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Nicholas W. Mahar
OR seven years a pensioner of the
New York Central Lines, Nicholas
W. Mahar, one of the old-time section
foreman on the Railroad, died March
5. Although seventy-seven years of
age, to the end he appeared healthy
and active.
Darryheg, Kings County, Ireland,
was his birthplace in 1851. He emigrated
to the United States with his
parents at the age of sixteen.
Two years later he began his railroad
career as a section laborer at
Rensselaer and was promoted to section
foreman at Yonkers ten years
after that. Remaining there but a
few months, he was sent to Fishkill
Landing, then in 1888 was transferred
back to Rensselaer.
In 1904 he came under the supervision
of the Mohawk Division, and
was later removed to West Albany,
where he worked until retired on pension
February 21, 1921.
Among his children are three sons
who are engaged in somewhat the
same occupation as their father.
Richard M. Mahar, with thirty-four
years of service, is supervisor of track
on the Harlem Division, with headquarters
at Pawling. Thomas Mahar,
also with a thirty-four-year record, is
assistant supervisor of track on the
fifth sub-division, with headquarters
at West Albany. Nicholas W. Mahar,
Jr., who has been working twentyone
years for the Railroad, is general
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inspector of automatic train stops on
the Lines East. At the time of the MEMBER
elder Mahar's death, his service with
that of his three sons totaled 140
years.
Walter H. Notley
Funeral services were held March
18 for Walter H. Notley, who died of
pneumonia in Elyria, Ohio.
Mr. Notley had been a Conductor
on the Toledo Division and entered
New York Central service in 1892.
His widow, son and several brothers
and sisters survive.
J. M. Lyons
J. M. Lyons, Conductor on the Ottawa
Division, died suddenly March
30 at Utica, N. Y.
Starting as a blacksmith's helper in
1890 at St. Regis Falls, Mr. Lyons
became successively fireman, brakeman,
freight and then passenger conductor.
He is survived by his widow.
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Pittsburgh, Pa.
Tugboat Saved from Fire
ONSTANT preparedness was rewarded
recently when Captain F.
VanSchaack and his crew of New
York Central Tugboat 33 saved their
vessel from gasoline flames.
The boat had gone to Bayonne for
fuel oil and had been backed into the
slip according to proper procedure.
As the boat was being made fast,
there was noticed a fine spray coming
from one of the dock pipes, with the
odor of gasoline. The captain promptly
ordered the lines thrown off tha
dock.
In the meantime the gasoline pipe
exploded and splattered gasoline all
over the starboard side of the tug.
The boat was under full control when
it proceeded out of the slip and the
fire was quickly smothered.
The personnel of the tug includes
Captain F. VanSchaack, Engineer T.
G. Murray, Deckhands John Tumulty,
Daniel Finley and B. Savage, and
Oiler T. R. Shade.
A. Reude Helps at Fire
TT is a crisis that brings out the true
worth of a Safety man, as in the
case of A. Reude, Section Foreman at
Kentland, Ind. The following letter,
written him by Superintendent E. W.
Brown, is self-explanatory:
"It has just been brought to my attention
that you and your men were
instrumental in helping to save the
depot at Ade, Ind., on February 21
when the Farmers' Co-operative Elevator
burned.
"I am writing you to express my
appreciation of your work and am
passing the information on to the
Management, as I know they will also
appreciate it."
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Glee Club Elects
ENRY G. SMITH was elected
Manager of the Glee Club and
Orchestra of the Capitol Chapter of
the New York Central Veterans' Association
at a recent meeting in Albany.
Other officers elected were J. Don-
Ion, assistant manager and director of
the orchestra and band; H. Patterson,
secretary; J. Wylie, treasurer,
and L. Rohloff, director of the Glee
Club.
The following were chosen for the
executive board: J. G. Parsons, superintendent
of shops; A. C. Iveson, general
foreman; G. P. Fox, superintendent
of car shops; J. T. Grow, master
car builder, and C. F. Parson, general
master mechanic.
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New York Central Lines Magazine for May, 1928
New History of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY—1846-1926; by H. W. Schotter,
Assistant Treasurer. Ten illustrations; 518
pages. Philadelphia: the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.
ssistant Treasurer Schotter
A has produced a model work of
reference in his history of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company which, if
memory serves, is the third volume
published on the same subject within
the last generation. In a preface
which is a model of brevity, Mr.
Schotter explains that the preparation
of the present work was inspired by
a desire to know more about how the
company grew to its present powerful
position in the field of transportation.
As this information was not available
in condensed form or in chronological
order he was obliged to go back to the
origin of the company more than
eighty years ago and resort very
largely to its annual reports to secure
the data. He makes no reference to
any minor events which are inseparable
from the growth of every large
corporation but confines himself
strictly to a record of the more important
facts.
Research workers in future will owe
a lasting debt of gratitude to Mr.
Schotter for the manner in which he
has marshalled his facts. Every division
of his subject is isolated from
the text by a sub-head and to make all
this still more readily accessible an
index of no less than forty-five pages
has been provided.
The general arrangement is also
admirable. The history of the charter
under which the Pennsylvania
Railroad was organized and developed
is first summarized in eight pages.
Without a superfluous word the author
tells of how Philadelphia lost its commercial
and financial leadership to
New York City upon completion of
the Erie Canal and, to some extent,
to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
which had been constructed as far as
Cumberland, Md., in 1842. It tells of
the disastrous attempt of the State of
Pennsylvania to construct and operate
a line of "public works" across the
State. When the fact that these "public
works" were a total failure, not
only because of heavy financial losses
to the State, but also because of their
inability to attract competitive traffic
between the West and the Atlantic
Seaboard was apparent, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company was finally
chartered in 1846.
From this point the history is divided,
not in the usual way, but into
the administrations of its ten presidents,
beginning with Samuel
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and his successor, William Chamberlain
Patterson, were prominently
identified with the industrial and
financial interests of Philadelphia.'
They were the type of men required to
give the project the necessary impetus
and encourage subscription to the
capital stock of the company. They
were followed by John Edgar Thomson,
who as Chief Engineer, located
and began construction of the road
from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh and
later as President laid the foundation
of the present Pennsylvania Railroad
System in its greatest period of expansion
from 1852 to 1874. At the
close of his administration the system
embraced a territory westward from
the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi
River and from the Ohio and
Potomac Rivers on the south to the
Great Lakes on the north. This is
practically the same territory that is
served by the Pennsylvania Railroad
of today, growth and development of
the system since 1874 being largely
internal; but what a growth it has
been!
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The author is quite within the
bounds of truth in saying that the
Pennsylvania Railroad "has since continued
to be the greatest single factor
in the material prosperity of Pennsylvania.
The fact that this State leads
all others in the Union so far as industrial
and railroad developments
are concerned is to a great extent due
to the courage and foresight of those
men who planned and constructed the
Pennsylvania Railroad."
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