>Springfield</strong> brought them that we used to sit on the pilot with back. a shot gun and shoot quail and rab- "We've had a wonderfully happy life #bits. When we hit our game we together," Mr. .Hart sald, "and we wouldn't have to stop the train to hope that we may Ilve many more pick it up, we would just run and get years to sing the praises of the good it and hog back on again. In com- old Frisco Lines." parison with our fast schedules of today that sounds ridlculous. Vagrant winds blow the chaff, but 'We'd go for miles without seeing the flint is undisturbed.
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