(1) (At bottom of page) At Portland Terminal Wharf One, left to right, D. P. Felt, assistant gen• BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD eral freight agent, B&M; Everett M. Thompson, HISTORICAL SOCIETY general perishable agent, Traffic Men Meet Boston; Gilbert W. Mil• ARCHIVES ler, general freight agent, Portland; Raymond M. Young, B&M division freight agent, Troy N. Y.; and H. M. MacAnanny, traffic representative, Pittsburgh, Pa. (2) Visit• Better Sales Job Needed ing the Maine State Pier our off-line agents from the farthest points pose for a picture. Left to right, Frank A. Murphy, (More Pictures on Pages 12-13) assistant to vice presi• dent — traffic; G. E. The Maine Central Railroad's sales• with successful development of the Gustafson, western traffic men throughout the Nation—off-line port and offered the Port Authority's manager, Chicago, III.; Tracy Cummings, general and on-line traffic representatives— cooperation and information sources west coast agent, San came home to Portland last month to for export-import business. Francisco, Cal.; Nelle M. view our facilities and inspect the The group also visited Portland Orr, commercial agent, Memphis, Tenn.; James Port of Portland served by the Port• Terminal Wharf Three where As• B. Sweeney, managing di• land Terminal Company. sistant to Vice President — Traffic, rector, Port of Portland; Their visit was the wind-up of an Frank A. Murphy described the site P. J. Mullaney, general traffic manager, Boston; important three-day conference, May of a new china clay storage shed the G. C. Aldrich, general 2, 3 and 4 at Boston, devoted to an Terminal Company will erect. agent, St. Louis, Mo. exchange of ideas and problems that (3) Taking a break are, Theme of the Boston conference was left to right, Harold A. will better enable them and our rail• the knowledge that decreasing reve• Krumsieck, B&M traffic road to meet the serious competitive nues make it necessary for the traffic representative, Springfield, situation confronting us. Mass.; Murphy, R. C. representatives and every railroad em• Chambon, general agent, Extending the greetings of the ploye to buckle down and really "sell" Pittsburgh, Pa.; G. W. Executive Department to "you the our services better than they are cur• Miller. (4) Maine Cen• rently being sold if our railroad is to tral traffic men attending people that make the money for us to the conference include Rex carry on," First Vice President E. survive against present competition. Miller, general agent, Spencer Miller struck at the heart of Emphasizing this message with Presque Isle; Harold W. the competitive transportation prob• Foster, general passenger speeches that punctuated the three- agent; R. E. Graham, lem with the warning, "We are living day meeting was the top management traffic representative, in a new era and cannot go on doing of both roads. They included Execu• Bangor; T. E. Grover and business the way our fathers did be• tive Vice President Timothy G. fore us, or even as we did before the Sughrue, Vice Presidents John W. E. J. Mclnnis, district war." Rimmer, Traffic; F. W. Rourke, Oper• freight agents, Portland "We can't afford to wait for fair ating; George F. Glacy, Accounting; legislation," Miller continued, "we A. W. Munster, Purchasing and must give whatever service or rate is Stores; W. S. Trowbridge, Finance; necessary to get the tonnage." Robert M. Edgar, assistant to Presi• Terming the Maine Central a "pro• dent French; Stanley G. Phillips, chief gressive" railroad, the first vice engineer. president pointed out that neverthe• Patrick J. Mullaney, recently pro• less, it, like other roads, "has a fixed moted to general traffic manager of plant with our costs always going on both roads, presided over the sessions and the only way to meet it is to have in the Hotel Manger, Boston. He de• tonnage going over the rails." fined the meetings as "intended to . The more than 40 joint agents in benefit you and to benefit the com• the group toured the Portland port pany," in taking up more than 60 facilities in a Maine Central Transpor• specific traffic matters most of which tation Company bus and at the Maine were put on the agenda by the repre• State Pier heard James B. Sweeney, sentatives themselves. managing port director, plead for Executive Vice President Sughrue, recognition of Portland with Boston keynoting the conference's opening, as a non-competitive, joint, ."New declared that "our revenues are drop• England" port. ping rapidly due, to some extent, to Sweeney credited the importance of business conditions, but also to compe• "you men and women in the field," tition from other forms of transporta- Representing marine traffic was Judge J. R. Nolen, chairman of the Port of Boston Authority, and Richard Parkhurst, president of the Mystic Terminal Company, a B. & M. sub• sidiary. Parkhurst optimistically expressed belief that Boston and Portland too, "have an increased opportunity to go places in competition," and asserted that "what benefits either port will benefit New England as a whole." Edgar, assistant to the president, sounded a true note of optimism in anotherwise somber picture with a denunciation of talk heard in other sections of the Country that "New England is withering on the vine." "Despite reports to the contrary," TALKING IT OVER as our off-line and on-line traffic he declared, "New England's popula• representatives visited Portland last month are, left to tion is growing steadily and so are right, Assistant General Traffic Manager Carlton F. her industries. Some industries such Heard, General Traffic Manager Patrick J. Mullaney, as textiles, lumber and shoes have First Vice President E. Spencer Miller passed with changing conditions and changing times, but new industries tion. We are faced with the task of have taken their places." doing a better sales job than we ever "Just three new lines of industry have before if we are going to hold alone," he pointed out, "have more our place in the growing competition than offset these losses from the SITE of a new $100,000 china clay storage building to be built by the Portland Terminal Company at the easterly we face. This means that not only standpoint of industrial employment. end of Wharf Three at Portland you people, but all of us have got to These three are electrical machinery do a better job in producing and in manufacturing, printing and publish• selling." ing, and wearing apparel." The department vice presidents in On the afternoon of the second day, turn pledged the cooperation and ser• Maine Central traffic men joined with vices of their organizations in the ef• the other off-line agents in a tour of New Facility For Import Revenue ficient handling of any problems or the Boston passenger and freight new business obtained as a result of yards, hump facilities and Mystic and An important step forward to se• Assistant to the Vice President, the revitalized sales program. Hoosac Piers aboard a passenger cure new business for our railroad Traffic, Frank A. Murphy estimated Featured luncheon speakers at the coach hauled by a diesel switcher. will be undertaken by the Portland that the number of china clay ships conference included William H. Day, Terminal Company this Summer with yearly would increase from five to 12 manager of the transportation depart• construction of $100,000 steel build• and imports total more than 35,000 ment of the Boston Chamber of Com• ing to store china clay on Terminal tons of cargo. merce and Edward N. Mayer, former DO YOU REMEMBER? Wharf Three, Portland. Governor Frederick G. Payne de• general freight agent for the B. and —When there were five railroad-owned Imported from Fowy, England, clared, "It is pleasing to me to learn M. and now general traffic manager of steamboats in Frenchman's Bay? china clay has become an increasingly of the Terminal Company's interest to the Plymouth Cordage Company. —When four-wheeled flat cars were used important post-war revenue commod• the extent of investing in the port's Day warned of the growing trend in puffing trains on the ferry boat at ity for our railroad. Classified in more future. It is another step forward. toward nationalization that put rail• Bath and Woolwich? than 20 different grades, the clay is "I hope that it may be the start of roads in the most vulnerable position —When the passenger station in Port• used in the manufacture of high-gloss awakening of other interests to realize of any transportation agency, "be• land was on Commercial street at the printing papers, oilcloth, and enameled what the possibilities hold in the way cause their small ratio of earnings foot of State? hardware items. of commerce and trade." make it difficult for them to expand Erection of the modern structure The new storage building, 460 feet and improve their services." Mayer —When horse cars met all the trains at will permit storage of 4,000 tons of long and 50 feet wide, will in reality pointed out that the comparatively Portland Union Station? clay and is the first major waterfront serve a dual role in obtaining new flexible position of the truckers to the You do? Then you're an Old Timer, development at Portland in the last business for us. The current practice railroad's closely regulated situation too! aflriM. 20 years. A valuable boost to the of storing upward of 1,500 tons of makes the salesman's job "an exceed• —WILLIAM A. WHEHT.ER port's business, the Company's an• clay in the easterly end of Portland ingly difficult one." Associate Editor Emtriru* nouncement was immediately hailed Terminal Wharf 1 will be ended, free• by state and local officials. ing the space for storage of baled 4 5 wood pulp, another major port need hold and dump directly into the stor• and another revenue producer. age bins through hatches in the build• According to First Vice President ing's roof. Steel plates will be fas• E. Spencer Miller, the building will tened to the storage floor to protect Fun and Education give Portland a competitive edge as the clay. a clay receiving port with favorable It is expected that the storage plan rail rates to midwestern points. will divert to the Portland port, a With the new building, ships may goodly percentage of clay tonnage discharge the portion of their cargo now moving through other ports, not for immediate consignment into box only to New England paper mills, but cars (as they now do) then be warped also to Midwestern and Canadian con• back to the storage building to dis• sumers. These ports with the excep• charge the remainder. This ability by tion of one, unload from ship directly the mill users to draw on the stock• to car for overland consignment. pile as needed will induce importers Too, larger cargoes of clay are ex• to move their cargoes to Portland, pected because there are more offer• company officials believe. ings to handle bigger ships, Murphy The structure itself will be equipped explained. In the past smaller ships with bins to hold about 12 of the 20 had to be accepted because there was grades of china clay imported. Gan• insufficient space for storage of the try cranes, now operative at the dock; commodity beyond that which mills will unload the clay from the ships' could use immediately.

Transportation Day Features Modern Rail-Bus Exhibit Approximately 500 adults and Employes assisting in the exhibit school children viewed our most mod• included Trainmen Stephen M. Fla• ern passenger and bus equipment on herty, Emile J. Morin, Bus Operators, display at Union Station, Portland, Robert Leighton, MCTCo. and Joseph last month as our railroad's contribu• Scruton, B&MT Co. and Sgt. Walter tion to a "Transportation Month" pro• Murray, Railroad Police. gram sponsored by the Maine Public• Teachers conducting school children ity Bureau. through the exhibit were presented The exhibit consisted of one of our with special "teachers' kits" by our deluxe air-conditioned coaches, res• railroad containing pictures of our taurant lounge car, and latest type roomette and bedroom sleeping cars motive power, AAR quiz books on made up as a train on the station railroading and informative leaflets. platform. In an adjacent area the most modern type diesel-powered SNOW JOB highway bus of the Maine Central Two Marine veterans were bragging Transportation Company and an air- about their respective outfits, their gen• conditioned highway bus of the Bos• eral fighting qualities and the way each ton and Maine bus lines was displayed. had acquitted itself in the late war. Visitors entering one end of the "When we presented arms," said one, train were conducted through the cars "all you could hear was slap, slap, click." with explanatory lectures and left by (1) Bus drivers rate with cowboys for glamor in the estimation of this young man who joined a large group the opposite end. On duty in the "With us," said the other, "it was slap, of children from the school on Peaks Island, Casco Bay, Portland, in a boat trip to the mainland and a hike slap, jingle." ^_». to view our exhibit. (2) Pupils from the Butler School, Portland, attended in groups of 50. (3) Pullman roomette car were Pullman Instructor Porter W. Robie smiles up at one of the many youthful visitors touring his modern roomette and bedroom A. Sasser and Porter W. Robie, both "Jingle ? What was that?" sleeping cars while Mom and Dad inspected other new appointments of the car. (4) Trainman Stephen J of Boston, to demonstrate the new Haherty performs some baby sitting (just another example of Maine Central service!) for two mothers who type sleeping accommodations. "Our medals." took their next oldest through the exhibit 7 6 Terrible Tillie VETS TO SPONSOR Claim Prevention Does Work Ruins Rodents FAMILY PICNIC BY LUCILLE BRIDGE The newly-formed Maine Chapter of Transportation Company Reporter the New England Association of Rail• Former rodent occupants of the road Veterans stepped forward as Maine Central Transportation Com• sponsors of the Railroad Family Pic• pany's bus garage at Augusta are nic last month. looking for new quarters thanks to The picnic will be held Sunday, July Here'i the vigilance of Terrible Tillie, a 30, at Snowberry's Park, Pine Point, mouser extraordinary. rain or shine. An army of mice had taken over the The Vets are cordially inviting all Augusta garage, so numerous and railroaders, their families, and friends, destructive that to attend the fun fest. Arrangement stationery and for transportation may be made Proof other forms, to through the committee. the gnawing of General Picnic Committee members several blocks a elected were Gene Winslow, chairman; night, were being LeRoy Kane, Joseph Meehan, Jr., R. ruined. The gar• Hopkins, and Norman Fuller. age was covered Positive with poison pel• lets which seemed Life Service Pass Issued only to whet the Conclusive mice appetites. proof that proper In desperation loading by ship- INTERIOR VIEW of the carload of paper that remained undamaged due to though the car was derailed and tipped on its side pers will prevent vr°Per loadi"9 eve" Tillie awen Ptle oua t^ toor LewhelP- freight claims iston Supervisor Charlie Earley. With was demonstrated typical Yankee ingenuity Charlie in an amazing manner last month in Sole evidence that anything had quickly dispatched a fine, lean cat to the case of the S. D. Warren Com• been amiss were that four of the cases the scene. Promptly named "Tillie," pany, Cumberland Mills, versus a de• that were on end. in the doorway area she was assigned to the garage run railed car. had jumped trig and moved sidewise and promised two extra cans of milk The Warren Company, one of our approximately two feet. every six months if she made the largest shippers of printing papers, In a subsequent letter to the Loss garage safe. Now it's a foolhardy sent off a carload lot containing 16 and Damage Prevention Committee of mouse indeed who ventures near the skids of paper to the Diem-Wing Pa• the New England Shippers' Advisory place as Tillie, mistress of all she sur• RECEIVING his Gold Pass is Car Dispatcher Harry Hub• per Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Eight Board, Travis pointed out that "had veys, accepts the affections of Capital bard, Portland, center, from First Vice President E. skids were loaded in each end of the Spencer Miller, right, representing President French. car, and eight cases stood on end in it not been for the damage to the car, City personnel. At left is Car Service Agent Fred Strange the paper would not even have had to the doorway area. be reloaded!" Veteran Car Distributor Harry B. Misfortune struck the next day Hubbard, Portland, joined the ranks when the car, third from the engine The plaudits for such excellent "HACK" WHITTEN DIES of Maine Central Gold Pass holders in Train 376, left the iron opposite loading, bracing, and bracing mate• Haskell B. "Hack" Whitten, division last month when he was issued Life Griswold Station at East St. Johns- rials, goes to Travis and Frank Spen• general car foreman, died suddenly Service Pass No. 144 accompanied by bury, Vt., bounced along the ties for cer, manager of the company's ship• May 14 in his home, 1 Whitehall a congratulatory letter from Presi• approximately 23 car lengths, and ping department, who had worked un• Avenue, South Portland, Maine. dent E. S. French. then tipped over on its side. ceasingly to perfect the proper tech• He began his railroad service as a Hubbard began railroading at With long faces and a supply of red niques and in this incident utilized laborer with the B&M in 1905 at the Thompson's Point May 5, 1900 as a ink, Freight Claims Agent H. New- methods recommended by the Amer• old Turner's Island plant. He joined night operator. He worked spare on hall Tukey and Car Service Agent ican Association of Railroads. the Portland Terminal Company when the Mountain Division for a time, then Fred Strange accompanied S. D. War• it was formed in 1911. He became came to Portland as operator in the ren's Traffic Manager Bob Travis to chief clerk in 1914; foreman in 1922. car distributor's office. He was dis• assess the damage after the car had FOR WOMEN ONLY The funeral services, attended by patcher at Bangor from 1906-1910, been returned to Cumberland Mills. practically every official from all •pui|q 8q points on both roads, attested to the dispatched at Portland, then returned When the car was opened there was to his present position for a record of absolutely no paper damage and the ||IM 8U0 J8l|!0 SL)J_ S\m pesj |||M OL|M esteem in which he was held by fel• long and faithful service. bracing of the 16 skids was intact! low workers. 666 SH ||!M 3->sHi 'usui 000'I *°'+nO 8 0 PASSENGER SAFETY Railroad passengers were approxi• mately fourteen times as safe from fatalities as passengers by domestic air transportation in 1949, according to a study made public April 13 by the Bureau of Transport Economics Dfce Editors Page and Statistics of the Interstate CLIFFORD A SOMERVILLI Commerce Commission, in its Monthly Comment, which pointed out that the eOlTOR-lN CHIEF rail fatality rate in that year reached an all-time low. The rate of passenger GEORGE PMCCALLUM fatalities per billion passenger-miles WM. A.WHEELER for the railroads in 1949 was 0.91 ASSOCtATE EDITOR (EMERITUS) compared with 13.1 for the domestic airlines. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Track Pans The lead story of your Magazine this month sounds words of warning By HARRY TREAT from top officials of your Company Retired Chief Train Dispatcher that a better job must be done selling Looking Back . . 20 Years Ago the services of our railroad if we are More than 60 years ago, two fast (From the Magazine Files) limited trains were operated between to survive in the face of intensifying Boston and Mt. Desert Perry for the competition. accommodation of through passengers Theirs are no voices of doom con• The Railway Express Agency, Inc., to and from Bar Harbor. This new templating dire days ahead, but rather announces that in accordance with its and improved service was inaugurated pointing out that every one of our policy of having its offices located at in June, 1887. approximately 3,000 Maine Central railroad stations, will transfer its up• No regular stops were made on the employes should consider himself a town office in Bangor to the Union Maine Central other than at Bangor, salesman for his railroad, selling it to Station. This means that for the first which meant that two stops would the public as the best form of trans• time in its history the local office of have to be made to supply the loco• portation always. the company will be moved out of the motive with water unless arrange• As one spokesman expressed it: business section and the move, inci• ments be made to take water on the "We can't afford to wait for fair leg• dentally, will be the longest one made, fly. Consequently, to save stops and islation." In other words, our day as the headquarters have been pretty time, track-pans were constructed be• NO SLOUCH for speed was this old timer, built by the may come when the public realizes close to the intersection of Hammond tween the rails at Mine Meadow, 41 Portland Company in 1888 with a water scoop for track their tax monies are subsidizing free miles from Portland on the Back pans then in use throughout the system. Above, one of highways for trucks, airports for air• and Central Streets for upward of 40 Road; at Dresden tank, 48 miles from the track pans at Dresden track lines, and inland waterways, to the years. Portland on the Lower Road, and at detriment and ultimate ruin of hard• Burnham Junction, 95 miles from emptied into the top of the water com• working, pay-as-you-go railroads. Portland, 41 miles west of Bangor. partment of the tender. Any hobo In the meantime however, we must These water-pans were about 1000 who might be stealing a ride between sell our services and argue our case THE COVER feet in length, about 20 inches wide, the tender and baggage car would at every opportunity. Sell train travel and deep enough to receive a water- most likely be thoroughly drenched. to your neighbors, be cooperative in A group of pupils from Butler scoop when lowered from a suspended These two new trains were inter• providing any potential customer with Grammar School, Portland, leave changed by the B&M and Maine Cen• information and if you don't know, get position directly under the middle of tral at B&M Jet., near the present from inspecting our three-car display the tender. location of Tower "Four". it from someone who does. Argue our of the Maine Central's most modern Such scoops had been applied to case of unfair competition at every three new locomotives and when low• The Eastward train, No. 29, ran opportunity. At the grocery store, passenger equipment and ready to ered into the track-pan by means of Lower Road, due from B&M Jet. at club meetings, town meetings. If you inspect our latest type highway 12.15 p.m., passing Brunswick 1 p.m., hear anyone complaining about bad a lever operated in the cab by the Waterville 2.23 p.m., due at Bangor at buses at the Transportation Day ex• fireman, would receive several thou• 3.40 p.m., leaving at 3.45 p.m., to ar• roads, be sure to tell him why—that hibit staged last month. It proved sand gallons of water in 12 to 15 sec• his money is building them for the big onds when the train speed was 40 to rive at Mt. Desert Ferry at 5.20 p.m., trucks to destroy. a popular attraction for many^visit- 45 mph. Such momentum acted to transferring to a steamer due at Bar We are all in this together. What ing groups of pupils from Portland force this amount of water through Harbor at 5.55 p.m. is bad for your company is bad for schools. the scoop into a large pipe that you, let's not sell ourselves short. (Continued on Page lk) 11 10 Oun HTfta^jic (R£pn.£Aeritatm£& Come Mome

SCENES at the traffic conference include (1) A. W. Munster, vice president, purchasing and stores, addressing the group. (2) Disembarking for a tour of the B&M Mystic Piers. (3) F. W. Rourke, vice president, operations. (4) Tracy Cummings, general west coast agent, rises to suggest a point for discussion. (5) Our joint representatives pose at the Maine State Pier, Portland. (6) A head table group in the Manger Hotel where the con• ference was held. Left to right, F. A. Murphy, Stanley G. Phillips, chief engineer; P. J. Mullaney, general traffic manager; C. F. Palmer, passenger traffic manager; G. E. Gustafson, R. C. Donovan, general freight agent, Boston. (7) Interior view of the passenger car in which the group toured the B&M yard facilities. (8) The joint representatives pose with First Vice President E. Spencer Miller. Left to right, H. M. MacAnanny, Pittsburgh; P. J. Mullaney, H. F. Sexworth, general agent, Detroit, Mich.; F. A. Murphy, Miss Orr, E. S. Miller, E. T. Carney, traffic representative, Detroit; Harold Church, general agent, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. E. Graham, G. E. Gustafson, Rex Miller, Charles Keleher, general agent, Philadelphia, Pa.; Tracy Cummings, G. C. Aldrich, V. J. Tario, general agent, New York; R. L. McGivney, commercial agent, New York Busman's Holiday" for Since Dec. 30, 1907, Mr. Libbey has TRACK PANS been in the service of the Maine Cen• LOCOMOTIVE SERVES (Continued from Page 11) Bangor Ticket Clerk tral railroad company and the year AS STEAM PLANT has another significance as his wife These schedules were really quite smilingly remembered, for it was the FOR BINGHAM MILL fast. Know-nothing stops had to be year in which they were married. Mr. made at Westbrook Junction (now Libbey has been in Bangor with the Our Maine Central Class W loco• Deering Jet.), Yarmouth Junction and company since June 1917. But he's motive 528, plus a 30-foot smoke stack Danville Junction, as well as a full just getting around to taking this trip served as a steam plant for Bingham's stop at Leeds Crossing, several hun• after selling numerous tickets to other largest industry last month. dred feet east of the present location travelers through the years. His wife It was the faithful steam engine to of Leeds Junction station. Various didn't think they would ever be actual• the rescue for the Allen Quimby low speeds were required, such as six ly going but "he did" she confided. Veneer Mill there when the company mph over Congress St. and all cross• wanted to shut down its own steam ings through Woodfords; 16 mph over The Libbeys plan to stop in Spo• plant for repairs and improvements. Maranacook Bridge, and the use of kane and Seattle, Wash., and Los An• two full minutes in crossing Kennebec geles and San Francisco, Calif, among The engine was run in over the mill bridge at Augusta. other places. A highlight planned for company's tracks and was flanked by Double track extended only between the return trip is a visit to the Grand coal cars loaded with the fuel. A Portland and Cumberland Junction Canyon. They expect to cover about steam connection at the end of the (now Cumberland Center). Engines 8,000 miles during this transcontinen• mill building received the 185 pounds 22, 34 and 35 were the first to haul tal trip to places neither have ever of pressure 528 develops and kept these trains. Today they would be seen. three of our firemen hustling on three "midgets." Their tenders carried So for a month Joe Libbey will be shifts for the 24-hour operation. Fir• only 3500 gallons water and six tons seeing a lot of those places which un• ing the job were Leland Garland and coal. 22 was built by the Rhode til now were simply names he wrote Perley Tyler of Bingham and Robert Island Loco Works in 1885. 34 and in on somebody else's tickets. Malia, Portland. 35 were built by the Portland Com• pany in 1887. Enginemen Dan Rafter and Alonzo Towle covered the two trains between Portland and Bangor. In 1888 the 42 was built by the OFF ON A BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY last month were Portland Company after the pattern Night Ticket Clerk and Mrs. Joseph M. Libbey, Ban• gor, shown about to board the train at Union Station of 34 and 35, but she seemed to have en route to the West Coast on a month's vacation trip. a sweeter valve action. She was the Libbey has been a company employe for 42 years. fulfillment of the machinist's dream. (Bangor Daily News Photo by Webb) It has been stated that she once cov• ered a mile in 36 seconds. Also in Crossingtenders recently on vacation (The following feature story appeared in the were David Field, Bill Phillips and Al Day. 1888, Engines 98 and 99 were turned Bangor Daily News) Engine House Laborer R. L. Paqnette out by the Portland Company, similar was at St. Mary's Hospital for a few days to 42, but having cylinders 18 x 24. for a tonsillectomy. Well-known night man at the Union General Agent and Mrs. B. C. Kirk- The non-stop feature of these two Station ticket office and veteran em• patrick were in New York recently and Limited was discontinued after the ploye of the Maine Central railroad while there were very fortunate in secur• summer of 1888, but six more loco• ing tickets to "South Pacific." company, Joseph M. Libbey won't be Lewiston Waybill Machine Operator Rita Cronin motives were constructed with water- on duty tonight. He and Mrs. Libbey By LILLIAN G. WHITE was off duty on account of sickness. Pa• scoops. They were 5, 10, 77, 81, 84 left yesterday on a much anticipated Chief Clerk George Briery has been out tricia Perkins substituted. and 156, built by the Schenectady sick with the "flu" but is now able to be Engine House Laborer W. H. Robinson Locomotive Works in 1893 and 1894. month's vacation trip to the West on the job again. has had his annual vacation. In 1900 all MeC locomotives were Coast ... by train. classified' and renumbered. As one company employe put it yes• JUNE GRADUATE from Lewiston High School is Waterville Shops The personality of these engines terday "Everyone knows Joe Libbey" Madlyn Joyce Traynor, 18, By G. K. STEVENS seemed, to me, to have vanished when and everyone was happy that plans daughter of Yardman and Foremen William Otis and Edgar John• the renumbering had been accom• for this "busman's holiday" had ma• Mrs. Lyon Traynor and ston and Draftsman Laurence Sparrow, at• Granddaughter of Con• tended the funeral of H. B. Whitten in plished, especially with respect to 42. terialized for the Bangor couple who 1 ductor and Mrs. E. F. Portland, May 17. Track-pans and water-scoops were reside at 210 Forest Avenue. Office Traynor of Waterville. The beauteous miss was Our alert committeeman chairman, Car• removed during the early 1900's, and employes surprised Mrs. Libbey with cnosen as the Queen's at• man Floyd C:ise, was asleep at the switch, by that time the "Limiteds" were an attractive corsage, Mr. Libbey with tendant at the Carnival or lather the parking meter, and the Wat• erville Police collected 50 cents for waking practically forgotten. cigars. Ball this year him up. 14 15

i Ernest Crocker, of the Gas Plant, and tor, in the interests of the Waterville car• awarded a certificate qualifying him as a Hall have been smelting at the seaside; Mrs. Crocker, held open house at their men, at Rigby. lay preacher of the Methodist Church in Johnnie claims the distinction of being the home in Fairfield. May 13. celebrating their Watchman Joe Chamberlain, who was ill the Augusta District. first shop man to take up deep sea diving. 50th wedding anniversary. for a month, has returned to work. Machinist Don Rines has flown from the Electrician Albert Nelson and Machinist Kip Track Welder Curtis Orchard has a Assistant Foreman Chick Pooler is home nest and now has an apartment on Helper Walter Pearl are among the "no unique pair of neon signs that, under the building a boat. Boutelle Ave. catch" fishermen at Moosehead. right circumstances will glow a vivid red. Boilermakers Percy Bull and Dana Hink- That sporty convertible of Electrician Electrician Helper Albert Adams recently The boys are quite intrigued with the ley have opened their camps at Lake Helper George Lemoine's is the cynosure of won a fine set of silverware and Machinist phenomenon. Moxie, all the feminine eyes in this particular Perry Morse won a rifle. Car Apprentice Newman Tabor is serv• Mrs. E. B. Hall, wife of Paint Foreman neck of the woods. Draftsman and Mrs. Laurence Sparrow ing his final hitch on the rip track and will Emile, has been seriously ill at her home Furloughed Laborers Stoddard Stevens have been visiting friends in Woodland. soon finish his time. recently. and Robert Blanchard have been recalled Eddie McAleer has been recalled to the Mrs. Lester Davis, wife of Checker "Red", Piper Percy Grant, Draftsman Laurence to the yard gang. Machine Shop and will operate the wreck• has been visiting their son, John Davis, in Sparrow and M of W Equipment Foreman Laborer Hollis Hodgkins, Jr., was sub• ing crane, replacing Assistant Foreman Chicago. Harold Thyng attended the meeting of the ject to quite some clipping recently. Alden Finnemore. Eddie has recently Carman Martin Andrews has returned New England Railroad Club in Boston, Blacksmith Helper and Mrs. John Frap- been employed by the Grand Trunk in to work after prolonged Illness. May 12. pier are the proud parents of Barbara Portland. Retired Welder Wilbur Pooler suffered Carman Ervin Emery, who suffered a Jean, weighing six pounds, six ounces, Lamoine's broom, Henry Gagne, is con• a painful leg injury recently when an auto serious head injury when a jack slipped born at the Sisters' on May 2. fined to the hospital for treatment. He is that he was jacking slipped off the jack recently, has returned to work. Machinist Blaine Ladd wrinkled the being replaced by Hector Michaud. and squeezed his leg. Thanks to the smooth political talk front end of his car when he ran into Carroll Carey has bid the diesel me• A third generation railroader is Charles of Clerk Arnold Dow, Clerk Wilfred Bin- a truck. Oh well, you can't drive with chanics job vacated by Alden Finnemore. Leroy, III, born at the Osteopathic Hos• nette was saved a bit of embarrassment your eyes closed. Among those on and off the sick list are pital, April 27, to Machinist Helper and about a ticket numbered 7156. Junior Dow is acting car inspector for Car Department employees Gerald Ackley, Mrs. Charlie Sweet, Jr. He is the grand• Machinists Mike Bosco, Andy Miles, Wil• a couple weeks while Roland Dorval is Sebastian Bushey, Paul White, Clyde Dow, son of Carman Charles of the passenger fred Pooler and Foreman Archie Lemoine covering a job at Rockland. Wilfred Dusty, Albert Lacroix and Cleo room. were in the fishing derby at Belgrade. No Another Stork entry is Brenda, weighing Frappier. Blacksmith Helper Sylva Janelle has prizes. five pounds, eight ounces, born at the Sis• Mrs. William Spiller and Mrs. Fred Mer• been at the Lahey Clinic for treatment. Recent birthdays celebrated in the Ac• ters' May 5, to Blacksmith Helper and Mrs. rill of Waterville died recently. Thay Carman Joe Giroux is laid up with three counting office include Mrs. Ola Prentiss Gid Gagnon, Jr. were widows of pensioned employees at broken ribs. and Mrs. Beverly Cook. Each received It Is reported that Checker Dick Delano the Shops. Blacksmith George Hustus says as soon gifts and a birthday cake from their as• has cancelled his order for a small car in as he gets a license he is going gunning sociates. favor of a large one. for a certain flock of ducks in Canaan. Superintendent F. H. Bennett went on a Kathleen, weighing seven pounds, nine Mrs. James Bickford, wife of Carman ounces, was born at the Thayer on May Jimmy, is a patient at the Osteopathic 1 to Machinist and Mrs. Blaine Ladd. Hospital. Blacksmith Helper and Mrs. Sylva Ja• Welder Harold Varney has a new car. nelle recently celebrated their 25th wed• Carman Floyd Case, Machinist Abbott ding anniversary. They were the recipi• McKenney, Boilermaker Norman Fisher, ents of 25 silver dollars from their daugh• and Crane Operator Ernest "High Boom" ter. Cayford were in Boston attending the Dis• READY TO MOVE any• Appropriate names for appropriate busi• By JOHN J. KEATING trict Meeting System 18 AF of L recently. thing in his Mother's nesses : Machinist Eldon Fish has gone Retired Engineman and Mrs. Percy Brad• Carman Clyde Dow, Jr., rode the "Goat" kitchen is Stevie Barnes, into the fresh fish business, mainly to sup• ford of Belfast celebrated their 57th wed• for the third time recently in Vassalboro. aged three and one-half, ply the neighbors cats who congregate on ding anniversary April 23. Percy had 49 Congratulations. grandson of Painter his doorstep. years' rating at the time of his retirement. Carman Henry Gleason has been laid up Helper and Mrs. Frank One of the show places, for a small cot• "Best of luck to you and the Mrs." for a couple of weeks with a bad back. Miles, Waterville tage, at Snow Pond is the camp of Ma• Checker Thomas Smith has returned chinist George Smith. Smithy takes real after surgery at the Sisters'. pride in his handiwork and has a fine IT WON'T BE LONG before engine crews will enjoy the Says Carman Floyd Case, "The inhabi• place to show as the result of his crafts• Summer breeze as did Guy Sawtelle, fireman, left, and tants of Fairfield can sleep in perfect manship, having built the place himself. Byron Low, engineer, right waiting with 350's extra peace and contentment knowing that their Special Apprentice Steve Sweet has been at Cathance in 1347 newly-appointed special police officer, at the Sisters' with a bout with pneumonia. Welder Carl Hamlin, is on duty." Painter Bill Mingo has a new car. Foreman Nubert Estabrook recently in• fishing trip to Topsfield but reports that Electrician Ken Reid had the misfortune stalled a new automatic oil burner in his the prevailing high winds prevented much of smashing his new car completely when furnace. (Oh, Oh, here goes the price of of a catch. he left the road, mowed down four mail eggs up!) Kenneth, son of Clerk and Mrs. Guy boxes and a telephone pole and landed in Millman Cecil Niles lost his boat at Wentworth, a student at Juilliard School a brook. Ken received quite a battering Messalonskee Lake in a recent high gale. of Music in New7 York, has been awarded including two broken ribs and multiple Blacksmith Tool Maker Lorry Oleson, a $500.00 fellowship and an assistant in- bruises. while shingling, had a staging break and structorship at the school for the coming While Machinist - Photographer Perry he. made a three-point landing on the year while working for Ills master's degree. Morse was visiting in Boston, his garage ground. He went around for three weeks Machinist Fred Gould has been serving was broken into, his car backed out and before X-rays showed that lie had a broken on the jury in Skowhegan. put back in its stall, damaging three of vertebra in his back. Carman Ralph Moxeey and Foreman the fenders to the extent of about $50.00. George Branch are reported as recovering Juveniles were responsible. They have been Mrs. Gideon Gagnon, wife of Blacksmith slowly. apprehended and have paid for the damage. Gid, has returned home after surgery at Assistant Superintendent Wilbur C. Lunt, Carman Win Reynolds has bid off the the Sisters'. a surgical patient at the Maine General Mill Job vacated by Win Potter. Machine Apprentice Bill Chase, an ex• in Portland, is reported coming along fine. Another Stork Derby entrant is Cynthia pert at horseshoe pitching, is giving les• Carmen Walter McCaslin and Elmer Marie, checking in at the Sisters' May 12, sons to the machinists, including Machinist Starks, both surgical patients at tjnj Sis• weighing six pounds, three ounces. She Helper Don Priest. ters', have returned to work. will live with Carman Helper and Mrs. Carman Jimmy Ifill, committeeman for Painter Charles Lawry, who has been Eddie King, Jr. the passenger room, has been a recent visi• pursuing a course in theology, has been Electricians Johnnie Beeh and Parker 16 17 Conductor Bendelow was a patient at the Maine General Hospital for a general May 17 to attend funeral services of H. B. Operator Leon LeClair has all four fish• checkup, as was Conductor George Larsen. Wh'itten. ing rods cleaned and well oiled; he and Trainman Coombs of Rockland was a pa• George Peters, section foreman, is hard Mrs. LeClair are vacationing at Moosehead tient at the Mercy Hospital, Portland. at work trying to get the ball team started Lake very soon. Engineman and Mrs. Edward Hickson of for the season. Looks like he will have Assistant Foreman P. L. Dow is the Bangor will celebrate their 50th wedding A SHORT REST for Harry some railroad boys on the squad, includ• grandfather of a baby girl. The young anniversary June 20. "Best of luck to you Gibb, conductor on WH 1, ing D. Whiteher, R. C. Burdwood, Preston lady. Cynthia, was born May 3. She is and the Mrs., Ed" as he pauses at Oakland on Burke, Halsey Chandler and Sam Drown. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Emery Sympathy is extended to Trainman J. J. the Waterville-Bingham job He would like to have C. L. Wass, plumber, of Kittery. Mrs. Emery is Dow's daughter. Kelley on the death of his mother. Mrs. but Scotty allows Lewiston is too far Operator Conrad and Mrs. Mason at• Kelley was for many years president of away. tended the Boston-St. Louis baseball game the ladies' auxiliary of the Brotherhood of A. R. Mallett, signalman, has finally with Supervisor and Mrs. Jacque Astle. Railroad Trainmen. rigged up his TV set so that he can some• Operator Damon Cunningham has re• Sympathy is extended to Engineman Irv• times get a very good reception from the turned to work after a brief illness ing Grant on the death of his wife. Boston area. He has enough boosters and Clyde Mason, leadman Portland garage, Retired Railway Express Messenger General Foreman Joe Meehan of Port• supplementary units to fill a small room. spent his vacation recently setting up a "Alie" Sawyer, who has resided in Bangor land Union Station is sporting a new auto. small lumber mill. for 30 years, has moved to Boston. Mrs. "Happy Motoring, Joe." Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Foster have Sawyer's former residence. News Agent John Logan of Trains 11 and bought a new home in South Portland Mrs. Charles Ladd and daughter, wife 16 has taken a position at Bangor with the and plan to be settled there next month. of Fireman Ladd of Waterville, returned Armstrong News Co. "Best of luck, John." Frank is a mechanic at Portland garage. the first of May from a visit to Columbus, Sewall Boynton, former driver for Maine O.. where another daughter resides. Central bus lines, dropped in to say hello Yard Master Weymouth of Waterville to the gang at Lewiston recently. was a patient at the Sisters' Hospital with By EDITH W. MACGIBBON Willard Purington and family have pneumonia. At this writing he is doing The Engineering Department was well moved into their new home on Bradman OK. Qjountaife represented at the Railroad Club Banquet Street, Auburn. Purington is a mechanic Our genial Bangor Police Officer, "Pete" at the Statler, Boston, on May 11. helper at Lewiston garage. Crowell. made a trip with friends to Bos• Operator Cecil K. Bradstreet patrolled ton to see a few ball games. "Pete" is a Mrs. Alice Eliason, chainman in the En• the length of Moxie Lake that windy Sun• former trainman on the Eastern Division. Bartlett, N. H. gineering Department, accompanied by her day recently looking for fish. Brad got Tom, when the Mrs. plans a trip to Lew• son. Philip, motored to Beverly, Mass., re• wet but no fish. iston, be sure to have her check the de• By O. R. BURDWOOD cently. parture of the trains. It will save a long, Billy Bergeron, brother of A. F. Bergeron, "Tommy" Dunn, clerk in the Engineer• long wait at the station. Poor Mildred had conductor, visited here lately. He is a ing Department, enjoyed a week's vacation to wait. too. conductor on the Northern Pacific, and at Rockwood, where he hopes to take his Sympathy is extended to the relatives makes his home in Spokane, Wash. quota of "Big Ones." of Mrs. James Cosgrove, widow of the late Robert J. Jones, welder, has a new car. Sympathy is being extended to Signal train dispatcher, who died in Waterville. He can follow the ballgames this summer Supervisor Lentz upon the death of his There's a Federal law against unauthor• and maybe go out to Detroit and see his father in Woburn, Mass. ized use of a railroad pass, and because old friend, Red Rolfe. Miss Edna Crimmins, clerk in the B. & B. of it a 39-mile ride cost a woman $100 in We learn that W. J. Paradis, foreman Department, recently spent a week end Calais court. She pleaded guilty to using the Section 123, at Conway Center, suffered a with friends in Beverly, Mass. broken wrist, caused by capering too By P. D. ADAMS pass of her sister, the wife of a railroad briskly on a dance hall floor. Men from employe, on a trip from Baltimore to Wash• his department state that Wilfred figured Stationary Fireman D. O. Campbell and ington. The $100 fine is $98.45 more than he was young once again. It can't be done, wife visited their daughter, Mary, in the coach fare she saved. boys. Jamaica, N. Y., for two weeks. Donald Conductor W. F. Driscoll has been con• Major Henry Mead, son of Engineer C. F. Gaddis covered Campbell's job. fined to his home on account of illness. Mead, is visiting at home with his family. Pensioned Section Foreman George W. Engineer Pratt of Leeds, operator of W. N. Trecarten, engine house foreman, Allen is in a hospital in Fredericton, N. B., the steam shovel, has been off duty for a with W. J. Smearer, went to Portland on for surgical treatment. long period because of illness. By LUCILLE BRIDGE Sectionman Charles Pomeroy is sporting Railway Express Messenger J. E. Chou- TWO YOUNG AVIATORS of Bartlett, N. H., are Bruce a new auto. inard of Trains 7 and 24, has been con• Hodgkins and David Goslin, snapped by Trainman Emile Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Frank• Trainman R. J. Donovan spent two fined to a local hospital for surgery. Morin lin B. Foster on the birth of a son, April weeks' vacation at home. Here is one for Ripley: Telegrapher- 24. The young man will be named Dar- Conductors Warren Trask and Roland Operator H. F. Knowles of P. N. Office, rcll Earl. Crone of Bangor are running as conductors Rigby, has auto registration license No. Richard Kyle, South Portland, has been on B C 1 and C B 2. 34615, telephone No. 34615 and at home employed as mechanic helper at Portland Conductor B. F. O'Neil was off the job has 3 persons at 46 Rosedale St., house garage. for a few days because of sickness. built on lot No. 15. Operator C. W. Anderson has returned Conductor W. J. Cobb of Bangor is Station Baggage and Mail Handler Wil• to work after. six weeks' illness. We are covering the flagman's job on the passenger liam Curran of Bangor has purchased a all glad to see Andy back. train with Conductor Tom Taylor. new home located at 44 Catell Street. We Operators Einer Mason. Ken Marston Cashier P. D. Adams was a delegate to are looking for a house-warming "Bill." and Warren Libby enjoyed a fishing trip the Northern Baptist Convention which Retired Engine House employe, Edward to Big Wood Lake, Jackman, recently. meets in Boston, May 22 to May 26. Towsey, is, at this writing, confined to the Maynard Pratt has purchased a new car. Maine General Hospital. 'Ed" was, at one They say it runs. Maynard is a mechanic time, committeeman for station and freight helper at Lewiston garage. employes. Operator Arthur Bennett was unloading Bangor Operating Sunday, May 21, at Waterville, Brother• his passengers at South Paris about a week By MARY E. GIBBONS hood of Railroad Trainman Lodge 343 ago and as the last passenger left the bus presented our senior conductor, J. Alton he happened to glance up the aisle. He Conductor J. K. Mclver and Mrs. Mclver Emery, and General Yard Master Delbert had one passenger without a ticket—a cat. recently returned from a trip to St. Peters• Wright of Waterville Yard, with 50-year Pauline Fearon, ticket seller at Lewis- burg. Fla. While there they visited C. P. membership buttons. ton bus terminal, has returned to work Crandlemire. retired clerk from Vanceboro, after being on sick leave. and other former Vanceboro residents. 18 19 VALEDICTORIAN of the Mrs. Clendenning was the mother of Shir• Class of 1950 at John ley C. Wheeler, stenographer in the office ELECTED PRESIDENT of Bapst High School is Delta Tau Delta fraternity Ronald McGarry, son of of the General Car Foreman L. J. Hartery. at the University of Maine General Foreman R. 0. was J. Charles Hickson, son McGarry, Bangor. Winner Bangor Motive Power of Engineer and Mrs. Jos• of the Harvard Club prize eph Hickson of Bangor. He he was guest at the Har• By C. H. LEARD is a senior, majoring in vard Club dinner in Ban• Private M. A. Calahan, son of Crew Dis• business administration and gor, March 22 and hon• CUTE LITTLE TODDLER patcher and Mrs. S. A. Calahan. has re• is a graduate of the Maine ored guest at the Engi• is Barbara Ann Bannon, cently been home on an eight-day furlough. Maritime Academy. He neers Association Ban• daughter of Ticket Clerk He has finished his basic training at Lack• served with the Navy in quet for 1949-50. Class and Mrs. Charles B. land Air Base in Texas and promoted to World War II President, young Mc• Bannon, Bar Harbor Private 1st class and now assigned to Scott Garry is a member of the Air Base, Bellville. Illinois, for nine Ji Dramatic and Debating months' technical training course in radio Clubs and will enter the University of Maine next maintenance. Engine House Man and Mrs. H. N. Clark Fall. He has worked at Bangor Shops as an elec- are the proud parents. trician's helper Travelers: General Foreman R. O. Mc- Deaths: Mrs. Matthew Clendenning, Garry and Relief Foreman I. A. Furrow widow of former Eastern Division engi• ous with the fish but didn't give away a attended the meeting of the New England neer, died in a local hospital, May 14. Sur• gol-darn clam. Railroad Club in Boston May 11. viving are a daughter, Mrs. Shirley Sickness: Mrs. L. J. Grant, wife of Wheeler, stenographer in Bangor Car De• Engineer Grant, and Mrs. W. W. Coburn, partment, three sons, Donald, Emerson and widow of Locomotive Engineer Coburn, Douglass, two sisters and two brothers, were both recently hospitalized. Conductor and Mrs. James Plummer one of whom is Locomotive Engineer Ralph W, L. Nickerson, clerk and relief fore• were the dinner guests of Mildred Constan- E. Susee of the Eastern Division. man at Bangor freight sheds, lost some tine and her husband on Sunday, April 2. Edgar S. Philbrook, formerly a loco• time on account of illness. A. W. Crocker reports that he and Engi• motive fireman, died in Bangor on May 8. Miss Lulla Stratton, daughter of Engi• neer Prescott and B^ireman Jenkins actu• SON OF Machinist Clifford He was a brother of Charles A. Philbrook, neer and Mrs. Stratton comes to Bangor ally saw 72 deer between Vanceboro and DeYoung, Bangor, is Law• MeC engineer, who died very suddenly a from their home in Winn two or three Bangor May 1. On the trip to Vanceboro rence E. DeYoung who will short time ago. times a week for medical treatment. they counted 47 between Mattawamkeag graduate in June from John The Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, and Vanceboro. Bapst High School Frank H. Robinson, superannuated engi• No. 471, held a social gathering of their We all wish to extend congratulations neer and holder of a Gold Pass, died the members, wives and guests in Trainmen's to retired conductor Mart Fallon who first of May at his home in South Brewer. Hall, Bangor, April 26. A delicious sup• celebrated his 80th birthday, May 3. Fishing Notes : Machinist R. G. Hudson, per was served followed by an entertain• D. TI. Booker and Carman Owen Spaulding ment and dance. Officers of the brother• fished Grand Lake Stream in Princeton hood this year are J. T. McTigue, Sr., president; J. E. Blake, vice-president; M. J. Roach, secretary and L. E. Smith, Store Department Clerk J. L. Bletlien financial secretary and treasurer. and wife left for Orlando, Fla., on May 14 Two Eastern Division Engineers have to .join Inspector John P. Barnes of the been sick for a long period, H. W. Reed, NOW AGE 10 months is Bangor Police and Mrs. Barnes. The two who was hospitalized on April 21 and has David A. Darling, son of couples will return in the new house not yet been able to return to work, and Ticket Clerk Olyn Dar• trailer which the Barnes recently pur• JUNE GRADUATE of R. E. Susee, who has been off since Janu• ling, Bangor chased. John Bapst High School, ary 9. Engineer and Mrs. R. W. Fenlason made Bangor, is Marie Blake, Mrs. Francis H. McTigue. wife of Ma• a trip to Denver, Colo., recently attending daughter of Engine chinist McTigue of Bangor Shop, has been a national convention of the Townsend Houseman and Mrs. appointed chairman of the Round-Up Com• Club as well as visiting their son. Robert, James E. Blake mittee for pupils who will enter the public Jr., and family, and their daughter, Vera, schools of Bangor next September. who is a registered nurse in Denver. Machinist Richard Moran attended a state gathering of Masons in Portland the Vanceboro first part of May. By HARRY D. DAVIS Bangor Car Department New Citizens: Larry W. Clark was Clair Crandlemire, third trick operator born May 3 in the Stinson Hospital. here, died May 7. He is survived by his By C. A. JEFFERDS over a recent week end. Each captured a wife and son, Operator C. Crandlemire, Sympathy is extended to our general togue. jr., employed at Clinton. car foreman. L. J. Hartery, on the death One of our electricians, together with a Section Foreman B. C. Pine is getting of his mother, May 6. machinist, fished a stream down in Han• material ready preparatory to building Some of the boys in this department who cock County. They walked four miles and a new home to replace the one lost in have recently purchased new cars are: got a lot of trout but most of them would fire last year. Asst. Foreman- W. T. Walker. Carmen K. A. JUNE GRADUATE of John not pass the law. The electrician, a most Engineman II. D. Lounder, on local yard Golding and B. W. Caldwell. Bapst High School, Bangor, conscientious cuss, threw all his short ones switcher, is taking his annual vacation. Those wTho have had their annual vaca• will be Miss Gertrude J. back. Upon catching up with his pal he Engineman D. Stratton is filling his place. tions since the Magazine's last publication Roach, 17, oldest daughter asked him how many he had. The dare• Operator T. Ouellette has been assigned are : Carmen R. E. Lancaster, L. S. Stubbs, of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. devil machinist replied "Oh, about $100 swing job Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. Coach Cleaners C. L. Stubbs, B. A. Tinker Roach. She is a school worth." Other changes in operators here are J. M. and W. A. Kingsbury, and Laborer Harold sports enthusiast Richard Jordan. Harry Rankin and Parker on swing job vacated by Ouellette Johnson. Henry Sanborn of this Department took a and R. V. Craig on third trick. Friends will be sorry to learn of the trip down Hancock County way and re• Those on vacation from office staff are death, on May 14, of Mrs. Theresa E. turned with a cartload of alewives, floun• clerks M. O. Pine and L. J. Crandlemire. Clendenning, widow of Matthew Clen- ders and clams. They were pretty gener- Enginehouse Foreman A. M. Scott re- denning, former engineman on this road. 21 20 cently had the good fortune to land a Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, with a four-pound trout at Lambert Lake, the larg• sprained ankle. took a trip to Sullivan, Maine, to visit est taken in many years. Cheers for Patrick J. Flynn, F-21 Clerk, visited Bos• relatives. "Scotty." ton recently while enjoying a few days' va• Machinist Helper Ernie Mac Vane an• Your correspondent has had a recent let• cation. nounces the birth of a son. The baby ter from retired clerk, C. P. Crandlemire, at Paul V. Bourque, demurrage clerk, has was named Ernest William. Both mother St. Petersburg, Fla. lie and the Mrs. have resumed his duties after being a patient and baby are doing nicely. had a wonderful winter and do not plan to at the Mercy Hospital. Welcome back, The safety program had another near return until July. That, with shuffle board, Paul. setback when Laborer Charles Ready was CELEBRATING his first canasta and sunshine, is the life. Mechanical Device Operator Ludwig slightly injured at the coal pocket. He birthday last month was Starling is absent due to an infected finger. however responded to first aid treatment. Bruce Wayne Dunham, We extend our best wishes for a speedy Our Safety Board on reportable accidents son of Carpenter Edgar recovery. now stands at 629 days. Dunham, Rigby Engine Head Clerk James J. Hasson visited his Two new cars appear at the engine house. House son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Machinists Eugene Annett and Thurlow James J. Hasson, Jr., at Lynnfield, Mass., Poland are the owners. recently. Machinist William Reagan attended the Helen M. McFarland, student at Our Democratic convention held at Lewiston as Lady of Mercy College, Portland, was a delegate from Ward number eight in among those who sang in the glee club con• Portland. Later again attended a rally Deering Junction cert held recently. at Westbrook and at that occasion w'as a By TOM ROCHE Michael F. Carroll and Andrew Murphy, guest of Mayor Porrell of that city. superannuated freight handlers, were re• Boilermakers Helper Joseph Devine was The foundation for a new planing mill cent visitors at the freight office and taken ill suddenly, but is now on the road is under construction for the Lewis Lum• freight house. Here are twTo people who to recovery. A very interesting letter was read by ber Co. This mill will be served by a are certainly deriving every benefit from Carpenter Edgar Dunham announces your reporter from Former Boiler Helper private track. Section Foreman A. E. a well-earned annuity. Best wishes, boys. three birthdays in his family, all of them Rudolphe Phillips. He now resides in a Newell and crew have completed build• We all extend our sympathy to the fam• in May. Edgar's on the 29th when he was small town near Danbury, Conn., where ing the lead for this track. ily of Haskell B. Whitten, former head 34 years old. His son Gene on the 20th. he works on a tobacco plantation as assist• Crossing Tender John E. Conley has re• car foreman, who died May 14. will be eight years old, and last but not ant to the foreman. He has his house fur• turned from vacation. Oliver C. Sheean, revision clerk, enjoyed least is the baby who was one year old nished, all the fuel he needs, and some a vacation in Boston, Albany and New on May 19. supplies besides a fair salary. York City. The wash-out section of the engine house At last the long-looked-for heir to Our best wishes to Mrs. Harry L. Pluin- is having a new roof built on it by Ross Arthur Mills family has arrived. A daugh• mer, who has been ill at her home at Cape Woodrow. and his men of the bridge build• ter, Barbara Ann. was born while Arthur Elizabeth. She is the wife of Head Clerk ers' crew. was on vacation. Traveling Storekeeper Plummer of the Inward Department and Stores Department Laborer Philip Whit• James Mills is the granddad. was formerly employed in the Marine De• ney has been sick with penicillin poisoning. Furloughed Machinist Helper .lames partment previous to her retirement. We Rather a rare ailment. Quincannon is subbing for Arthur Mills wish her a speedy recovery. Forme" Laborer Frank McGill is again for a few days, as a clerk. We are pleased to learn that Billy Dillon, living with his son. Henry, a machinist, son of Rate and Waybill Clerk Thomas E. after spending nearly a year with his Furloughed Machinist Philip Bonang lias Dillon, lias recovered and resumed his daughter in Vermont. a new job for the summer months. He studies at Boston College, after a spell of Machinist Helper Joseph Ashley at• was recently sworn in as a special police• illness. tended the Red Sox-Detroit game at Bos• man in the town of Yarmouth. Assistant General Agent and wife, Mr. ton during the early part of the month. All of the boys at the Enginehouse wish and Mrs. James P. Jordan, are receiving The Red Sox won their game. to convey their utmost sympathy to the congratulations on the birth of a grandson, Many of our officials were invited to family of Haskell Whitten of the Car De• Crossing Tender Thomas Conley has been to their son and wife. Mr. and Mrs. James attend a banquet given at Boston by the partment. on a trip to New York. P. Jordan, Jr., in Hartford. Conn. Railroad Supply Co. A good time was en• Hostler's Helper James Ashley tells me Clerk Typist Margaret H. Decelle has joyed by all who attended. his wife is recovering from an illness. been on a tour of the state of Florida. Laborer Edgar C. Burgess has been on Rigby Engine House a trip to Southern Pines, X. C. LODGE MEETS Laborer Lin wood J. Burgess has been By ALBERT B. WETMORE on a trip to Hartford, Conn. Local No. 325, I. A. of Machinists, Miss Frances E. Kicker, daughter of elected Joseph Deroche to attend the con• Storekeeper and Mrs. E. T. Ricker was vention of District No. 42, and System graduated May 18 from Gordon College, Federation at Boston, Manger Hotel, April Boston. Mass. 28 and 29. Joe made a very favorable re• port as a delegate and did a swell job on his first attempt in this capacity. Portland Freight Office and One of our Machinist Helpers, Leon Bar- rette, furloughed for more than a year, Freight House died at his home quite suddenly. A Moral By ALICE A. MCLAUGHLIN AND MARJORIE tribute was sent as usual. ". J. QUIGLEY Machinist Helper Albert McCann an• We extend our sympathy to James E. nounces the birth of a son to his wife. Malia and Lawrence J. Malia in the recent The little fellow will bear the name of Wil• death of their father, Michael Malia. liam Patrick McCann. This office was saddened by the sudden Machinist Lou Carignan, after a lapse death of Henry A. ("Al") McDuffie recent• of about 20 years without an automobile, ly, who was employed for many years as has recently purchased one to enjoy the MEMBERS of the Northern Maine System Federation, BM of WE, meeting at Portland recently are front row, freight cashier. summer months. ^ left to right, Jess Mills, George Williams, Oscar Johnson, M. T. Simmons, Thomaston, general chairman; T. C. Miss Marion Morrison, daughter of our Former Machinist Helper Bert piracy, Holleran, Detroit, grand lodge representative. Second row, Louis Larriver, St. J&LC Railroad; James Jenkins, janitor, Harold Morrison, has returned to and a brother of Machinist Donald Tracy, Kenneth Murphy, Norman Purington, Milton Poore, Jim Chadbourne, Lawrence West, Belfast & Moosehead Lake her home after being a patient at the who is visiting Don and Mrs. Tracy, all Railroad 22 23 THIS old beauty above was a product of the Portland Company Works about 1884 according to the picture's owner H. M. Burnham, B&M engineer. It was for• warded by Rules Examiner E. H. Winslow

Mountain Division looked like this. Note no train order mast and blades. Closed for many years, the building was torn down about 12 years ago

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QUEEN OF THE MAINE CENTRAL old timers was No. 42 below, another product of the Portland Company Works about 1888. She is believed to hold the all-time speed record of a mile in 36 seconds according to photo owner Harry M. Treat, retired chief dispatcher ?