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The Power of the
Employes
7" J ERE are the answers to questions
i l on page 54, although, considering
the extraordinary bargain you are
getting this month, you ought to be
willing to furnish your own answers.
1. Each employe would have to rustle
$38 in new business.
2. They would have to round up
about six hundred thousand carloads.
Answers Nos. 1 and 2 should help to
convince you that the decline in traffic
has ceased to be a joke.
3. Saving in coal would amount to,
approximately, 152,745 tons, worth
about $397,000.
4. Although the railroads are spending
millions of dollars annually to
eliminate grade crossings, the number
of such crossings actually increased
—yes, increased—2,448 in the two
years 1925-6. So you see that in the
supposititious case we are considering,
the best efforts of all railroad employes
would just about hold the situation
on an even keel, so that the railroads
could eliminate grade crossings
as fast as new ones are created.
5. Capital expenditures, 1920 to 1927
inclusive, aggregated $5,978,296,000.
6. Investment per employe as of
1926 was $13,652.
7. Average net income per employe
was $681.
8. Per cent of net operating income
on investment per worker was 4.99.
9. Railroad investment in 100 years
was $24,000,000,000; investment in
motor vehicles and hard-surfaced
roads in the last twenty-five years
was $29,000,000,000.
10. While the United States has
only 9 per cent of the area and 7 per
cent of the inhabitants of all countries
having railroads, it has more than
one-third of the total railroad mileage
of the world; and our railroads
each year handle more tons of freight
than all the other railroads of the
world combined.
" A l " Bryant Given the "Once
Over" in Albany Paper
LFRED H. BRYANT, Assistant
A Station Master of the New York
Central in Albany, is the subject of
the "Once Over" column of the Albany
Times-Union, March 12. The
brief article printed beneath his picture
reads:
"Al Bryant, night assistant station
master at the Union depot, has been
in the service of the New York Central
Lines for seventeen years, and he
is thinking of writing a story, 'From
Standard
on Leading
Roads Including
New York Central System
General Office & Works : Philadelphia
Offices: New York. Chicago, St. Louis
Freight Brakeman to Station Master.'
"Mr. Bryant hails from Troy. Commendations
for courtesy while he was
a passenger conductor in 1920 gained
him the title 'The Trojan Courtier.'
Al conducts a prosperous newspaper
business in Troy to the envy of his
colleagues, who term him an aggran­
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dized newsboy, but he laughs it off,
and rakes in the shekels.
"Al's pride is the possession of what
he boasts is the best railroad watch
on the line. Approaching competition
to this time-honored possession is
his new car, in which he cavorts
around Troy."
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William Callanan
1LLIAM CALLANAN, Division
Freight Agent of the Boston &
Albany Railroad at Worcester,'Mass.,
passed away at
Worcester Hospital,
where he
had been a patient
for three
weeks, on Tuesday,
March 27.
He was born at
Hopkinton, Mass.,
March 22, 1870,
and after attending
the public
schools went to
William Callanan
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Academy at Exeter,
N. H., where
he was graduated
as an honor man in 1894. He attended
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In January, 1899, he entered the
employ of the Boston & Albany Railroad
in the Foreign Freight Agent's
office, Boston, and had been continuously
in the service of the Boston &
Albany since that time. He was appointed
Eastbound Contracting Agent
for the New York Central Lines at
Boston on December 1, 1907, and had
been Division Freight Agent of the
Boston & Albany at Worcester since
April 1, 1913.
Mr. Callanan was unmarried and
is survived by his father, six brothers
and three sisters.
The funeral was held at Hopkinton,
Mass., at the Church of St. John the
Evangelist, on Thursday, March 29.
A special train ran from Boston to accommodate
his many friends. The
services were likewise attended by a
large delegation of railroad and shipping
people.
Orrin Wolber
^RRIN WOLBER, forty-four, a
New York Central engineman,died
in an ambulance on the way to the
hospital after being taken suddenly ill
during a stopover at Elmira, N. Y.,
March 23. Physicians said that death
was due to intestinal rupture.
Mr. Wolber was apparently in good
spirits when he retired the night before
in the Railroad Y.M.C.A. Early
in the morning he called for assistance
and was hurried to the hospital.
Mr. Wolber's service with the New
York Central began in 1902 when he
became a freight fireman on the Syracuse
Division. He was later promoted
to freight engineman. He is survived
by his widow, two sons and a daughter.
Alfred C. Rupp
£ER an illness of several weeks,
Alfred C. Rupp, fifty-five, New
York Central Supervisor of Tracks,
died at his home in Greenburg, Ind.,
March 22. Death resulted from
Bright's disease.
Mr. Rupp had been a supervisor of
track for the past twenty-three years
and the condition of his section between
Indianapolis and Cincinnati has
often been praised as one of the best
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Starting in 1889 as a section hand
at Guilford, Ind., Mr. Rupp was promoted
to section foreman in 1896, and
to supervisor of tracks in 1902. He
was very active in church and civic
interests and had served as councilman-at-large
for ten years.
His widow, a sister and a brother
survive him.
Frank Moore
lpRANK MOORE, sixty-six, who for
nearly fifty years served the New
York Central, died in the Herkimer
Memorial Hospital, March 3, following
a brief illness with pneumonia.
Born at Williamsburg, Long Island,
Mr. Moore began work at an early
age, first in a grocery store, then driving
a team and firing on the Adirondack
Railroad when he was eighteen.
In 1881, he became a brakeman on the
Delaware & Hudson, and in 1884, entered
the service of the West Shore
Railroad as a yard brakeman.
In 1899, Mr. Moore was made a
yard conductor at Frankfort, N. Y.,
and finally assistant yard master there
in 1905.
Charles H. Countiss
HARLES H. COUNTISS, in serv­
C ice with the Blue Line and Michigan
Central since 1876, died on
March 19.
Mr. Countiss was born December
29, 1862, and commenced service as
office boy with the Blue Line in No-
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