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A Triumph of Science that Stirred Europe
DR. CHARLES EDWARD GUILLAUME
Dr. Guillaume is known throughout
the scientific world for his research
work and important discoveries.
One of his most notable
successes was the development of
ELINVAR, an achievement that
attracted instant attention.
Dr. Guillaume is Head of the French
Bureau of Weights and Measures,
Commander of the French Legion
of Honor, member of the Royal
Academy of Sciences of Sweden and
honorary member of the Swiss
Society of Natural Science.
Now It Has a Vital Meaning For You
e sure to look
this
Mr. Rail roadman!
It was just a few short years ago that European men of science were
startled by the discovery of a unique new metal. It was an alloy
steel that combined outstanding qualities. It was rustless. It could not
be permanently magnetized. Its change in elasticity, due to temperature,
was opposite from that of ordinary metals.
Dr. Charles Edward Guillaume, head of the French Bureau of
Weights and Measures, was the man who discovered this remarkable
alloy steel and he called it ELINVAR. For his great achievement, he
was honored with the Nobel Award in Physics.
It was not long before a practical use for this discovery was found.
The technical staff of the Hamilton Watch Company began to experiment
with ELINVAR. After five years of intensive study and
research, ELINVAR has now been incorporated in the Hamilton
"992" Railroad Watch.
ELINVAR has been put to work for you, Mr. Railroadman! It is a
new development that you will want to know all about.
Hamilton UUatch
The Kcuhozid TimeJteep^t of dm&iica
for the H A M I L T O N W A T C H advertisement in
magazine next month. It will have a
vital message for you ,1
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Volume XII A U G U S T , 1 9 3 1 Number 5
Knowledge of Lighterage Facilities
Valuable to Employes in "Get Traffic"
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Page
Movement. By A. W. Schaeffer 7
D. R. MacBain Now a Vice-President;
L. S. Emery Asst. Vice-President 8
P. & L. E. Announces Engineering Staff
Changes 8
Model of New Cathedral to Be Shown
in G. C. Terminal 9
Eyes and Eye Trouble — Some Useful
Hints. By Dr. G. Ellington Jorgenson . 11
Employes Responding to "Get Traffic"
Appeal 13
4-H Clubs Use Special Trains on New
York Central Lines. By E. J. Leenhouts 17
P. E. CROWLEY, President,
New York Executive and Staff Officers
A. H. HARRIS, Vice-President, Finance and Corporate Relations
H. L. INGERSOLL, Assistant to the President
M. J. ALGER, Executive Assistant to the President
C. C. PAULDING, Vice-President Law and Public Relations
R. E. DOUGHERTY, Vice-President, Improvements and Development
JNO. G. WALBER, Vice-President, Personnel
W. C. BOWER, Vice-President, in Charge of Purchases and Stores
W. C. WISIIART, Vice-President, Accounting
R. D. STARBUCK, Vice-President, Now York
The New York Central Railroad Company
H. M. BISCOE. Vice-President. Boston
Boston & Albany Railroad (N.Y.C. R.R. Co., Lessee)
HENRY SHEARER. Vice-President and General Manager, Detroit
The Michigan Central Railroad (N.Y.C. R.R. Co., Lessee)
T. W. EVANS, Vice-President, Chicago
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company
Chicago River & Indiana Railroad Company
C. W. Y. CURRIE, Publicity Manager
Page
Man the Ship of Labor—Stop the Leaks.
By C. H. Comer, General Car Foreman,
Mattoon, III 23
4,000 Lake Shojie Pioneers Attend Outing
at Cedar Point, June 22 23
Charles P. Webb, a Man Worth While.
By Marie C. Todd 26
Three More Marks, One a World's Rec­
ord, Added to Stella Walsh's List * 27
Veterans Honored by C. J. A. A. Folk 27
Humorous Notes 30
Recent Deaths 31
Kalamazoo Stove Co. an Old Friend 33
New Post for W. T. Stevenson—J. W.
Clark Promoted 34
The Honor R o l l 34
tries
A. H. HARRIS, Chairman of the
Executive Committee, New York
F. H. HARDIN, Assistant to the President
C. F. SMITH, Manager, Passenger Transportation
G. METZMAN, Manager, Freight Transportation
H. G. SNELLING, General Treasurer
E. F. STEPHENSON, Secretary
J. R. SMART, Manager, Dining S, r> Im
R. F. FINLEY, Gen. Superintendent, Telegraph and Telephone
E. H. ANDERSON, Manager, Stock Yards
II. A. WORCESTER, Resident Vice-President, Cincinnati
C. S. MILLARD, Vice-President and General Manager, Cincinnati
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway
(Big Four Route) (N.Y.C. R.R. Co., Lessee)
CURTIS M. YOHE, Vice-President, Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company
W. J. FRIPP, Vice-President, New York Central, Buffalo n».l It...
D. R. MacBAIN, Vice-President and General Manager
New York Central, Line West, and Ohio Central Line*
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Air Reduction Sales Co. 42
Albany Car Wheel Co. 5
American Creosoting Co. 33
American Fork & Hoe Co. 45
Armco Railroad Sales Co. 41
B
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Coleman & Co., Inc 43
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Continental Casualty Co 37
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Dietz Co., R. E 38
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Ellington Miller Company 44
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Farmers Deposit National Bank 40
Ferguson & Son, F. 47
Ferro Construction Co., The ... 34
First National Bank, Cincinnati 40
Flannery Bolt Co 41
Frampton & Co., D. B 46
Franklin Railway Oil Corp 36
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G
Goldstein & Lippman 44
Gould Coupler Co. 45
Guillaume & Co 39
H
Hamilton Watch Company
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Hanna Coal Co. 34
Hedstrom-Barry Co 35
Hillsboro Coal Co. 44
Huntington Bank Building 40
Huron Mfg. Co 44
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Illinois Watch Company
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Indiana & Illinois Coal Corp 44
K
Kellogg Company, The 31
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Larus Bros 33
Lockhart Iron & Steel Co 44
Lovell-Dressel Co 37
M
Magnus Co., Inc 46
Maloney Oil & Mfg. Co. ^ 45
Mellon National Bank 30
Miner, Inc., W. H 45
Murine Eye Remedy Co 35
N
Nathan Mfg. Co 43
National Bearing Metals Corp.. . 33
Neely Nut & Bolt Co 46
New York Air Brake Co 5
N. Y. C. R. R. Mutual Relief
Ass'n 32
New York Coal Co 47
N. Y. State National Bank 32
North American Coal Corp 43
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O'Brien Bros., Inc. 47
Oxweld Railroad Service Co.. . . 42
P
P. & M. Co 41
Paige-Jones Chemical Co., Inc.. . 47
Procter & Gamble 35
Pursglove Coal Mining Co 37
Q
Q & C Company 46
Quimby, J. L., Co. 44
R
Railroad Accessories Corp. 46
Railroad Employees' Personal
Loan Co. 1
Railway Steel-Spring Co 42
Ralston Steel Car Company 48
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Seamen Lichtenstein & Co., Inc.. 44
Sunday Creek Coal Company . . 47
Swan-Finch Oil Corp. 44
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6 New York Central Lines Magazine for Attaint,
Why the Railroads Are Asking Higher Freight Rates
FOR many reasons the prosperity of the railroads is of first importance to everybody everywhere.
They are not only far from prosperous now, but unless prompt relief is afforded
they are in danger of disaster. To avert this disaster the railroads have applied to the
Interstate Commerce Commission for a fifteen per cent increase in freight rates. This increase
cannot be put into effect without the authority of the Commission. Briefly summarized here are
some reasons why these higher rates are essential:
1. Many railroads have no reserve funds to carry them through periods of bad business
because the Interstate Commerce Commission has disregarded the mandatory law requiring it
so to adjust rates as to enable them to earn a "fair return." In the first half of 1931 earnings
were at the rate of two per cent a year.
2. To achieve even this poor showing maintenance charges have been cut severely. This
may answer as a temporary expedient but cannot be continued indefinitely without great damage
to the property.
3. Huge expenditures of capital are required to enable the railroads to furnish the service
which the country must have. The only way to get this money is by borrowing.
4. Before the end of 1935 bonds totaling $1,334,265,000 fall due. These debts must be paid
in cash or refunded.
5. Savings banks and life insurance companies have been chief lenders to the railroads
holding, together, more than forty per cent of all railroad bonds outstanding. There are
50,000,000 of life insurance policies, 12,775,000 depositors in savings banks. To protect the savings
of this great number of people laws in most states specify that a railroad company must
earn not less than one and a half times its fixed charges before its bonds are eligible investments
for savings banks and life insurance companies. Fixed charges were earned only 1.76
times in 1930. Southern roads earned only 1.35 times fixed charges. In other words, the railroads
are right now in danger of being cut off from the most important sources of capital supply.
6. A steadily increasing proportion of earnings are required to pay taxes, an item over
which the railroads have no control. In the first four months of 1931 no less than 7.58 per cent
of gross revenues were required to pay taxes.
7. Another drain on revenues over which railroads have no control is the cost of grade separation.
The railroads must pay from 33 per cent of this cost in some states to as much as 65
per cent in others. Grade separation will cost the railroads $100,000,000 in 1931. Trucks and
buses, competitors of the railroads, are the chief beneficiaries of these improvements.
8. Not only have maintenance charges been greatly reduced but forces have been substantially
cut. Many former employes have found other occupations with the result that when business
revives there may be a shortage of skilled men in the transportation industry in which
technical training is essential. Decreased efficiency in transportation would retard the return
of prosperity.
9. Without increased revenues it will be impossible for the railroads to maintain the present
high standard of public service. It is equally impossible for the country to dispense with this
service. Try to imagine next winter's coal supply being moved from mines to consumers in
trucks; or fresh meats distributed from packing centers by the same method; or fresh fruits
and vegetables moved in trucks from California to the Atlantic seaboard. True, the movement
of freight by airplane has begun but at the rate of one cent a pound per hundred miles. This
would give a rate of $660 per ton from California to New York. At this rate the freighl charges
on an average carload of cantaloupes from the Imperial Valley to the metropolis would be $8,250.
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V o l u m e X I I ^AUGUST, 1931 N u m b e r s
Knowledge of Lighterage Facilities Valuable to Employes
in "Get Traffic" Movement
THE get traffic movement, from a
lighterage standpoint, affords
many interesting and valuable opportunities,
as the facilities and
floating equipment of the New York
Central Railroad in the Port of New
York are second to none.
The free lighterage limits within the
Port of New York, to which points
carload freight is delivered without
extra charge, cover a distance of 71
nautical miles, or a distance equal to
that from New York City nearly to
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
New York is one of the world's
greatest ports because of its immense
water frontage and deep channels. To
quote from the War Department Record,
we find that the developed frontage,
measured around piers and heads
of slips, is 346 nautical miles; the
frontage around piers and along the
shore line is 994 nautical miles.
Our terminal piers at Weehawken
are approximately 1,300 feet in length
and 200 feet in width, the covered
piers affording absolute protection to
freight in its movement between rail
and steamship, and for storage of
freight awaiting disposition. Our open
piers are equipped with the most
modern gantry equipment to insure the
most economical and efficient handling
of open top freight.
Our Weehawken Terminal and piers
have a capacity of 13,855 cars; our
New York City terminals and stations
have a freight capacity of 11,319 cars,
or a total at terminals of 25,174 cars.
The New York Central fleet consists
of 336 pieces of floating equipment,
among which are some of the most
modern in marine operation. In our
self-propelled equipment will be found
various types and designs, ranging
from the high pressure steam to the
high power Diesel boats.
In our freight carrying equipment,
every type of barge or lighter known
to harbor operation will be found, including
hoister barges of the whirler
type with a lifting capacity of 50 tons,
representing the most modern and finest
equipment in any harbor.
In the solicitation of freight for our
line, it has often occurred to me that
perhaps you are not fully acquainted
with the extent of our marine operation,
nor the facilities at our terminals,
or on our piers, and, therefore, are not
By A. W Schaeffer, Marine Assistant
Five Minute Traffic Talks
TAURING the past few months
representatives of the Traffic
Department have been giving five
minute talks in the offices of the
New York Central in New York.
One of these talks, published on this
page, was given by A. W. Schaeffer,
Marine Assistant, in the following
offices: J U N E 1 0
Auditor of Revenue, J. S. Conover's
office; Capital Expenditure
Accountant, C. W. Kingley's office,
and Auditor of Passenger Accounts,
R. C. Bromm's office.
JUNE 11
District Freight Claim Agent, G.
L. Vanderbeck's office, and Assistant
Auditor of Coal SC Coke Accounts,
joint with G. Metzman's office.
taking full advantage of what may be
a good talking point.
It may be interesting to know that
approximately 75 per cent of the total
lighterage freight received in this port
must be delivered alongside of ship
within 24 hours after its arrival at seaboard.
To accomplish this it is necessary
first to switch the train and place
the cars on the various lighterage
piers; the boat is then assigned and
freight loaded on it; when ready the
boat is towed to ship side, which may be
anywhere from one to thirteen miles
from our terminal station; in addition
there is a vast amount of paper work
involved not only at the terminal yards
and piers, but at 6 Beaver Street.
To meet the ever increasing demand
of the shipping public for this quick
turn-over of freight, and the increase in
the number of short-time permits, split
deliveries and other details common
to the lighterage movement of freight,
particularly at this time, we use the
electric typewriter, or teletype machine,
first installed between the terminal
stations and our Lighterage Office
at Beaver Street.
The success of this installation was
such as to warrant an extension of
the line of communication to DeWitt
Yards, located just outside of Syracuse,
N. Y.
Perhaps you are not acquainted with
the fact that we are fully equipped to
handle freight through the Port of
New York on skid platforms, a dependable
method for the expeditious,
economical and efficient handling of
freight.
I might suggest here that you arrange
to see our moving picture covering
this operation as you will find it not
only of interest but of great value in
the solicitation of freight.
Last week one of Mr. Hopper's
representatives and I called upon a
consignee in this city, and, upon our
assurance that we would deliver freight
to his warehouses on skid platforms,
were able to secure traffic formerly
moving over competitive lines.
I am now working with one of the
largest shippers in the world to develop
a suitable skid package that can
be moved from the Pittsburg district
to South American points, which, when
perfected, will assure us of a large
percentage of this shipper's tonnage
now moving over competitive lines
and through other ports.
As a matter of fact and record, we
have to date received four experimental
cars over our line which have
arrived at destination in perfect condition.
There was never a time in the history
of railroads that it was more imperative
that each employe consider himself
an official or un-official member of
the Traffic Department, and, therefore,
we suggest that you not only
start an active and intensive campaign
to get freight but solicit the help of
all of your friends to get freight moving
and be sure you have it routed
over the New York Central Lines.
It does not necessarily follow that
we are interested only in freight that
moves through New York. We are
equally interested in freight moving
over the entire system, and we, therefore,
suggest that you keep in close
touch with the Traffic Department and
advise them of every pound of freight
that may be moved, regardless of where
it is, for it may be that it could be
routed over some portion of the New
York Central Lines, if not in their
entirety.

8 New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
D. R. MacBain Now a Vice-President;
L. S. Emery Asst. Vice-President
D. R. MacBain
L. S. Emery
Mr. MacBain was born in Queenston
Heights, Ont., and after receiving his
early education started his railway
service as a machinist's apprentice
with the Canada Southern Railway in
1876. Two years later he was transferred
to the position of fireman, which
he filled until 1882, when he was promoted
to engineman at the age of 21.
After serving in that capacity for eight
years, Mr. MacBain was promoted to
Traveling Engineman on the Canada
Division of the Michigan Central Railroad,
and later his jurisdiction was extended
to include the district west of
the Detroit River.
From July, 1900, to April, 1901, he
was Master Mechanic of the Western
Division, with headquarters at Michigan
City, Ind., and was then transferred
to St. Thomas, Ont., where he
remained until January, 1902, when he
was transferred to Jackson, Mich. Remaining
at Jackson for four years as
Master Mechanic, Mr. MacBain was
then promoted to Assistant Superintendent
of Motive Power, with headquarters
in Detroit.
In 1908, Mr. MacBain was transferred
to the New York Central &
Hudson River Railroad as Assistant
Superintendent of Motive Power in
Albany, and two years later he was
promoted to Superintendent of Motive
Power, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern,
the Lake Erie & Western, the Lake
Walter S. Jensen Promoted
Walter S. Jensen was appointed
Manager of Perishable Traffic for the
New York Central Lines, with headquarters
at Rochester,
N. Y., effective
May 16.
Mr. Jensen was
educated at the
University of Wisconsin,
College of
Agriculture, from
which he was graduated
in 1915. He
began his railroad
career with the
New York Central
"in 1917, having
DONALD R. MacBAIN, General Erie, Alliance & Wheeling and the
Manager, New York Central, Cleveland Short Line Railways and the
Line West, was promoted to Vice- Chicago & Indiana Southern, the Dun­
President and General Manager, New kirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh
York Central, Line West of Buffalo, and the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroads.
with headquarters in Cleveland, effec­ On June 1, 1919, he was appointed
tive July 1.
Assistant General Manager, Line West,
Effective July 15, Mr. MacBain's and on March 1, 1926, he was promoted
jurisdiction was extended to include the to General Manager, Line West.
Ohio Central Lines.
Mr. Emery was born at Adrian,
At the same time, the appointment of Mich., and after receiving his early
L. S. Emery, General Manager, Ohio education there, began his railroad
Central Lines, to Assistant Vice-Presi­ service in flB96 as a clerk with the Lake
charge of the de­
W. S. Jensen
dent, New York Central Railroad, with Shore & Michigan Southern Railway at
velopment of bet­
headquarters at Columbus, Ohio, was Youngstown, Ohio. In 1902 he was ter loading methods and transportation
announced, as was the appointment of transferred to the Engineering Depart­ service for western New York peaches.
H. E. Speaks to Assistant to Genment of the New York Central & Hud­ From 1923 on, he held various posts
eral Superintendent, Toledo Terminal son River Railroad, where he remained with the Merchants Despatch, the
District, Cleveland Division and Ohio until 1920, when he was appointed Gen­ most recent of which was Superinten­
Central Lines.
eral Manager, Ohio Central Lines. dent of the Merchants Despatch, Inc.
P. & L. E. Announces Engineering
Staff Changes
IN a circular issued July 1 by Vice- he is known to his associates, actually
President Yohe of the Pittsburgh & grew up with the road.
Lake Erie Railroad, R. P. Forsberg In assuming the position of Chief En­
was appointed Chief Engineer of the gineer, Mr. Forsberg announced the
Company, effective at once, succeeding following appointments to positions on
A. R. Raymer, his official staff.
who will devote his George H. Burnette, Assistant Chief
entire time to the Engineer; Fred J. Nannah, Engineer
duties of Assistant Maintenance of Way; Arthur E. Heim-
Vice - President bach, Assistant Signal Engineer.
after having for Mr. Burnette comes to the P. & L. E.
the past several from the Monongahela Railway, where
years occupied he has had charge of engineering mat­
both positions
ters for 25 years. In joining the "Lake
with the dual title
Erie" organization he in reality "comes
of Assistant Vicehome,"
as his early days of railroading
President and
were spent on the road to which he now
Chief Engineer.
returns. Mr. Burnette is a graduate of
Mr. Forsberg, Ohio Northern University, and his engi­
R. P. Forsberg who previously neering ability has been demonstrated
was Principal As­ by his performance on the Monongasistant
Engineer, has been in the emhela
Railway, which, during his term
ploy of the "Lake Erie" for the past 39
of service there, has been expanded and
years, coming to the road from the
the line extended to Fairmont, W. Va.
Norfolk & Western Railway, where he
spent the early days of his railroad
Mr. Nannah, a graduate of Geneva
career following graduation from col­
College, is a veteran on the "Lake Erie"
lege in his native state, Virginia.
and has had charge of all important
Mr. Forsberg is well known in rail­ construction work on the main line as
road circles and is a member of the well as its Lake Erie & Eastern subsid­
American Society of Civil Engineers, iary in the Youngstown district, and is
the Engineers' Society of Western well qualified by experience to assume
Pennsylvania and other organizations charge of the maintenance of the prop­
of his profession. He advanced to his erty of which he has been an important
present position after serving in vari­ factor in building.
ous engineering capacities under the Mr. Heimbach, a graduate of Penn
late J. A. Atwood and his predecessor, State in Engineering, hai in his com­
A. R. Raymer, both recognized as outparatively short service with the comstanding
engineers. During these years pany merited advancement as a result
the P. & L. E. grew from a single track of exceptional ability displayed in mat­
railroad to the present four-track systers pertaining to signals, automatic
tem, now part of the New York Central train control and electrical features in
Lines, and Mr. Forsberg, or "R. P.," as general.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931 9
Model of New Cathedral to Be Shown in G. C. Terminal
CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE IN NEW YORK CITY
The final design of the world's third largest cathedral, showing the square tower which has been substituted for the original spire.
The length of the church is 601 feet, interior height of nave, floor to wall, is 125 feet and the height of the central tower is
400 feet. A model of the Cathedral will be placed on display at the Transportation Exhibit of the New York Central Lines in
Grand Central Terminal, beginning in October.
THE most majestic religious edifice
in America, St. John's Cathedral,
now being constructed in New
York City, will have its embodiment,
in scaled size, on display at the Transportation
Exhibit of the New York
Central Lines in Grand Central Terminal,
beginning in October. The splendid
model, 15 feet high, will enable visitors
to appreciate something of the
grandeur and significance of this noble
structure. It will be shown by request
of Bishop William T. Manning.
Upon its completion, St. John's Cathedral
will take rank as the third
largest place of worship in the world.
The basis of this comparison is the total
ground surface covered by the
building. St. Peter's, Rome, stands first
with an area of 227,069 square feet;
Seville Cathedral, Spain, second with
128,570 square feet. These are followed
by St. John's, which will cover 109,082
square feet. In exterior length, it
will stand second, measuring 601 feet
as compared with St. Peter's, which
measures 710 feet.
Architecturally, the crowning glory
of St. John's will be found in its truly
noble nave, in which, by insertion of
two lines of majestic piers, 85 feet to
98 feet in height, to assist in carrying
the vault, the architect has been able
to secure a clear nave width of 96 feet
between the clerestory walls. This is
considerably wider than the nave of
St. Peter's, which is 85 feet.
The style of the Cathedral is known
as Thirteenth Century French, as that
style was developed by the medieval
cathedral builders in those superb examples,
Notre Dame and Chartres,
Amiens and Rheims. It is marked by
great simplicity and dignity and a
sparing use of elaborate sculptural and
other decorative effects which were to
characterize the later decorated, flamboyant
and perpendicular cathedrals of
France and England.
When one enters the nave of St.
John's and looks through the two lines
of soaring columns that sweep, unbroken,
from floor to roof, and notes
the vast stretch of 96 feet from clerestory
window to clerestory window, he
will realize that it is something which,
for sheer majesty of effect, is unmatched
among all the cathedrals of
the world.
The exterior of St. John's is clothed
with selected granite from a Peekskill
(N. Y.) quarry, of a quality equal to
that of a southern mountain of solid
granite, the face of which, as proved by
tests, disintegrates on the surface at
the rate of one inch in several thousand
years. If the action of the weather removed
from the granite face one inch
in five thousand years, the loss would
not be visible to the eye, even on the
bold and massive carvings and mouldings
that adorn the structure. Thus,
the Cathedral, which is rising as a monument
to the people of the United
States, says Bishop Manning, will be a
permanent citadel of worship and
beauty through ages to come.
Similarly, the interior surface of the
Cathedral, which is of selected Indiana
limestone, a material which hardens
under atmospheric effects, will suffer
no disintegrating effects that will be
noticeable as the centuries pass.
St. John's greatly surpasses in its
structural strength and workmanship
the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. In
the workmanship, there is a suggestion
of the loving care with which the medieval
builders, as at Chartres, bent to
their task. The medieval cathedral was

10 New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
at once the most majestic and most
beloved building in the cities which it
so grandly dominated. Noble and peasant
would labor, sometimes side by side,
in its erection. The same spirit of love
is a part of the workmanship that is
going into the erection of St. John's.
The great cathedrals of the Middle
Ages were not exempt from trouble.
While the labor was lovingly and carefully
done, money was scarce, and the
world had lost many of the secrets of
construction, notably that of the making
of cement, which had rendered so
lasting the-work of those master builders,
the Romans. It was an age of
small - stone - and - mortar construction.
Lack of suitable tools and appliances at
the quarries, poor roads and inadequate
means of transportation, and the lack
of capital drove the early builders to
the use of building stone of small size;
and in binding together this material in
their piers and walls, they were restricted
to the use of lime mortar—
some of it good, but much of it, as many
a catastrophe proved, of wretched
quality.
It was no uncommon occurrence for
the tower over the central crossing to
come crashing down not many years
after the completion of the church.
Sometimes, the disintegration of the
masonry would be gradual, as in the
case of the tower and spire of ancient
Chichester Cathedral, which fell as late
as the middle of the nineteenth century.
But St. John's has been designed,
and is being built, with a careful avoidance
of the pitfalls which so often
brought disaster to the medieval
churches. The load upon every pier,
the thrust against every buttress, has
been calculated with close exactness.
The crushing strength and the safe
limit of loading of each kind of stone
are known, and all the parts so proportioned
that in every element of the vast
structure there will be a wide margin
of safety.
It was estimated by J. Bernard
Walker, an engineer, that if a man were
to return to the earth five thousand
years from now, he would find St.
John's appearance as he sees it today.
But, for the many hurried travelers of
the New York Central who find it impossible
to make their way to One
Hundred and Tenth Street, New York,
to see this magnificent edifice under the
process of construction, the New York
Central will make it possible for them
to secure some idea of the great work
which will soon take its proper rank
with the great medieval cathedrals of
Europe.
Leroy Blue and C. F. Swisher Feted
By Associates in Toledo
A farewell and welcome home banquet
was tendered Leroy Blue and C. F.
Swisher at the Sylvania Country Club,
Toledo, Ohio, on June 20, by fifty of
their associates in Toledo. Mr. Blue was
transferred to Chicago as General
Freight Agent, while Mr. Swisher was
transferred from Kankakee, 111., to succeed
him as Assistant General Freight
Agent at Toledo.
Mr. Blue was presented with a watch
by E. W. Brown, Superintendent, Toledo
Division, and Mr. Swisher was giveji
a pen set by E. C. Cook, Assistant General
Passenger Agent, on behalf of their
railroad friends.
Among those at the banquet were:
T. J. Cook, W. J. Keller, recently retired
as General Freight Agent in Chicago;
Charles Coughlin, J. E. Sheehy,
J. F. Weibel, E. G. Howard, C. H. Bradford,
A. B. McLachlin, H. C. Brining,
G. C. Waffle and E. S. Manchester. G. E.
Husted, General Agent, acted as toastmaster.
C. J. Evans Greeted by Officials
At Luncheon in Buffalo
A happy gathering of officials and
fellow employes of the Freight Claim
Department in Buffalo greeted Charles
J. Evans at a luncheon in the Buffalo
Central Terminal Building on June
1, the day of his retirement. T. A.
Ward, Assistant Freight Claim Agent,
acting as toastmaster, presented the
guest of honor with a gold watch and
chain.
Among those present were Dr. J. W.
LeSeur, J. J. Brinkworth, Superintendent
of the Buffalo Division, and
C. H. Hogan, Manager, Shop Labor,
who presented Mr. Evans with a life
membership in both the Veterans' and
Athletic Associations.
Mr. Evans entered service in 1881
as a clerk at Black Rock Station and
was later general agent, Merchants
Despatch in the Niagara Frontier. He
was transferred to the Freight Claim
Department in 1915, where he remained
as division head until his retirement.
J. V. Laffan Appointed AGFA
J. V. Laffan, for the past six years
Chief Clerk to the late G. H. Ingalls,
Vice-President in charge of Traffic,
was appointed Assistant
General
Freight Agent,
with headquarters
in New York City,
effective June 20.
Mr. Laffan entered
the service
of the New York
Central in 1908 as
a clerk in the office
of the Assistant
General Freight
Agent, and served
J. V. Laffan
in that office until
1910, when he was
transferred to the office of the Vice-
President, Traffic, in the same capacity.
During the United States Railroad
Administration, he was Supervising
Clerk in the office of the Regional Director,
and in 1919 he was promoted to
Secretary to Vice-President, Traffic.
On June 4, 1925, Mr. Laffan was appointed
Chief Clej-k to Vice-President,
Traffic, the position he retained until
his most recent appointment.
ON THE FIRST TEE AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. VA.
Gathered for the National Freight Traffic Golf Association Meeting at White
Sulphur Springs recently were, seated, left to right: R. J. Menzies, Traffic Manager,
Freight, New York Central, Buffalo and East, New York; C. L. Hilleary, F. W.
Woolworth Company, New York; and W. Newton Agnew, Worthington Pump &
Machinery Corporation, New York. Standing: L. W. Childress, St. Louis Columbia
Terminal, and William Morris, Jr., Vice-President, National Steel Corporation,
Pittsburgh.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931 11
Eyes and Eye Trouble—Some Useful Hints
//T"* OR fife dollars, lady, you are
P getting, from me, the best pair of
£ glasses in the voild, and I should
drop dead on the spot if I am not telling
you the truth!"
But he was not telling the truth, nor
did he fall dead on the spot.
That opens the subject of glasses. It
also reveals the source of many a pair
of spectacles and, incidentally, it explains
the cause of many a case of
ruined eye-sight. For, no one can sell
glasses like some of the other human
commodities as, for example, shoes.
Shoes, pants and what have you can be
successfully fitted and sold by a salesman,
but neither Jew nor Gentile can fit
glasses without at least some training
in optometry—and I would prefer that
the one who adjusted spectacles upon
my noble Danish bassoon possessed not
only a medical degree, but also some
years of special study in ophthalmology.
And why wear glasses, anyway? Let
us see!
Last spring, on a sunny California
morning, a haughty small creature with
fluffy brown hair and dusky dark eyes,
and with the bearing of the Chief
Executive's only spoiled daughter but
classified on the payroll as a stenographer,
swished into my writing chamber
at the studios with a chill, bored:
"Morning, Doctor Jorgenson!"
Glancing up to direct her to be seated
and take a long dictation, something
caused me to stare at her and to postpone
my directions for a moment. Somehow
she seemed to have a different appearance
on this morning, and for a
moment or two I subjected her to a
studious, appraising scrutiny.
"How do you like my new glasses,
Doctor?" she said and popped uninvited
into a chair close to my desk. "I
think they are darby, if you ask me,"
she added and crossed shapely legs in
a manner to draw all attention from
her eyes and the glasses perched on
her demure nose in front of them.
"What's the idea?" I asked.
"Huh?"
"What are you wearing them for?"
"I need glasses," she said.
"For what?" I asked. "And when and
how did you find that out?"
"Oh, a chap over in the building on
the boulevard fitted my sister, and I
tried on her glasses," she told me. "I
looked rather good in them, I thought,
and so, when the optician discovered I
needed glasses I took a pair."
"Let me see them."
She removed them and handed them
across the desk to me. Holding them
up against the light coming in from
the window I studied the grinding of
the lenses. Both were simple convex
glasses, and the fittings were not overly
good in quality.
"How much?" I asked, handing them
back to her.
"Seventeen dollars," she replied.
I was prepared for that and so I only
grinned nastily and then chuckled.
By Dr. G. Ellington Jorgenson
"What's the matter?" she asked.
"I think the optician needed seventeen
dollars worse than you needed the
glasses," I observed with chill derision
in my voice.
"Did he gyp me?" Something started
to smolder in her eyes, and I mentally
observed to myself that it was just as
well that I was not the optician.
"He sold you a pair of common
magnifying lenses and a cheap fitting
worth altogether not to exceed three
dollars and fifty cents," I said. "I
know," I went on, "for I played the
racket, myself, many years ago when I
Do NotShopforGlasses!
"VTO one can sell glasses like
-L^l some of the other human commodities
as, for example, shoes.
Shoes, pants and
what have you
can be successfully
fitted and
sold by a salesman,
but neither
Jew nor Gentile
can fit glasses
without at least
some training in
optometry.—Do
not shop for'
glasses as you
would for a pair of shoes, chest
protectors, step-ins or tooth brushes.
Instead, go to the best trained men
you can find. For you who are employed
by the New York Central
Lines, my counsel is to consult one
of the splendid specialists retained
and recommended by the railroad.
—Dr. Jorgenson.
was a medical student—only I didn't
take my victims for that expensive a
ride."
"He told me the glasses were expensive
because of the grinding," she
sputtered with a surge of red showing
through her faultless make-up. "And
the frames, he said, are white gold."
"The frames," I said with a laugh,
"contain about as much gold as-—as
that metal clasp showing on your
garters."
"The dirty crook!" she exclaimed
and yanked her skirt down so it covered
most of her knees.
"And," I went on, "when you wear
them you look like one of those funny
things we pay a dime to see in the sideshows
out at Venice."
To make a long story out of a very
common incident, it later developed,
through an examination by the studio
physician, that she needed spectacles
about as badly as a fireman on a New
York Central locomotive needs cream
colored spats. And of course there was
no way by which she could recover her
seventeen dollars without recourse to
litigation, so that little sum was
charged up to experience.
That incident is one reason why
sometimes glasses should not be worn.
The one that follows presents a situation
wherein spectacles were definitely
needed and thereby answers the question
asked in the fourth paragraph of
this article.
The subject of this incident was also
a young woman and the locale is Hollywood.
Many things happen out there.
But why not? Most of the people who
can get there are there now and the
rest are coming as soon as they can.
"Doctor," she exclaimed in an excited
and troubled voice as she came up to me
on the boulevard and all but walked into
my arms. "I've I've got astigmatism,"
she told me mournfully. "Hyperopic
astigmatism."
"But not halitosis," I came back
after catching a gust of her excited
breath and noting nothing louder than
coffee and a brand of smoke that carries
no cough by the carload.
"Is it bad?" she asked.
"It makes me hungry for a cup of
coffee and a smoke," I laughed.
"What do you mean?"
"Your breath," I explained soberly.
"It reminds me of coffee and a cigarrette.
You just had lunch and a smoke,
didn't you?"
"/ mean my eyes, you clown!" she
stormed, stamping a dainty foot.
"For your pocket-book, yes," I replied.
"And you're doomed to a life
with spectacles."
Meanwhile I had adroitly been steering
her towards a nearby door wherefrom
the heart-clutching aroma of
superb Java was exuding. And a moment
later we were facing each other
across a small table in a booth in the
famous Pig'n Whistle on Hollywood
Boulevard near the El Capitan Theatre.
"Hyperopic astigmatism," I started
to explain to her while we were taking
daring liberties with calories in a helping
of rum-flavored prune whip pie and
coffee, "is like the proverbial bark of
the dog. It sounds worse than it hurts."
"It's a disease of the eyes, isn't it?"
"It is not a disease," I corrected,
"but an error in the refractive index of
the eye. Hyperopia is merely a condition
in which, due to the shape of the
cornea and the lens, you are far-sighted
just as in myopia you are near-siglited.
And astigmatism is merely an irregularity
in the rounding of the lens or
the cornea — probably in the cornea.
The result is eye-strain with other
symptoms among which are headache,
blurred vision, eye-ache and nervousness."
"Is it dangerous?"
"It might be to your husband if you
were married," I chuckled. "Women
suffering from such annoyances frequently
acquire beastly tempers and
the habit of accurately aiming tea cups,
ink bottles and other similar miscellaneous
household equipment,"

12
"It's too bad," she pouted, "that your
wife hasn't got it. Someone ought to
crown you with a sewing machine or
some similar heavy object to take some
of that blase self-sufficiency out of you.
... But tell me, do I need to worry
about it?"
"Well," I said hesitatingly, "if I
were you I would hang on to it until
something more worthy of worry pops
up." I paused a moment and then I
asked: "Who is your oculist?"
She mentioned a well-known specialist
whose skill and honesty are unchallengeable.
"Then you don't have to worry about
that," I said.
"Nor about my eye trouble," was the
amazing rejoinder she made to that.
"You see, Dr. X told me that it was
nothing to worry over, but I couldn't
help it until I had talked with someone
else."
"Too bad you met me, then, wasn't
it?" I observed.
"Why?"
"Now you haven't a thing to worry
about."
She said something quite printable
to that, but I do not care to repeat it,
and anyway it doesn't matter because
I know I'm going there anyway. And
so we can quickly sum up the subject
of eyes and eye trouble, since the Editor
has set a deadline limiting me to two
thousand words, maintaining that I
can say enough in that small space —
and perhaps too much.
There is no need of defining eyes—
we all have known what they are for
since that great moment in our lives
when we chanced to look up and saw
the dear, sweet faces of our mothers
looming protectively over our little
beds.
But eye trouble, that is another
thing.
For the layman it is sufficient to
know that the so-called eye troubles
may be classified into two convenient
groups. One is purely physical in its
cause and effect; the other belongs
under the classification of true diseases.
To the first belong most of the
astigmatisms, hyperopias, myopias and
combinations of them. They are the
ones that cause myriads of vague and
distressing symptoms, and they are
the ones responsible for much of the
quackery that is being done in the eyeglass
field.
And that prompts the writer at this
very point to warn emphatically all of
the readers of this article not to shop
for glasses as you would for a pair of
shoes, chest protectors, step-ins or tooth
brushes. Instead, go to the best trained
men you can find. For you who are employed
by the New York Central Lines,
my counsel is to consult one of the
splendid specialists retained and recommended
by the railroad.
To the other class of eye troubles belong
injuries, infections, sympathetic
involvements of the eyes due to other
diseases, such as Bright's Disease, organic
diseases of the eye and of the
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
Buyer Urges Shipper to Use Railroad, Not Trucks
THE Traffic Manager of a large company in Kalamazoo early
last month wrote to a Detroit corporation from which his
company purchases materials and asked that the practice of
shipping materials to his company in trucks be discontinued and
that shipments be routed over the Michigan Central Railroad.
His letter was as follows:
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Gentlemen: July 3, 1931
We are receiving occasional shipments from you which you are routing
in here via a trucking company. We are asking you to discontinue the practice
of shipping our goods via highway motor trucks, and to route all shipments
over the Michigan Central Railroad.
We call your attention to the fact that the railroads have filed a petition
with the Interstate Commerce Commission for an increase of 15 per cent in
freight rates, for the reason that they have not earned 5^ per cent upon
their valuation as established by the Interstate Commerce Commission for
rate making purposes, and under the transportation act the Commission
will have to grant this increase in rate. Automatically the rate of the truck
lines will go up together with the rail rates, consequently every pound of
our freight that is diverted to truck lines reacts to raise our freight rates.
This is the selfish angle of it.
Another angle was well illustrated during the World War when this
country learned as they never before had realized that the railroads are the
arteries through which flows the life blood of this country, namely its Commerce,
and to cripple them by depriving them of their legitimate business
is to cripple our country's transportation system, because the day has not
come, and in the opinion of the writer, never will come when the motor
truck can transplant the railroads on volume freight haulage.
The trucks do not pay taxes in the majority of counties through which
they operate, whereas the railroads pay taxes in every county, village and
township through which they pass by reason of their realty holdings.
Our State and Nation have expended vast sums in the building up of
permanent highways without any idea of subsidizing a transportation system
that would threaten our railroad lines.
It is almost impossible in the early evening hours for a passenger
vehicle to make any time on our highways owing to the crowded condition
caused by these motor trucks whose speed is so small as to amount to a
menace to passenger traffic.
The highways of this county have been seriously damaged by trucks
during this past winter by truck chains on their wheels, and what holds
good here holds good in every county of the State.
For these reasons we are asking you in appreciation of the business
which we are giving you to help us help the railroad, thereby keeping down
our transportation condition, and our excessive highway tax and ridding
our highways of the menace and nuisance of the highway motor trucks.
appendages as well as of the structures
surrounding the eyes.
Since the eye is a very complex organ
it is natural that its diseases should be
referred to men with special training.
So here again I must counsel you to
consult competent oculists when disease
of the eye threatens.
Finally, in closing, let me express an
opinion for you who play with eye
nostrums. It is my sincere opinion that
uses of special eye remedies (unless
prescribed by a competent physician),
eye washes and compounds of various
kinds are not necessary for the proper
care of the eye. Soap and water and a
soft wash cloth for the structures surrounding
the eye and, when there is a
mild irritation of known cause, a little
clean salt water (1 teaspoonful to a
pint of boiled water) are quite enough
for the normal eye.
Pealing Bells Greet J. B. Granger on
Retirement from B. dC A.
With whistles blowing and bells
pealing, John B. Granger guided his
locomotive out of the Boston & Albany
station at Wor-
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New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931 13
Employes Responding to "Get Traffic" Appea
SO ME months ago President Crowley appointed
each employe of the New York Central Lines a
Special Freight and Passenger Solicitor in an
effort to stimulate business. How well this appointment
was received can be seen by referring to past
issues of the Magazine and noting the large increase
made in the number of Tips published each
month since that time.
However, it seems that there are some employes
who are not aware of this personal message and
of its immediate significance to them and to the
New York Central Lines. If these employes, of
whom there are a large number, will co-operate
with the Freight and Passenger Departments by
securing just one Traffic Tip, or more if possible,
each month, the System's business will be materially
increased.
While there has been an increase noted in the
number of Traffic Tips published in the Magazine
each month, there has also been a similar increase
in the number of Tips received from Big Four employes.
For the past six years this group has realized
the need of boosting business in an organized
manner and has formed Booster Clubs at all important
points on that road.
In June there were a total of 1,799 Tips received
from Big Four employes, representing 900 tippers.
ROCHESTER DIVISION
W. C. Ahr, Assistant Foreman, Rochester.
W. J. Bailey, Signal Department, Rochester.
J. H. Bromley, Assistant Station Master,
Rochester.
C. Burritt, Assistant Chief Clerk to Superintendent,
Rochester.
J. Crane, Clerk, Portland Avenue, Rochester.
R. Cooper, Station Master's Clerk, Rochester.
Charles Eber, Patrolman, Rochester.
J. E. Fitch, Clerk, Rochester.
Burt Fay, Clerk, DFA, Rochester.
Charles E. Foos (2), Clerk, MDI, Rochester.
H. W. Godin, Sergeant, Police Department,
Rochester.
F. E. Hurlburt (2), Captain, Police, Rochester.
August Hefner, Caller, Rochester.
C. C. Houston, Brakeman, Rochester.
R. C. Leete, Claim Agent, Rochester.
Anna I. Lesslie, Clerk, Rochester.
N. C. Murray (2), Chief Clerk, Rochester.
H. F. Nohe (2), Freight Conductor, Rochester.
C. E. Raichle (2), Storekeeper, Rochester.
J. M. Ryan, Station Master, Rochester.
S. A. Ritter, Stenographer, Rochester.
J. H. Sommerville, Baggage Platform Foreman,
Rochester.
Louis Schaffer, Pensioner, Rochester.
D. W. Walrath, Freight Agent, Rochester.
G. Whelehan, Consolidated Ticket office,
Rochester.
H. F. Wiezel, Clerk, Rochester.
H. S. Carmer, Agent, Churchville, N. Y.
L. L. Pierce, Agent, Ionia.
F. D. Boughton, Agent, Holcomb.
F. W. Schaad, Freight Agent, Clarence Center,
N. Y.
F. S. Marshall, Freight Agent, Sanborn, N. Y.
J. E. Keating, Freight Agent, Holley, N. Y.
G. H. Butts (5), Freight Agent, LeRoy, N. Y.
Miss N. M. Miller (7), Clerk to Freight Agent,
Medina, N. Y.
C. J. Dun, Freight Agent, Attica, N. Y.
SYRACUSE DIVISION
C. E. Wentz, Agent, Byron, N. Y.
R. N. Lighthall, Posting Clerk, Syracuse.
J. H. Carey, Traveling Freight Agent, Syracuse.
W. D. Blake, DFCA, Syracuse.
Robert Hilton, Computer, Syracuse.
Robert Burns, Engineman, Syracuse.
W. J. Hollander, Claim Agent, Syracuse.
P. H. Winchester, Division Engineer, Syracuse.
James Maloney (6), Clerk, Syracuse.
E. Griffin (2), Investigator, Syracuse.
A. G. Osborn (3), Hea*d Adjustment Clerk,
Syracuse.
J. Gocklin (3), Clerk, Syracuse.
Nellie M. Hill (2), Correction Clerk, Syracuse.
L. Bluestone, Depot Ticket Agent, Syracuse.
H. C. Van Bergen, Train Master, Collinwood,
Ohio.
Arthur Lunn, Conductor, Syracuse.
Mr. Donovon (20), Foreman, Dewitt, N. Y.
G. D. Chrisman, Freight Agent, Rome, N. Y.
C. Van Voorhees, Conductor, Syracuse.
Harry J. Barton, Station Master, Syracuse.
A. T. Eberz, District Special Agent, Syracuse.
E. J. Virkler, Freight Agent, Syracuse.
P. Scanlon, Clerk, Syracuse.
J. H. Tumalty, Freight Agent, Crittenden, N. Y.
H. S. Carmer (2), Freight Agent, Churchville,
N. Y.
William Harrison, Crossing Watchman, Batavia,
N. Y.
R. R. Collister (6), Freight Agent, Batavia,
N. Y.
H. G. Farnham, Train Master, Batavia, N. Y.
S. F. Hood, Signal Maintainer, Oakfield, N. Y.
HUDSON DIVISION
John Lynch, Agent, Oscawana, N. Y.
D. O'Connell, Agent, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
E. F. Haun, Agent, Peekskill, N. Y.
W. F. Cleary, Relief Agent, Newton Hook,
N. Y.
NEW YORK DISTRICT
L. M. Reynolds (3), Head Clerk, APA Office.
Mrs. E. G. Kenny (2), Clerk, APA Office.
A. Walberg (2), Clerk, APA Office.
A. W. Drake, Clerk, APA Office.
J. Malkmus (4), Assistant Head Clerk, Treasury
Department.
R. F. Hoppenstedt, Head Clerk, Treasury Department.
W. L. Swapp, Clerk, AR Office.
W. M. Weller (4), Traveling Auditor, AR
Office.
E. W. Kruppenbacher (3), Assistant Head
Clerk, AR Office.
C. K. Westervelt, Clerk, AR Office.
Miss J. Hand, Typist, AR Office.
John Fitting, Jr., Chief Clerk, AR Office.
C. F. Dunham, Traveling Auditor, AR Office.
W. E. Barnum (2), Head Clerk, AR Office.
C. F. Muller, Assistant Head Clerk, AR Office.
F. A. Potter, Clerk, AR Office.
R. Franklin, Clerk, AR Office.
T. J. Fitzgerald (3), Clerk, AR Office.
A. L. Bertrand, Clerk, AR Office.
H. S. Hufman, Head Clerk, Auditor of Disbursements.
K. A. Borntrager (3), Assistant Engineer, Vice-
President's Office.
B. S. Hearlin, Chief Clerk, Signal Engineer.
C. L. Martin, Ticket Seller, Thirty-third Street.
J. J. Hollweg, Clerk, General Manager.
H. A. Christensen (2), Assistant Engineer, Designing
Engineer.
K. G. Brehm, Assistant Engineer.
S. Parker, Clerk, DFCA.
W. J. Leonard, Clerk, DFAB.
A. D. Darby, Chief Clerk, Yard Master.
Miss M. Merrill, Stenographer, Chief Engineer
Motor Power and Rolling Stock.
F. H. Woolfall, Jr., Secretary to Vice-President.
The names of those sending in cards are not published
in the Magazine, but they are divided by
Divisions on the Big Four as follows:
Cleveland-Indianapolis, 57; Cincinnati, Sandusky,
124; Springfield, 13; Northern, 13; Cincinnati
Terminal, 105; Indianapolis Terminal and
Beech Grove, 218; Chicago-White Water, 12;
Peoria & Eastern, 24; Michigan, 65; St. Louis, 81;
Cairo-Terre Haute, 75, and Ohio Central Lines, 12.
As in the past, the Michigan Central and the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroads again last month
sent in the largest number of tips, proportionately.
Those who secured Industrial Tips are: C. F.
Dunham, Traveling Auditor, Dunkirk, N. Y.; O. H.
Purdy, Rate Clerk, Freight Department, New
York; H. W. Johnson, Land and Tax Agent, Fulton,
N. Y.; William Doman, Section Foreman, Alvinston,
Ont.; A. L. Brinkman, Agent, Bay City,
Mich.; Howard L. Winans, Train Master, Detroit;
Ward R. Barger, Yard Conductor, Detroit; G. R.
Bailey, Salvage Freight Agent, Detroit; C. L. Le-
Valley, Assistant Agent, Detroit; 0. J. Smukal, Demurrage
Adjuster, Detroit; J. J. Conklin, Agent;
Beaufait Station, Detroit.
E. H. Jensen, Agent, Fremont, Ohio; H. B. Robertson,
Engineman, Elyria, Ohio; G. B. Baker,
Agent, Osgood, Pa.; R. J. Cowin, Agent, Sharon,
Pa., and C. E. Glassford, Agent, Findlay, Ohio.
John Gaydosh, Draftsman, Electrical Engineer.
J. D. Stuart, Clerk, Assistant Comptroller.
Warren B. Fuller, Ticket Seller, Grand .Central
Terminal.
F. X. Quinlan, Assistant Chief Clerk, General
Freight Office.
George A. King, Clerk, Land and Tax Department.
E. Comerford, Clerk, Ticket Redemption Bureau.
T. Acker, Lighterage Agent.
H. Larkin, Chief Clerk, Foreign Freight Department.
Aaron Cohn, Clerk, Capital Expenditure Accountant.
Jeremiah Sullivan, Stevedore, St. Johns Park.
P. M. Betz (3), Agent, Westchester Avenue
Station.
W. J. Lyons, District Special Agent, DFCA
C. J. Conklin, Assistant to FCA.
C. L. Stevens (7), Agent, Franklin Street
Station.
John Dugan (4), Clerk, Lighterage Department.
H. K. Shurts, Assistant General Yard Master,
Thirty-third Street Station.
W. E. Wilson, Chief Clerk, Franklin Street
Station.
J. A. Hayes, Special Agent, DFCA Office.
G. H. Malkmus (3), Clerk, Train Master's
Office.
Fred Ackerson (34), Receiving Clerk, Barclay
Street Station.
G. M. King (21), Receiving Clerk, Barclay
Street Station.
A. Haas (9), Receiving Clerk, Barclay Street
Station.
T. Strong (4), Receiving Clerk, Barclay Street
Station.
Charles Girnthe (2), Receiving Clerk, Barclay
Street Station.
G. Navins, Receiving Clerk, Barclay Street Station.
ADIRONDACK DIVISION
A. J. Gehring (3), Freight Agent, Malone, N.Y.
R. G. Boyer, Chief Clerk, Malone, N. Y.
F. H. Spooner, Clerk, Utica, N. Y.
John D. Douglas, Clerk, Utica, N. Y.
Fred Nue (2), Yard Clerk, Utica, N. Y.
G. S. Pfiefer, Assistant Superintendent Signals,
Utica, N. Y.
BUFFALO DIVISION
P. Glaeser, Foreman, Buffalo.
E. C. Neeb, Chief Clerk, Buffalo.
C. W. Perry, Managar, Central Billing Bureau,
Buffalo.
J. Jackson, Assistant Superintendent, Car Service,
Buffalo.
H. Wilson, Chief Clerk to Freight Agent, Black
Rock, N. Y.
W. C. Meyers, Clerk, District Equipment
Office, Buffalo.
Virginia Bonner (2), Clerk, Buffalo.
W. J. O'Brian, Freight Agent, Buffalo.

14 New York Central Lines Magazine for A ugust, 1931
EN good reasons why the people of Toledo should ship and travel by railroad were given by the Local Federated Shops of
T the New York Central Railroad, in Toledo, on a card recently distributed to merchants, manufacturers and the public of
that city. The card reads:
Merchants Manufacturers General Public
1. No other industry contributes more towards the economic welfare and prosperity of Toledo than the Railroads.
2. The Railroads are among the largest, if not the largest, taxpayers in the City, County, State and Country.
3. The Railroads are the largest employers of labor. Railroad payrolls in the City, if combined, would no doubt exceed that
of any other industry.
4. The Railroads are among the largest, if not the largest, consumers of electricity and water which is purchased in the City.
5. The Railroads are the largest consumers of coal, iron and other supplies, thereby furnishing employment to thousands of
workers not connected with the railroads.
6. Approximately twenty per cent of Toledo's population are directly or indirectly dependent upon the railroads for a
livelihood.
7. Railroads spend more money for the Public's safety than all other forms of transportation combined.
8. Railroad equipment is subject to Federal inspection, and is maintained in accordance with standards prescribed by law.
9. Railroad freight and passenger rates are regulated by Federal and State Commissions for the purpose of eliminating cutthroat
competition which would be detrimental to public safety.
10. Railroads have adequate facilities to handle all of your transportation requirements with speed, safety and in an
economical manner.
Demand Your Shipments Be Made by Rail
For the protection of their industry and their families, Railroad employes will, in the future, give consideration to
the method used in transportation of goods they buy.
Insure your business against loss of Railroad employes' patronage by having and moving your shipments by Railroad.
G. A. Pray, Freight Agent, Buffalo.
J. W. Fitzsimmons, Claim Adjuster, Buffalo.
J. Dolan, Timekeeper, Buffalo.
Miss VanDusen, Clerk, DFCA, Buffalo.
J. G. Townsend, Freight Agent, Harriet, N. Y.
F. J. Lazarus, Chief Clerk to Freight Agent,
Harriet, N. Y.
J. Pemberthy, Chief Clerk to Freight Agent,
North Tonawanda, N. Y.
J. J. Brinkworth (2), Superintendent, Buffalo.
H. Ackerman, Clerk, Yard Office, East Buffalo.
W. H. Newman, Signal Supervisor, Buffalo.
E. Stone, Signal Department, Buffalo.
J. F. Carney, Freight Agent, Niagara Falls,
N. Y.
J. B. Delitsch (2), Assistant Division Engineer,
Buffalo.
F. O. Bernhard (3), Inspector to DFCA, Buffalo.
E. C. Ackerman (3), Investigator to DFCA,
Buffalo.
A. A. Ganley (3), Inspector, Niagara Falls,
N. Y.
J. A. Sands (5), DFCA, Buffalo.
L. J. Ferrell (2), Clerk to Freight Agent, Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
E. Finley (4), Clerk to Freight Agent, Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
F. Whipp (3), Clerk to Freight Agent, Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
T. A. Ward, Assistant Freight Claim Agent,
Buffalo.
M. C. Murphy, Clerk, Buffalo.
S. J. Yetzer, Piece Work Inspector, Buffalo.
A. C. Whittaker, Conductor, E. Buffalo.
F. C. Vendetti, Conductor, Sloan, N. Y.
F. M. Elder, District Equipment Accountant,
Buffalo.
D. W. Aughanbaugh, Clerk, Buffalo.
E. W. Fox, Conductor, Buffalo.
F. W. Wolf, Ticket Agent, Buffalo.
J. J. Fitzgibbons, Clerk, Buffalo.
F. C. Hohman, Rate Clerk, Buffalo.
Miss A. Cowan, Clerk, Stock Yards, Buffalo.
E. W. Averell, City Freight Agent, Buffalo.
B. J. Gilroy, Information Clerk, Buffalo.
E. G. Kline, Police Department, Buffalo.
M. J. Kearns, Freight Accountant, Buffalo.
ERIE DIVISION
R. F. Ward (2), Freight Agent, Fieldmore
Springs, Pa. (Valley Branch).
C. J. Reed (5), Freight Agent, Falconer, N. Y.
(Valley Branch).
R. E. Russell, Freight Agent, Titusville, Pa.
(Valley Branch).
O. L. Spiegel (3), Chief Clerk, Titusville, Pa.
D. W. Roach (5), Freight Agent, Dunkirk, N. Y.
L. S. Van Wey (2), Receiving Clerk, Dunkirk,
N. Y.
N. J. Sunkowski, Record Clerk, Dunkirk, N. Y.
F. J. McFarland, Chief Clerk, Dunkirk, N. Y.
H. G. Madden (4), Ticket Clerk, Titusville,
Pa. (Valley Branch).
O. L. Spiegel (3), Chief Clerk, Titusville, Pa.
(Valley Branch).
MOHAWK DIVISION
R. D. Smith (2), Clerk, Freight House, Albany.
O. L. Abbott (4), Rate Clerk, Troy, N. Y.
J. C. Morrison (2), Inspector, Albany.
J. McAndrews (15), Delivery Clerk, Albany.
W. J. Carney (17), Claim Clerk. Troy. N. Y.
R. S. G. Parent, Clerk, North Ilion. N. Y.
C. E. Porter (3), Freight Agent, Little Falls,
W. E. Dietz, Clerk, Albany.
K. I. Kennedy, Clerk, West Albany.
R. M. Cozine, Foreman, West Albany.
A. R. Sharp, Claim Clerk, Schenectady, N. Y.
E. S. Rose, Freight Agent, Herkimer, N. Y.
L. A. Hausen, Chief Clerk, Albany.
W. C. Davey, Freight Agent, Schenectady,
N. Y.
Walter Luther, Delivery Clerk, Albany.
G. H. Morford, Delivery Clerk, Albany.
L. C. Oettinger, Clerk, Utica, N. Y.
Ruth Foland, Clerk, Albany.
Geo. Miller (2), Yard Clerk, Albany.
Miss E. R. Shea, Demurrage Clerk, Albany.
C. Quinn (2), Delivery Clerk, Albany.
G. J. Winkler (2), Freight Agent, Albany.
R. W. Tobin, Freight Agent, Troy, N. Y.
Agnes C. Lynch, Clerk, Freight office, Albany.
Elsie E. Witzel, Clerk, Freight office, Albany.
A. L. Pateman, Chief Clerk, Troy, N. Y.
W. A. Fuller (2), Cashier, Troy, N. Y.
D. B. VanBrocklin, Yard Clerk, Schenectady.
A VOLUNTEER MANY YEARS AGO
F. W. Brazier, Assistant to General Superintendent,
Motive Power and Rolling
Stock, as he looked when he was a member
of Company A, Fifth Massachusetts
Volunteers, in 1872. Mr. Brazier's regiment
was on duty in Boston during the
great fire of 1872.
C. H. Steele, Freight Agent, South Ft. Plain,
N. Y.
R. R. Waterbury, Chief Clerk, Herkimer, N. Y.
E. J. Maroney (4), Foreman, Freight House,
Amsterdam, N. Y.
G. D. Christman, Freight Agent, Rome, N. Y.
F. A. Coon, Freight Agent, Canastota, N. Y.
ONTARIO DIVISION
F. C. Cater, Freight Agent, Kendall, N. Y.
S. A. Seely, Division Engineer, Jersey Shore,
Pa.
J. H. Winslow, Weighmaster, Cherry Tree
Scale, Pa.
F. E. Harvey, Chief Dispatcher, Jersey Shore,
Pa.
T. E. Baker (2), Agent, Barnes, N. J.
J. Morrow, Ticket Agent, Jersey Shore, Pa.
W. H. Swartwood, Chief Clerk to Assistant
Superintendent, Corning, N. Y.
W. D. Wright, Pensioner, Elmira, N. Y.
A. E. Marsh, Telegraph Clerk, Lindley, N. Y.
J. E. Bird (3), Assistant Supervisor, Corning,
N. Y.
Z. H. Peters, Agent, Wellsboro, Pa.
W. A. Guntrup (2), Clerk, DF&PA, office,
Corning, N. Y.
H. C. Walker, Agent, Woodland, Pa.
Glen Sims (3), Clerk, Corning, N. Y.
F. J. Crediford, Agent, Waterville, Pa.
C. J. Anderson, General Yard Master, Corning,
N. Y.
M. O. A. Sahm, Agent, Clearfield, Pa.
M. E. Pelton, Agent, Winburne, Pa.
H. S. Ellsworth (16), Freight Agent, Fulton,
N. Y.
ST. LAWRENCE DIVISION
John M. Carpenter (10), Route Clerk, Watertown,
N. Y.
L. J. Claffey (7), Bill Clerk, Potsdam, N. Y.
S. B. Finnegan (6), Agent, Lowville, N. Y.
E. M. Lucas (2), Agent, Chaumont.
G. J. Farnell (2), Agent, Evans Mills, N. Y.
H. W. Johnson, Land and Tax Agent, Watertown,
N. Y.
P. J. O'Connor, Cashier, Lowville, N. Y.
J. O. Canfield, Agent, Gouverneur, N. Y.
F. H. Peiffer, Yard Master, Watertown, N. Y.
E. J. Morrison, Conductor, Watertown, N. Y.
C. E. Simonette, Agent, Massena, N. Y.
F. W. Hewitt, Agent, Pulaski, N. Y.
George Carlin, Cashier, Watertown, N. Y.
E. Davis, Agent, Brownville.
C. H. McQueer, Agent, Orleans Corners, N. Y.
H. W. Rainear, Agent, Rosiere.
C. Hayden, Agent, Sackets Harbor.
T. K. Smith, Agent, Mannsville, N. Y.
F. S. Merrill, Agent, Carthage, N. Y.
Mary A. Dickinson, Stenographer. Watertown.
Maurice C. Higgins, Section Foreman, Black
River, N. Y.
J. O. Canfield, Agent, Gouverneur, N. Y.
S. F. Galbraith, Milling Clerk, Oswego, N. Y.
E. N. Whittemore, Chief Clerk, Oswego, N. Y.
H. R. McGrath, Freight Agent, Oswego, N. Y.
B. A. Peters (2), Train Master, Oswego, N. Y.
RIVER DIVISION
C. H. Humer, Freight Agent, Coxsackie, N. Y.
L. C. Oettinger (12), Clerk, DFAB, Weehawken,
N. J.
E. O. Marvin's Of. (11), Clerk, DFAB, Weehawken,
N. J.
S. G. Kakos (3), Clerk, DFAB, Weehawken,
N. J.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
F. J. May (6), Clerk, DFAB, Weehawken,
N.J.
G. O'Brien, Checker, Hoboken, N. J.
H. Ackley, Assistant Agent, Hoboken, N. J.
A. Malo (4), Chief EB Clerk, Weehawken,
N. J.
W. L. Purcell, Agent, Newburgh, N. Y.
J. A. Simpson, Agent, Cornwall, N. Y.
G. N. Wood (2), Agent, Kingston, N. Y.
A. S. Young, Agent, Catskill, N. Y.
HARLEM DIVISION
A. Keating, Agent, Purdys, N. Y.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
R. E. Laidlaw (365), General Agent, Detroit.
O. Hetherington, Clerk, Detroit.
H. P. Olson (37), Chief Rate Clerk, Detroit.
W. Galbraith (7), Chief Rate Clerk, Detroit.
F. C. Breuckman, Chief Rate Clerk, Detroit.
George J. House (4), Route Clerk, D2troit.
Samuel Jacoby (14), Rate and Route Clerk,
Detroit.
J. Fairhurst (3), Assistant Foreman, Detroit.
M. Sin^letary (16), Agent, Russel Street,
Detroit.
E. Knitter (7), Agent, Delray Station, Detroit.
William Smith (12), Trucker, Detroit.
Generosso DePiero (29), Notice Clerk, Detroit.
F. Richmond (6), Receiving Clerk, Detroit.
William J. Burke (4), Warehouse Foreman,
Detroit.
L. L. Smith, Storage Clerk, Detroit.
George O. Pool (11), Chief Correction Clerk,
Detroit.
C. Whidden, Checker, Detroit.
H. F. Atkinson (2), Assistant Chief Car
Checker, Detroit.
Miss R. Cheren, Clerk, Detroit.
C. L. LeValley (145), Assistant Agent, Detroit.
C. S. Hainline, Agent, Wayne, Mich.
T. L. Shane, Agent, Kalamazoo, Mich.
W. G. Brown (16), Rate Clerk, Detroit.
A. J. Geist, Checker, Detroit.
T. O'Brien (103), Old Freight Clerk, Detroit.
C. P. McGrath (7), Yard Clerk, Detroit.
J. J. Conklin (4), Agent, Beaufait Station,
Detroit.
Paul Lentz, Car Inspector, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Margaret Mog (8), Secretary to General Agent,
Detroit.
Catherine Scally, Clerk, Detroit.
E. P. Foley (9), Clerk, Detroit.
John Buchanan (2), Trucker, Detroit.
T. G. Crowley (2), Rate Clerk, Detroit.
G. H. Peters (2), Chief Clerk, Tunnel Office,
Detroit.
C. A. Swalley (2), Supervising Agent, Detroit.
T. Thorpe, Yard Clerk, Detroit.
O. C. Wyckoff, Demurrage Agent, Detroit.
H. H. Arehart, Delivery Clerk, Detroit.
L. L. Sharpless, Car Sealer, Detroit.
L. G. Nehring (5), Rate Clerk, Detroit.
J. F. Logan (5), Chief Outbound Car Desk,
Detroit
F. J. Hartz, Receiving and Route Clerk, Detroit.
H. Richardson, Trucker, Detroit.
Leonard Chambers, Freight Clerk, Detroit.
A. Boleski, Warehouse Foreman, Detroit.
M. W. Britt (9), Chief LCL Tracer, Detroit.
Byron Riddell, Car Inspector, Detroit.
Miss C. Vaughan, Tracing Clerk, Detroit.
S. H. Lijewski (3), Foreman, Detroit.
G. W. Douglass, Cashier, Detroit.
A. B. Cook (7), Agent, Midland, Mich.
R. F. Adair, Chief Car Checker, Detroit.
L. L. Norris (2), Yard Master, Detroit.
A. J. Wiselogel, Ticket Agent, Detroit.
W. Keyes, Warehouse Foreman, Detroit.
D. S. Cornell (7), Car Clerk, Detroit.
Melvin Fetting, Warehouse Investigator, Detroit.
J. E. Bebb, Assistant Bridge Engineer, Detroit.
George Dorst, Detroit.
Harry Balsley (8), Team Track Foreman, 20th
St., Detroit.
H. H. Meyer, Demurrage Inspector, Detroit.
D. P. Crillman, General Car Foreman, Detroit.
M. Kleist, Car Inspector, Detroit.
George J. Rakow, Chief Clerk, Kensington, 111.
William Leubscher (3), Clerk-Foreman's Office,
Chicago.
William Teich (2), Cashier, Chicago.
C. E. Simon, General Foreman, Local Freight,
Chicago.
W. H. Walters (88), Agent, Porter, Ind.
T. Lindquist (13), Yard Clerk, Michigan City,
Ind.
J. J. Albert, Repair Track Foreman, Kensington,
111.
C. S. Smith (6), Agent, Benton Harbor, Mich.
D. V. Enright (43), Agent, Hammond, Ind.
W. E. Goodrich (4), Agent, Michigan City, Ind.
Miss D. P. Smith (9), Stenographer, AGFA,
Chicago.
John S. Van Clay, Route Clerk, Kensington, 111.
O. F. Shedd (3), Assistant Agent, St. Joseph,
Mich.
A. F. Davis, Cashier, Joliet, 111.
Clark Lutes (2), Tracing Clerk, Gibson Transfer,
Ind.
H. C. Brown (4), Agent, Gary, Ind.
John F. Prosser, Assistant Cashier, Michigan
City, Ind.
D. E. Riegel (2), Agent, Joliet, 111.
John Gniewek (2), Car Repairer, Kensington,
111.
CHICAGO DELEGATES TO NATIONAL ADVERTISING CONVENTION
The delegates arrived in Grand Central Terminal, New York, on June 14, on a
special section of the Advance Twentieth Century Limited, and were greeted by a
welcoming committee, representing the Advertising Federation of America, headed
by W. H. Rankin, Chairman; Gilbert T. Hodges, and Earle Pearson, General
Manager of the Federation.
H. G. Coverston, Demurrage Clerk, Benton
Harbor, Mich.
R. Collins (10), Freight Inspector, Local Office,
Chicago.
M. I. Patton (8), Yard Clerk, Hammond, Ind.
D. Hanson (2), Clerk, Local Office, Chicago.
R. I. Larson (3), Rate Clerk, Joliet, 111.
George E. Seid, Agent, Three Oaks, Mich.
H. E. Marr, DFCA, Chicago.
J. D. Honeywell, Cashier, Niles, Mich.
B. E. Steele, Agent, Buchanan, Mich.
Frank LaBosco (2), Team Track Foreman,
Chicago.
H. R. Curtis, Bill Clerk, Benton Harbor, Mich.
R. Bretschneider, Fireman and Engineman,
Niles, Mich.
B. C. Scofield, Agent, Frankford, 111.
A. R. Leubscher (18), Assistant Chief Clerk,
AGFA, Chicago.
Mrs. H. E. Arvedson, Manager Michigan Warehouse,
Chicago.
Garrett Everts (14), Test Rack Man, Kensington,
111.
Carl Miller (2), Journal Box Packer, Niles,
Mich.
John O'Brien (2), Car Repairer, Chicago.
Charles Geske, Steamfitter, Chicago.
J. Honan, Test Rack Man, Chicago.
Helen Lowrey (2), Stenographer, Joliet, 111.
0. Pritz, Car Foreman, Joliet, 111.
Charles Schaber, Car Repairer, Niles, Mich.
Charles F. Meyers, Car Repairer, Niles. Mich.
Rose Tejcek (5), Stenographer, AGFA, Chicago.
A. L. Brinkman (2), Agent, Bay City, Mich.
H. Hossfield, Division Storekeeper, Bay City,
Mich.
Lena Tompkins, Switchboard Operator, Bay
City, Mich.
Ella M. Morrison, Division Engineer, Bay
City, Mich.
R. Miller, Brakeman, Bay City, Mich.
Roger Cain, Brakeman, Bay City, Mich.
Miss M. E. Toles, Secretary AGFA, Bay City,
Mich.
A. W. Lentz (2), Enginehouse Foreman, Bay
City, Mich.
Helen Ballentine, Assistant Accountant, Bay
City, Mich.
Harry Anderson, Stores Department, Bay City,
Mich.
R. Higginbotham, Agent, St. Charles, Mich.
1. C. Charters, Traveling Passenger Agent,
Detroit.
I. L. Baguley (4), Agent, Caro, Mich.
A. B. Cook (38), Agent, Midland, Mich.
C. Atchison (4), Sergeant Police, Lansing,
Mich.
N. T. Crane, Operating Department, Lansing,
Mich.
IS
Edna Migrants, Clerk, Lansing, Mich.
Ralph C. Fitch, Rate Clerk.
J. A. Barhara, Car Inspector, Saginaw, Mich.
Frank Herm, Yard Clerk, Saginaw, Mich.
W. M. Hoyt, Agent, Sterling, Mich.
I. C. Jensen, Chief Clerk, Grayling, Mich.
Charles R. Reed (2), Warehouse Foreman,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. Stakinski (2), Freight Checker, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Kenneth Page, Rate Clerk, Grand Rapids, Mich.
J. L. Shane, Agent, Kalamazoo, Mich.
C. W. Webster (47), Agent, Three Rivers,
Mich.
A. J. Kaminski, OS&D Clerk, Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Frank Rogers (2), Steam Shovel Engineer,
Jackson, Mich.
A. Straub (2), General Yard Master, Kalamazoo,
Mich.
C. W. Welburn, Agent, Fabius, Mich.
C. S. Lauber (20), Agent, Albion, Mich.
D. S. Connell (13), Car Clerk, Russel St.,
Detroit.
E. R. Lewis (2), Principal Assistant Engineer,
Detroit.
Bernice B. Collins, Rate and Bill Clerk, Albion,
Mich.
Edward O. Connell, Clerk, AFA, Detroit.
G. H. Manners, Assistant Station Master, Detroit.
D. Balsden, Shipping Clerk, West Detroit.
A. J. Wiselogel (11), Depot Ticket Agent,
Detroit.
C. H. Berry, Assistant Ticket Agent, Detroit.
Clyde White, Night Clerk, River Rouge, Mich.
E. P. McGann, Yard Clerk, Detroit.
Esther Ralston, Clerk, Third St., Detroit.
O. G. Weddigen, Clerk APA, Detroit.
Harry Anderson, Stockkeeper, Bay City, Mich.
O. A. Hoffman, Machinist, River Rouge, Mich.
G. A. Sykes, Agent, Battle Creek, Mich.
Wilbert A. Haverly, Assistant Baggage and
Mail Agent, Detroit.
J. H. Faber, Clerk, Chelsea, Mich.
M. J. Kappler (6), Agent, Ann Arbor, Mich.
H. F. Atkinson (2), Assistant Chief Car Checker,
River Rouge, Mich.
W. C. Smith (3), Agent, Chelsea, Mich.
C. W. Albright, Chief Inspector, Telegraph
Department, Jackson, Mich.
H. W. Gerlach, ARA Clerk, Detroit.
Leo. F. Britt, Car Clerk, Detroit.
G. R. Bailey, Salvage Freight Agent, Detroit.
Louise Nathan, Clerk, AFA, Detroit.
Albert Mantais, Caller, Third Street, Detroit.
Frank Anson, Store Room Attendant, Jackson,
Mich.

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Charles G. Barnhardt (2), Claim Clerk, Battle
Creek, Mich.
Judson Tofflemive, Assistant Foreman, West
Detroit.
E. B. Kingsland, Assistant Engineer, Detroit.
W. R. Stephenson, Machinist, Windsor, Ont.
Irwin Downs, Inspector, West Detroit.
H. E. Aselstyne, Yard Master, Monroe, Mich.
W. Eames, Operator, Monroe, Mich.
A. S, Blagdon, Conductor, Detroit.
C. L. Butler, Clerk Auditor Disbursements,
Detroit.
H. A. Lijewski (3), Chief Clerk to Station
Master, Detroit.
H. B. Lijewski, Car Checker, Detroit.
N. J. Popma (2), Chief Clerk, Division Engineer,
Jackson, Mich.
Robert H. Tampleman, Rate Clerk, Jackson,
Mich.
Ruth Gray, Secretary to DFA, Detroit.
F. T. Riley (4), Agent, Jackson, Mich.
P. G. Schiller (5), Agent, Dearborn, Mich.
James Herman, Upholsterer, West Detroit.
Arthur M. Stobbe, Upholsterer, West Detroit.
Edward Coombe, Car Checker, Detroit.
A. B. McLaughlin, Agent, Monroe, Mich.
J. F. Hughes (2), Yard Master, River Rouge,
Mich.
C. A. Swalley (4), Supervising Agent, Detroit.
C. G. Windslow, Assistant Electrical Engineer,
Detroit.
Speros Doulos, Secretary, Foreman, Detroit.
R. E. Smith, Chief Traveling Auditor, Detroit.
A. Cunningham, Flagman, Forest Ave., Detroit.
F. R. Miller, Roadmaster, Jackson.
G. G. Younger, Ticket Seller, Detroit.
E. G. Brisbin, Draftsman, Jackson, Mich.
Edwin C. Klink, Accounting Clerk, Detroit.
Ann V. Barahal, Stenographer, Detroit.
A. J. Clautier, Fireman, West Detroit.
H. W. Schultz, Ticket Seller, Detroit.
Grace Williams, Typist, AFA, Detroit.
P. Lentz, Car Inspector, Ann Arbor.
G. L. Lee, Chief Clerk, Station Accountant,
Detroit.
E. A. Bell, Brakeman, Detroit.
O. F. Foster, Agent, Otter Lake, Mich.
O. C. Wyckoff, Demurrage Adjuster, Detroit.
A. Gierke, Pensioned Conductor, Grayling,
Mich.
Al Leister (2), Bill Clerk, North Toledo, Ohio.
F. W. Ruppel, Agent, North Toledo, Ohio.
Chet Nichols, Bill Clerk, North Toledo, Ohio.
William Meade, Machinist, Jackson, Mich.
Louise Evans, Clerk, Salvage Freight Station,
Detroit.
L. W. Fisher, Senior Train Master, Jackson,
Mich.
Jack Milz, Messenger, West Detroit.
J. A. Hennessey, Ticket Agent, Oxford, Mich.
Josephine Forbes, Clerk, AFA, Detroit.
Mrs. I. B. Bailey, Bill Clerk, Caro, Mich.
Byron Ridden, Car Inspector, Detroit.
L. L. Norris (4), Yard Master, Belt Line,
Detroit.
Mrs. A. Jacobs, Clerk, Auditor of Disbursements,
Detroit.
Edwin L. McClain, Clerk, DFA, Detroit.
P. F. VanDove, Clerk, Superintendent Freight
Transportation, Detroit.
J. H. Daley, Yard Conductor, River Rouge,
Mich.
R. Higginbotham, Agent, St. Charles, Mich.
G. L. Duckworth, Operator, Detroit.
Charles Boehm, Clerk, Third Street, Detroit.
Miss Monoghan, Clerk, Third Street, Detroit.
J. K. Gray, Ticket Agent, Lapeer, Mich.
J. Wilkinson, Foreman, St. Thomas, Ont.
D. Hoy (2), Agent, Fletcher, Ont.
F. Mitton (4), Agent, Essex, Ont.
George H. McNabb, Assistant Signal Maintamer,
St. Thomas, Ont.
W. Stollery, Ticker Clerk, St. Thomas, Ont.
A. Tolmie, Section Foreman, Muirkirk, Ont.
H. Gallagher, Agent, West Lome, Ont.
J. B. Bolger, Agent, Shedden, Ont.
A. Arnold, Agent, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
Fred Lint, Agent, Attercliffe, Ont.
L. M. Abbs, Agent, London, Ont.
R. T. O. Banion, Yard Brakeman, Niagara
Falls, Ont.
Frank Mulvaney, Passenger Brakeman, St.
Thomas, Ont.
G. P. Robbins (3), Agent, Hagersville, Ont.
E. G. Chambers, Agent, Petrolia, Ont.
J. D. McCarthy, Switch Tender, Montrose, Ont.
E. Shoemaker, Conductor, St. Thomas, Ont.
J. J. Mansell, Agent, Woodslee, Ont.
Irene Paddon, Stenographer, St. Thomas, Ont.
O. C. King, Agent, Tilbury, Ont.
P. G. Richardson, Chief Clerk, DSK, St.
Thomas, Ont.
Frank Dorland, Clerk, Timekeeper's Office, St.
Thomas, Ont.
W. Payne, Conductor, St. Thomas, Ont.
Chester Taylor, Ticket Clerk, St. Thomas, Ont.
S. L. Kelso, Agent, Villa Nova, Ont.
Neil Marple (2), Pensioner, St. Thomas, Ont.
J. B. McKelar, Agent, Iona, Mich.
H. S. McDougal, Telegrapher, St. Thomas,
Ont.
Thomas Partington, Engine Dispatcher, Montrose,
Ont.
L. Collier, Chief Clerk, Victoria Park, Ont.
James Handley, Pensioned Conductor, St.
Thomas, Ont.
OFF FOR HOLLYWOOD
Ginger Rogers, vaudeville and movie
star, on the Twentieth Century Limited
on June 10, just before leaving for
Hollywood to appear in R. K. O. Pathe
films.
Peter McNabb, Assistant Signal Maintainer,
Niagara Falls, Ont.
C. L. Bennett (2), Agent, Mull, Ont.
Miss C. M. Palmer (2), Stenographer, St.
Thomas, Ont.
J. R. Autin, Freight Traffic Department, St.
Thomas, Ont.
W. A. Becker (3), Agent, St. Thomas, Ont.
E. W. Tye, Freight Clerk, Windsor, Ont.
George Cook, Section Foreman, Tillsonburg,
Ont.
J. F. Grimes (2), Agent, Brigden, Ont.
L. Dean (4), Agent, Comber, Ont.
M. Loney, Agent, Windsor, Ont.
C. E. Turner, Agent, Windhamn, Ont.
W. S. Vine (5), Freight Clerk, St. Thomas,
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
C. Nickleson (6), Track Tank M an, West
Lome, Ont.
F. Mitton, Agent, Essex, Ont.
A. Slemason, Pumper, Tilbury, Ont.
F. H. Baldwin, Chief Clerk, General Car Foreman,
St. Thomas, Ont.
S. J. Winger, Agent, Ridgetown, Ont.
5* ?• Paterson (2), Agent, Alvinston, Ont.
C. A. Yorke, Agent, Ruscomb, Ont.
A. Gleason, Agent, Tillsonburg, Ont.
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e ent
> Chippawa, Ont.
W. E. Webster (3), Agent, Bridgeburg, Ont.
C. W. Kent, Agent, Courtright, Ont.
W. J. Shaw, Division Engineer, St. Thomas,
Ont.
D. Hoy, Agent, Fletcher, Ont.
H. Rackman, Clerk, Bridge Department, St.
Thomas, Ont.
W. C. Oke, Division Storekeeper, St. Thomas,
Ont.
H. F. Atkinson, Assistant Chief Car Checker,
River Rouge, Mich.
L. R. Hoag, Superintendent, Railroad Hospital
Association, St. Thomas, Ont.
A. C. Moore, Agent, Brownsville, Ont
W. W. Grant, Agent, Niagara Falls, Ont.
PITTSBURGH & LAKE ERIE
M. D. Dommers (3), Clerk, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
Vesta M. Kelvington (12), Clerk, Freight Claim
Department, Pittsburgh.
F. A. Brown (5), Head Clerk, Freight Claim
Department, Pittsburgh.
Mary E. Leitch (9), Clerk, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
J. J. Pratt (13), Clerk, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
Emma F. Fraser (4), Clerk, Freight Cla im Department,
Pittsburgh.
G. A. Smith, Clerk, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
E. C. Tehan, Clerk, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
Gayle O. Rhodes (6), Clerk, Freight Claim
Department, Pittsburgh.
H. R. Richardson (2), Clerk, Freight Claim
Department, Pittsburgh.
B. H. G. Wood (2), Clerk, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
Emma F. Fraser (3), Clerk, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
R. S. Hervey (2), AFA, Pittsburgh.
L. W. Coch ran, Clerk, AFA, Pittsburgh.
M. W. Donner, Clerk, AFA, Pittsburgh.
Miss E. E. Eckert (12), Clerk, AFA, Pittsburgh.
Alice Gutendorf (2), Clerk, AFA, Pittsburgh.
Rosa Wittish (2), Clerk, AFA, Pittsburgh.
William John (3), ASA, Pittsburgh.
John McCafferty (17), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
Verne Blackburn (8), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
N. J. Frey (4), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
E. A. Schweinsberg (6), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
(Continued on page 36)
EUROPEAN DELEGATION TO NATIONAL GROCERS CONVENTION
While en route for the National Retail Grocers Convention in Milwaukee, July 6-9,
the delegation stopped over in Buffalo on July 2. They were accompanied by Frank
W. Meyer, of Standard Brands, Incorporated, New York; Jim Knox, of Johnstown,
N.Y.,and A. J. Wiltse, Secretary of the New York State Association of Retail Grocers.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
4-H Clubs Use Special Trains on New York Central Lines
r
/HAT is so rare as a day
in June without a 4-H
Club party somewhere on
the go?" might well have been the refrain
of our passenger traffic officials,
Line West, last month. Through the
co-operation of the Agricultural Relations
Department, and county club
organizations, not less than four of
these parties were handled by the New
York Central and Michigan Central
Railroads in June. Three of these went
into Chicago for a day's visit there and
one into Cleveland. More than 1,100
people were included in these parties,
all of them farm people who, prior to
this time, have done almost all of their
traveling by motor vehicle.
On June 11, the first party started
from points in St. Joseph County, Ind.,
on the New York Central early in the
morning on a special train for Chicago.
In this big city, they visited the
Swift Packing Plant, the WLS Radio
Station, the replica of Old Fort Dearborn,
Lincoln Park Zoo, Shedd Aquarium,
Field Museum, numerous parks,
drives and public buildings. Lunch was
served in Swift's cafeteria, and a fifteen-minute
broadcast was given free to
the party by WLS Prairie Farmer Station.
After an extremely busy day,
filled with these interesting things, the
party returned home, enjoying en route
an excellent meal in the New York Central
dining cars.
On June 18, a similar party started
out from Noble County, Ind., and enjoyed
approximately the same schedule
of events. This happened to be the
date for a spectacular livestock parade
in Chicago, and a large part of the
Noble County party assisted by marching
in the parade, representing the
4-H Club organizations of the nation.
The following week, June 25, still
another party set out for Chicago—
this time from Calhoun County, Mich.,
over the Michigan Central. Approximately
the same schedule was followed
in Chicago except that they were entertained
in addition by the Board of
Trade. A very interesting tour of inspection
through the new building was
arranged—the Pit, the Gallery, the
Miniature Elevator, the Observatory
Tower, etc.
During the same week, on June 23,
a party of 4-H club people and their
friends, journeyed from points in Ashtabula
County, Ohio, to Cleveland, via
special train over the New York Central
Railroad. This County had a
similar trip to Niagara Falls last
year with more than four hundred
people in its party. This year they enjoyed
the numerous sights in Cleveland,
and in the afternoon were guests
of the Cleveland Baseball Club management
at a league baseball game.
Of the 1,100 people who took part in
these four club tours, not more than
400 had ever ridden on a passenger
train before and a far less number,
By E. J. Leenhouts
General Agricultural Agent
probably not more than 100, had ever
eaten in a railroad dining car before.
It was, therefore, a genuine opportunity
to demonstrate the superiority
of railroad transportation over other
forms of transportation to a group of
people who will represent the traveling
public in their respective neighborhoods
for about forty years to come.
Judging from the many complimentary
remarks overheard, a very satisfactory
impression was made.
As for the 4-H Club organizations,
all who came in contact with these
groups were impressed more than ever
with the scope and effectiveness of the
training which these youngsters are
receiving. Trained to place the proper
relative value on the things of life as
they encounter them, they are bound
to become useful citizens and helpful
neighbors.
Representing the New York Central
Lines in the development of these tours
were Agricultural Agents, R.J. Plaster,
E. G. Reed, and O. B. Price. The transportation
details were handled by
Traveling Passenger Agents Hagerty,
Lanz, Charters and Spain.
The biggest factor in developing
these tours was the splendid work of
the following County Agents in Indiana:
E. C. Bird, in St. Joseph
County; M. A. Nye, in Noble County;
and R. H. Helm, in Calhoun County,
and Miss Alice Bates, County Club
Leader of Calhoun County.
C. W. Slack Commends Conductor
For Service Rendered
Expressing his appreciation of a
personal service rendered him on June
25 by J. L. Reese, New York Central
conductor, C. W. Slack, Manager, Robbins
& Myers Sales, Incorporated, of
Cleveland, wrote to E. W. Brown, Superintendent
of the Toledo Division,
saying that the New York Central has
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proved itself "Big enough to serve but
not too big for service."
Mr. Slack made a trip to Bryan,
Ohio, on that day, and informed Conductor
Reese that it was imperative
for him to be in Cleveland by 5:30
P. M. The conductor volunteered to request
that train No. 150 stop at Bryan
so Mr. Slack might complete his plans.
"This unusual spirit of co-operatic:'
was something that, permeating the organization,
will continue to retain for
the railroad the good will of the traveling
public and assist them in combating
other forms of transportation,"
said Mr. Slack in commending Conductor
Reese.
E. J. Leenhouts Promoted,
Jurisdiction Extended
E. J. Leenhouts, General Agricultural
Agent, New York Central Lines,
with jurisdiction over the territory
west of Buffalo,
had his jurisdiction
extended over
the entire system,
effective July 1.
His headquarters
are in Rochester,
N. Y.
Mr. Leenhouts
was born in Zeeland,
Mich., and
was graduated
from Michigan
State College with
E. J. Leenhouts
thedegree of Bachelor
of Science in
1920. In 1923, he was promoted from
Assistant Agricultural Agent to Agricultural
Agent in Detroit, with jurisdiction
over the territory in Michigan.
He was advanced to General Agricultural
Agent in Chicago, with jurisdiction
over Line West, in 1926. His most
recent appointment extends his territory
and responsibility to include all
of the states served by the New York
Central Lines.
Your DFA is looking for your Traffic
Tips this month.
FOUR-H CLUB DELEGATION ON RECENT VISIT TO CHICAGO
While on a recent tour under the auspices of the Agricultural Relations Department,
New York Central Lines, the Four-H Club delegation visited the Prairie Farmer offices
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18 New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
ELEVENTH ANNUAL REUNION OF M. C. PIONEER ASSOCIATION ON JUNE 29
The outing was held at Bob-Lo Park, Canada, with more than 4,000 present to enjoy the thirty-three events and the amusements
of the park. An explanation of the photographs is given on page 35.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
N. Y. C. Speeds Up Train Service
To Adirondacks
Summer vacationists and week-end
travelers from New York to the Adirondack
Mountains and Thousand Islands
points are this year afforded much
faster night train service, which began
June 28, when the summer timetable
changes went into effect, than ever before
offered. The service to some points
was speeded up two hours and fifty
minutes faster than in previous years.
Passengers for Tupper Lake Junction,
Raquette Lake and Thendara,
this year leave Grand Central Terminal
at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, instead
of 7:10 p.m. as in former years,
two hours and fifty minutes later, and
arrive at their destinations the same
time as in previous years.
Saranac Inn, Saranac Lake and Lake
Placid passengers leave New York at
9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, instead
of 7:10 p.m. as heretofore, one
hour and fifty minutes later, and arrive
at destinations the same hours as
heretofore.
Passengers to Clayton and other
Thousand Islands points leave Grand
Central Terminal at 8 p.m., Eastern
Standard Time, instead of 7:10 p.m.,
fifty minutes later.
Elbert L. Whitney Promoted,
Now Freight Traffic Manager
Elbert L. Whitney, General Coal
and Ore Agent, New York Central, was
appointed Freight Traffic Manager,
Line West, with
headquarters in
Chicago, effective
May 16.
Mr. Whitney began
his railroad
service as an office
boy for the
Division Freight
Agent of the Baltimore&
Ohio Railroad
at Columbus,
Ohio, in 1884, and
served in various
capacities for the
same road until
E. L. Whitney
1900, when he became chief clerk to the
General Traffic Manager of the Toledo,
St. Louis & Western Railroad at Toledo,
Ohio. Three years later he became
Commercial Agent for the same road
in Detroit, and the following year he
was placed in charge of the Hardware
Manufacturers' Tariff Bureau.
He entered the service of the Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie Railroad in 1908 in
the General Freight office, and later
was appointed Chief Clerk, Tariff Bureau,
for the same road. From 1910
until 1918 he was with the New York
Central Lines as Chief Clerk to Assistant
Freight Traffic Manager, Line
West, and Chief Clerk to Traffic Manager,
Line West. During the United
States Railroad Administration, Mr.
Whitney acted as Resident Traffic Assistant
to Regional Director, Eastern
Region, and was then appointed Division
Freight Agent, New York Central,
in Chicago.
Series No. 1 DATA SHEETS Page No. 11
DIAGONAL BRACING (CoatO
Diagonal braces in this position must
notbe placed at an angle greater than 45 degrees
with car floor. Use of the chart in Figure 20
will provide against the possibility of the
DIAGONALS (Pi K. 20.)
Point of application
of diagonal to cross car MINIMUM
brace or load. LENGTH OF DIAGONAL
HEIGHT ABOVE CAR FLOORS REQUIRED
1 foot 0 inches 1 foot 6 inches
1 u 6 N 2 feet 3 n
2 ii 0 II 3 n 0 •
2 ii 6 II 3 it 6 n
3 n 0 n 4 n 3 ii
3 H 6 n 5 it 0 ii
4 II 0 ii 5 it 9 H
4 II 6 H 6 N 6 H
5 H 0 H 7 11 3 II
5 fl 6 7 11 9 H
6 H 0 ii 8 •t 6 n
There is always the tendency for
diagonals affixed to a load or cross brace at
one end, and to the floor at the other, to bow
under strain. This condition can in part be
overcome by notching the end of the diagonal
at the point where it is affixed to the cross
brace, (See "A" in Fig. 21) and by the application
of a knee brace. (See "B" in Fig. 21)
-NYCRR - PPD-
PROPERTY PROTECTION DEPARTMENT DATA SHEET NO. 11
The data sheets shown on this page and the next are the sixth group in the series which
will appear in the Magazine each month. They are of value to station forces, inspectors
and others concerned in the bracing and blocking of freight. Cut them out and save
them for future reference.
On March 1, 1920, he was promoted
to Assistant General Freight Agent,
New York Central, Line West, and two
years later he was appointed Assistant
to Vice-President, Indiana Harbor Belt
Railroad and the Chicago River & Indiana
Railroad. After serving in that
capacity for six years, he was then appointed
General Coal and Ore Agent of
the New York Central, Line West, the
position he retained until his most
recent appointment.
N. Y. C. Girl Heads Chicago
R. B. W. A.
Hazel K. Benbow, employe of the
New York Central in Chicago, was
elected president of the Railway Business
Women's Association at the annual
meeting in Palmer House, Chicago,
June 2. Miss Benbow succeeds Grace
Tugwell of the Chicago & North Western
Railroad.
Engineers to Meet in Detroit on
September 20, 21 and 22
The twenty-first Engineers, Light,
Railway Society, will hold their eleventh
annual convention in conjunction
with the American Legion Convention,
September 20, 21 and 22 in Detroit. The
annual dinner of the Engineers will be
held at the Cadillac Athletic Club on
September 22.
This regiment, the roster of which
was gathered from practically every
state in the Union, constructed and operated
a narrow gauge railroad on the
American fronts during the World
War.
To bring the roster of the regiment
up to date, all former members of the
Twenty-first Engineers have been
asked to send their permanent addresses
to Earl V. Smith at the Detroit
Automobile Club, 139 Bagley Avenue,
Detroit.
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Series No. 1 DATA SHEETS page No. 12
TOP BRACING
When necessary to use top bracing to
hold a load in place and prevent any upward
movement, it is essential that a form of
pocket cleat be used to hold the bracing to the
car walls. (See Pig. 22.)
Additional security is provided when
diagonals^are run from the center of the top
brace to the car walls and secured in pocket
cleats. (See Pig. 23.)
-NYCRH-PPD-
PROPERTY PROTECTION DEPARTMENT DATA SHEET NO. 12
Relief Given to Needy Families
By Mohawk Valley Chapter
During the past several months, Mohawk
Valley Chapter, Ladies' Auxiliary
of Adirondack Chapter, New York
Central Veterans' Association,has been
providing aid to eleven families of
Utica, N. Y. Not only has the Chapter
offered sustenance to these needy families,
but it has provided clothing for the
children and adults as well as medical
care.
The money required for this relief
work is raised through card parties
which the members hold regularly in
their homes.
Associates Honor C. E. Bennett
Following His Retirement
Following his retirement as Assistant
to the Auditor of Freight Accounts
in Cleveland on June 1, C. E.
Bennett was kept busy attending a
series of dinners and parties held in his
honor. One of them, a farewell dinner,
was tendered him at the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce Club, and was
attended by more than two hundred
of his associates.
The guest of honor was presented
with two diamond scarf pins and a
radio by H. C. Utz, Assistant Auditor
of Freight Accounts, who was toastmaster.
Mr. Utz also read a telegram
of congratulations from T. W. Meyer,
JUST BEFORE RETIREMENT
C. E. Bennett, as he appeared at his desk
just before he retired as Assistant to the
Auditor of Freight Accounts on June 1.
Auditor of Freight Accounts, who was
unable to attend.
Mr. Bennett began his New York
Central career as cashier and bill
clerk in 1887, and later served as chief
clerk, Auditor of Freight Accounts of
the Toledo & Ohio Central Lines,
which position he held until 1922,
when he was appointed Assistant to
the Auditor of Freight Accounts of
the New York Central in charge of old
Toledo & Ohio Central accounts.
Safety First Man's Religion, Says
M. C. Machinist
"Safety First," said P. Laing, machinist
for the Michigan Central Railroad,
at a meeting of the Car Department
Shop at St. Thomas, Ont., on
May 27, "is the workingman's religion,
and as in religion the observance of
the rules of Safety First is not so much
a matter of what we know, but what
we do that determines our standing.
"Year by year railroads and great
industrial concerns, forced by the high
pressure of modern production methods,
are compelled to organize and emphasize
more rigidly in their working
forces the great need of Safety First
as a means of reducing the burdens of
running expenses. While many think
this a more or less selfish principle enforced
by these great concerns, nevertheless
it has proved a blessing to the
millions of men who form the great
army of labor. In these days of short
hours and reduced forces, the great
problem is to keep every available man
on the payroll every minute of his
working time.
"Traveling over every division of our
railways in Canada and the United
States are men carrying the gospel of
Safety First; men trying to strike
home to millions of workers the individual
demand that is required of them
in the preservation of their own lives
and limbs; to get men to realize the
part they must play and are playing in
the great drama of Safety First; that
they are the main actors, and that on
them hinges the creation of Safety records
that mean years of valued service
and monetary rewards through the
preserving of healthy and whole bodies.
"The principles of Safety First originated
in the minds of men back countless
ages ago when self-preservation
was the law of life, and the economic
structure that man has built around
him up through the years to modern
times to the present mechanical age
rigidly and emphatically still demands
the survival of the Safest."
Joseph R. O'Malia Promoted
Joseph R. O'Malia was appointed
General Coal and Ore Agent, with
headquarters in Cleveland, effective
May 16.
Mr. O'Malia has been in New York
Central service for fourteen years. He
began in 1917 as chief clerk to the
General Freight Agent in Chicago, and
later served as General Freight Agent,
St. Paul, Minn., and Assistant General
Coal and Ore Agent in Cleveland.
New York Central Lines Magazine for A u, •gust, 1931
J. E. Farreli G. Solo M. Schcrmerhorn G. Cook E. J. Calvert C. F. Haughey
P. J. Sullivan J. L. Wolff H. R. Stymus F. E. Dayton M. Hennessey B. P. Ebel
Received Gift from Associates
When James E. Farrell retired as
Agent at Hyde Park, N. Y., on February
1, his associates presented him
with a Cogswell chair. Mr. Farrell had
forty-nine years of service with the
New York Central, having started his
career in 1882 as a switchtender.
To Continue His Interest
For the past thirty-five years George
Solo had been a faithful and conscientious
employe of the New York
Central. Now that he has been retired,
Mr. Solo is going to continue his interest
in railroading. He retired on April
1, as a laborer on the Hudson Division.
B. 8C A. Signalman Retires
When Martin Schermerhorn first
went to work for the Boston & Albany
in 1890 as a laborer, the roads were
using the banjo type and station limit
signals. Now that the road is equipped
with block system and automatic train
control, he feels that a maximum of
safety has been produced. Mr. Schermerhorn
retired as a signalman for
the B. & A., Albany Division, on April 1.
Never Involved in Accident
During the forty-three years George
Cook spent with the New York Central
he was never involved in a serious accident.
Mr. Cook retired as an engineman
at White Plains, N. Y., on December
1, of last year, because of a
disability. He would have liked to continue
in service, but an appendicitis
operation compelled him to give up his
duties.
Railroad Considerate to E. J. Calvert
"It is wonderful of the New York Central
to be so considerate of the older
employes," said E. J. Calvert when he
retired because of disability as a machinist
at Elkhart, Ind., on December 1
of last year. In return for the pleasure
he found during the forty years he was
with the railroad as a machinist, Mr.
Calvert is going to do everything in his
power to secure freight and passenger
business.
Ends 40 Years of Service
When it was a difficult job to find
links and pins to couple the cars during
the winter months, Charles F. Haughey
started his New York Central service
as a brakeman. He retired on March 1
as a switch tender on the Electric Division
after forty years of service.
Satisfied with Safety Record
It is with satisfaction that Patrick J.
Sullivan looks back on his fifty-two
years of service with the New York
Central and sees a clear safety record.
Mr. Sullivan began in 1879 as a switchman,
and after serving in various capacities,
retired on November 1, of last
year, as a switch tender at Batavia,
N. Y.
Retired as Engineman
As J. L. Wolff started on his last
day's work for the New York Central,
he pulled out of the East Twenty-sixth
Street Roundhouse in Cleveland, just as
he did when he began work as a fireman
forty-two years previously. Mr. Wolff
started his career in 1888, and retired
as an engineman on May 1.
Never Involved in Serious Accident
Never while he was in the service of
the New York Central was Herman R.
Stymus involved in a serious accident.
He was, and still is, a firm believer in
Safety First, and this, he believes, has
prevented him from being injured during
his thirty-seven year career. He
began in 1894 as a flagman at Ardsley,
N. Y., and retired as a conductor on the
Putnam Division.
Saw AFA Office Grow
When F. E. Dayton began his railroad
career with the old Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern in 1892 as a clerk,
there were twenty-five men in the Auditor
of Freight Accounts office. Now,
there are close to 500 people working
in the same office, says Mr. Dayton, who
retired as a Clerk at Geneva, Ohio, on
May 1.
Retired from B. & A. as Brakeman
After thirty-five years of service,
Michael Hennessey retired from the
Boston & Albany Railroad on March 1,
because of a disability. Mr. Hennessey
was retired as a brakeman at North
Grafton, Mass., Boston Division, after
serving his entire career in that capacity.
Contemplates Trip to West Coast
After forty-three years of continuous
service as mason and carpenter in the
Bridges and Building Department, Benjamin
P. Ebel retired at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., on May 1. When he retired, his
fellow workers presented him with a
black traveling bag and a toilet set
which he expects to use on a contemplated
trip to the west coast.
W. B. Holmes 3 Months Lacking
A Half Century of Service
ONLY three months short of half a
century of service, William Burgess
Holmes retired from the Boston & Albany
Railroad as a conductor on June
1. Practically all of his service was on
the Boston to Milford, Mass., run.
Mr. Holmes entered service as a passenger
brakeman at Framingham in
1881, was made a train baggageman
five years later, and conductor in 1898.
When hurry interferes with Safety, cut
out the hurry.
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T. Bradley J. E. Quigley J. Krug
E. H. P. Archer J. Calladine John Navin A. E. Poffenbarger
To Continue His Interest
With the assurance that he will always
retain an active interest in the
New York Central, Thomas Bradley
retired on February 1 as an engineman
on the Pennsylvania Division. He began
his career in 1899 as a hostler.
Was 45 Years with N. Y. C.
With the exception of five years
spent in the United States Army, fifty
years of James E. Quigley's life were
devoted to a rail career. He started
with the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railroad in 1880 as a yard
brakeman, resigned two years later to
join the army, and returned in 1887.
He was retired on March 1, as ticket
clerk at Westfield, N. Y.
Never Regretted His Career
Completely satisfied with his railroad
career was Joseph Krug when he
retired as machinist in Buffalo on April
1. He said he never regretted the day
in 1898 when he began his New York
Central career as a car repairer, and
has always appreciated the manner in
which he was treated by his superiors.
Watched Changes with Interest
It was with avid interest that E. J.
Cummings watched the many changes
that took place on the New York Central
during his fifty-year career as fireman
and engineman. Now that he is retired,
Mr. Cummings is not going to let
his interest in railroading diminish, but
is going to keep pace with railroading
developments as they are made. He retired
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on March 1.
Ends 50 Years of B. & A. Service
After Frank C. Kipp retired from
the Boston & Albany Railroad as a
section foreman at Van Hoesen, N. Y.,
on May 1, his fellow workers presented
him with a purse of gold. Mr. Kipp's retirement
marked the conclusion for him
of fifty years of service, and of 100
years of service for his family, as his
father was also retired from the B.& A.
after fifty years of service.
E. N. Bates Ends B. & A. Career
When E. N. Bates retired as telegrapher
on the Boston Division of the
Boston & Albany Railroad on April 1,
he had completed thirty-eight years of
service with that road. He began in
1893 as a lamplighter and served in
various capacities until he was appointed
telegrapher.
Retired Because of Disability
Reluctant to retire was E. H. P.
Archer on April 1, but his physical condition
was such that he was compelled
to relinquish his duties. Mr. Archer
had been with the New York Central
for forty-one years. He began as a
coupler, and retired as a conductor at
Croton-on-Hudson.
Ends 52 Years of Service
More than half a century of service
was completed for John Calladine when
he retired as section laborer at Lewiston,
N. Y., on May 1. He began his long
career as section laborer in 1878, and
later served as section foreman and cut
watchman.
John Navin Retired as Brakeman
With the little old McQueens and
Diamond stacks have gone many pleasant
associations for John Navin, who
retired as a brakeman on the Mohawk
Division on September 1, of last year.
Yet, Mr. Navin does not regret the
passing of the old, for he realizes that
it is the new that has brought the New
York Central to such a place of prominence
in the transportation world.
Certificate Will Be a Reminder
A favored place among his many mementoes
of a long railroad career will
be found by A. E. Poffenbarger for his
Certificate of Service when he receives
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
E. J. Cummings F. C. Kipp
E. N. Bates
D. Moore C. F. Young
it from the Pension Bureau. Mr. Poffenbarger
enjoyed his Big Four career and
is going to keep his Certificate in a
prominent place as a reminder of his
thirty-nine years of service. He retired
as cashier at Union City, Ind., on
March 1.
Ends Career as Engineman
After forty-three years of service
with the New York Central, Daniel
Moore retired at Batavia, N. Y., on
May 1. Mr. Moore started his career
in 1888 as a laborer, later became a
fireman, and was then promoted to
engineman, the position he retained
until his retirement.
Saw Development of Motive Power
At the time Charles F. Young began
his service for the New York Central
in 1880 the largest type of power was
the Four-Four class of locomotives carrying
from 125 to 135 pounds boiler
pressure. Today, he says, the Hudson
type locomotive carries almost double
that. He retired as supervisor of boilers,
Fourth District, on May 1, and received
a 21-jeweled watch from his associates,
while his wife was presented
with a double-strand pearl necklace.
John Hildebrandt Began Career
After Arrival from Germany
Immediately on his arrival from
Coburg, Germany, in 1889, John Hildebrandt
began his Big Four career in
the Brightwood Shops in Indianapolis.
He remained there until 1912, when he
was transferred to Beech Grove as passenger
car foreman, the position he retained
until his retirement on June 1.
Two days before he retired, a large
number of his friends gathered in his
home and presented him with a radio.
Three of Mr. Hildebrandt's four
sons, Fred, Ernest and Otto, are employed
by the Big Four.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931 23
Man the Ship of Labor— Stop the Leaks
By C. H. Comer, General Car Foreman, Mattoon, III.
THE good old ship "Labor" has car­ stop them. We are the ones that they
ried us on many a pleasant voyage. affect. If we stop them we stay afloat
When everything was calm and and stand a good chance of getting
running smoothly, we passed through back our brother who was swept over­
the intricacies of life without much board earlier in the storm.
thought and enjoyed the freedom of The conservation of tools and sup­
prosperity. We looked out over the vast plies is very urgent and affects all who
fields of industry, feasted on their pros­ earn their living from the world's
pects, and refrained from thoughts of greatest industry. Stationery is expen­
depression as labor merrily rolled sive, and the leak in this can be stopped
along.
by using the proper methods of corre­
But, like the vessel on the ocean, our sponding and recording. Shop and road
old ship "Labor" is now in a tempest, supply leaks can be stopped by every
and the waves of depression are bat­ employe if he curtails his requirements
tering her sides. The lightning of effi­ to the very minimum and by returning
ciency is illuminating the sky. The the old or useless for replacement in­
thunder of reduction is heard far and stead of discarding it. It matters not
near. We cannot take to the life boats how small a minor leak may be, it all
of another vocation, as the waves of de­ adds to our sinking condition and will
pression are too great. There is only spell disaster in the end.
one way out, only one hope for safety, It is not necessary to state each and
and that is "Man the Ship."
If we were aboard a ship in distress,
there is no doubt but that every ounce
of energy we possessed would be put
forth in an effort to save the ship. That
would be our first thought; not because
we owned the ship, not because it was
compulsory for us to do so, but because
our lives would be at stake.
rOT at all dismayed were the
more than four thousand hardy
It is true that ships are equipped N Lake Shore Pioneers by the in­
with life boats by which the lives of tensely hot weather which greeted
many can be saved. But these boats are them at Cedar Point, Ohio, when they
never launched until it is seen that
gathered on June 22 for the twenty-
there is no other hope, until every other
second annual meeting of Lake Shore
effort has been made and every means Pioneer Chapter, New York Central
utilized to save the ship. It is in the ship
Veterans' Association. Choosing for
that our lives are trusted when we set
themselves the many shady nooks un­
asea. It is in the ship that our lives are
der spreading shade trees, the Veter­
safest if it can be kept afloat. It is ans, many of whom made their way
worth the effort to try, and it is worth
from distant points to attend the an­
the time to plan.
nual get-together, renewed old friend­
When the ship is in distress we can ships and brought back to life many
man the ship and keep her seaworthy. stirring tales of earlier railroading
Let us look for the leaks and stop them. days.
If we cannot calk them, we should call
Exactly at noon, the annual meeting
for help and get them stopped. Small
was called to order and the secretary-
leaks are just as important as large
treasurer, C. S. Goodwin, read his an­
ones; they all contribute to our failure
nual report, which showed that there is
to stay afloat.
now a membership of 4,967 Veterans
What are some of these leaks in the making up the roster of Lake Shore
ship "Labor"? How can we stop them? Pioneer Cbapter. He also reported that
A leak to railroad mariners is anything eighty-three Pioneers were retired on
that requires unnecessary expendi­ pension during the past year, and that
tures. Coal is our greatest expense out­ sixty members had died since the last
side of wages. To be conservative with meeting. The Chapter was shown to be
coal is not merely up to those who in excellent financial condition, there
handle it. The clerk at his desk has a being a cash balance on hand, as of
coal leak he can stop by turning off the June 12, of $3,484.25.
light when it is not needed. The mechanic
can stop a coal leak by turning
The eighty-three Pioneers who re­
off his machine when he is busy elsetired
during the past year received the
where. The car inspector can stop a
hearty congratulations of their fellow-
coal leak by not shopping cars unnecmembers
for the fine records compiled
essarily and by close inspection to pre­
by them during their periods of service
vent cars being set out enroute. The
with the New York Central, and were
section hand can stop coal leaks in more
given free tickets for themselves and
ways than one, and so can each and
their wives to the annual banquet.
every one of us. We can find the leak and
Souvenirs were also distributed to
stop it if we only keep our eyes and ears
those attending on presentation of 1931
open to our surroundings. Steam leaks,
membership cards.
air leaks and water leaks can always Following the meeting, several of the
be seen or heard. Let us do our part and more fortunate members of the Chapter
were presented with handsome
every little leak that we can find. The
point of interest is that we are the ones
to man the ship; it is up to us to keep it
afloat. Let us all do our part. Let us
discard the idea that the Irishman had
when he was on a ship in mid-ocean and
his wife came rushing to him saying:
"Pat, Pat, and what shall we do? The
ship is sinking." Pat casually replied:
"Well, let it sink; it doesn't belong
to me."
Let us remember that we are aboard
this ship and if it goes down it takes us
with it. But, in our endeavor to save
the ship, don't let us act like the same
Irishman who later came to realize his
predicament. Looking around he saw
the others taking life belts before j umping
overboard, so he said to himself:
"Well, begorra, if everybody is stealing
sumthin', I'll just steal sumthin' meself."
He then grabbed a grindstone
and jumped overboard with it.
Let us all man the ship in the proper
spirit, in the proper way and at the
proper time.
4,000 Lake Shore Pioneers Attend
Outing at Cedar Point, June 22
watches, while the pensioners were presented
with badges of honor. An orderly
parade to the banquet hall was
formed, and all filed in to partake of
the luscious tidbits prepared each year
for the thousands of Veterans who attend
the annual meeting and banquet.
After the banquet had been served,
the Pioneers passed the afternoon
away in a manner known best to members
of Lake Shore Pioneer Chapter.
Many members came from distant
points, but the veteran who, probably,
was the longest distance from home
was a perennial ray of sunshine from
Washington, Ore. Known to three generations
of railroaders as "Sol" Gage,
this veteran made his way around
among the large attendance exchanging
quips and sallies with former associates
on the New York Central. Eightyfour
years young, "Sol" is known by
railroaders in every position. When he
first put in his early appearance, someone
said: "The meeting will be a huge
success; 'Sol' is here."
Clinton Siniff Received Gifts
At Retirement Party
Several gifts were received by Clinton
Siniff at a party in his honor at
the old Ohio Central freight house at
Kenton, Ohio, on June 1. Among other
things, the guest of honor received a
Morris chair and a smoking set.
Mr. Siniff retired on June 1 as an
engineman after thirty-four years of
service.
Among those who attended were:
W. A. Jex, Division Master Mechanic;
W. J. Galbroner, Superintendent; F. S.
Wilson, Train Master; C. L. Wilson,
E. C. Buhrer, John A. Ryan, and J. A.
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New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
SEEN AT THE ALBANY A. A. ANNUAL OUTING AT SELKIRK, N. Y., ON JUNE 27
The outing attracted a large group of employes and officials, all of whom were regally entertained with the ball game, boxing
bouts and other events staged during the afternoon. An explanation of the above photographs is given on the next page.
More than 3,000 turned out for the outing, which each year is growing more and more popular with employes from cities
within a fifty-mile radius of Albany.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931 25
HONORING A VETERAN OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL AT UNION CITY, N. J., ON JUNE 1
When Charles A. Edwards retired on that day some fifty of his associates and intimate friends gathered at the Capitol
Restaurant, Union City, to honor him for his forty years of service with the New York Central. Mr. Edwards was on
special duty in the office of the Superintendent of Motive Power when he retired.
Low Cost Service in Operation
Between New York 8C St. Louis
New low cost service between New
York and St. Louis has just been announced
by the New York Central. Beginning
July 20, a non-extra fare sleeping
car leaves New York at 2:04 p.m.
on the Westerner, and arrives in St.
Louis at 5:15 p.m. on the Southwestern
Limited next day. Similar service
from St. Louis is offered on the Southwestern
Limited leaving St. Louis at
9:04 a.m. and arriving in New York
at 2 p.m. the following day on train
No. 70. If traffic warrants it, other
similar cars will be added.
Cleveland American Legion Post
Receives 999 Designations
The New York Central Lines Post
of the American Legion in Cleveland,
formerly designated as No. 274, has
now been assigned the number of the
famous New York Central engine, 999,
which drew the Empire State Express
over the rails on its record-breaking
run.
The post was recently presented with
a new silk American flag by A. S. Ingalls,
Assistant to the Vice-President,
and a post flag was contributed by offi-
i i i
Albany A. A. Outing
1—One of the several boxing bouts that were
staged after the baseball game in the afternoon.
2—General Committee in charge of the
outing. Sitting, left to right: George L. Fraley,
^resident of the Association; George H. Farow,
secretary; A. F. Stiglmeier, former president,
in whose honor the outing was held, and
W. S. Baker, Special Assistant to Vice-President,
Personnel. Standing, left to right: W. P.
Hosey, R. J. Benson, G. E. Paul, H. B. Paterson
and E. T. Tormey. 3—A group who watched
the ball gamp. Left to right: A. F. Stiglmeier,
Charles F. Parsons, Lieutenant Dunn, William
R. Downs, who came from Jersey Shore, Pa.,
to umpire the ball game; Patrolman Callary,
Sergeant Manus and George L. Fraley. 4—
Entertainment Committee. Left to right: Ermine
MuDiolland, Margaret Wanmer, Marion
Schwinderman, Agnes Lynch and Claire Lamoureux.
5—Some of the officials present.
Left to right: W. R. Downs, C. F. Parsons,
A. F. Stiglmeier, A. D. Bingman, Howard
Scott, C. L. Steinhart. C. H. Mendler, George
H. Farlow and W. S. Baker.
cials and employes through contributions.
Both flags were presented to the
post by Walter L. Lye, District Superintendent
of Motive Power, at the Collinwood
High School. After the presentation,
the more than 700 guests of
Post 999 were entertained with ten
reels of United States Government
War Films of the Second Division in
France.
N. Y. C. Announces #1 Breakfast.
The New York Central Lines announced
that beginning July 7 a special
table d'hote breakfast at $1 will be
served on all dining cars east and west
of Buffalo, on the New York Central,
Michigan Central, Big Four, and Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie railroads.
The new plan will provide a substantial
breakfast at a material saving in
cost. This is the first time since the
World War that the New York Central
Lines have served a table d'hote
breakfast, in addition to a la carte
A VETERAN AT ALBANY'S OUTING
Hugh F. Leahy, Station Master, Albany,
was an interested spectator at the baseball
game and the boxing bouts held at
Selkirk, N. Y., on June 27, by the Albany
Athletic Association.
C. A. Edwards Honored by Friends
With Retirement Dinner
It was a gala night for Charles A.
Edwards when on June 1 some fifty
of his associates and friends gathered
at the Capitol Restaurant, Union City,
N. J., to pay him the homage due a
veteran of the New York Central.
Mr. Edwards was highly praised by
C. D. Van Schaick, Combustion Expert,
for his faithful service and for
the number of friends he made and
held while he was with the New York
Central.
Beginning his career with the New
York Central as an engineman in 1891,
Mr. Edwards was transferred to the
Seventy-second Street engine house in
New York as night foreman in 1901,
and was promoted to terminal foreman
in 1920. Nine years later he was assigned
to special duty in the office of
the Superintendent of Motive Power,
where he remained until his retirement.
Danville Vets Have Outing
The first annual outing of Danville,
111., Chapter, Big Four Route Veterans'
Association, was held at Harrison
Park, Danville, June 28, with a large
group of veterans and their families
attending.
The heat of the day did not prevent
the playing of an exciting ball game
by the younger element, nor did it prevent
the veterans from enjoying their
favorite pastime of horseshoe pitching.
During the day, the Big Four Athletic
Association Orchestra furnished musical
entertainment.
The committee in charge of the first
outing was composed of W. C. Nelson,
chairman; A. C. Church, L. B. Moore,
R. D. Coate, A. L. Teeters, W. O.
Phillips, J. J. Board and E. C. Mathius.
Grand Chapter was represented by
William Koch, executive secretarytreasurer.

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Charles P. Webb, a Man Worth While
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By Marie
HEN Charles P. Webb ended
his active service with the
New York Central on June 1,
P. L; Long, Terminal
Passenger
and Ticket Agent,
Cleveland Union
Terminal, said of
him: "He has
made one of the
finest records of
any ticket seller
on my staff."
Mr. Long credited
Mr. Webb
with having made
more friends for
CP. Webb the New York
Central Lines than
any other man who had ever been associated
with him, and added: "He never
faltered in his kindly, painstaking efforts
to please the public."
Mr. Webb began his service with the
New York Central on November 1,1906,
in the old Exchange Street Station in
Buffalo, and later served at Syracuse.
On December 1, 1918, he was transferred
to the Union Station in Cleveland,
where he remained until July 1,
1930, when he was transferred to the
Cleveland Union Terminal. Prior to his
New York Central service, Mr. Webb
was located at Fort Wayne, Ind., as
ticket agent for the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati
& Louisville Railroad, later the
Lake Erie & Western, and now operated
by the Nickel Plate.
On his retirement, Mr. Webb was
presented with a beautiful wrist watch,
suitably inscribed, by his associates.
In an interview, following the presentation,
he said it was his belief that if
the tickets he had sold were placed end
to end they would encircle the globe,
and that their value would amount to
millions of dollars.
He also said that he has been compensated
beyond measure in the many
friends he had made through his efforts
to please the public by giving them the
best the New York Central had upon
its shelves. This, he added, was no difficult
task because the New York Central
handles nothing but "good goods."
He feels that his efforts served to make
him a valuable representative of the
railroad, and that they left an indelible
mark upon his disposition, giving him
much happiness in the knowledge that
he was always trying to do his best.
While performing his duties for the
New York Central, Mr. Webb met some
of the most prominent people of this
country, and all of them, he said, were
considerate and appreciative of the efforts
he made to please them. Not only
was he liked by these travelers, but by
his associates as well, many of whom,
especially the younger employes, considered
him a father. All of them
agreed, after his retirement, that he
had never failed to bring sunshine into
C. Todd
their lives when it seemed as though
the sun would never shine again.
While Mr. Webb held a modest position
in life, his unfailing and kindly
attitude toward the public had been of
a far-reaching influence in cementing
enduring friendships for himself and
the New York Central.
Now, that he has been retired, he
does not propose to put aside his interest
in travel and in the many friends he
made while in the service of the New
York Central, but intends to be guided
in the future, as he was in the past, by
the poem "Will" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
the last stanza of which is:
"The river seeking for the sea
Confronts the dam and precipice
Yet knows it cannot fail or miss.
You will be whatever you will to be."
P. 8C L. E. Yard Master Saves Girl
From Drowning in Shenango River
While enjoying his lunch hour at
New Castle Junction, Pa., on May 15,
E. R. Sneckenberger, yard master for
the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad,
noticed a little girl picking dandelions
along the banks of the Shenango River,
a short distance from the P. & L. E.
right of way. Sneckenberger watched
as she reached far out over the water
for a dandelion. Suddenly, she disappeared
from his view.
Sensing that something untoward
had happened, he rushed to the bank
of the river and saw her lying in the
water. Wading in, he lifted her out,
placed her on the bank and administered
first aid. In a short time she had
recovered enough to make her way
home.
For more than a week, Mr. Sneckenberger
kept the incident to himself and
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
then related it to a friend, who saw
that the yard master received sufficient
recognition. At the same time, it was
found that the girl was Marie Watkins,
eight, of New Castle, Pa.
Wide Engineering Experience
Useful to Robert L. Burns
For several years before he entered
the service of the New York Central
as a draftsman, Robert L. Burns was
Surveyor on City
work at Rochester,
N. Y., Inspector of
Public Works,
State of New
York, and leveler
on topographical
surveys with the
U. S. Deepwaterways
Commission
for Ship Canal.
With this background,
it would
have been hard to
R. L. Burns
predict anything
but a successful
railroad career for Mr. Burns.
He started with the New York Central
in 1900, and remained in continuous
service until his retirement on
May 1, as Assistant Engineer at
Rochester, N. Y.
Peter Jennings Ends Long Career as
Engineman
After forty-seven years of service
with the Big Four Railway, Peter
Jennings, engineman on the Cincinnati-Sandusky
Division, retired because
of disability on January 1.
Mr. Jennings entered service as a
brakeman in 1884, was made a fireman
four years later, and engineman in
1892. For the past twelve years he has
had a passenger run between Cincinnati
and Columbus, Ohio.
PENSIONED ENGINEMEN AND CONDUCTORS OF THE B. « A.
' F. A. Bodnian. Front row: J. O'Brien and G. H. Moore.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931 27
Three More Marks, One a World's Record, Added to
Stella Walsh's List
THREE more marks—one of them a
world's record—are now ready to
be set down in that little book of
records compiled by the Amateur Athletic
Union along with the name of Stella
Walsh, New York Central Athletic Association
of Cleveland flying lassie, as
the result of twenty days of strenuous
competition. They are the 80-meters,
for which Stella set the new time of
9 9-10 seconds; the 200-meters, Canadian,
26 seconds; and the 200-meters,
American, 26 1-10 seconds. The latter
is a record merely because Stella was
the winner of that event the first time
it was run outdoors in the United
States.
Sandwiched in among these record
performances was a special 50-yard
dash for women at the Northeastern
Ohio Association A. A. U. District
Championships for men on July 4.
Stella accepted the invitation to meet
Florence Eggleston, inter-collegiate
champion of the United States, running
unattached, and Catherine Benda, also
unattached, and added another victory
to her total. Getting off to a bad start,
she had a difficult task in overhauling
the field before the tape was reached,
and just managed to eke out a win over
Miss Eggleston. Her time was 6 2/10
seconds.
This twenty-day program of four
races had a telling effect on Stella's
condition at the Women's National
Track and Field Championships in
Jersey City, N. J., on July 25, for she
bogged down under the severe strain
and for the first time since she entered
major competition, showed signs of extreme
weariness. Only dogged persistence
enabled her to retain her 220-yard
title, which she did by inches in a time
of 26 2/5 seconds.
Her over-trained condition was only
too apparent in the 100-yard dash
which she lost to Eleanor Egg of Paterson,
N. J., whose time of 11 2/5 seconds
took first place, and Evelyn Furtsch, of
Los Angeles, who finished second. That
brilliant last-second dash which featured
most of her past record-breaking
efforts was no place in evidence, and
she wound up in third place, two yards
behind Miss Egg.
The remaining title which Stella won
at the Nationals in Texas last year, the
running broad jump, was forfeited by
her when she attempted to take a place
in the discus event.
The first meet in which Stella competed
during the less than a month of
herculean activity was at Montreal,
Canada, at the Montreal Amateur Athletic
Association Jubilee Games, June
20. She was entered in the 100- and
200-meter events, both of which she
won in a handy and workmanlike
fashion. In the latter event, Stella was
pushed to her best efforts on a slow
track and against a strong head wind
to nose out Margaret Coles, of Toronto,
by three yards. However, despite the
prevailing conditions, she managed to
clip 3-5's of a second from the Canadian
record, held by Dallas Creamer, of
Toronto.
The 100-meters was a different story,
and Stella had things pretty much her
own way, romping to the tape in a time
of 12 3-5 seconds, 3-5's of a second
short of the mark set by Myrtle Cook,
of Montreal, in 1929.
Returning home, Stella rested for
fifteen days, or, rather, rested from
competition, and then turned in a
sparkling performance before the home
folk at the Polish Falcons Meet at John
Adams Field, Cleveland, on July 5. She
dashed the full distance of 80-meters in
a time of 9 9-10 seconds, just 1-10 of a
second better than the Misses Mejzli-
kova II, Radideau and Gagneux, former
record holders, had done during
the past nine years. Miss Mejzlikova
II was the first to set the mark of 10
seconds flat for that distance in 1922,
and then the latter two girls equaled it
in 1926 and 1929, respectively.
After that meet, Stella again rested
from competition, this time for ten
days, before entering her third meet in
twenty days. Again, at the International
Shrine Convention Meet in Cleveland
on July 15, Margaret Coles was pitted
against her, and Stella, remembering
the sturdy race which the Canadian
girl put up at the Montreal games,
threw on the steam in the 200-meters
and finished ten meters in front, in a
time of 26 1-10 seconds.
Helen Miller, also of the Cleveland
Association, finished in fourth place.
Veterans Honored by CJ. A. A. Folk
THE Ninth Anniversary of the Chi­ eral Manager W. J. O'Brien, who for
cago Junction Athletic Association the past four years has presented the
and the Fourth Anniversary of the testimonials to the retiring members
Chicago Junction Chapter—New York of Chicago Junction Chapter. Mr.
Central Veterans' Association, were O'Brien made a wonderful address.
observed with a supper dance in the Emmett Whealan, President of the
Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Shore- County Board of Cook County, an arland,
Chicago, Saturday evening, June dent supporter of the Chicago Junction
20. Two members retiring from service Athletic Association for many years,
were guests of honor. Three hundred was one of the honor guests, with his
members and their families were pres­ wife, and made a delightful address.
ent. The affair opened at 9 o'clock with The two honored veterans, Frank
dancing until 10 P. M., followed by an O'Keefe and M. J. Bourke, were pre­
entertainment given by the Gladys sented with morocco traveling bags.
Height School of Dancing. An eight- Monsieur Bruno of the Chicago Civic
course dinner was then served, followed Opera rendered a series of numbers
by a few short talks and dancing until that were enjoyed by all. Sidney C.
1:30 A. M.
Murray, General Counsel of the Chi­
S. M. Doheny, President of the Chicago River & Indiana Railroad Comcago
Junction Athletic Association, pany, and W. G. Evans, General Agent
was toastmaster and made a few brief of the New York Central in Detroit,
remarks regarding the achievements of were also among the honor guests.
the Association. Vice-President T. W. M. J. Bourke, who attained the age
Evans, of the Indiana Harbor Belt of seventy on May 16, 1931, started his
Railroad, spoke on the relationship be­ railroad career in 1876 on the C. &
tween the management and the em­ N. W. Railroad and was promoted to
ployes. Mark Gair, President of locomotive engineer in 1881. He has
Chicago Junction Chapter, New York been in service since that time with the
Central Veterans' Association, was the exception of two years. He came to the
next speaker. He was followed by Gen- Chicago Junction Railway as a locomotive
engineer in 1903. Mr. Bourke,
at the time of his retirement, had
rounded out approximately fifty years
of railroad service. Mr. and Mrs.
Bourke will celebrate their golden wedding
on August 23, and the Chicago
Junction Athletic Association as well
as Chicago Junction Chapter New
York Central Veterans' Association extend
their good wishes to both.
Mr. O'Keefe, who attained the age of
seventy on June 26, entered the service
of the Chicago Junction Railway on
May 16, 1915, as crossing watchman.
Mr. O'Keefe was employed for a number
of years by other railroads.
F. O'Keef e M. J. Bourke

28 New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
PARTICIPANTS IN BUFFALO A. A. GOLF TOURNEY
The tournament was held this year at the Lancaster, N. Y., Country Club, on June 29.
First row, left to right: A. P. Burns, D. Kelly, T. Navaugh, C. S. McGinley, W. Roth,
J. Guilfoyle, B. Johnson, H. Reed, M. Dwyer, J. Shepard and L. Kelleher. Second
row: J. Singer, J. Brown, A. G. Hentz, Dick Judson, W. Woller, G. West, C. Harris,
E. Timberlake, J. Sheedy, J. W. Foote and T. Nadonly.
Buffalo A. A. Begins Golf Season
The annual kicker's handicap tournament
of the Buffalo Athletic Association
was held this year at the Lancaster,
N. Y., Country Club on June 29,
with sixty-five entrants. Several records,
to say nothing of clubs, were
broken on the unfamiliar course. A dinner
in the club house followed the tournament.
J. J. Brinkworth, Superintendent of
the Buffalo Division, turned in a card
of 80 and was given credit for winning
the tournament when he drew that
number. Among other officials who attended
were: D. B. Fleming, F. E. Mc-
Cormack, W. A. Hamler, W. H. Woods,
C. A. Williamson, Frank Kulp and F.
M. Edler.
Arrangements for the tournament
were made by F. M. Edler, chairman of
golf; C. S. McGinley, George West and
Walter H. Harris.
Blind Bogie Golf Tournament Held
By Jackson A. A.
A blind bogie golf tournament was
held by the Michigan Central Athletic
Association of Jackson, Mich., at the
Jackson Masonic Country Club, Jackson,
July 11, with forty-four playing.
After eighteen holes had been completed,
the golfers retired to the nine
teenth hole where luncheon was served
Another tournament has been planned
for August 29.
The winners were: F. W. Felde, 79,
low gross; C. Paddock, 69, low net;
Joe Fiero, 82, second low gross; R. F.
Rockwell, 70, second low net; K. Thompson,
84, third low gross; Ben Main,
J. F. Jennings and R. E. Smith, 71,
third low net; Russell Gates, 88, fourth
low gross; I. S. Putnam, R. E. Steel
and F. E. Doherty, 72, fourth low net,
and N. J. Popma, 129, highest gross
Chicago Junction Golfers Compete
The Chicago Junction Athletic Association
held its first Golf Tournament
at Cog Hill on Monday, June 15.
The officers of The Chicago River &
Indiana Railroad Company entertained
the executives of the industries in the
Central Manufacturing District, who
were guests of the Association, as well
as representatives from various railroads
in the Chicago District. Members
of the Association were invited
as well.
It was an ideal day and 140 registered.
First Annual Golf Tournament
Held by Belief ontaine A. A.
The first annual golf tournament
of the Big Four Athletic Association
of Bellefontaine, Ohio, was held at the
Bellefontaine Country Club, June 20,
with a large number of members competing
for the several prizes offered.
The tournament was under the direction
of B. E. DeLamater, chairman of
golf, assisted by J. S. Doyle, president
of the Association, and Morgan J.
Winget.
Among those taking part in the tourney
were: J. E. Kissell, C. H. Haynes,
L. B. Lutz, E. B. Padgett, T. L. Davis,
Sam Fultz, M. G. Winget, John Karibo,
L. E. Binegar, F. H. Winget, F. J. Lee,
W. S. Baker, W. V. Moak, B. E. De­
Lamater, T. J. Hayes, John Mellen,
J. J. Karibo, Robert Morgan, C. H. Mc-
Elroy, W. M. Cantwell, G. O. Richardson,
N. E. Manville, Roy Whistman,
John Doyle, Arnold Gorgman, John
King, Ora Wilson, J. W. Henderson,
and A. R. Taylor.
Bay City A. A. Has Golf Tournament
On June 15
With sixteen shot makers entered,
the Michigan Central Athletic Association
of Bay City, Mich., held a golf
tournament at the Euclid Golf and
Country Club, Bay City, on June 15.
Played under a "kicker's handicap," all
those with a net score of 30 to 40 drew
for prizes. W. C. Lewis, C. L. Towns,
E. H. O'Keefe and E. W. Oakes were
the golfers to draw prizes.
2,500 Attend Buffalo Outing at
Crystal Beach, July 11
With more than 2,500 members,
friends, Veterans, officials, out-of-town
guests, employes and children present,
another outing and field day of the New
York Central Athletic Association of
Buffalo passed into history at Crystal
Beach, Canada, on July 11, under the
able guidance of C. S. McGinley, president
of the Association. Sharing the
honors with the genial president, was
M. C. Slattery, president of Niagara
Chapter, New York Central Veterans'
Association, who was constantly greeted
by friends who were only too happy
to see him outdoors again after a prolonged
illness.
Among others who attended the annual
outing were J. J. Brinkworth and
his wife, T. A. Ward and his wife, C. H.
Hogan, E. H. Croly, J. H. Burkhart
and H. E. Tarleton, president and secretary,
respectively, of the Columbus
Athletic Association, and A. B. Hyder,
past president of the Erie Association,
and his wife.
Seen in the photographs on the opposite
page are:
1. Lineup of the contesting teams in the
women's tug-of-war. 2. The newly organized
Harmony Group of the Buffalo Association.
They are: Bernard Kelly, Ann Trizzinski, Edward
Kelly, Marjorie Mason, Thomas Navagh,
Mrs. Lucy Holbrook and Alan Guyette. 3.
Entrants in one of the most amusing events of
the day, the horse race. The "jockeys" were not
known until "post-time," when they were
hoisted aboard and started on their way. 4.
Mary Jones, who ate three crackers and whistled
to win the cracker-eating contest. 5. Mrs.
Phillip Cobb and Mrs. C. Fellows, winners of
the married women's race. 6. Winners of the
one mile relay race. They are: Michael Karalewski,
Gus Dinenzio, Harold Major and Kenneth
Pascoe. 7. Ruth Klaus, left, and Kay
Geary. These girls placed first and second re-:
spectively, in both the 50-yard dash and the
broad jump, besides helping their team to win
the 880-yard relay. 8. C. S. McGinley, left, and
J. J. Brinkworth, president and honorary president
of the Buffalo Association. 9. Mayme
Staples and Marie Mona, winners of the horseshoes
for women.
FAT MEN AND MEN NOT SO FAT OF THE BUFFALO A. A.
The starting mark for the fat men's race at the annual outing of the Buffalo Athletic
Association. Harold Boehms waddled his way into first place, and Jack Smith breathlessly
finished in second position.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
rat°^uLaV
SOME OF THE 2,500 BUFFALO A. A. MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THE ANNUAL OUTING
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krge and competent group of committeemen and committeewomen
were on hand to see that the many events scheduled for the day were run off in the proper and approved fashion. An explanation
of the above photograph is given on the preceding page.
29

Discounted
To a Jewish ex-service man an acquaintance
remarked: "So you were in
the army, Ikey?"
"Oh, I was in the army," was the
proud response.
"Did you get a commission?"
"No, only my wages!"
His Prescription
Doctoi Now, young man, what
have you got to say for yourself?
His Son (in for a licking)—How
about a little local anesthetic?
Ardent Proposals
She—I've been asked to get married
lots of times.
He—Who asked you?
She—Mother and Father.
Strenuous
Helen—Does your husband exercise
regularly?
if ess—Why, yes, last week he was
out six nights running.
'Rithmetic
Jack—Why do you call your dog
thirteen?
Tom—Don't you see that he's lame?
Jack—Yes, but what has that to do
with it?
Tom—He puts down three and carries
one.
The Limit
Orator—And now, gentlemen, I wish
to tax your memory.
Man in Audience—Good heavens,
has it come to that?
Different
Head of the House (angrily)—Who
told you to put that paper on the wall?
Decorator—Your wife, sir.
Head of the House—Pretty, isn't it?
Ask Dad! He Knows
"Does the baby take after his father,
Mrs. Jones?"
"Yes, indeed. We took his bottle away
from him, and the darling tried to creep
down the cellar steps."
Following Directions
Mrs. Smith—Gracious Mary! Why
are you trying to feed birdseed to the
cat? I told you to feed the canary.
Maid—Well, there's where the canary
is, Mum.
\
IMPOSSIBLE
He—If you won't marry me I will blow
my brains out.
She—Oh, Archie, how could you?
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
She Knew
"What is your salary as a saleslady?"
"Seven dollars a week."
"Surely, you cannot lead a good
Christian life on that!"
"That's the only kind you can lead
on seven per."
Such Extravagance
"Fadder, give me a dime to go and
see the sea serpent."
"Vasteful poy! Here's a magnifying
glass; go find a worm."
In Danger
Two hard citizens were standing in
a secluded spot talking confidentially.
One of them suddenly sneaked away
while the other stood on guard. Soon
the first one was seen to emerge from
a window and join his pal.
"Did you get anything?" whispered
the one in waiting.
"Naw, de guy what lives in dere is a
lawyer," growled the other.
"Dat's hard luck," said his pal. "Did
youse lose anyt'ing?"
A Secret Sin
The maid had been using surreptitiously
the bath tub of her employer,
an elderly bishop. He was a bachelor,
very fastidious about his toilet, and
desired the exclusive use of his tub.
He reprimanded the maid with much
indignation:
"What distresses me most, Mary, is
that you have done this behind my
back."
PRE-EMINENT IN THE
PITTSBURGH DISTRICT
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED
Mellon National Bank
PITTSBURGH • PA.
New York Central Lines Magazine for A ugust, 1931 31
Recent Deatks-
4 " irv. tl\p ^
few ^r&rk Central I&milx^
Barnard Hochenedel
A pensioner of the New York Central
for seven years, Barnard Hochenedel
died in his home, Fremont, Ohio,
June 12, after an
illness of some
time.
Mr. Hochenedel
was retired as a
bridge foreman at
the age of seventy,
after forty-five
years of service.
He was a member
of Lake Shore
Pioneers Chapter,
New York Central
Veterans'Associa­
tion, and had
looked forward
B. Hochenedel
with pleasure to the annual outing
which was held a few weeks after his
death.
Charles A. Brown
After an operation for appendicitis,
Charles A. Brown, New York Central
engineman, died in Hamilton Sanitarium,
Union City, N. J., June 16.
Mr. Brown had been in service since
1902, when he started as a fireman on
the River Division.
Thomas Attridge
Thomas Attridge, a pensioner of
the New York Central, died in his
home at Rochester, N. Y., June 16.
Mr. Attridge was retired in 1921
after a twenty-seven year career with
the New York Central as car inspector,
foreman, and leading inspector.
John C. V. Christensen
John C. V. Christensen, former
New York Central employe, died in his
home at Ocean Grove, N. J., where he
had gone for the restoration of his
health, June 17.
Mr. Christensen was with the New
York Central from 1907 as draftsman,
designer and squad chief until he resigned
in 1927.
John Henry Wood
John H. Wood, fifty-one, died in his
home at Rochester, N. Y., June 18.
Mr. Wood had been with the New
York Central since 1920, when he began
as a conductor. For the past several
years he had served as yard
master.
E. V. Williams
E. V. Williams, Superintendent of
Motive Power, Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburgh Railway, died suddenly
June 18 while on a visit to Rochester,
Minn. Mr. Williams had been with the
B. R. & P. for fifteen years, and prior
to that he had been with the New-
York Central in Albany.
Charles R. Geiger
In failing health for two years,
Charles R. Geiger, pensioner of the New
York Central, died in his home at Ashtabula,
Ohio, June 16.
Mr. Geiger was retired in 1928 as a
car inspector after a forty-three year
career with the New York Central.
H. W. Lester
H. W. Lester, Station Agent for the
New York Central at Remsen, N. Y.,
died in his home at Remsen, June 30.
He had been in the service of the New
York Central for thirty years, starting
as foreman at the Watertown Freight
Station in 1901.
A. H. Moore
At the Y. M. C. A. in New York,
A. H. Moore, New York Central engineman,
died suddenly, June 24.
Mr. Moore began his New York Central
career in 1906 as a fireman on the
Hudson Division.
John P. Miles
John P. Miles, New York Central
employe, died suddenly in a Buffalo
Hospital, June 23.
Mr. Miles had served the New York
Central since 1903 as caller, yard
brakeman and assistant yard master at
Lyons, N. Y., and assistant yard master
at Canandaigua, N. Y. For the past
several years he had been yard conductor
at Lyons.
John J. Kearney
In his home at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
John J. Kearney, New York Central
conductor, died July 11. Mr. Kearney
had been with the New York Central
since 1897, when he started as a train
baggageman on the Hudson Division.
Dennis J. Donovan
After an illness of four months,
Dennis J. Donovan, New York Central
conductor, died in his home at Norwood,
N. Y., June 28. Mr. Donovan,
who was fifty-two, had been with the
New York Central for twenty-eight
years.
Elmer Dettinger
As the result of a heart attack
which had confined him to his bed for
six weeks, Elmer Dettinger, New York
Central electrician, died in his home at
Utica, N. Y., July 2. Mr. Dettinger
had been with the New York Central
for twenty-five years.
Give
HEALTH
a
'Clear Track'
W h e n your system is blocked,
health is in danger. The poisons
of constipation often spread
over the body. Headaches, loss
of appetite and energy often result.
Even serious disease may
develop.
Avoid this risk by eating a
delicious cereal: Kellogg's
A l l - B r a n . Two tablespoonfuls
daily are guaranteed to prevent
and relieve both temporary and
recurring constipation. Stubborn
cases, with each meal.
Use Kellogg's A l l - B r a n instead
of taking dangerous pills
and drugs.
Look for the red-and-green
package. Sold by all grocers.
Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek.
A l l - B r a n
RELIEVES CONSTIPATION
ALL-BRAN
KELLOGG COMPANY

32 New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
C. J. A. A. Excursion to Buffalo tunity, the majority leaving Friday
And Niagara Falls
morning and arriving in Buffalo Fri­
The "I Will" spirit of the Chicago day night, the balance leaving Friday
Junction Athletic Association, which night and arriving in Buffalo Saturday
means up and doing all the time, put morning. After sight-seeing in Buffalo
on an excursion to Buffalo and Niagara Friday night the party put up at the
Falls on Saturday, June 27.
Ford Hotel, leaving for Niagara Falls
This excursion was put on at the the first thing Saturday morning.
request of many of the members who S. M. Doheny, president of the Asso­
desired to make this trip while not emciation, met the party at 11:20 A. M.
ployed. Seventy-five members and their Saturday, and personally conducted
families took advantage of the oppor­ them over the Niagara Gorge Route,
Ol)e 3&est Way
for New York Central Lines Employes
to obtain and maintain Health and
Accident Insurance is to insure with
r?he tftew Pork Central Railroad
^ttutual belief Association
You will be pleased with the breadth
of the coverage, the ease with which
claims are handled and promptness with
which they are paid, and the convenient
plan for paying premiums in small
monthly amounts.
Details may be obtained from Local
Agents or by addressing
R. R. DAY, Secretary,
Lock Box 78, Cleveland, Ohio
Pou Sign the .Application— We. ~J>o the 3lest
THE EGYPTIAN
LACQUER MANUFACTURING CO.
90 West Street, New York City
Lacquers - Enamels • Thinners
Brooks Monument, Maid of the Mist
and many other historic points of interest.
It was a most delightful day.
The climax was the viewing of the
Falls from the "Canadian" side during
the illumination. The party returned to
Chicago Saturday night and Sunday.
A. P. Burke Retires as Asst. Treas.,
H. L. Kershner Succeeds Him
After a railroad career of forty-nine
years, Albert P. Burke voluntarily retired
as Assistant Treasurer, New
York Central
Lines, at Cincinnati
on July 1. Mr.
Burke was succeeded
by H. L.
Kershner.
Born in Perry,
Ohio, in 1864, Mr.
Burke began his
railroad career
eighteen years
later as telegraph
operator for the
A. P. Burke
old Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern
at Madison,
Ohio. He went to Cincinnati in 1909 as
cashier for the Big Four Railway, and
was appointed Assistant Federal
Treasurer during the United States
Railroad Administration. On April 1,
1925, he was appointed Treasurer of
the Big Four, and on February 2, 1930,
he was made Assistant Treasurer of
the New York Central Lines.
Mr. Burke is now spending his vacation
at Lake Tippecanoe, Ind.
After Mr. Burke's retirement, Mr.
Kershner, who had been Cashier, was
appointed to succeed
him. He started
his service as a
messenger boy,
and served in various
capacities on
the Cincinnati-
SanduskyDi vision
before being
transferred to
Cincinnati in 1916
as Assistant Paymaster.
He was
appointed Cashier
to the Treasurer
in 1925, and re­
H. L. Kershner
tained that position until his most recent
appointment. This position includes
the handling of financial matters
for the Cincinnati Union Terminal
Company, the Central Union Depot &
Railway Company, the Peoria & Eastern
Railway, the Dayton Union Railway,
the L. & J. Bridge & Railroad
Company and other subsidiary lines.
Harry I. Clark succeeded Mr. Kershner
as Cashier.
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New York Central Lines Magazine for A ugust, 1931 33
Kalamazoo Stove Co. an Old Friend
Factory of the Kalamazoo Stove Company at Kalamazoo, Mich.
THE New York Centra. Railroad
takes special pride in the growth
and success of companies located
along its right of way. These companies
are looked upon as part of the great
New York Central family. For nearly
31 years now it has been keenly watching
the sure development and expansion
of the Kalamazoo Stove Company of
Kalamazoo, Mich.
This company started on a very small
scale—started on an idea, in fact. This
idea was to sell direct from factory to
user, eliminating all the in-between
profits of middlemen. That was long
before the days of house-to-house and
other direct selling methods. As a matter
of fact, the Kalamazoo Stove Company
was among the first in the field
with the idea of selling direct to the
consumer.
The slogan, "Kalamazoo Direct-to-
You" was adopted early, and soon became
known the country over. So well
did this slogan catch on that the success
of the Kalamazoo Stove Company
was practically assured from the start.
People found that they could save
money—a great deal of money—by
buying direct from the factory at factory
prices.
These people told their friends.
These friends became customers. And
so the company grew and grew from a
few hundred buyers in 1901 to upward
of 800,000 customers in 1931.
The New York Central remembers
back in the early days of the Kalamazoo
Stove Company that the shipment of
seven cars a week of stoves, ranges and
furnaces was a good week's business
for this company. Compared with the
high point figures, reached in recent
years, running into sixty cars a week,
the beginning seems modest indeed.
Since 1920 the Kalamazoo Stove
Company has made phenomenal strides.
Branches have been opened in more
than eighty towns in New York, Ohio,
Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, so
that the Kalamazoo factory literally
has been brought to the very doors of
its customers and friends. By establish­
National Bearing Metals Corporation
Manufacturers of Brass, Bronze, Composition
Castings and Babbitt Metal
JOURNAL BEARINGS
230 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK
ing these branches the company has
been better able to serve its customers.
A large warehouse was leased two
years ago on the New York Central
Lines at Utica, New York. This Utica
warehouse permits Kalamazoo to make
quicker shipments to its hosts of mail
order customers in the eastern states,
as well as to the numerous branches.
Mr. Blakeslee, president of the com­
Edgeworth it a blend
of line old burleys,
with its natural savor
insured by Edgeworth's
distinctive
eleventh process.
For real pipe pleasure
get a tin of Edgeworth.
All sizes, 15i pocket package
to pound humidor tin.
k
pany, in a special message, had this to
say:
"The Kalamazoo Stove Company has
grown up alongside of the New York
Central tracks. We have always held
the friendliest feeling for the New
York Central and have looked upon it
almost as a division of our business.
At all times we have had splendid cooperation
from officials and men.
"Kalamazoo's success is based on
just one thing and that is value. We
advertise that there is nothing between
us and our customers but the railroad
tracks. Factory prices are always the
lowest, and when we sell direct to users
at factory prices, we sell much, much
lower than you could possibly get, comparable
quality, anywhere else. This
year Kalamazoo has again reduced
factory prices. We are giving our customers
the biggest savings in years.
There never was a time when a dollar
could buy so much in stove or furnace
value. And our credit terms are exceptionally
liberal."
Conductor
prefers pipe
for
pleasure
HEN a man gets off duty he likes to rest and
Wrelax. Conductor D. E. Eakins of the Illinois
Central has found the way to do it.
For ten years or more he's smoked a pipe and
Edgeworth. He prefers it because it nevei bites
his tongue.
Many railroad men prefer Edgeworth for many
reasons. Most men like it because it is the finest
all-round smoke in the world.
If you've never tried Edgeworth, get a tin of it
today. It comes in two forms. Edgeworth Ready-
Rubbed and Edgeworth Plug Slice. 15(? and up
according to size. Or, for a generous free trial
packet, address Larus & Bro. Co., 108 S. 22d
St., Richmond, Va.
EDGEWORTH
SMOKING TOBACCO
Poles, Timbers
Cross Ties
Lowni Process
Creosoted Wfood
Piles, Lumber
Paving Block
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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

34 New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
New Post for W. T. Stevenson —
J. W. Clark Promoted
Maisch, Raymond Worley, Frank
Maisch, Fred Hedderick and Jack
Woods; piano duets by the Misses Edna
and Nellie Carr; solos by Bettie Shaw,
readings by Nettie Shaw and George
Shaw, piano solo by Leota Shaw; reading
by Mrs. O. H. Tayer, and a vocal
solo by F. O. Finfrock.
WILLIAM T. STEVENSON,
Assistant Vice - President,
Traffic, New York Central
Lines, and John
W. Clark, Assistant
Traffic Manager,
Big Four
Railway, were appointed
Assistant
Vice - Presidents,
in charge of
Freight Traffic,
according to an
announcement of
C. J. Brister, Vice-
President, Freight
Traffic, effective
July 16. Mr. W. T. Stevenson
Stevenson's headquarters
are now in New York, and Mr.
Clark's are in Chicago.
Mr. Stevenson entered railroad service
in 1890 as a messenger with the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and remained
with that road until 1896, when
Big Four A. A. and Worcester Vets
Have Joint Outing
The joint outing of the Big Four
Athletic Association of Cincinnati and
Worcester Chapter, Big Four Route
Veterans' Association, was held at the
Cincinnati Zoological Garden on July 18.
Members of both associations and
their families were provided with free
tickets to the outing, which included
a ball game, field events and entertainment
in the Opera House.
he entered the service of the Big Four.
In 1902 he was appointed Division
The Honor Roll
Freight Agent of the Big Four at Jackson,
Mich., and in 1907 he became
Chief of Tariff Bureau. He rose through
various other positions until March,
ONE of the prime requisites of a
successful railroad man is vigilance.
Watchfulness and alert at­
1920, when he became Traffic Manager tention to details constitute the main
of the Big Four, which position he held factors in the safe operation of trains.
until February 1, 1930, when he was One of the pleasantest things the
appointed Assistant Vice-President, supervisory officers of the various com­
Traffic.
panies of the system have to do is to
Mr. Clark entered railroad service in commend employes who show in spe­
1890 as a clerk with the Dunkirk, cific, outstanding cases that they pos­
Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh, and sess a ready eye and quick mind by
later served as agent and telegra­ noting impaired conditions of rails or
pher, chief clerk and ticket agent, and equipment.
local agent for the same road. In 1900 Below are given the names of the men
he was appointed Traveling Freight who recently have won in this way spe­
Agent for the Big Four and West Shore cial commendation from their superiors
Railroad, with headquarters in Pitts­ for actions that have helped to prevent
burgh, and later served as Commercial accidents.
Agent for the same roads, Division Asterisks indicate additional com­
Freight Agent for the Big Four in mendations.
(Cleveland, Assistant General Freight
LINE EAST
in Cincinnati and Assistant Traffic J. C. Broadhead, Signal Maintainer, Hoffmans,
N. Y.
Manager, with headquarters in St. L. D. Carter, Signalman SS-11, Hoffmans,
Louis, Mo.
N. Y.
Dominic Dee, Baggageman, Little Falls.
A. Force, Brakeman, Corning.
S. H. Harter***, Signalman, Little Falls.
P. A. McAneny, Brakeman, Black Rock.
C. T. Porter**, Signalman SS-22, St. Johnsville.
J. H. Prime, Signalman SS-B, Albany.
M. J. Rocklin, Signalman SS-16, Fonda.
S. Rucco, Section Foreman, Waterville, Pa.
Chester Southward**, Cut Watchman,
land.High­
Milligan Vets Hold First Outing
With games of all sorts to entertain
the Veterans and their families, Milligan
Chapter, Big Four Route Veterans'
Association, held its first annual outing
in Peterson Park, Mattoon, 111., June 27.
A. N. Roberts, freight agent, presided
over the evening's activities,
which followed a basket supper, and introduced
William Koch, executive secretary-treasurer,
John Barth, president
of the Association, and H. F. Milligan,
Superintendent.
The evening's entertainment consisted
of, among other things, solos by
Mrs. J. A. Brumleve, accompanied by
Helen Spitz; several special arrangements
by the Pana "Dutch Band," an
organization consisting of the following:
Fred Foil, Marion Leighty, Oscar
D. T. Walsh*, Signalman SS-19, Palatine
Bridge.
Charles J. Wells*, Signalman SS-7, Carman,
N. Y.
M. J. Rocklin, Signalman, SS-15, Fonda.
L. J. Bauder, Signalman, SS-22, St. Johnsville.
LINE WEST
Charles Caul, Section Foreman, Conrad, Ind,
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
A. D. Miller, Rider. Niies, Mich.
F. j Shook, Car Department, Niies, Mich.
P & L E
C. A. Wood, Bridge Watchman, McKeesport,
Pa.
Service Thoroughly Enjoyable
On Advertisers' Special
Expressing the hope that the Advertising
Federation of America will soon
have another convention in New York
so that members of the Advertising-
Council of Chicago may again have the
opportunity of using the New York
Central, Dorothea Pfister, Secretary,
said that the service given on the Advertisers'
Special, which left Chicago on
June 13 as a special section of the Advance
Twentieth Century Limited, was
thoroughly enjoyable. "It was the most
perfectly appointed, skillfully handled
train it has been my pleasure to travel
on," said Miss Pfister.
Employes Commended for Courtesy
For the many courtesies shown her
while on a trip to Saranac Lake with a
patient on July 6, Ruth R. Carter expressed
her thanks to C. K. Broadhead,
Superintendent of the Adirondack and
Ottawa Divisions. Miss Carter left
Grand Central Terminal on train No.
195, and said that her trip was one continuous
round of courtesy.
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New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
(Continued from page 18)
M. C. Pioneers Annual Outing
Bob-Lo Park, Canada, was the scene of many
exciting events on June 29 when the Pioneer
Association of the Michigan Central Railroad
gathered there for the eleventh annual reunion.
As seen on page 18, photograph No. 1, E. O.
Spence had a difficult task winning the 100-yard
dash even though he was aided by a long cigar.
H. Hoppe finished second, and W. Noetel, third.
No. 2—Winners of the horseshoe pitching contest
with their committeeman. The winners
were H. H. Rumpf and H. J. Oates, first; Julius
Walker and O. R. Hasselberg, second, and Walt
Myers and L. T. Barrott, third. No. 3—Oscar
Kelsey, Detroit, the oldest pioneer present at
the outing. No. 4—The crab race under way
with John Munroe, the winner, well out in
front. L. Konczeal was second, and Gordon
Mills, third. No. 5—Some of the officials who
attended. Left to right: Frank Smith, Inter-
Gents, why warry
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Theodore Daetwyler (5), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
J. E. Kuhn, Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
E. E. Hughes (2), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
P. F. Kraber, John Facility Accountant, Pittsburgh.
C. E. Kramer (2), care of Auditor of Disbursements,
Pittsburgh.
T. H. Willhide (3), care of Auditor of Disbursements,
Pittsburgh.
W. E. Davin, Construction Department, Pittsburgh.
N. E. Zitman (5), Chief Clerk, SFT, Pittsburgh.
D. E. Crowther, care of Auditor of Disbursements,
Pittsburgh.
J. S. Obley, care of EMW, Pittsburgh.
F. W. Kane, Storehouse House, McKees Rocks,
Pa.
J. W. Mogan, General Yardmaster, Newell.
Arthur Wehe, Trucker, New Castle, Pa.
F. H. Mcllwane, Foreman Water Supplies,
Pittsburgh.
J. A. Noble, Superintendent Bridges and Buildings,
Pittsburgh.
J. J. Fleming, Corner Flagman, McKees Rocks,
Pa.
L. Sutherland, GSK, McKees Rocks, Pa.
H. Courtney, Shop Superintendent, McKees
Rocks, Pa.
J. G. Taggart, Construction Department.
R. K. Delisio, Construction Department, Pittsburgh.
H. E. Mittlstadter, Foreman, Pittsburgh
Freight, Pittsburgh.
F. E. Miles (7), Cashier, New Castle, Pa.
F. W. Weber, Foreman, Freight House, New
Castle, Pa.
F. M. Megogney (5) Statistician, Pittsburgh.
N. M. Haller, Superintendent, Scrap and Reclamation,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Charles E. Sager (10), Rate Clerk, New Castle,
Pa.
J. W. Morrison (5), Construction Department,
Pittsburgh.
R. H. Wallace, Construction Department,
Pittsburgh.
Mrs. H. D. Anthony, Clerk, Auditor of Disbursements,
Pittsburgh.
John Meacham (3), care of APA, Pittsburgh.
Arthur Joy, Pittsburgh.
Joseph Woods, Pittsburgh.
F. H. Eberle, McKees Rocks, Pa.
E. R. Murphy (3), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Elsie Neschke (3), care Shop Accountant, Mc­
Kees Rocks, Pa.
Margaret B. Martin (6), care of Shop* Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
E. M. Garen (4), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
E. R. Cochran, care of Shop Accountant, Mc­
Kees Rocks, Pa.
Cordelia Canaga (4), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
C. M. Ewing (8), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
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New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
Miss J. E. Wielandts (11), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Miss C. M. Stormfels (3), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
A. C. Eberhardt (9), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
M iss R. M. Forrest (2), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
A. J. Cobbett (7), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Ruth Murphy (3), care of Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Ruth Scott, care of Shop Accountant, McKees
Rock, Pa.
Samuel Lynn, Superintendent, Rolling Stock,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Vera W. Braley (3), Assistant Cashier, New
Castle, Pa.
E. I. Shanor, Clerk, APA, Pittsburgh.
Mrs. G. M. Braley (3), Stenographer, New
Castle, Pa.
G. J. Leek, Shop Draftsman, McKees Rocks,
Pa.
J. P. Glaser, Auditor of Disbursements, Pittsburgh.
J. C. Mathews (2), care of Auditor of Disbursements,
Pittsburgh.
W. P. Culligan (2), care of Auditor of Disbursements,
Pittsburgh.
E. P. McClain, Chief Contract Bureau, Pittsburgh.
Allan Avery (2), Clerk, Shop Accountant's
office, McKees Rocks, Pa.
J. C. Ainor (2), Motive Power Department,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
M iss M. T. Anderson (2), Clerk, Auditor Disbursement,
Pittsburgh.
Estelle Budd (2), Stenographer Engineering
Department, Pittburgh.
A. J. Brydebell (2), Signal Maintainer, Elizabeth,
Pa.
C. A. Berger, Chief Clerk, Signal Department,
Pittsburgh.
J. G. Blobock, Machinist, Motive Power, Mc­
Kees Rocks, Pa.
W. J. Barry, Clerk, Pittsburgh.
W. H. Brinhoff, Draftsman, Motive Power,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Miss G. L. Blair, Clerk, SCS Department, Buffalo.
Mabel I. Baker, Stenographer, SFT, Pittsburgh.
F. H. Babcock, Safety Agent, Pittsburgh.
J. H. Beedle, Chief Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
Pete Buchan, Carpenter, Oiler and Packer,
Aliquippa, Pa.
J. J. Burkhard, Foreman of Pipe Shop, McKees
Rocks, Pa.
E. H. Brooks (10), Assistant Report Clerk,
Auditor Disbursement, Pittsburgh.
V. L. Blackburn (22), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
Miss A. L. Colabrese (8), Comptometer Operator,
Pittsburgh.
F. C. Clements, Foreman, Motive Power Department,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
J. L. Crawford, Signalman, Beaver, Pa.
D. G. Crowther, Clerk, Auditor Disbursement,
Pittsburgh.
A. J. Cobbett, Clerk, Shop Accountants office,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Meyer W. Donner (2), Revenue Clerk, AFA,
Pittsburgh.
R. K. Delision, Construction Department,
Pittsburgh.
Harry Dixon, Assistant Examiner of Accounts,
Pittsburgh.
Abigail H. Drake, Comptometer Operator,
Pittsburgh.
E. C. Eberhardt (6), Clerk, Shop Accounts,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Frank Emery, General Car Foreman, New
Castle Junction, Pa.
William Fenskie (4), Clerk, Shop Accounts,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
W. S. Flinn (2), Examiner of Accountants,
Pittsburgh.
Colin L. Forsyth (3), Clerk, SFT, Pittsburgh.
R. M. Foster, Fireman, McKees Rocks, Pa.
N. J. Frey, Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
John Fischer, Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
C. J. Funk, Clerk, SFT, Pittsburgh.
Nellie L. Forsyth, Telephone Operator, Mc-
Keesport, Pa.
F. W. Franz, Clerk, Auditor Disbursement,
Pittsburgh.
Lloyd A. Greene (3), Clerk, APA, Pittsburgh.
Margaretta C. Graham, 328 East End Avenue,
Beaver, Pa.
E. A. Graff (3), Clerk, Freight Claim, Pittsburgh.
G. A. Girty, Clerk, Engineer Accountant,
Pittsburgh.
Ethel J. Hoffman (2), Typist, Pittsburgh.
R. S. Hervey, AFA, Pittsburgh.
A. H. Hutchinson, Clerk, Engineer Accountant,
Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tantlinger, Freight Claim Department,
Pittsburgh.
O. W. Hoover, Ticket Clerk, Homestead, Pa.
H. W. Heron, Clerk, APA, Pittsburgh.
H. B. Herr, Signal Maintainer. Pittsburgh.
G. R. Herrington, Assistant Embargo Clerk,
Pittsburgh.
George R. Herrington. Clerk, SFT. Pittsburgh.
A. E. Heimbach, Assistant Signal Engineer,
Pittsburgh.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
Henry M. Howells, Baggagemaster and Ticket
Clerk, McKees Rocks, Pa.
William John (2), ASA, Pittsburgh.
Elizabeth Klingensmith (2), File Clerk, Pittsburgh.
Vesta Kelvington (13), Clerk, Freight Claim,
Pittsburgh.
J. E. Kuhn, Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
Paul F. Kraber (2), Joint Facility Accountant,
Pittsburgh.
Raymond E. Kraus, Draftsman, McKees
ROcks, Pa.
W. F. Kelley, Trainman, Beaver Falls, Pa.
William A. Kuehner, Chief Clerk, Engineer
Accountant, Pittsburgh.
A. W. Kastner, Clerk, Accountant Department,
Pittsburgh.
L. J. Kotchware, Machinist Apprentice, Mc­
Kees Rocks, Pa.
F. J. Kennedy (6), APA, Pittsburgh.
Marie T. Larkin, Stenographer, SFT, Pittsburgh.
C. J. Lunden, Draftsman, McKees Rocks, Pa.
G. J. Leek, Shop Draftsman, McKees Rocks,
Pa.
T. W. Lane, Engineering Accountant, Pittsburgh.
James J. Laughlin (2), General Clerk, SFT,
Pittsburgh.
Miss Lillian Lorraine (2), Clerk, SFT, Pittsburgh.
F. E. Marsh, Agent, McKeesport, Pa.
P. B. Mutzig, Clerk, Shop Accountant, Mc­
Kees Rocks, Pa.
W. M. Mason, General Yard Master, Aliquippa,
Pa.
Dale M. Mosser, Investigator, Freight Claim,
Pittsburgh.
E. S. Murphy, Shop Accountants, McKees
Rocks, Pa.
E. W. Muse, Assistant Signal Maintainer,
Buena Vista, Pa.
Frank T. Muse, Signal Maintainer, Monessen,
Pa.
J. W. Morrison (2), Construction Department,
Pittsburgh.
E. E. Mills (5), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
T. J. Matthews (2), Clerk, Engineering Accountant,
Pittsburgh.
J. C. Matthews (4), Clerk, Auditor Disbursement,
Pittsburgh.
Florence E. Milmee, Stenographer, Auditor
Disbursement, Pittsburgh.
E. L. Moorhouse (2), Clerk, Treasury Department,
Pittsburgh.
A. E. McMurray (4), Chief Statistician, SF,
Pittsburgh.
G. P. McBride (3), Construction Department,
Pittsburgh.
M. Helen McKelvey (6), Clerk, Auditor Disbursement,
Pittsburgh.
John McCafferty (22), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
T. E. McEachran (5), Signal Maintainer,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
John McCorvin (4), Signal Supervisor, Mc­
Keesport, Pa.
H. P. McKenery (2), Signal Engineer, Mc­
Keesport, Pa.
Mrs. Jane E. McClelland, Clerk, Freight Claim,
Pittsburgh.
Miss C. Neuman, Ticket Seller, Pittsburgh.
Edith Owen (3), Clerk, SFT, Pittsburgh.
Clara E. Phillips (3), Clerk, AFA, Pittsburgh.
C. B. Phillis, Draftsman, Pittsburgh.
H. L. Phillis, Bookkeeper, Pittsburgh.
J. C. Parks (14), General Clerk, SFT, Pittsburgh.
E. Pfrom, Assistant Superintendent Track,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
S. B. Pickard, Chief Electrician, McKees
Rocks, Pa.
H. E. Roney (2), Signal Draftsman, Pittsburgh.
G. S. Rumbaugh, Triple Vale Tester, Aliquippa,
Pa.
G. H. Rushneck, Draftsman, McKees Rocks,
Pa.
Bertha L. Reichert, Clerk, Freight Station,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Dena Rovesti (4), Clerk, Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Marie Sheppard (3). Clerk, APA, Pittsburgh.
H. E. Schuchman, Freight Rate Clerk, Pittsburgh.
A. C Simpson (7), Stenographer, Signal Department,
Pittsburgh.
G. A. Smith, Clerk, Freight Claim, Pittsburgh.
H. L. Stouffer, Electric Motive Power, Mc­
Kees Rocks, Pa.
Eva M. Stouffer, Clerk, McKees Rocks, Pa.
Larey Sampson, Fireman, Pittsburgh.
"MISS UNITED STATES"
Anne Lee Patterson, eighteen, daughter
of John W. Patterson, employed in the
Tariff Bureau of the Big Four Railway
in Cincinnati, won the title of "Miss
Northern Kentucky" at Frankfort, Ky.,
on May 28, and the title of "Miss United
States" at the International Beauty Pageant,
Galveston, Texas, on June 15. The
following day, Miss Patterson was defeated
by one vote on the last ballot for
the title of "Miss Universe" by Netta
Ducheateau, of Belgium. When Ziegfeld's
Follies opened in New York on
July 1 Miss Patterson was a member
of the cast.
L. Sutherland, General Storekeeper, McKees
Rocks, Pa.
B. J. Sigler, Yard Clerk, Glassport, Pa.
T. F. Sheridan, Assistant Superintendent,
Motive Power, McKees Rocks, Pa.
William L. Snyder, Electrical Foreman, Pittsburgh.
E. F. Schaefer, Clerk, Pittsburgh.
Edward H. Strehlau, Clerk, Motive Power, Mc­
Kees Rocks, Pa.
E. H. Semler (4), Clerk, Auditor Disbursement,
Pittsburgh.
Helen W. Tebbitt (5), Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
J. R. Taylor, Signal Maintainer, Buena Vista,
Pa.
J. M. Tegley, Signal Department, Coraopolis,
Pa.
J. K. Taylor, Signal Maintainer, Buena Vista,
Pa.
Walker Thomas, Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
Alberta Voight (3), Clerk, General Manager's
Office, Pittsburgh.
J. A. Wylie, Assistant Traveling Auditor,
Pittsburgh.
Jeannette Wielandt (3), Clerk, Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Charles F. Watt, Clerk, Purchasing Department,
Pittsburgh.
B. I. Williams, Yard Master, New Castle Jt.,
Pa.
Joseph Williams, Clerk, ASA, Pittsburgh.
Rosa Wittish, Clerk, AFA, Pittsburgh.
Miss C. M. Stormfels (2), Clerk, Shop Accountant,
McKees Rocks, Pa.
P. S. Yermak, Clerk, Shop Accountant, McKees
Rocks. Pa.
N. E. Zitzman (7), Clerk, SFT, Pittsburgh.
WESTERN DIVISION
Michael Armal, Root St., Chicago.
F. E. Ayers, Dairy Agent, Chicago.
J. G. Brossmer, DFCA Office, Chicago.
Steve Batz, Section Foreman, Burdick, Ind.
L. H. Beeker (2), Transitman, Chicago.
A. H. Bock (2), Agent, South Bend, Ind.
H. W. Coffman, CFA, Chicago.
S. G. Foster, Clerk, South Bend, Ind.
E. S. Fisher, Machinist. Elkhart, Ind.
R. T. Flenar, Cashier, Elkhart, Ind.
W. O. Ferguson, Manager Taylor St. Warehouse,
Chicago.
M. Fitzpatrick, Claim Department, Chicago.
M. J. Gartland, Switchman, Englewood, 111.
H. J. Gang, Sergeant Police, Elkhart, Ind.
W. C. Geyer, Clerk, Agent, Elkhart, Ind.
R. C. Hager (2), Transitman, Chicago.
C. S. Kline (5), Agent, Gary, Ind.
J. H. Kiracofe (9), Gen Yard Master s Office,
Elkhart, Ind.
J. J. Ludwig, Clerk, Elkhart, Ind.
D. W. Lynch, Agent's Office, Chicago.
Walter Mika, DFA Office, Englewood, 111.
F. D. McGee, DFCA Office, Chicago.
E. L. Miles, Assistant Signal Supervisor, Elkhart,
Ind. M .
John McCombie, Clerk, WDA. Chicago.
William McMaster, Purchasing Agent, Chicago.
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the widow and children. Ask the beneficiaries of the following
New York Central employes:
NAME ADDRESS OCCUPATION LOSS AMOUNT
Harry McGahey Winchester, Ind. Section Man Life $1000.00
Frank Zifko Chicago, 111. Carpenter Life 1293.60
Burton M. Masters Ypsilanti, Mich. Foreman Life 1344.55
Clifford C. Clark Sharonville, Ohio Clerk Life 6350.00
Wm. C. Larsh Thornton, Ind. Switch Bldr. Life. 2000.00
Wm. S. Spellman Detroit, Mich. Frt. Brakeman Life 1161.70
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E. H. Marton, Engineering Department,
Chicago.
W. C. Plumbeck, Telegrapher CF Tower, East
Side, 111.
J. H. Ramsey, Agent's Office, Chicago.
George F. Rose, Laborer, Chicago.
J. L. Robinson, TFA, Chicago.
W. A. Riddell, Live Sotck Agent, Chicago.
E. J. Rooney, CFA, Chicago.
W. F. Schnaak, CFA, Chicago.
C. S. Stroda (2), Agent's Office, Mishawaka,
Ind.
V. E. Stone, Fire Inspector, Elkhart, Ind.
R. C. Shaw (2), Agent's Office, Chicago.
W. M. Stewart (5), DFCA, Chicago.
G. B. Swain (2), DFCA Office, Chicago.
F. S. Tisdell, TR, Chicago.
E. J. Tuligowski, Agent's, Elkhart, Ind.
Mrs. Louise Thoma, DFA Office, Englewood,
111.
F. J. Watson, Rate Clerk, Chicago.
A. P. Wenzell, Special Engineer, Chicago.
ILLINOIS DIVISION
J. D. Adams, Clerk, Sheff, Ind.
W. D. Andress, Yard Clerk, Danville, 111.
Roy Belangea, Cashier, Danville, 111.
E. J. Baker, Agent, Union Hill, 111.
T. R. Childress, Clerk, Danville, 111.
M. T. Cinotto, Agent, McNabb, 111.
John Dolezal. Clerk, North Judson, Ind.
R. Griffith, Clerk, Danville, 111.
A. Humphrey (2), Car Inspector, Streator, 111.
E. S. Hunter, Yard Clerk, Danville, 111.
W. J. Hoenmann, Car Inspector, Kankakee, 111.
C. R. Knachel, Rate Clerk, North Judson, Ind.
W. P. Lipp, Operator, Granville, 111.
Harry La Marr, Assistant Lard Master, Danville,
111.
W. C. Nelson, General Yard Master, Danville,
111.
B. A. Pate, Assistant Yard Master, Danville,
111.
Edith Paney, Clerk, Daoville, 111.
Charles Pepe, Section Foreman, Kankakee, 111.
E. P. Smith, Yard Clerk, Danville, 111.
R. C. Travis, Section Foreman, Granville, 111.
Maude Van Hook, Stenographer, Danville, 111.
George Green, Rate Clerk, Danville. 111.
John D. Lacy, Foreman, North Hayden, Ind.
JOINT WESTERN-ILLINOIS DIVISION
H. G. Austgen (2), Agent's Office, Gibson, Ind.
A. Ameling, Blue Island, 111.
H. L. Ambre, c/o Agent, Gigson, Ind.
H. W. Buhring (7), c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
Mrs. Loretta A. Bock, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
C. A. Bounds, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
Charlotte Crout, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
Theodore N. Cutler (2), c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
V. W. DuFrain, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
Margaret Eichner, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
R. A. Gloppen, Telephone and Telegraph Inspector,
Blue Island, 111.
R. C. Hochstadter, Rate Clerk, Blue Island, 111.
Eunice Kelley, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
F. Miller, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
M. Mott, TA, Argo, 111.
Celia Nowak, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
John R. Reinert, Assistant Cashier, Gibson, Ind.
Mary A. Roane, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
Rosa Schaub, c/o Agent, Gibson, Ind.
W. A. Schultz, c/o GFA, Chicago, 111.
Richard J. Zimmerman (6), c/o Agent, Gibson,
Ind.
CLEVELAND TERMINAL
May Sullivan (2), Clerk, AFA, Cleveland.
W. C. Richardson(2), Clerk, AFA, Cleveland.
E. M. Pugh (4), Clerk, AFA, Cleveland.
R. A. Smith, Clerk, AFA, Cleveland.
Fred Howard (2), Clerk, AFA, Cleveland.
Russell W. Brandis, Clerk, AFA, Cleveland.
J. G. Bonsey (2), Clerk, AFA. Cleveland.
Irwin Wolfe, Clerk, AFA, Cleveland.
J. P. Quigley (2), Clerk, Agent, Cleveland.
Frank Comerford (7), Clerk Agent, Cleveland.
Miss J. E. Coleman, Clerk, Agent, Cleveland.
G. T. Bredwell (5), Collector, Agent, Cleveland.
F. J. Kunzman (2), Clerk, Agent, Cleveland.
E. F. Gienke, Clerk, Agent, Cleveland.
Dave Marsh, Foreman, Cleveland.
Ben Gray, Yard Master, Cleveland.
D. C. Phillips (2), Car Inspector, Cleveland.
Robt. Price, Yard Clerk, Cleveland.
Fred Wood, Yard Master, Cleveland.
Frank Miles, Yard Master, Cleveland.
Edward Hoffman, General Agent, Cleveland.
A. D. Visk, Rate Clerk, DFAB, Cleveland.
R. L. Hazard (4), Rate Clerk, DFAB, Cleveland.
W. G. Ryan (2), Clerk, DFAB, Cleveland.
J. H. Kay, Rate Clerk, DFAB, Cleveland.
Miss A. M. Doyno, Stenographer, DFAB,
Cleveland.
Miss P. C. Prokop (2), Stenographer, DFAB,
Cleveland.
E. C. Finger, Chief Clerk, DFCA. Cleveland.
M. H. Muraney, Investigator, DFCA, Cleveland.
A. T. Walters (3), Clerk, SFT, Cleveland.
J. R. Glaub, Clerk, Industrial, Cleveland.
W. A. McGee, Mechanical Engineer, Cleveland.
G. T. Belsheim. Assistant Engineer. Cleveland.
J. A. Skinner, Draftsman. Cleveland.
W. E. Bates, Signal, Cleveland.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
M. E. Gleason, Clerk, Legal, Cleveland.
Henry Braschwitz, Chief Clerk, Superintendent
Telegraph, Cleveland.
G. B. Tricky, Switchman, Cleveland.
J. L. Collins (2), Division General Foreman,
Collinwood, Ohio.
Mary Rodgers, Clerk, DEA, Collinwood, Ohio.
Edmund Galbraith, General Foreman, Collinwood,
Ohio.
A. H. Fraser, DEA, Collinwood, Ohio.
CLEVELAND DIVISION
A. D. Strong, Agent, Norwalk, Ohio.
E. M. Knowles (3), Agent, Oberlin, Ohio.
M. W. Thornburg (3), Berea, Ohio.
C. J. Weigle, Agent, Bay Bridge, Ohio.
B. R. Lloyd, Agent, Bergholz, Ohio.
L. L. Allen, Agent, Palmyra, Ohio.
Lucile Weir, Agent, Mechanicstown, Ohio.
L. A. Morgan, Agent, Dillonvale, Ohio.
H. L. Dennis, Agent, Minerva, Ohio.
H. E. Ruggles (4), Agent, Alliance, Ohio.
C. A. Leite (4), Chief Clerk, Agent, Fremont,
Ohio.
Jack Banville, Yard Clerk, Point Clinton, Ohio.
Robert D. Sanger, Cashier, Agent, Norwalk,
Ohio.
Edna C. Holmes (4), Rate Clerk, Alliance,
Ohio.
Fredda Summers (2), Cashier, Alliance, Ohio.
C. A. Rhodes. Yard Clerk, Alliance, Ohio.
G. C. Fuhr, Chief Clerk, Alliance, Ohio.
F. E. McRitchie, Engineman, Port Clinton,
Ohio.
E. J. Fielder, Storekeeper, Minerva, Ohio.
E. H. Norris (2), Ticket Clerk, Berea, Ohio.
ERIE DIVISION
W. H. Wasmund, Conductor, Erie, Pa.
E. J. Marklow (2), Chief Clerk, General Agent,
Erie, Pa.
Homer L. Day, Clerk, Agent, Erie, Pa.
E. H. Heckler, Conductor, Erie, Pa.
J. G. Wagner, Conductor, Erie, Pa.
H. C. Bird, Stenographer, Superintendent, Erie,
Pa.
L. T. Eppler, Conductor, Erie, Pa.
G. A. Cone, Agent, Erie, Pa.
W. F. Gleason, General Agent, Erie, Pa.
C. W. Deibler (3), Agent, Conneaut, Ohio.
J. M. Mundkowski, Switchman, Erie, Pa.
G. D. Bovee, Agent, Fairview, Pa.
G. G. Thompson, Chief Clerk, Agent, Conneaut,
Ohio.
C. L. Tyrell, Agent, North Girard, Pa.
FRANKLIN DIVISION
G. B. Baker, Agent, Osgood, Pa.
R. J. Cowin (2), Agent, Sharon, Pa.
E. P. Gaffney (5), Captain of Police, Youngstown,
Ohio.
0. G. Bloqd, Foreman, Ashtabula, Ohio.
A. K. Beebe, Operator, Andover, Ohio.
C. E. Maloney, Supervisor of Track, Ashtabula,
Ohio.
Paul Southwick, Wire Chief, ^Youngstown,
Ohio.
C. W. Thornton, Supervisor of Track, Franklin,
Pa.
H. G. McFetridge, Agent, Polk, Pa.
A. C. Cowin (5), Agent, Franklin, Pa.
H. E. Van Slyke (2), Train Master, Ashtabula,
Ohio.
G. R. Bailey (3), Agent, Youngstown, Ohio.
M. C. Phelps, Operator, Youngstown, Ohio.
T. C. Lutton, Clerk, Telegrapher, Osgood, Pa.
H. P. Bunnell (2), Agent, Hubbard, Ohio.
SOUTHERN DIVISION
A. H. Ritter, Engineer's Office, Charleston,
W. Va.
C. O. Parsons (3), Agent, Boomer, W. Va.
R. E. Inge, Conductor, Charleston, W. Va.
R. H. Frasher, Agent, Elkview, W. Va.
H. P. Hicks, Cashier, Charleston, W. Va.
S. S. Underwood (2), Agent, Trimble, Ohio.
G. W. Johnston (2), Glouster, Ohio.
C. T. Allen, Chief Clerk, Accounting Department,
Columbus, Ohio.
N. B. Oakes, Agent, Cedar Grove, W. Va.
J. C. Greter, Yard Master, Charleston, W. Va.
T. S. Richardson (4), Agent, Charleston,
W. Va.
W. A. Throckmorton, Agent, Albany, Ohio.
T. W. Meyer, AFA, Cleveland.
F. Brown, Agent, Point Pleasantville, W. Va.
C. L. Wilson, Train Master, Hobson, Ohio.
F. W. Dixon, Agent, Dickinson, W. Va.
1. B. Chadwick, Superintendent, Charleston,
W. Va.
J. A. Shaver, Agent, Dunbar, W, Va.
L. D. Smith, Agent, Nitro, W. Va.
I. J. Ryan (2), Yard Master, Corning, Ohio.
A. C. Hall (3), Agent, Belle. W. Va.
G. A. Stuart, Train Master, Charleston, W. Va.
J. A. McLaughlin, Relief Agent, Buffalo,
W. Va.
H. A. Painter, Ticket Agent, Charleston,
W. Va.
J. A. Dingess, Chief Clerk, Storekeeper, Hobson,
Ohio.
D. E. Michael. Agent, Red House, W. Va.
N. A. Gibbs, Agent, Hobson. Ohio.
W. S. Peck, Agent. West Charleston, W. Va.
OHIO DIVISION
G. H. Smith, Division Engineer, Cohimbus,
Ohio.
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
Ralph L. Chandler, District Master Car Builder, was pleasantly surprised at the East Buffalo Car Shop on June 26, when a large
number of supervisory officers gathered to wish him good luck in his new position as Master Car Builder, Line East, with headquarters
in New York. Acting for the group, Dr. J. W. LeSeur presented Mr. Chandler with a fitted traveling bag and a sterling
silver coffee set for Mrs. Chandler, after which C. H. Hogan, Manager, Shop Labor, offered his congratulations.
I. J. Ryan (31), General Yard Master, Corning.
C. A. Dew (2), General Yard Master, West
Columbus, Ohio.
J. D. Harrod, Train Master, Bucyrus, Ohio.
L. B. Dover, Yard Master, West Columbus.
O. L. Boal (2), Commercial Agent, Zanesville,
Ohio.
O. L. Angell, Supervising Agent, Columbus.
L. M. Fisk, Master Car Builder, Columbus.
Charles Randall, Assistant Chief Clerk, Superintendent's
Office, Columbus, Ohio.
L. W. ' Peters (2), Clerk, Superintendent's
Office, Columbus, Ohio.
J. O. Woodruff, Clerk, General Superintendent's
Office, Columbus, Ohio.
W. J. Ryan, Clerk, AGFA, Columbus, Ohio.
P. C. Hatfield, Trace Clerk, AGFA, Columbus.
Julia Dunn, Stenographer, AGFA, Columbus.
Joseph Kirwin, Stenographer, AGFA, Columbus,
Ohio.
R. Z. Gardner, Lieutenant of Police, Columbus,
Ohio.
William Heirmer, Conductor, West Columbus.
William Holloway, Section Foreman, Kenton.
H. M. Patton, Agent, Columbus, Ohio.
W. O. Brashear (3), Agent, South Columbus.
C. E. Glassford, Agent, Findlay, Ohio.
W. H. Smith (3), Agent, Bowling Green, Ohio.
H. A. Horch (6), Agent, St. Marys, Ohio.
C. W. Collins (2), Agent, Fostoria, Ohio.
L. D. Stoneburner (3), Agent, Crooksville.
R. C. Hampson, Agent, Fultonham, Ohio.
C. J. Brooks, Agent, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
W. M. Bronson (2), Agent, Mt. Gilead, Ohio.
G. W. Sailor (2), Agent, Corning, Ohio.
L. A. Stith, Agent, Johnstown, Ohio.
J. P. Grubb (2), Agent, Croton, Ohio.
W. A. Parrish, Agent, Thurston, Ohio.
L. C. Mitchell, Agent, Kile, Ohio.
R. S. Doughty, Agent, Moxahala, Ohio.
Bess Powell (3), Agent, Thornville, Ohio.
G. W. Berry, Agent, Slater, Ohio.
**Je desire que je merite"
Open Day and Night
N. Y. C. Station
Restaurant
Guillaume & Co., Inc., Utica, N. Y.
J.G.TRITTEN i i Manager
TOLEDO DIVISION
J. J. Hatfield, Clerk, Celina Ohio
Lola C. Fisher (2), Clerk, DFAB, Toledo, Ohio
A. G. Hanks, Agent, Wapakoneta, Ohio.
W. E. Rose (2), Ticket Clerk, Findlay, Ohio.
J. M. Callahan, Operator, Kenton, Ohio.
J. A. Ryan, Agent, Kenton, Ohio.
A. F. Dean, Cashier, Kenton, Ohio.
Clem N. Lepker, Yard Clerk, Kenton, Ohio.
J. F. Wozesinski (2), Laborer, Toledo, Ohio.
George P. Cichanski, Clerk, Freight Department,
Detroit, Mich.
0. M. Kear, Laborer, Van Wert, Ohio.
E. N. Stroupe, District Special Agent, Toledo.
George Sheeks, Engine Wiper, Van Wert, Ohio.
W. C. Rainier (4), Instrumentman, Toledo.
G. K. Townsley, Engineman, Monroe, Mich.
F. H. Long, Foreman, Stores Department, Elkhart,
Ind.
F. R. McCleary, Electrician, Van Wert, Ohio.
G. O. Hamilton, Yard Clerk, Toledo, Ohio.
Ralph P. Ross (2), Section Foreman, Huntsville,
Ohio.
J. E. Hoey, Special Appliance Foreman, Bellefontaine.
W. W. Wickersham, Signal Foreman, Toledo.
T. N. Golden, Ticket Agent, Carey, Ohio.
F. W. Ruppel, Agent, N. Toledo Yards, Toledo.
H. A. Horning, Superintendent of Building,
Jackson, Mich.
1. C. Smith, Inspector, Bellefontaine.
Caroline Tigges (5), Clerk, DFAB, Toledo.
J. M. Merchant, Agent, Cairo Division, Grand
Chain, Ifl.
H. M. Corwin, Cashier, Fostoria, Ohio.
C. W. Hillabrand, Clerk, Division Engineer,
Toledo.
J. B. Bennett, Laborer, Huntsville, Ohio.
Irwin Henkiift, Laborer, Huntsville, Ohio.
Pearl Bridge, Laborer, Huntsville, Ohio.
V. A. Strawser, Record Clerk, Elkhart, Ind.
O. H. Keegan (3), Clerk, Division Accountant.
C. E. Rowley (2), Clerk, Division Accountant.
C. T. Heck, Conductor, Adrian, Mich.
Frank Stellmacher, Chief Clerk, Yard Master,
Toledo.
H. O. Wening, Clerk, AGFA, Toledo.
A. W. Frazer (2), Clerk, Agent, Monroe, Mich.
E. S. Manchester, Agent, Agent, Tecumseh,
Mich.
William C. Prang, Rate Clerk, DFA, Toledo.
E. J. Troike, Rate Clerk, AGFA, Toledo.
E. M. Butler, Agent, Sturgis, Mich.
W. M. Drury (2), Agent, Coldwater, Mich.
C. J. Sullivan, Assistant Agent, Toledo.
J. W. Bennett, Section Foreman, Toledo.
A. F. Orwig, Inspector, Freight Agent, Toledo.
J. W. Forshey, Clerk, AGFA, Toledo.
Arnold Behrens (2), Brakeman, Air Line Jet.
Josephine Powers, Clerk, Freight Office, Toledo.
E. Koehn, Yard Master, Air Line Jet.
Ellsworth P. Hilkens (2), Clerk, Freight Agent,
Toledo.
C. W. Hoolihan, Agent, Angola, Ind.
N. F. Damlos, Chief Clerk, Freight Office,
Angola, Ind.
LANSING DIVISION
A. M. Stockwell, Engineman, Hillsdale, Mich.
RUTLAND RAILROAD
Frank D. Sullivan, Telephone Maintainer and
Electric Foreman.
C. J. Edinger, Rate Clerk, GPA.
J. A. White, Acting Terminal Agent, Ogdensburg,
N. Y.
R. D. Smith, Agent, Lisbon, N. Y.
C. G. Hull, Agent, Madrid, N. Y.
B. C. Looby, Agent, Knapps, N. Y.
R. W. McCracken, Agent, Winthrop, N. Y.
L. L. Moomey, Agent, North Lawrence, N. Y.
R. F. Barnum, Agent, Bangor, N. Y.
G. M. Roberts, Chief Clerk, Malone, N. Y.
M. A. Baldwin, Agent, Brushton, N. Y.
A. J. Pilling, Agent, Burke.
C. F. McCollister, Agent, Chateaugay, N. Y.
A. Aubertine, Agent, Mooers Forks, N. Y.
We Operate
113 Ice Manufacturing Plants
and Produce More Than
19,000 Tons of Ice Daily
THE CITY ICE & FUEL COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO
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The New
Huntington
Bank
Building
A. C o l u m b u s Location
at 17 South High Street, facing the State Capitol,
is here available to Iwell rated firms. Address
HUNTINGTON BANK BUILDING
Suite 311-312 Columbus, Ohio
What do you want
very m uch?
"Whatever It Is—a radio, a washing machine,
an electric refrigerator, a home of your own—
you'll get it sooner if you start your savings
account today. And the sooner you start the
more interest you'll get. Write today for full
details of our plan for hanking by mail. Address
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Farmers Deposit Nat ional Bank
Savings Department
Fifth Avenue and Wood Street Pittsburgh, Pa.
First
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Capital and Surplus over
Eleven Million Dollars
Savings Department
Commercial Banking
Trust Department
Safe Deposit Boxes
Travel Department
C O L U M B U S
is a growing city. It is progressive. Bank
deposits of Columbus banks total over $115,-
000,000. It will make a good city for manufacturer,
jobber, merchant and all types of
business enterprises.
For desirable offices in the heart of
Columbus' business activity, apply at
CITY NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO.
9 East Long Street Columbus, Ohio
THE UNION NEWS COMPANY

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The O x w e l d
R a i l r o a d Service Co.
Unit of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
0H3
Linde Oxygen
Prest-O-Lite Acetylene
Oxweld Apparatus and Supplies
Union Carbide
Carbic
Carbic Flood Lights
Car Inspectors' Lamps
Haynes Stellite High
Abrasive Welding Rod
CARBIDE AND CARBON BUILDING, CHICAGO
CARBIDE AND CARBON BUILDING, NEW YORK
YOUNGSTOWN
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
CONTENTS
AIRCO
OXYGEN
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This stamp on Every Airco Oxygen Cylinder used
on New York Central Lines is guarantee of High
Purity Oxygen 99-5% pure in the Cylinder.
AIRCO OXYGEN
AIRCO ACETYLENE
AIRCO NATIONAL CARBIDE
AND
AIRCO-DAVIS-BOURNONVILLE
WELDING AND CUTTING
APPARATUS
All Manufactured and Distributed by
AIR REDUCTION SALES COMPANY
from 85 Plants and 115 Distributing Stations with
District Sales Offices in 23 Principal Cities
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CAM
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Locomotive and Car Wheel Tires
Steel-Tired Wheels
SPRINGS
Tire Mill Products
Journal Box Lids
RAILWAY STEEL-SPRING COMPANY
30 Church Street, New York
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KIathaN
Mechanical Lubricator
Above cut shows our type D.V. Lubricator,
which is made in 8, 16, 20 8C 24 pint
capacities with from one to fourteen feeds.
Satisfactorily serves all lubrication requirements
on steam and electric locomotives.
Provides proper lubrication for long, continuous
runs.
Eliminates the need of refilling on the road.
Insures uniform lubrication throughout the
run regardless of the length of the run or the
severity of the service.
Full details furnished on request.
NATHAN MANUFACTURING CO.
250 Park Ave., New York
C o l e m a n &> Co., Inc.
COLVER
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Journal Boxes
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Coal Co.
Quality COALS GAS
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DOMESTIC
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G. A. ACKERMANN PRINTING CO.
Now Located at
350 Hudson St.
NEW YORK
Telephone Walker 5-3366
HILLSBORO COAL COMPANY
PRODUCERS OF
«OLD HILLSBORO COAL
MINE AT HILLSBORO, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ILLINOIS
OLD COLONY BLDG. CHICAGO
A. J. GRYMES, President G. F. FISCHER, Treasurer
BREWER DRY DOCK COMPANY
(Established 1899)
GENERAL REPAIRING
Designers and Builders of Tugs, Barges, Scows and Dry Docks
MARINER'S HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, N. Y.
SWAN-FINCH OIL CORPORATION
NEW YORK
Quality Oils and Greases
DICKINSON DEVICES
Cast Iron Smoke Jacks for Engine Houses.
Light Fireproof Jacks for Engine Houses.
Aeolus Roof Ventilators made of Cast Iron and Sheet Metal.
Cast Iron Chimneys for Small Buildings.
Cast Iron Exhaust Heads. Cast Iron Smoke Plates.
PAUL DICKINSON, Inc., 3356 S. Artesian Ave., Chicago
Huron Washout and ArchTube Plugs
30 Church Street
New York City
H U R O N M F G . C O *
P. C. CADY, Eastern Representative
Classified Printing
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Factory: 3240 East Woodbridge Street
Detroit, Mich.
Ask any of the Hotels, Clubs, Restaurants, Dining Cars,
Steamships, Summer Resorts and Industrial Plants about us
E. A. AARON & BROS., Inc.
46-48 SO. WATER MARKET, CHICAGO, ILL.
Telephones Roosevelt: 3220—3221—3223—3324
A Complete Line of Foreign and Domestic
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Fruits and Vegetables
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727-747 West Van Burcn St.
CHICAGO
Telephone Haymarket 7414
J. L. QUIMBY 8C COMPANY
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
"QUEEN BEE LUBRICANT"
Office: 278 Water St., New York City
Indiana & Illinois Coal Corporation
MINERS and SHIPPERS of
NOKOMIS COAL
Mined in Montgomery County, Illinois
OLD COLONY BUILDING CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
The ELLINGTON MILLER CO.
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Edward T. Danahy Co.
540-542 WASHINGTON STREET
BUFFALO, N. Y.
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Steamships and Institutions supplied
Peerless Engine Washing Oil
Semaphore Long Time Burning Oil
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Refiners and Distributors of Petroleum Products
Works
OIL CITY and SCRANTON
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BATTERY PLACE
NEW YORK
THE BUCKEYE STEEL CASTINGS CO.
COLUMBUS, OHIO
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M I N E R
OMPLETE elimination of scale formation,
C foaming, pitting and corrosion in steam
boilers begins in the laboratory. It is made possible
only when accurate mineral analysis of the
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the effectiveness of Dearborn Treatment.
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20S E. 42nd St., New York 310 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago
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Magnus Company
INCORPORATED
JOURNAL BEARINGS AND
BRASS AND BRONZE
ENGINE CASTINGS
New York Central Lines Magazine for August, 1931
NEW YORK CHICAGO
BOLTS, NUTS and WASHERS
Carriage and Automobile Forgings
THE COLUMBUS BOLT WORKS CO.
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COLUMBUS, OHIO
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90 WEST STREET 59 EAST VAN BUREN ST.
NEW YORK CHICAGO
RAILWAY EXCHANGE BLDG., ST. LOUIS
Manufacturers of
TRACK, CAR and ENGINE
DEVICES
Railroad Accessories
Corporation
x
SIGNAL AND TRACK DEVICES
Main Otfice: 1504 Chrysler Bldg., New York
Western Sales Office: Factories:
80 E. Jackson Blvd. Long Isl. City, N. Y.
Chicago, 111. Albany, N. Y.
D . B . F R A M P T O N & C O .
Producers
Lumber, Timbers, Piling,
Cross Ties and Switch Ties
"Better Made" TIE PLUGS
Treated or Untreated
P I T T S B U R G H
Cushing Stone Company, Inc.
Producers of
CRUSHED S T O N E
For Concrete and Railroad
Ballast
Plant: South Amsterdam, N. Y.
Main Office: Schenectady, N. Y.
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TUCO f l e x o l i t h f l o o r i n g
T U C O p r o d u c t s c o r p .
30 CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK
PAIGE-JONES
Water Treatment for
Locomotive and
Stationary Boilers
WAYSIDE-TANK METHOD
(Patented July 13, 1926)
PAIGE-JONES CHEMICAL COMPANY
6216 West 66th Place CHICAGO
F. FERGUSON & SON
FOX HILL FOUNDRY
Founders — Machinists — Pattern Makers
Propeller Wheels
Iron and Bronze
All sizes of tugboat wheels carried in stock
Marine castings of all descriptions
Twelfth and Clinton Sts. 1 Hoboken, N. J.
TELEPHONES HOBOKEN, 88 and 759
VICTOR
BITUMINOUS
COAL
The
B U F F A L O
Bottom Rod Support
Meeting A.R.A. Requirements.
Loop held by friction.
Obstructions swing it clear.
No bending or binding.
Permitting free brake movement.
Folds up for channel removal.
Made to fit any channel.
B U F F A L O B R A K E B E A M CO.
NEW YORK HAMILTON, ONT.
O'Brien Brothers, Inc.
Contractors
O'Brien Brothers Towing Co., Inc.
O'Brien Brothers Shipyard Corp.
O'Brien Brothers Sand and Gravel Corp.
233 Broadway New York City
THE SUNDAY CREEK COAL CO.
OUTLOOK BUILDING
COLUMBUS, OHIO
Producers and Shippers of
Genuine Sunday Creek
and Sedalia Coals
NEW YORK COAL CO.
150 EAST BROAD STREET
COLUMBUS, OHIO
Miners and Shippers
HIGH GRADE DOMESTIC
and STEAM COALS
From West Virginia and Ohio
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THE RALSTON STEEL CAR COMPANY
COLUMBUS, OHIO
Annual Capacity 7500 New or Rebuilt Freight Cars
WALSH CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY
SYRACUSE, N. Y.
C L E V E L A N D , OHIO
GENERAL
CONTRACTORS
DAVENPORT, IOWA
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
CHICAGO, ILL.
yVfodels Span 100 lobars
This model of the famous DeWitt Clinton is made as a bank and also as an ornament and paper weight
This model of Hudson Type passenger locomotive is 9Vs inches long
THESE two models, one of the DeWitt Clinton, the New York Central's
pioneer train, first operated in 1831, and the other, of the Hudson Type
locomotive that draws the New York Central's passenger trains of today, repre­
sent in graphic form, the first and the latest types of rail motive power. Each
model is beautifully made and plated with sterling silver. They make attractive
ornaments, paper weights and historic souvenirs.
The DeWitt Clinton model is $1.50, postpaid; the Hudson locomotive
model is $2.50, postpaid.
r S E N D THIS COUPON WITH ORDER
! No. DeWitt Clinton Paper Weight or Bank
j2oo Hudson Type Paper Weight
! Name
Address
City State
Address, EDITOR, NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES MAGAZINE,
Check one desired
Room 1518, 466 Lexington Avenue, New York City

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