Vol . VI I , No . 2 February, 1946

Two Snow Melting Machines to Combat Drifts in New York Central Yards, Buffalo and Chicago

N.Y.C. Stations' Names on Charts for Jap Invasion

An interesting part in the occupa­tion of Japan was played by a New York Central System timetable, Form 1001, of the June 17, 1945 issue. The story of its modest share in making world history is related by Lieut. Lawrence A. Pomeroy, former Rout­ing Clerk in the Central's Freight Traffic Office at Cleveland.

Lieut. Pomeroy, n o w on terminal leave, for three years was engaged in secret work at the Headquarters of Admiral King in Washington but for most of the past year had been in the Pacific. During the Summer he was Senior Plotting Officer on the staff of Admiral R. A. Spruance, Commander of the 5th U. S. Fleet.

In preparation for the occupation it was necessary to make a large num­ber of charts designating the routes for mine sweepers, warships and troop ships to designated occupation points and landing places in Japan. For security reasons, these each received an American name. So many names had been used previously that the in­ventiveness of the plotting officers was near its end when Lieutenant Pomeroy suggested the use of names of stations found in the New York Central Sys­tem timetable. More than 50 station names, which lent themselves to com­munications use, were selected. Most of them were short and easily dis­tinguishable phonetically. These names are still in use on the Navy's charts.

Admiral Spruance's headquarters were on a warship and as a result this particular timetable has traveled to Hawaii, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Philippines, Okinawa and the Jap­anese mainland. Through the cour­tesy of Lieutenant Pomeroy it has been presented to the Company.

Century Conductor

Has 103d Birthday Martin A. Loop, retired Conductor

of the 20th Century Limited and the oldest retired employe of the New York Central, on January 15 celebrated his 103d birthday.

Although a bit frail from the ef­fects of a fall in November, he was able to receive friends who called to congratulate him at his home, 231 West Church Street, Adrian, Mich.

Three years ago, on Mr. Loop's 100th birthday, F. E. Williamson, then President of the New York Central System, sent him a letter of congratu­lations and a gift.

TW O giant snow removal ma­chines, specially designed to scoop

up deep snow from railroad track and melt it in a large steam-charged tank, have been acquired by the New York Central System for attacking heavy snowfalls, threatening to interfere with railroad operations.

One machine is located in the Chi­cago territory and the other at Buffalo. At each city they will be employed in the freight and passenger car yards, during and following heavy snow storms, to ensure the continuous oper­ation of these yards in despatching trains without delay. They will be employed whenever a snowfall reach­es a depth equal to the top of the rails, or approximately 8 inches.

of two units, a snow loader and a snow melter, each mounted on a heavy flat car and having a combined weight of 66 tons.

When in operation the machine is pushed by a powerful freight loco­motive at speeds from two to six miles per hour, depending on the depth and density of the snow. Snow is first scooped up by the loader, which has a capacity of 30 cubic yards per min­ute. It is then carried upward on two continuous belt conveyors, to be dump­ed into a hopper on top of the snow melter.

The snow melting unit is a large double tank. One tank, of 4,500 gallon capacity, contains water which is brought to boiling temperature by steam at boiler pressure from the loco­motive. In the other and larger tank, of 16,000 gallon capacity, the snow is dumped and melted.

At the beginning of a cycle of operation, boiling water is admitted from the smaller tank into the larger to a depth of one foot. As the snow is then dumped in, steam jets are opened to melt the snow quickly into water. Fourteen steam jets can be used to control the speed of the melt­ing.

When both tanks are full the loco­motive is backed to a convenient catch basin or drain, where the larger tank is dumped. Water is retained in the smaller tank and again brought to boiling temperature before a repeti­tion of the cycle of operation.

Two men operate the machine. One man, seated in a cab on the loader, controls the scoop and conveyors, which are driven by a 52-horsepower gasoline engine. The other man con­trols the steam jets from the top of the melting tank.

Both machines were designed and constructed by the Barber-Greene

A t the rate of 30 cub ic yards of snow per minute this huge c o m b i n a t i o n snow loader and mel ter wil l consume any f o r t h c o m i n g heavy snowfalls in the yards at Buffalo and C h i c a g o . Top p h o t o shows the ent i re machine of t w o units, a loader and t ra i l i ng mel ter . Below is shown the scoop of the loader, e q u i p p e d wi th heavy flai ls to break up packed snow. Pushed by a Mohawk L2 locomot ive , the machine can work mov ing at a speed as h igh as five miles per hour and clear several tracks in a ya rd be fore d u m p i n g of the me l ted snow is requ i red .

Company, Aurora, Illinois, in coopera- Equipment Engineering and Mainte-tion with the New York Central's nance of Way departments.

Crossing Accident Prevention Drive

on N.Y.C to be Resumed this Month By Chas. E. Hill Genera l Safety A g e n t

W e inaugurated, on December 3, a program designed to prevent accidents at rail-highway crossings and also accidents to trespassers on railroad property. In fact, it related to accidents of all kinds wherein the railroads and the public are mutually concerned, although the program substantially relates to rail-highway crossing prob­lems.

W e started this program at three locations simultaneously on the Big Four. The program provided for a representative of the Safety Depart­ment to speak in all schools—public and parochial—and also before as many service clubs such as Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, etc.—as could be ar-

Ends 53 Years' W o r k Richard Kohrs, engineman, New

York Terminal District, retired Jan­uary 1, after 53 years and 10 months service with the New York Central.

Special Insert With This Issue WITH this issue of the Central Headlight you

should receive, through the courtesy of the Chi­cago Sun, a page insert which gives, in graphic form, some of the major provisions of the Railroad Retire­ment Act.

ranged for in every town and city on the New York Central System.

A program was previously arranged by the Superintendents and provided that the representative of the Safety Department would be accompanied by the local officials such as Assistant Superintendent, Train Masters, Agents and a representative of the Police De­partment. In many instances we were also accompanied by a representative of the State Highway Police Depart­ment, in charge of Traffic Control.

While the program was somewhat handicapped due to severe weather and a flu epidemic in the schools, yet during a period of three weeks we spoke in 83 schools having a total attendance of 21,309. W e appeared before nine service clubs, with an at­tendance of 424. W e contacted 33 newspapers with a circulation of 177,-750. ( W e have not attempted thus far to secure publicity through the city papers, those referred to being in the smaller towns and cities, which, incidentally, will reach more of the motor drivers than the city papers might.)

Nearly all schools had a magazine or some sort of publication and we

U.S. Army Shop at Bucyrus, Ohio, Ends 4-Year Job

Shortly after the Army Transporta­tion Corps was activated, it was found that a great number of men with ac­tual railroad training would be neces­sary to move the material and men required to carry on "global warfare."

Camp Millard was fitted out at Bucyrus, Ohio, and a cadre of men with actual railroad experience was gathered together under command of Lieut. Col. L. I. Meek, formerly with the Big Four at Beech Grove. Many of the first Battalions were N.Y.C. men. While the camp facilities were ample for housing and instruction in mili­tary matters, a Back Shop, where men could actually learn railroad main­tenance and repair by performing work on locomotives and rolling stock, was necessary.

The New York Central Shops, lo­cated about two blocks from the Camp, were leased and these Shops became the "schoolroom" of the trainees.

By holding over a few key men, soldiers were trained hurriedly but thoroughly. The trained men were badly needed and at times were flown to their destination.

From July, 1941 to March. 1945, eight battalions, two Grand Divisions and fifteen Railway Work Shop and Hospital Training Maintenance Units learned the "know how" of repair­ing anything that operated on tracks.

But simply teaching these men to repair and maintain locomotives did not cover the Army's needs. Loco­motives on the Eastern Front needed repairs that could not be made on the field, rolling stock had to be con­verted to meet changing conditions and local Army establishments had equipment in need of repairs to keep the Army railways operating.

Civilians were called upon to man the shops and for a time, worked side by side with the soldier-trainees. In October, 1944 civilian-processed equip­ment began to leave the Shops.

Capt. William Fertig, Zone Master Mechanic, was in charge of the Re­pair Shop until Capt. Earl C. Martin, fresh from construction and mainte­nance victories in Persia, arrived to take command. His experience, gained through thirty-one years of actual rail­road work, was passed on to the men in the Shops and more than 200 men soon cut down the heavy back log of overseas equipment to be converted. Local Forts, Camps and Depots were supplied with motive power in good operating order, and the purpose of the installation was served.

All repair activity ceased as of De­cember 31, 1945.

were enabled to have recent educa­tional material incorporated in such magazines. Thus far we have already received a large number of copies.

The co-operation thus far received has been excellent. W e expect to resume our program in the early part of February and continue if possible until it is completed. Through this medium we hope to reach directly several hundred thousand citizens and students. Through the medium of the press and school magazines we should indirectly reach several times those reached through direct contact.

W e also produced a pamphlet en­titled "Why Gamble with Death? Look! Listen! Live!" This is being distributed to service clubs, schools and through other agencies which we contact as the program continues.

W . T. Davis Now Assistant to A .G.M.

Effective January 1, W . F . Davis was appointed Assistant to Assistant General Manager, at Cleveland, by J . J . Frawley, Assistant General Man­ager.

2 New York and East Central Headlight February, 1946

Boys Waved Daily to

Century Engineman Tames Harris, Engineman of the

Twentieth Century Limited on the Hudson Division, has two young friends who waved to him every even­ing on his westbound run last sum­mer, when they were on vacation. Recently he received the following letter from their father, S. A. Herzog, a New York City lawyer.

"You may recall that at various times during this past summer the Century was greeted by a pair of boys standing on a large rock to the west of the tracks, just north of the tunnel between Oscawana and Crugers. These lads are my two sons, Richard, just six, and Billy, who is twelve.

" I want you to know how much your greetings, by way of the horn, meant to them. Time and again, in the very midst of their dinner, one would give out a yell, 'The Century's due!' and off they would tear for the rock.

" I thought it might be of interest to you to know how much enjoyment you contributed to their summer. They were particularly impressed with your special greeting when they held the big sign up on September 3rd and 4th."

The sign held up by the boys, when their summer vacation came to an end, read "Good By."

P. C . Agans , Super in tendent , Syracuse Div is ion, second f r o m r igh t , c o n g r a t u ­lates E. J . Virkler, Syracuse Fre igh t A g e n t , f o r the f ine Safety reco rd establ ished dur ing 1945, when only one in jury was sustained a m o n g 230 employes at the Syracuse Fre ight House . This reco rd was exceeded on the System only by the f r e i g h t stat ions a t Ind ianapol is , wi th 360 employes, and at Kneeland Street , Boston, wi th 180 employes, where at bo th stat ions no injuries were r e p o r t e d . Par t i c ipa t ing in congra tu la t ions above are, on lef t , J . J . Erwin, Genera l Fore­

man, and on r ight , A . Caro l i n , Assistant Genera l Foreman.

33rd Street Welcomes Stalter and Hagen

The office force at 33rd Street Sta­tion, New York, gave a buffet lunch, December 31, at which they welcomed J . W . Stalter as Agent, and C. J . Hagen as Assistant Agent. C. B . Flem­ing, 33rd Street Trainmaster, who acted as master of ceremonies, made the presentation of two desk sets to these men, "good luck" gifts.

Mr. Stalter, former Assistant Agent at 33rd Street, spent some time at Tarrytown and Haverstraw Freight Stations before his appointment to the West Side, three years ago.

Mr. Hagen is a "real 33rd Street man"; he started there as a messenger 26 years ago.

To Wed Soldier Helen M. Egan, Stenographer in the

General Freight Office, New York,

left the employ of the Company Jan­uary 9, to marry Lieut. Walter V . Budny of the Air Transport Command.

Lieut. Budny is on terminal leave, after a year's service in the China-Burma-India theater.

Miss Egan was honored at a fare­well dinner at the Hotel Duane, Jan­uary 15, by her co-workers.

W. M. Snow, Boston,

Promoted to Colonel Announcement has been made by

the Army of the promotion of Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Snow, Assistant Gen­eral Freight Agent, Boston, to the rank of Colonel, dating from Decem­ber 23, 1945.

Mr. Snow, recently returned to the New York Central after three-and-a-half years in the Transportation Corps in England, France, and Belgium, and has been on terminal leave before re­verting to inactive status.

He is the holder of a Bronze Star medal, won in addiiton to being made a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold

Buffalo Men Elected Arthur E. Jones recently was elect­

ed Second Vice President and Patrick J . Ryan, a Director of the Buffalo Passenger Agents' Association. Both are New York Central men.

meister of Antwerp for work done under "175 days of continuous enemy attacks by air and V-bombs."

Pond Retires at 65 Winifield D. Pond, 65. recently re­

tired as Operator and Telegrapher at Adams Center, N. Y . He had been with the railroad since 1903.

Louis Krassman Back Louis Krassman, until recently in

the Army for 45 months, is now a Ticket Seller at Mt. Vernon, N. Y . He was in the Special Service Branch of the Army at Yuma, Arizona, and Roswell, N. M., where he had a part in operating the Post Theater. During his absence, he made from memory a painting of a New York Central train on the Electric Division.

Singers in Central Terminal Buffalo. If ere These Office Employes

W i l l i a m L. L i t te l l , t h i r d f r o m r igh t , re t i r i ng as Ticket Seller, G r a n d Cen t ra l Terminal , a f te r 22 years service, receives best wishes f r o m G e o r g e Phill ips, Ticket A g e n t , G.C.T. Also shown above as M r . L i t te l l handed in his cash receipts fo r the last t ime are, le f t to r ight , Joseph M a r t i n , Assistant Stock C lerk ; Joseph Ashton , Ticket Supervisor; Lewis F. M c G o w a n , Ch ie f C le rk ; and John J . Morr isson, Assistant Ticket A g e n t . M r . L i t te l l was an or ig ina l organizer in 1936 of the G r a n d C e n t r a l Terminal Employes Federal C r e d i t Union. , the assets of which have grown th rough the years f rom $50 to $110,000. Fellow Ticket Of f ice employes and members of the C r e d i t Union bo th a w a r d e d

him g i f ts .

Three eng inemen and a c o n d u c t o r amassed a t o t a l o f 184 years o f service on the Syracuse Division before re t i r i ng in December . In t o p p ic tu re Corne l ius Burke inspects and oils his f r e i g h t engine be fore his last run ou t of D e W i t t Y a r d , end ing 47 years of service. Lower lef t , Trainmaster A . J . Zw i l l i ng con­gra tu la tes C o n d u c t o r M . A . Rogers on c o m p l e t i n g 50 years on the ra i l road wi th never an a c c i d e n t t o his t ra ins, crews or passengers. G a r d e n i n g and t rave l i ng wil l rep lace r a i l r o a d i n g fo r h im. Lower r ight , G e o r g e Forsyth steps down f r o m his engine c a b , where he worked fo r 49 years as f i reman, fo r the first e igh t years, then as eng ineman . H e wil l devo te himself more ful ly to his hobby of const ruct ­ing m in ia tu re bu i ld ings , which he exhibi ts each year in Syracuse. Also re t i r ing ( n o t shown) was Engineman Char les G a r y a f ter 38 years of service. H e is now tu rn ing his energies t o o p e r a t i n g a large ga rden and chicken fa rm outs ide

the c i t y .

New Yorker Ends Five Years in Navy; Saw Three Invasions

Edward Benson Hoagland of Bronx-ville, N. Y . , son of Edward Hoag­land, Assistant General Freight Agent, arrived home recently after five years in the Navy, two of them in the Pacific Theatre. He served on the mine layer Salem afterward named the Shawmut. He participated in the invasions of Saipan, Palau and Okinawa.

He joined the Naval Reserve in 1939, shortly after the declaration of war on Germany by Great Britain and France, and trained on the Illi­nois, afterward named the Prairie State, and later trained at New Lon­don. He is married.

after 45 years of service. In the presence of a group of his associates he was presented with a Service Cer­tificate and Badge by John A. Adelska, General Foreman.

Front , l e f t t o r i g h t : Betty Sauter, Betty C r a w f o r d , M a r y Henshaw, C la ra Kubialc, M a r y - A n n J ingo , G o r d o n Bradf ie ld A r l e n e Bradf ie ld , Inez G o t b e r g , Lucy Ho lb rooke and M a r y Blackstone, D i rec tor . Rear: Lorna Leaper, Bernice Reger

Jean Graunke, Agnes Joy, Ann W e h r f r i t z , A u d r e y W u l l n e r and Lil l ian Langdon .

Dr. Coley Back as Chief Surgeon

O. G. Browne, General Claims At­torney, last month announced the re­turn from Military Service of Dr. Bradley L. Coley. Dr. Coley has re­sumed his duties as Chief Surgeon at New York, vice Dr. Carl G. Bur-dick, who served as Chief Surgeon during Dr. Coley's absence.

G. M. Brown Named Electronics Engineer

W . A. Jackson, General Superin­tendent, Telegraph and Telephone, New York, announced the appoint­ment, effective January 1, of G. M. Brown, as Electronics Engineer, with headquarters at New York,

Albany Man Retires Walter Van Buren, Supervising Car

Inspector, at Albany, recently retired

Four Retiring Veterans Have 184 Years' Service

New York and East Central Headlight February, 1946 3

P. A. Spofford Gets Gift from Treasurer Howe Buffalo Claim Man

Ends 48 Years' Work John E. Kolb, Examiner in the

office of T. A. Ward, Assistant Gen­eral Freight Claim Agent, Buffalo, last month ended 48 years of service.

Mr. Kolb started his railroad career in the Freight Claim Agent's office of the Big Four August 1, 1897 at Cin­cinnati, transferred with- the office to Indianapolis, in June 1915, and with the complete merger of the Big Four and New York Central System went to Buffalo August 1, 1932.

A gift in Victory Bonds from his fellow workers was presented to him with a brief address by Mr. Ward.

Mr. and Mrs. Kolb have returned to Harrison, Ohio, their birthplace.

Phil ip A . Spo f fo rd , s tand ing , center , was honored at a d inner in the H o t e l Bi l tmore, New York, upon his re t i rement as an accountan t , Stat is t ica l Div is ion, Treasury Depar tmen t , a f t e r 47 years of service. H e is shown rece iv ing a g i f t , pre­sented by G . H o w e , left , Treasurer, f r o m off icers and emp loyes a t t e n d i n g d inner f r o m the Treasury, A c c o u n t i n g , Sec­retary , Purchasing and Engineer ing depar tmen ts . M r . Spof ford f irst en tered service as a f i reman on the H a r l e m Divis ion. Subsequent ly he was e m p l o y e d in the depar tmen ts of M a i n t e n a n c e of W a y , Engineer ing, O p e r a t i n g Vice President and

Genera l A u d i t o r before t rans fer r ing to the Treasury D e p a r t m e n t as an accoun tan t in 1923.

Sheridan Goes South Charles H. Sheridan, District Store­

keeper, Mott Haven, on his recent re­tirement was given a dinner at the Hotel Sheraton, New York, attended by more than 100. He was presented with a purse and plans to pass the Winter in Florida.

J. P. Patterson

Now General Freight

Traffic Manager The promotion of J . P. Patterson

to General Freight Traffic Manager, New York Central System, with head­quarters at New York, was announced at the year end by C. J ; Brister, Vice President, Freight Traffic.

Mr. Patterson has been in the New York Central's service since July, 1907, starting as a general clerk in the Ac­counting Department at Buffalo.

He rose through the ranks, becom­ing successively, District Freight Agent at Toledo; Assistant Freight Traffic Manager and Freight Traffic Manager at Chicago; Assistant Freight Traffic Manager, New York and, more

J . P. Patterson

recently, Senior Assistant to Vice President, Freight Traffic, New York Central System.

L. D. Hays New Air Brake Engineer

Effective January 1, L. D . Hays was appointed Air Brake Engineer, at New York, vice T. L. Burton, de­ceased, by E. L. Johnson, Assistant Chief Engineer, Motive Power & Roll­ing Stock.

Makes Last Run When Joseph H. Middleton, Pas­

senger Conductor, made his last run recently, on the Newburgh local No. 77, he ended 40 years' service. He had been a passenger conductor since 1926.

Veteran Weehawken Freight Agent, Retiring, Guest at Dinner

Francis J . M c C a r t h y , 74, Cashier and Te legrapher at the Green Island Fre ight Of f i ce , near A lbany , recent ly ended a long ra i l road career, of which 53 years was wi th the C e n t r a l . A t the A d a m s Street Fre ight O f f i ce he was g iven an ;

i n fo rmal recep t ion and presented wi th g i f ts . Seated, lef t to r i gh t : M a r g a r e t Egan, Lynet te Jones, Frank J . Osborne (Assistant Genera l Freight A g e n t ) , Frank J . M c C a r t h y , Karl A . Born t rager (Super in tenden t ) , Rachael M . Stewart and Jessie H o f f m a n . S tand ing , lef t to r i gh t : H o w a r d Spra t t , W i l l i a m J . Carney (chief c l e r k ) James M. Donovan ( C i t y A g e n t } , W a l t e r L. Purcell (F re igh t A g e n t ) , M i l t o n H a d l e y , Leonard M ichae l , W i l l i a m Ki l lgal lon and John M u l l i g a n .

Kutner Now a Major Capt. Charles M. Kutner, stepson

of S. D. Kutner, Assistant Engineer, in the office of D. B . Thompson, Me­chanical & Electrical Engineer, New York, was recently promoted to the rank of Major.

He is still in the Chemical War­fare Service and is stationed with the Far Eastern Air Service Command at Manila, P. I. Previously he spent some time with the same unit at Hol-landia, New Guinea. He has been in the service four years.

pointment of George W . Birk as Superintendent of Equipment, with headquarters at Indianapolis, succeed­ing R. W . Retterer, deceased.

New Posts for Two Effective January 16, F. C. Ruskaup

was appointed Assistant Superintend­ent of Equipment, with headquarters at Indianapolis.

On January 1, John C. Miller was appointed Assistant Superintendent Air Brakes, vice L. D . Hays, transferred, with headquarters at Detroit.

New Superintendent, Equipment, Named

W . H. Flynn, General Superintend­ent, Motive Power & Rolling Stock, on January 1, announced the ap-

Be Extra Watchful of Your Safety

Stormy Winter Days

W . E. C a c y , seated center , was t e n d e r e d a tes t imon ia l d inner upon his re t i rement as Fre ight A g e n t a t W eehawken , N . J . , a t Latcano's Tavern, N o r t h Bergen, N . J . D e c e m b e r 27. M r . Cacy , 70, en tered service 53 years ago as Clerk in the Weehawken Fre ight S ta t ion . A m o n g those a t t e n d i n g dinner were (seated, l. t o r.) N . J . Henn , Assistant Fre ight A g e n t ; R. G . M a y , Tra inmaster ; H . G . Farnham, Assistant Super in tenden t ; L. Relyea, Super in tend­ent ; M r . C a c y : F. B. Hank, Assistant to Vice President & G e n e r a l M a n a g e r ; E. Gard ine r , warehouse owner ; P. Rumsey, re t i red Super in tendent , Stat ions & Transfers; and H . Ack ley , Ch ie f Clerk t o Fre ight A g e n t . S tand ing , M . R. Gar r ison, Assistant Fre ight Traff ic M a n a g e r ; F. G . Love, Super in tenden t , Proper ty Pro tec t ion ; J . O ' C o n n e l l , C a r Foreman; G . W e l c h , Yardmaster ; Gene J o r d a n , Specia l Representa t ive , Compt ro l l e r ' s O f f i ce ; D. E. M u m f o r d , Assistant G e n e r a l

Safety A g e n t ; F. W , Cons tab le , Signal Supervisor; and W . G . Cow ie . Division Engineer.

Terminal Foreman s Office Workers and Engine House Forces at North Bergen and Weehawken Have Holiday Dinner Party

Part o f the 100 guests who attended. Inc luded are G . J . Schussler, Termina l Foreman, N o r t h Bergen and M r s . Schussler; H . S. Lindsley, Foreman, W e e ­hawken; A . J , Weiss, C h i e f Clerk, N o r t h Bergen; C . H . Busch, G a n g Foreman, N o r t h Bergen and Mrs . Busch; R. P. Olson, Clerk, N o r t h Bergen and Mrs .

O lson ; Miss Rose Ferr igno, Clerk-Steno, N o r t h Bergen and Mrs . C la ra Forl i , C lerk at N o r t h Bergen, who made the arrangements, and A . Forl i .

A. M. Nye, St. Paul, Ends 54 Years' Work

After 54 years of service, Allen M. Nye, General Agent, Passenger De­partment, at St. Paul, Minn., retired on pension.

Effective January 1, the St. Paul territory was placed under the juris­diction of F. J . Bambach, General Agent, Passenger Department.

Effective the same date, Walter S. Hammond was appointed District Passenger Agent, with office at 502 Pioneer Building, St. Paul, reporting to Mr. Bambach.

Army Veteran Gets Buffalo Post

Edwin M. Brown, Jr . , recently was appointed Assistant Traveling Audi­tor, at Buffalo.

Mr. Brown, who, a short time previously, was discharged from the Army, was formerly employed in the Office of the Buffalo District Station accountant, E. M. Brown, Sr.

Gets Diesel Job J . E. Boland has been appointed

Diesel Locomotive Inspector, with headquarters at New York.

4 General Central Headlight February, 1946

Century Barbers Are Back on Job

F U L L luxury, hote l service to patrons of New York Cent ra l ' s

Twent ie th Cen tu ry L imi ted has now re turned to pre-war standards with the restorat ion of its barbers to the i r shops in the Cen tu ry Tavern-C l u b cars.

Toge ther wi th the red Cen tu ry c a r p e t in G r a n d C e n t r a l Terminal and the Train Secretar ies, the barbers were casualt ies of the war. A l l have now been re turned in post­war service.

The barbers, a fea tu re of C e n ­tury service since the famous t ra in made its f irst run between C h i c a g o and New York in 1902, are re turn­ing t o newly e q u i p p e d and deco­ra ted shops. The same highly skill­ed men who held the posit ions in pre-war service, they are Alexander F. Romano and V ic to r E. A c e t o , of New York C i t y , and Frank First and T. J . Tedrahn, of C h i c a g o .

A t lef t , above, is O l i ve r C . Rader, veteran Engineman, who recent ly c o m p l e t e d 43 years o f ra i l road ing . W i t h him is his son, James, who was d ischarged f r o m the A r m y in O c t o b e r and the rea f te r f i red for his fa ther . The elder Rader remembers t h a t in 1899 the link and pin coup l i ng was still in use, a l though fast d i sappear ing . For a t ime at t ha t per iod he worked as an appren t i ce f i reman and rece ived $1.92 fo r 100 miles, a fu l l day's work. Later he worked as a brake-

man at $2 a day. H e has worked at C o r n i n g since 1903.

McDermott on a Train Resourceful Railway Beats Buffalo's Snow . . . Meals on the

House . . . 19 Hours Late

The early Winter storms which afflicted Buffalo, finally depositing a total of more than five feet of snow in places, necessitated, for a day or so, the detouring of a number of New York Central passenger trains. On one of these trains from New York to Cleveland was William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Below is a story which he wrote after finally arriving in his home town:

By W I L L I A M F. M c D E R M O T T

EV E R Y time I take a train trip un­der the abnormal conditions that

now exist I am surprised at the suc­cess the American railways have in handling the passenger traffic prob­lems that are thrust upon them. They are certainly the most efficient rail­ways in the world. I am writing these words in a Pullman car on a train bound to Cleveland from New York and the train is about 10 hours late.

Moreover, the train is running on rails that belong to the Erie Railroad, although it is a New York Central train and it started out on the N. Y . C.'s rails. The train crew is unfamiliar with the route and the porter is not

sure whether we are in New York or Pennsylvania, though he rather favors New York.

Nobody knows when we will arrive

reluctant to make a guess. But this vagueness and indecision are not the products of inefficiency but the natural consequences of enterprise.

The normal route of the New York Central from New York to Cleveland lies through Buffalo, and Buffalo, it appears, was snowed in by a severe storm and had become impassable, like the high peaks of the Himalayas. A European railway, confronted by a similar situation would have canceled the Cleveland trip, or taken its Cleve­

land passengers to Buffalo and let them forage for themselves from there on. But not our railways.

They G o A r o u n d I t

If they can't go through a city they go around it, and they don't care how far around it they have to go, or how many times they have to ignore and defy the axiom that the shortest dis­tance between two points is a straight line.

W e have been seeing a good deal of the world in the last 21 hours in a resolute effort to avoid Buffalo, nor­mally one of the most attractive of cities. I had no idea that the state of New York was so large, or so moun­tainous, or so attractive and varied in a geographic and scenic sense.

W e are, as I have said, on a New York Central train, but riding on the Erie rails and following a route which I have never previously traversed. Elmira, Corning and Hornell are New York towns I have not seen until today. Their physical setting is attractive and they seem old and bound up with tradition.

None of the New York Central's train crew recognizes these towns for they are as unfamiliar to them as they are to me. But the Erie Railway also

getting lost. As I understand it, the law or the

railway regulations require that when a train is diverted to another line the train must take on a crew which knows the route. W e thus have two crews, one of which acts more or less in the capacity of pilots while the other does the actual operational work.

All day long we have been passing through towns which are not accus­tomed to seeing long, all-Pullman

New York Central trains. People on small town railway station platforms grin in pleasant astonishment as if they were viewing an unwieldy sea animal which had torn away from its usual moorings and was flouncing about in strange waters.

The groups of railway men we pass are the most interested. They are acutely aware of the unusualness of seeing a Cleveland-bound New York Central train making its way, like a self-conscious out-of-town woman, on the roadbed of the Erie where ob­viously she does not belong.

Plenty to Eat

I do not know how many hundreds of people are on the train and must remain there for at least a dozen hours after they were expected to leave. The railway is in the position of a host who asked many guests in for the week end and the invitees insist on staying over for an extra day because of conditions beyond anybody's control.

Lodging is no problem, but the guests must be fed and the larder was ill-prepared for the demands that must be met. W e were due to leave the train early in the morning after a light breakfast. But here we are staying for luncheon and dinner, and no getting rid of us.

The problem has been met with magnificent resourcefulness. For break­fast there were as many scrambled eggs and as much toast and coffee as you could eat or drink. For luncheon and dinner the railway foragers had dug up along the route a half-dozen hams and sufficient lettuce, fresh tomatoes and canned peas to make an ample and delicious repast.

In the most expensive hostelries in New York we had found trouble in getting a miscroscopic piece of butter for the morning toast because of what was described as a butter famine. On the train, lost in the wilds of New York and required to forage for the daily needs of its passengers, but­ter was served on the table with dozens of fat cubes well-iced, and you could have as much as you could eat.

Everyth ing on the House

More surprising, there was no charge for the butter or the meals that went with it. Everything was on the house. That is everything was on the house that was eaten at ordinary meal times.

If you came in for sustenance be­tween meals, or if you required bever­ages other than water or coffee, an assessment was made. Otherwise everything was free.

It must have cost the railway a pretty penny and convinced the man­agement that Buffalo can not be avoided without paying a penalty. But I observed little evidence of dis-

R. W. Retterer, 57,

Dies in Indianapolis

R. W . Ret terer

Raymond W . Retterer, Superintend­ent of Equipment for the Big Four district, died at his home in Indian­apolis, December 28, after an illness of two months. He was 57.

A native of Marion, Ohio, Mr. Retterer entered the service in 1904 as a caller at the Brightwood Yards, Indianapolis. He served his appren­ticeship as a machinist at Brightwood and Beech Grove shops from 1905 to 1907. He was out of railroad serv­ice until 1913, when he returned as a draftsman in the mechanical engi­neer's office. He was promoted to Assistant Mechanical Engineer in 1917, and 1921 became Mechanical Engineer. He was made Assistant Superintendent of Equipment in 1940 and appointed Superintendent Feb­ruary 1, 1944, upon the retirement of Fred K. Murphy.

Mr. Retterer was a member of the Shrine, Scottish Rite and the Irving-ton Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Zula Retterer; two sons, Ray William, of Cleveland and Richard E., of In­dianapolis, both recently released from the Navy, and one grandson. His first wife, Marguerite Joslin Retterer, died several years ago.

O f f i c a l s from a number of points on the System attended the funeral. Pallbearers were B . F. Orr, E. H. Landers, J . A. Saltzgaber, L. C. Geisel, H. O. Schuyler and George Birk.

satisfaction among the passengers. Few of them had previously had the pleasure of eating a meal with the compliments of the New York Central System.

This postscript is added as we are coming into Cleveland. The train is now approximately 19 hours late, and dissatisfaction among the pas­sengers has become more noticeable.

Recent Deaths

M r . C o u r t was born in C leve land in 1881 and went t o work in 1900 as a car helper a t the o ld C leve land Sta t ion . The fami ly moved t o Ga l ion and there he went to work in the Agen t ' s of f ice. Later, however, he was t rans fer red to the Of f i ce of the Engineer of Ma in tenance of W a y , where he worked unt i l 1905, when he le f t t o take a j o b wi th a const ruc t ion company in V i rg in ia . This work was c o m p l e t e d in 1907 and he re turned to the Engineer ing D e p a r t m e n t a t

Masson, George, 68, Coal Freight Agent at Chicago, died December 24 after a short illness. Mr. Masson started in 1904 in the Coal Depart­ment, Big Four, and served that road in various capacities until 1935, when he went to Chicago as General Agent, Coal. In 1939 he became Coal Freight Agent.

Griswold, Victor M., 78, retired clerk, Ticket Stock Room, Passenger Department, New York, in Peekskill, N . Y . He retired in 1937, after 45 years of service.

Gennings, L. G. Conductor on the Ohio Division, at his home in Indian­apolis. He was with the company forty-one years and was a veteran of the Spanish-American war.

Smith, Dr. Harry M., 56, Com­pany Surgeon at Canandaigua, N. Y . , and President of Thompson Memorial Hospital there. He was a graduate of New York University and Bellevue Medical College. Heisler, Joseph — Passenger car in­spector at St. Louis after an illness of 3 months. He had 20 years service. Weinhardt, Michael—Retired coach cleaner, St. Louis coach yard. Quick, Charles A. 7 5 , Chief Clerk, Law Department, Boston & Albany at Boston. He had been with the road 57 years and died suddenly January 4 , at Newton Center. He went to the B . & A. in 1908 from the Harlem Division, where he had been Assist­ant to the Superintendent.

G a l l o n . From t h a t t ime on he served the C o m p a n y cont inuously unt i l his re t i re­ment, January 3 1 .

Before he le f t to go to his newly acqu i red f ive-acre p lace, east of C i n c i n ­nat i , where he expects t o occupy his t ime in novel ty w o o d c r a f t and possibly some fancy chicken b reed ing , Genera l Purchasing A g e n t Aust in presented h im

with the C e r t i f i c a t e of Ret i rement , But ton and a check.

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Buffalo Marine Receives Letter of Commendation Boston & Albany Men to Go All-Out for Safety in 1946

A t t he Phi ladelphia Navy Ya rd , M a r i n e Private First Class M i c h a e l F. Budowski, Buffalo, N . Y., was recent ly awarded a Let ter of C o m m e n d a t i o n s igned by M a j o r G e n . C . B. Cates , C o m m a n d i n g Genera l , Fourth M a r i n e Div is ion, " f o r excel lent service whi le serving in ac t ion against the enemy on Iwo J ima f r o m February 19 t o M a r c h 2, 1945." The 19-year-old Mar ine , a veteran of 10 months overseas du ty wi th the Fourth M a r i n e Division, enl isted in the Mar ine C o r p s January 1944. H e served as a machine gun ammuni t ion carr ier in a r i f le c o m p a n y on Iwo.

H e a t t e n d e d Sloan H i g h School and was e m p l o y e d by the New York Cen­t ra l Rai l road as an oi ler. His brother , John Budowski, is an ex-Mar ine . Private First Class Budowski's heroism is t o l d in his c i t a t i o n : " A f t e r his squad leader had become a casualty, Private First Class Budowski assumed the dut ies of squad leader and d i rec ted his squad successfully unt i l M a r c h 2, on which da te he was seriously wounded while assault ing a heavily f o r t i f i e d enemy posi t ion in the face of intense enemy mor ta r and r i f le f i re. O n many occasions he car r ied ammuni t ion and supplies to the f r o n t lines th rough areas covered by enemy f ire, and o f ten assisted in the evacuat ion of the w o u n d e d . His courageous conduc t t h roughou t was in keeping wi th the

highest t rad i t ions of the Un i ted States Nava l Serv ice. "

McKees Rocks Man Back from Overseas

S/Sergt. Carl J . Flanhofer, son of Frank Flanhofer, Millwright Foreman, Machine Shop, McKees Rocks, Pa., is back on the job as a machinist appren­tice after over four years in the service.

He entered the Army November 25. 1941, was placed in an armored divi­sion, then was transferred to the 753rd Railway Shop Battalion May 17, 1942.

Going overseas December 12, 1942, he served in North Africa for 15 months and for 17 months in Italy. He then sailed to the Philippines.

He was overseas 35 months.

urer, Jim Teetzel, is going great guns, 96 bowleis turning out regularly twice a week.

They are also pleased to see Charlie Willetts back in the noise-making line after service with the Royal Canadian Navy.

Is Yours?

"Pop, there's a limerick contest in the newspaper," said the kid to his Dad. " I can win $100 if I guess the last words. Wil l you help me out?"

"Get your mother to do it, son," suggested his father, "she's better at last words than I am!"

St. Thomas Has 96 Weekly Bowlers

The St. Thomas Michigan Central Bowling Club under the leadership of its President, W . C. Oke, Division Storekeeper, and its Secretary-Treas-

Determina t ion was the theme fo r the recent mee t ing o f the Boston & A l b a n y Rai l road Safety C o m m i t t e e at Spr ing f ie ld , Mass. Def in i te plans were made fo r a more t h o r o u g h a p p l i c a t i o n o f the System A c c i d e n t Prevent ion Program and systematic reduc t ion o f injuries wi th the t h o u g h t of b r i ng ing the B. & A . in to a posi t ion of leadership in Safe ty . Those present, le f t t o r i g h t : First row: W . H . Crowe l l , Secy, t o G e n . Mgr . , Boston; G . C . Kelly, Asst. C h i e f Clerk, S p r i ng f i e l d ; A . M . Scot t , Super in tendent , Sp r ing f i e ld ; D. E. M u m f o r d , Asst. G e n . Safety A g e n t , New York; W . W . Treleaven, Asst. Supt., Boston and T. A . Seymour, Train Master , Rensselaer. Second row: J . O . Lavoie, Passenger Train Master , Boston; J . Rafferty, C a p t . of Police, Boston; L. H . Stecker, Asst. Train Master , Beacon Park; L. T. G a r l i n g , Train Master , W o r ­cester; E. Hof f , Asst. Train Master , Pi t tsf ie ld and F. W . Scully, Train Master , W e s t Spr ing f ie ld . Thi rd row: F. C . Ruskaup, Mas te r Mechan ic , W e s t Sp r ing f i e ld ; E. S. Ballou, Road Foreman of Engines, Beacon Park; G . H . C r a f t , Road Foreman of Engines, W e s t S p r i n g f i e l d ; H . L. H a r d t , Road Foreman of Engines, Rensselaer; R. R. W i n n e , Supvr. o f A i r Brakes, W e s t Sp r i ng f i e l d ; F. A . Chase, Asst. Train Master , W e s t Spr ing f ie ld and H . J . Hea ly , Storekeeper, W e s t Spr ing f ie ld . Fourth row: L. K. Clark, Road Foreman of Engines, W e s t S p r i ng f i e l d ; M . L. C o r c o r a n , Travel ing C o n d u c t o r , Sp r ing f i e ld ; E. F. Kennedy ( face par t ia l l y h i d d e n ) A g e n t , W o r c e s t e r ; P. L. A r m i t a g e , A g e n t , Kneeland Street ; C . W . A l len , G e n . Foreman C a r Dept . , W e s t S p r i n g f i e l d ; W . H . D ibb le , G e n . Engine House Foreman, W e s t Spr ing f ie ld , and E. P. Kelley, Engine House Foreman, Worces te r . S t a n d i n g : C . R. Crissey, G e n . Eng. Hse. Foreman, Beacon Park; F. J . C a r t y , Asst. Mas te r Mechan ic , Beacon Park; J . H . Street, Asst. Examiner, Sp r ing f i e ld ; J . E. Ca l lahan, A g e n t , S p r i n g f i e l d ; J . H . Fitz-qe ra ld , Siqnal Supvr., Boston; A . C . H i l l , Signal Supvr., S p r i n g f i e l d ; F. E. Floyd, A g e n t , P i t ts f ie ld ; D. Lavoie, Asst. Supvr., B.&B., Sp r ing f i e ld ; A . A . Searles, Depo t A g e n t Rway. Express A g e n c y , Sp r ing f i e ld ; R. V. W i c k m a n , Supvr., B.&B., P i t ts f ie ld ; G . P. M c K e n n a , Supvr. Track, W o r c e s t e r ; F. Schauble, Supvr. Track, P i t ts f ie ld ; C . H . W r i g h t , Div. G e n . C a r

Foreman, Boston; L. A . Jones, Supvr. Track, Boston and W . A . Bump, Supvr. Track, Spr ing f ie ld .

Agent's Loan is Sent

Back from Chungking Bread cast upon waters does some­

times return, F. E. Chapman, New York Central ticket seller at Ft. Custer, Michigan, learned recently.

And this time it came back all the way from Chungking, China, which makes it an event worthy of being recorded.

In Chungking, last September, Staff Sergt. Bob Brandson, of Battle Creek, was saying his goodbye to the un­lucky ones who remained behind in his outfit. After two years he was go­ing home for discharge on points. Up came his good friend, Corp. Albert Karlstrom of Chicago, with a letter to be delivered to Mr. Chapman, for­merly Ticket Agent in Battle Creek, who staked him to part of his ticket to Chicago back in July, when he was trying to get home on furlough from Fort Custer.

Sergeant Branson, now established as Mr. Branson again, went through his effects recently, came across the letter and after some hunting found Mr. Chapman, since transferred to the ticket window at Fort Custer. The letter the latter is going to frame:

"Dear Mr. Chapman: From a grate­ful G. I. who hasn't forgotten the favor you did for him comes this note from China. Around July 1, 1943, I was trying to get home from Fort Custer on my first three-day pass and at your window found myself 65 cents short of money to get a Chicago tick­et. You loaned me the balance of the

Worcester Engineman Gets Gold Pass

W a l d o A v e r y Hun te r , center , o f Worces te r , Mass., B.&A. f r e i g h t eng ineman, was presented recent ly wi th a G o l d Pass by Trainmaster Leroy T. G a r l i n g of W o r c e s t e r ( l e f t ) . A t r i gh t is Edward S. Ballou, Road Foreman. M r . H u n t e r jo ined the B.&A. N o v e m b e r 25, 1895, and was first e m p l o y e d in Nat ick , Mass., as a locomot ive f i reman. H e enjoys g o o d heal th and is con t inu ing on the job . Two brothers, Louis F., and Frederick E., have been in the service a b o u t 35 years.

fare and I promised to pay it back when I returned. Well , I never saw the city again and for two years I carried your slip all over the United States and then to India and China. In China I met Sergeant Branson and found my first opportunity to repay

your loan. Even with the enclosed slip, I doubt if you will remember this loan, but I want you to know that even after this long period it has stayed with me and was an outstand­ing debt I meant to pay. Thank you very much. Corp. Albert Karlstrom."

Carol Singers—Auditor of Passenger Accounts Group in Michigan Central Station, Detroit Midnight Photo

Front l e f t - r i gh t : Shir ley C o u r t l a n d , accord ion is t ; Kaye Lieckfel t , M a r g e Thompson, Bea Dorset t , Patt ie Tweehan, He len Papp, M a r y C i r o c c o , Kathryn Johnson, Max ine Krause, Evelyn Rowell , W i l m a Bart low, Mar i l y n C r o g h a n and Dolores Seely, D i rec to r . Rear: Joyce Soiva, June Ell iot, Kay Olson, Lois Rundel Rosemary M o r r i n , C la i re Reidel i , Rosemarie Brown, Rosalyn C a v a n a u g h , M a r t h a van O o r d t , M a r g e Russell, Mar i l yn Wi l son , He len Kosteck, Betty Reber and Jeanne H e r n .

The above pho to of John A . Barker, an eng ineman on the Buffalo Division, was taken at 12:01 A . M . as he s tar ted his last n ight 's work be fo re re t i rement . H e hacK been fo r 30 years on a single job , the n igh t t r ick as the East Buffalo Car ro l l St reet pul ler, du r ing which he t rave led 1,000,000 miles, all in the

Buffalo swi tch ing yards.

Because of the cessation of hostili­ties on both fronts, the volume of freight traffic, measured in ton miles, carried by the railroads in 1945 was about eight per cent below the record year 1944.

6 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis Central Headlight February, 1946

P. & L. E. Soldier

Back from Pacific Indianapolis Folk See "Telephone Efficiency" Film Still in France

Francis Johnston, Assistant Rate and Bill C lerk at Monessen, was f u r l o u g h e d A p r i l 30, 1942 t o enter mi l i ta ry service and le f t fo r overseas July 23, 1942. H e was assigned t o the 39th F ighter Squadron, 35th F ighter G r o u p , Fi f th A i r Force and served in Aus t ra l ia , New Gu inea , Dutch East Indies, the Phi l ip­pines and Ok inawa . H e re turned t o the Un i ted States and was d ischarged O c t o b e r 3, 1945, when he re turned t o work fo r this C o m p a n y . M r . Johnston is author ized t o wear the G o o d C o n ­duc t M e d a l , President ial C i t a t i o n wi th one Oak Leaf Cluster , As ia t ic Pacif ic R ibbon wi th nine Bronze Stars and Phi l ipp ine L ibera t ion Ribbon wi th

Bronze Star.

P. & L E. Chief Clerk,

Freight, Quits At 66 G. " A l " Smith retired January 31,

at the age of 66, after completing 34 years of service with the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie.

Mr. Smith began in the Freight Claim Office as a stenographer and advanced until for the past nine years he had been the Chief Clerk.

Mr. Smith proved himself to be an asset with his sketches and suggestions for improvements in loading and brac­ing of shipments. .

Mr. Smith will continue with his hobby of collecting autographs. He has those of many famous men of World War II .

Cincinnati Woman Ends Long Service

Mrs. Louise W . Hobbs, complet­ing 27 years of service with the New York Central at Cincinnati, was re­tired January 1. She began her rail­road service with the Auditor's De­partment and later was transferred to the Freight Traffic Manager's De­partment, the last 12 years of which were in the General Freight Agent's office. She was presented by her co­workers with a gold watch and was the guest of honor at the Freight Traffic Department Ladies' Christmas Party. She recived a purse.

Mrs. Hobbs is planning to make many visits and trips for which she had not time heretofore.

James G . Stewart , who en te red the service as a ya rd brakeman in 1903, has been Yard C o n d u c t o r at C o r n i n g , O h i o since 1910. H e re t i red December 15, a t the age o f 65. M r . Stewar t was pre­sented wi th a purse by his fe l low

workers.

This g r o u p of employes in the Genera l Of f i ce Bui ld ing at Ind ianapol is who a t t e n d e d a showing of the mot ion p ic ture , "Te lephone Ef f ic iency" shown by Mrs . Kathryn Bargelt , were p h o t o g r a p h e d as above. A number of o ther groups, number ing in all 210, saw the p ic tu re on the same day. L e f t to r igh t , rear row: G e o r g e A lexander , H a r r y Kepner, L. R. Mi l le r , Mrs . Kathryn Bargel t , J . W . Gi l lesp ie , C . H . Kiser and J . F. Riley. C e n t e r row: M . S. Hoover , M . W . W h i t e , Steve W o l b e r t , H . E. Smi th, Evelyn Horner , Joseph ine Riley, M a r y Wi l cox , Joan D e H a r t and V i rg in ia O b e r g f e l l . Front row: Edna Sel ig, M a r y Mu lhe rn , Rosalyn Hayes, De l ia Gard ine r , Theresa M . Cox, Irene Dorris, Ann Gr i f f i t h and

Freda Bowers.

Edward O . Schronz, T icket Clerk at Anderson , Ind. , fo r past 35 years, re t i red January 1, a f te r 55 years o f service w i th the ra i l road. H e is the only emp loye in Anderson ho ld ing a G o l d Pass for having c o m p l e t e d f i f t y years in t he employ of the New York C e n t r a l . A number of f r iends ga ther at Grendv iew C o u n t r y C lub , January 11, to honor M r . Schronz. M r . Schronz is shown in the p ic tu re receiv ing a remembrance f r o m Joseph C . Schreiner, the local A g e n t . O thers are, lef t to r igh t , H . E. Romine, a g e n t - o p e r a t o r ; Ralph Arbuck le , t e l e g r a p h e r ; Verne Schuyler, yardmaster ; C . K. Burnsworth, s ignal ma in ta inor ; Richard Crozier , sergeant o f po l i ce ; T imothy H a r r i n g t o n , local business man ; Char les B. W o l f e , t i cke t

c lerk; Frank M c M a h a n , cashier, Pennsylvania RR; and Rober t O ' C o n n o r , sergeant of po l ice .

Ohio Central Men Return Herbert Ganson, West Mansfield;

John R. Heilman, Ridgeway; Ray­mond B. Gossard and Reed Gossard, Kenton; Dick Robinson, Leon Ferrell, and Richard Price of Sub-Division 21 recently returned from overseas serv­ice.

Sterling Hickok, son of Bert Hickok, Bridge and Building Supervi­sor, at Corning, also has returned from two years in the European Theatre.

& L. E. Wolverines First Half Champs in Pittsburgh Bowling League

Columbus Man Back Fred S. Wilson, for three years Gen­

eral Yardmaster, Transportation Di­vision at Columbus Army Service Forces Depot, one of the largest installations of its kind in existence, has returned to his former position in Office of J . H. Spooner, Superintend­ent, Columbus.

Beech Grovers Retire John Dieckmann, Tool Dresser in

the Mill Room, Passenger Car De­partment, at Beech Grove, retired De­cember 31, after 33 years' service. Mr. Dieckman was 75 years old January 20. He started in as a Wood Ma­chinist October 12, 1912 and was changed to a tool dresser in 1935.

Richard Herrforth, a cabinet maker, also retired December 31, after 32 years at Beech Grove.

M. B . Johnson, Shop Carpenter at Beech Grove, retired after 38 years. Mr. Johnson started at Ashtabula in 1907.

A f t e r a sp i r i ted race the Wolver ines , p i c tu red above, c a p t u r e d f i rst half honors wi th 26 games won and 10 games lost, in the P. & L. E. Duck Pin Bowling League at P i t tsburgh. The Pacemakers were runners-up, wi th a record of 23 and 13. The Wolver ines also had h igh t o t a l fo r three games, a 1983, whi le the Pacemakers had high one game wi th 723. Two members of the Royal Palm t e a m c a p t u r e d the ind iv idua l honors; Russ Jones' high to ta l , th ree games, be ing 548 and G e o r g e Smith's 221 was h igh fo r one game. The second half o f the sched­ule s tar ted January 7 wi th 14 teams en te red . Seated, C a p t a i n Dalzell, A c c o u n t ­i n g . S tand ing , le f t to r i gh t : Ke tchum, Eng ineer ing ; Donovan, Fre ight Traf f ic ;

M a r c o n , Eng ineer ing ; G r a h a m , Stores.

Shown above is Sergt . Char les L. Shaw-ver, who lef t the Signal D e p a r t m e n t at Ridgeway, O h i o , Sep tember 24, 1942, to enter the A r m y . Sergeant Shawver is work ing wi th a Signal Serv­ice Batta l ion in France. H e repor ts he is anxious to get home t o resume his

o ld job .

T / 5 W i l l i a m G . Mark low, of Erie, Pa., recent ly was d ischarged f r o m the A r m y , a f te r 30 months service, 18 of t h e m overseas. H e was wi th the 283d Field A r t i l l e r y Bat ta l ion and served on al l f ronts in the European Theater o f O p e r a t i o n s . The p h o t o g r a p h repro ­d u c e d above was made in G e r m a n y .

Indianapolis Man

Booster for Safety James M. Gill, who retired recently

after working at Hill Yard, Indian­apolis, since 1934, in addition to pre­vious service elsewhere, was a Safety enthusiast and had an outstanding rec­ord in Safety performance. When he retired, he was given a gift by his fellow workers. In his response he said:

" I am happy I can say that I never was injured once in all these past years. When I went out in the yards to work, I kept on my mind the sur­roundings and I complied with the Safety Rules.

" I certainly would like to ask each of you to be careful and always keep in mind and know your surround­ings ; in that way you, too, can live to the retiring age, as I have."

Indianapolis Man Ends 55 Years' W o r k

George Paul Williams, recently re­tired at Indianapolis, as Chief De­murrage Supervisor, had fifty-five years of service. He was presented with a purse by associates. Starting as a switchman at Greenwich, Ohio, he had been Agent at that point, Union City, Ind., Selma, Ind. and Ansonia, Ohio. He had been in Indianapolis for 35 years.

R. R. Day Retires R. R. Day, Office Assistant to C. F .

Wiegele, General Manager, at Cleve­land, retired January 1, after 46 years of service.

He has been succeeded by R. A. Struble.

Central Headlight February, 1946 7

Central Headlight Published monthly for New York Central System employes and their families

in nine states and two provinces of Canada by the Department of Public Rela­tions. Contributions are invited but no responsibility is assumed for their return. Editorial offices, Room 1528, 466 Lexington Avenue, New York City.

Editor

C. W. Y. Carrie

Associate Editors

U. S. Marine Corps Commends N. Y. Central System

Frank A. Judd Chicago

C. A. Radford Cincinnati

Vol. VII No. 2 February, 1946

Death at the Grade Crossing

W I T H the return o f unrationed gasol ine sales, grade crossing accidents throughout the country have shown a considerable and

menac ing increase. As one o f the pioneer leaders in organized Safety, the Central ' s

Safety D e p a r t m e n t was quick to see that the situation, so far as our problem was concerned, required immediate and decisive act ion. Accordingly , in D e c e m b e r , an accident prevention campaign was started in I l l inois , O h i o and Indiana in an effort to educate the public in the fundamenta ls o f prevent ing accidents at grade crossings.

W i t h the hearty co-operation o f the Div is ion Superintendents and o f local publ ic agencies the Safety D e p a r t m e n t , for three weeks, until its efforts were halted temporari ly by weather and epidemic influenza condit ions , made a vigorous attack on the problem. It carried the message o f Safety into 8 3 schools and into a number o f service clubs, such as the Lions , Rotary and K i w a n i s . Local newspapers helped to spread the humanitar ian message and co-operation f r o m every quarter was generous .

It is expected that this m o n t h the campaign wil l be resumed on an even greater scale and cont inued until the entire N e w Y o r k Cen­tral System is covered.

G r a d e crossing accidents present a serious problem to the railroads. N o t only do they cause death and injuries to the publ ic ; every o n e also endangers skil led railroad m e n and not infrequent ly passengers. In addit ion, these accidents damage equipment and cause costly delays in the transportat ion o f the publ ic and its goods .

Cross ing accidents on all railroads over the country delay an aver­age o f 1 , 1 3 7 f re ight and passenger trains every m o n t h .

Seventy-two percent o f the accidents occur at crossings where the driver has an unobstructed view o f the approaching train.

One- th i rd o f these accidents are due to the motorist driving his car into one side o f the train, all the way f r o m the head end to the rear end.

T h r o u g h planned education, plus co-operat ion, the N e w Y o r k Central System, since 1 9 2 3 , has reduced employe casualties 7 4 per­cent ; passenger casualties 9 0 percent ; grade crossing casualties 6 5 percent and trespasser casualties 6 2 percent.

T h e grade crossing campaign now about to be resumed deserves the co-operation o f every employe, as well as o f the public in the localities involved.

By

Sim Perkins

THE important place that the Rail­road " Y " holds in the estima­

tion of New York Central officers is indicated by the announcement the Company is planning to erect, at a cost of about $150,000, a new Rail­road " Y " building for the Central's employes in the freight yards at West 72nd Street, New York City. This new building will be operated as a unit of the Grand Central branch, which recently celebrated its 70th anniversary.

different railroad lines as they moved us around the country. Therefore I'd like to send the New York Central a sincere 'thank you' from myself and my fellow soldiers for the clean, speedy transportation, the courtesy and helpfulness of the ticket agents, information clerks and trainmen, and the 'all military personnel first' rule at your stations.

"It's the little things like that which prove to us our cause was worth every sacrifice and inconvenience that came our way."

Snow-blindness, which is actually sunburn of the eyes, is one of the hazards of many winter sports, espe­cially skiing. The best preventive is a pair of snow goggles or dark glasses.

The hen is the only biped that can produce just by sitting around.—The National Publisher. S O succesful was Battle Creek's

recent celebration of the centen­nial of the arrival of the first Michigan Central train in that city that Kalama­zoo has now got the fever.

The local Chamber of Commerce is busy at work considering plans for a similar centennial celebration, early in May.

RAILROADS being a public facility and human nature being

what it is, railroad men inevitably re­ceive their share of complaints. It is nice, therefore, to learn occasionally about the many kind things that are also said about them and their work by numerous patrons. As an example, H. G. Gillis, Assistant General Passenger Agent, New York, recently received from a discharged soldier a letter which read:

"In the many 'bull sessions' I sat in while a soldier, your System was al­ways rated the best railroad this side of the Mississippi. The Army gave us a good opportunity to compare

Month's Course on

Railroading Offered To meet the needs of young men

and women who wish to help fit themselves for executive positions on the railroads, the American Univer­sity, Washington, D. C , will offer an intensive Rail Transportation Institute from March 3 to March 30. Veterans, particularly former railroad employes, may also apply for admission under the veterans' benefit laws.

A number of New York Central employes will probably be given an opportunity to take this course, which is offered with the co-operation of the Association of American Railroads. It will be directed by Prof. L. M. Homberger, who had many years of practical railroad experience.

It is planned to give an overall view of the transportation field. Basic

T o all who shall see these presents, greeting:

Be it known that a special commendation has been awarded to

NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

By reason of your unselfish and tireless efforts in fulfillment of the requirements

of the United States Marine Corps, and through your cooperation and loyalty which

enabled us to do our part in bringing victoriously to a close World War II, the

United States Marine Corps does herehy gratefully extend this Special Commendation.

20 DECEMBER 1945

MAJOR GENERAL W . P. T . BILL. USMC THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL OF THE MARINE CORPS

L e t t e r o f t h e M o n t h M I N N E A P O L I S

STAR J O U R N A L A N D TRIBUNE

M I N N E A P O L I S 15. M I N N .

M r . B. J . Bohlender.

M g r . D in ing Service,

N . Y. C . R. R.

I imag ine tha t very few people take t ime out t o ment ion f ine service and courteous t r e a t m e n t by people in your d e p a r t m e n t , and tha t is the reason I am wr i t i ng you .

I recent ly made a round t r i p on the Centu ry , and I have never been t r e a t e d be t te r than by your d in ing car stew­

ards, G e o r g e Goedecke and I bel ieve the other man's name is Jef f rey . I have done a lot of t rave l ing in my day, but I never had two d in ing car men han­dle the i r jobs as ef f ic ient ly as this pair .

I t won ' t be necessary fo r me to say t h a t the f o o d was ou ts tand ing , as it always is on your road . These two men handled the i r jobs so well tha t I would like to have thei r superiors know about i t .

Yours very t ru ly, ( S g d ) Chas. Johnson

Sports Edi tor

problems of rail service will be studied and a field program will take the students into operating rail plant facilities.

Applications may be made to Prof. Homberger, 1 9 0 1 F Street, Washing­ton 6, D . C , up to February 17 .

New Bellefontaine

Yard Office Building A new service building for BN and

East Yards, north of Bellefontaine, recently was placed in operation. A two-story brick structure, it is on the southeast corner of the junction of the tracks and the Stock Yard road. In charge of construction was C. E. Nichols, Supervisor of Bridges and Buildings, Bellefontaine.

The building will house offices for F. B . Gill, Terminal Trainmaster; Edward Boykin, General Yardmaster; Charles Kelty, Clerk to Yardmasters and Marvin Taylor, Chief Yard Clerk.

On the ground floor is a large room for yardmasters and operators, a room for conductors and a locker room, with showers, toilets and lava­tories for switchmen. A fourth room will be used as an office by the Yard police.

The offices are heated by a ther­mostatically controlled hot water sys­tem and have fluorescent lights.

The old frame office building on the west side of the tracks eventually may be dismantled.

Lima, Fostoria and vicinity. There were present also representatives of local industries and Mr. Mumma's pastor. Dr. J . J . Wilson.

Among the guests was T. J . Cook. Toledo, retired N.Y.C. employe who gave a brief talk. Other guests were W . D. McVey, General Freight Agent. Cleveland, and A. G. Hanks, Agent at Wapakoneta, who also spoke. The presentation of a gift was made by T. M. Segner.

Toledo Freight Man

Honored at Dinner W . J . Mumma, Traveling Freight

Representative, who retired recently after 51 years of service was honored at a dinner at the Fostoria Country Club, Cleveland. Forty-two were present.

Mr. Mumma, who had been Travel­ing Freight Representative out of Toledo since 1911, was Agent in Fostoria prior to that time.

T . M. Segner, of Cleveland, to­gether with E. G. Howard, Assistant General Freight Agent, Toledo, and W . M. Clark, Trainmaster, Bucyrus, comprised the committee for the din­ner. Other railroaders were in at­tendance from Cleveland, Wapakoneta,

F. H. Woolfall Back Major F. H. Woolfall, on terminal

leave from the Transportation Corps, AUS, has returned to the President's office as Research Assistant after an absence of three and half years, three years of which were overseas.

He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in July, 1942, and reported for active duty with the Sixth Port, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, N. Y . On November 1, 1942 his outfit embarked for Casablanca, North Africa, the con­voy being the first to arrive after the invasion forces. Shortly after reach­ing Casablanca, he was made Port Rail Officer. In August 1943 he left with an advance echelon for Italy, landing on the Salerno beaches, where he was attached to the Fifth Army.

Subsequently, he rejoined the Sixth Port upon its arrival at Naples. With his outfit he also participated in land­ing operations at Cavelier beach, France, in August 1944, and later was assigned to the port of Marseille.

As Port Rail Officer, Major Wool-fall supervised the distribution, load­ing, and dispatch of about 210,000 cars, approximately over 2,800,000 tons of military cargo. He received his majority in November 1944 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

W. H. Kaufman is

Veterans' New Head At the 24th annual meeting of

Metropolitan Chapter, New York Central Veterans Association, January 24, William H. Kaufman, Freight Agent at Westchester Avenue Freight Terminal, was elected President, suc­ceeding H. A. Offerman, Trainmaster, who had completed four years in office. Others elected were J . J . Bodenlos, Vice President; E. W . Kinsley, Secre­tary-Treasurer; and J . E. Bachran and J . G. Castle, members of the Executive Committee for three-year terms.

After dinner, a lecture-demonstra­tion of "The Telephone in War and Peace" was presented by G. R. Cre-craft, Service Manager, New York Telephone Company.

West Buffalo Host

to Bowling Congress The 43 rd annual tournament of the

American Bowling Congress will be held this year in Buffalo from March 14 to May 6. This will be the first tournament held since 1942, when it convened in Columbus, O.

Acting as host to the 7,000 teams expected to be participating will be George H. West, Buffalo Division Smoke and Fuel Inspector, who is president of the Buffalo Bowling As­sociation. Mr. West was also recently elected National Secretary of the American Railway Bowling Associa-

14th Engineers to Dine The 14th Engineers will hold their

annual banquet and Victory celebra­tion this year, March 23, at the Hotel Lenox, Boston. This affair, always held on or about March 21, com­memorates the big push by the Ger­man Army in 1918. This year many of the 14th who fought in World War II will be present. John F. McGuin-nes, Room 463, South Station, Boston is chairman.

Agent Myers Retires S. W . (Sam) Myers, Agent at

Kinsman, Ohio, retired January 1 after 49 years, six months with the New York Central.

He went to work on the Section at Salem Penn. June 16, 1896, and was made Agent at Simons Ohio. After ten years he was transferred to Fowler, Ohio and from there to Kinsman in December, 1922.

He was presented with a bathrobe and billfold.

Telegrapher Retires H. J . " J o e " Grady, a telegrapher

of 35 years' service, practically all of which was served in " O N " Office, Cleveland, retired on pension Jan­uary 16.

Moffett Heads

Bureau in Chicago

C. H. Moffett, head of the govern­ment reservation bureau at Chicago Union Station for four years, last month was appointed Manager of the New York Central Pullman Reserva­tion Bureau at Chicago. Mr. Moffett was a guest at a dinner January 15 attended by more than 50 Chicago railroad representatives.

Gets New Post

Effective January 1, Morris Singlet-ary was appointed Supervisor of Sta­tions, with headquarters at Cleveland.

8 Chicago Central Headlight February, 1946

Baker to Supervise N. Y. C Dining Service

L. C. Anderson, Manager, Passenger Transportation, on January 16, an­nounced the jurisdiction of G. H. Baker, General Superintendent Pas­senger Transportation had been ex­tended to include the supervision of the New York Central's dining serv­ice.

On the same date, Mr. Baker an­nounced the appointment of A. E. Yarlott as General Superintendent of dining service, with headquarters at New York.

B . J . Bohlender, Manager Dining Service, who has been in ill health, is on a lengthy leave of absence.

Mr. Baker announced the appoint­ments of H. S. Purdy and P. M . Wolfe as Assistants to General Super­intendent Passenger Transportation.

Mr. Yarlott announced the follow­ing appointments, effective February 1:

J . W . Dowey, Superintendent, Buf­falo.

T . H. Ryan, Assistant to General Superintendent, New York.

J . G. Mackenzie, Assistant Superin­tendent, Boston.

E. Stevens, General Inspector, Chi­cago.

R. E. Smith, General Terminal In­spector, Chicago.

The f irst C h i c a g o g r o u p t o f inish the new advanced pub l ic relat ions studies " g r a d u a t e d " recent ly . Represent ing sev­eral depar tments , they are, seated lef t t o r i g h t : H o w a r d Burns, secretary t o the Super in tendent ; Florence H o w a r d , te lephone o p e r a t o r ; Kathryn Bargelt , Inst ructor ; Rose O 'Too le , Reservation Clerk, and Har ry Coughenour , Assistant C o a l Fre ight A g e n t . S t a n d i n g : C . A . Steele, C i t y Fre ight A g e n t ; H . R. Hotchkiss, S ta t i s t i c ian ; Char les A . Dooley,

Timekeeper, and H a r r y W . Finch, Ch ie f Clerk, Industr ia l D e p a r t m e n t .

Chief Clerks Retire

on Indiana Division The Indiana Division lost two of its

top-ranking men in the office of the Superintendent at Indianapolis, by re­tirement, December 31.

Charles Lewis Mahoney, Chief Clerk, had completed 43 years of serv­ice with the Company. He began as

Army occupational forces in Germany and who recently returned to the United States, is back in the office of the Foreign Freight Agent at Chicago after two and one half years' absence.

Eli J . Thompson, former Technical Sergeant in the Army Transportation Corps, has returned to the Portland office as Chief Clerk, after 3 1/2 years service.

S. J . Jackson Honored as He Takes New Post

70 I.H.B. Children At Gibson Party

The annual Christmas Party for chil­dren of Indiana harbor Belt employes was held December, 28, at the YMCA building at Gibson, Ind. In spite of the sleet and icey streets 70 were in attendance.

The Rev. Mr. Bower, of the Hess-ville Baptist Church, led in the sing­ing of carols around the lighted tree.

I. H. B. Credit Union

Now Has 1279 Members The Indiana Harbor Belt Federal

Employes Credit Union, at its annual meeting January 16, in Dyer, Ind., reported that since its establishment in August, 1936, it had disbursed in lo.ins and refinances a total of $962,-S98.

At the end of the year, the Union had 1279 members and $219,378 as­sets. Its finances were reported as healthy by B . W . DuFrain, Treasurer.

The members at the meeting had a chicken dinner and after the business session enjoyed a floor show.

St. Louis Coach Yard Veterans Given Badges

The following servicemen returned to work recently at St. Louis Coach Yard: Frank Allen, Harold Conner, George Marquette, Edward Unterrein-er, Richard Johnson, Jerome Conrad, Alfred Smith, William Busch, Amos Smith, Roland Broyles, John Karner, Virgil Hill and Gene Harrod. They

received a warm welcome as most of them saw long foreign service and heavy combat duty.

Employes gave each man a gold honor badge at Christmas. They also remembered the families of two oth­er boys, Raymond Fitt and Jess Christy, who made the supreme sacrifice—Ray­mond in the invasion of Okinawa and Jess in France. Both came from New York Central families. Raymond's father is James Fitt, a carman at Mat-toon, and Jess' father is Charles Christy, a carman at St. Louis.

Sons of Peter Anton, George Seeley, Louis Heinemann, Albert Fearheiley, E. R. Leslie, Edward McGaughey, Charles Snyder and J . H. Nunn, who saw active overseas duty, have been released and are again with their families.

Major Jack McKee, for a short time a special apprentice out of Harmon, N. Y. , and son of Electrician McKee, is home on terminal leave after 4 1/2 years. As First Lieutenant, he was in charge of a company of engineers on the Alcan Highway, later going to the European Theater of Operations, where he received the Bronze Star Medal.

Gregory McKee, also son of Elec­trician McKee, recently received his commission as Ensign and is on sea duty.

George Marquette, returned Marine, was wed on December 27, to Miss Edna Becker.

St. Louis Coach Yard employes again sent Christmas gift boxes to fellow employes who are still in the Armed Forces. These boys are scat­tered all over the world and responses indicate that the gifts are just as wel­come in peacetime as in war.

Recent visitors at St. Louis Coach Yard were servicemen Lieut. Charles Barmeier, Sergt. Sydney Marye and Walter Bush, Chief Petty Officer.

M o r e than 100 members o f the Reservat ion Bureau, LaSalle St reet Sta t ion, C h i c a g o , honored S. J . Jackson, Manager , a t a dinner, January 14, on the occasion of his t ransfer t o the post of Special Passenger Representat ive in the of f ice of the Assistant Genera l Passenger A g e n t , C h i c a g o . Also present as a guest o f honor was Mrs . Jackson. R. A . Schrey, C h i e f In fo rmat ion Clerk, r igh t , is shown present ing wr is twatch and other g i f ts to M r . Jackson. Mrs . Jackson

is in the center .

Indianapolis Post Host to Children

Big Four Railway Post 116, Amer­ican Legion, held its fifth annual Christmas Party for all the children in the neighborhood of their post home, 960 South Keystone Ave., Indianapolis, on Sunday, December 23.

Approximately 300 children attend­ed and Santa Claus presented each with candy and oranges. H. F. Mc-Clain, Electrical Foreman at Beech Grove, is Commander and M. F. Mur-nan, a welder, Locomotive Depart­ment, Beech Grove, is entertainment chairman.

For his work as cha i rman o f the In te r te r r i to r ia l M i l i t a r y C o m m i t t e e , which han­d led more than 40 mi l l ion soldiers ' t r ips by ra i l road , H u g h W . S idda l l , Cha i r man of the Trans-cont inenta l Passenger Assoc ia t ion and the W e s t e r n M i l i t a r y Bureau, on January 8 received the C e r t i f i c a t e of A p p r e c i a t i o n , the highest W a r D e p a r t m e n t award t o civ i l ians. Throughou t the war M r . S iddal l ac ted as the of f ic ia l l iaison between the passenger depar tments o f all ra i l roads and the A r m y Transpor ta t ion Corps and d i r e c t e d the greatest mass rail movements in history. H e also evolved the plan fo r the establ ishment of government reserva­t ion bureaus in 47 key ra i l road cit ies to serve the soldiers, sailors and marines t rave l ing ind iv idua l ly under mi l i ta ry orders. M r . Siddal l is shown at the cere­monies in the Union Stat ion in C h i c a g o rece iv ing the C e r t i f i c a t e f r o m C o l . I.

Sewell Mor r is , c o m m a n d i n g off icer of the Sixth Transpor ta t ion Zone.

stenographer in the office of Super­intendent of Car Service at Indianap­olis, in 1902. He later served as secretary to the General Superintend­ent. He became Chief Clerk to the Superintendent of the Michigan Divi­sion in 1913 and took the same job with the Superintendent of the In­diana Division in 1937.

George G. Barnes, Assistant Chief Clerk, completed 42 years of service. He was employed as clerk to the Supervisor at Indianapolis in 1903. He later served as clerk to the Construc­tion Engineer at Greensburg, Indiana. He returned to Indianapolis as clerk to the Division Engineer. He trans­ferred to the Superintendent's office in 1910.

The office force held a party at noon on the 31st, and E. M. Kelley, Super­intendent, talked on the loyal service of these two men.

Roy Whistman, Trainmaster, In­diana Division, at Cincinnati, made a presentation speech, giving each man a certificate of service along with a letter from President G. Metzman, and lapel button. Each also got a billfold, well filled.

N. Y. C.-Rock Island Chorus Sings in Chicago Station

Western Freight Notes Dick Webster, a Sergeant in the

The chorus is shown s ing ing a t the nor th end of t he second f loor wa i t i ng room, LaSalle St reet Sta t ion, C h i c a g o . The chorus, ent i re ly a vo lun teer o rgan iza t ion , presented programs of carols dai ly f o r several days. The members, several of whom are not shown, a re : M a r g e Banks, N o r m a A . Bauch, M a r i o n Bauch, G ladys Beasant, Ca r l Berggren, G l a d y s Bergstrand, A . Eliot Burnham, Betty Jane Car lson, A . W . Charva t , John Chr is t iansen, Lucil le Chr is t iansen, Velvan Craney, M a r y Di l l ing, Rita Ekman, Shir ley Fallon, A . M . H a u p t , Mar jo r ie H i l l , Agnes D. Hof f , W . C . H u m p h r e y , Frances Hut tenhof f , Bernice Koller, E. W . Larsen, H i lmer Larsen, Peg Laskins, Geneva La t ta , G r a c e Means, Hazel M o o r e , Kay Mor ra l l , W i l l i a m M u g g , G . R. Neuschwander , Henry Postema, Shirley Powers, Irene Shantz, Ju l ia Sul l ivan, M a r i o n L. Th ie lberg , G r a c e Tupes, Caro l ina Walk , Gae l M . W a y , W i l i e t t e Wessel , Ca the r ine W i e d m a n , A l f r e d a W i l l m a n , and

June W i l l m a n . W . E. Brennan, Rock Island Lines, is the d i r e c t o r .

Leo Day Keynotes

Leo P. Day, Assistant General Solic­itor, Chicago, was the keynoter at a series of discussions on procedure be­fore the Interstate Commerce Com­mission, climaxed by a mock hearing at the Palmer House, Chicago, Jan­uary 17 , with others set for February 21 and March 2 1 .

This is part of an open forum pro­gram sponsored by the Junior Traffic Club of Chicago, which has been un­der the direction of the Chairman of their Educational Committee, R. L. Milbourne, General Westbound Agent, Freight Traffic Department, Chicago, for the past two years.

100 Hear Milbourne

More than 100 members of the In-galls-Shepard Foreman's Club of the Wyman Gordon Company, Harvey, Ill., were present at a dinner in their club house, Wednesday, January 9, to hear General Westbound Agent, R. L. Milbourne of Chicago, Freight Traffic Department, speak on "Secrets of Success." L. C. Howe, Division Freight Agent, Chicago, was guest.