VOL. XXXIX No. 12
A Two-Way Street
A. G. Dupuis Mallager HAVE been very pleased to find that the appeal Marc Green Marie Hotton I Editor A.ssistalli. 1.0 Editor" fOt understanding which appeared on this page in January was so well received. The letters coming to PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT UNION STI'.TION-CHICAGO me from Milwaukee Road people suggest that there is no limit to the benefits to be realized from greater The Milwaukee Road Magazine is pub lished for active and retired employes of cooperation and understanding. They also remind me The Milwaukee Road, to whom it is dis tributed free. It is avail:tble to others of a very elementary fact-that real understanding at 10e per single eopy or $1.00 per year. between us is a two-way streer. The keys to such an understanding of each other are to be found in the sharing of information and IN THIS ISSUE the free exchange of ideas, because it is JUSt as im Page portant for me ro know what you have on your mind A Two-Way Street as it is for you ro know what I have on mine. By President J. P. Kiley------2 I am trying, through these messages and through the Perfect Shipping Preview ------3 pages of the Magazine, to keep you informed of my New Values in the Log By Irv Luiten------4 thoughts, and I would like to encourage every em
Service Club Aids Miles City ploye on the railroad who has a question regarding Polio Drive .------6 any aspect of our railroad or its operation to inquire Our Safety Score------6 about it. Officers and supervisors to whom such ques The Nice Customer------7 tions are directed witt, I feel sure, not only provide Hook & Ladder Chief------7 the information but respect the individual for being How Are We Doing?------B sufficiently interested to ask. Certainly my immediate
The Cover ------B staff witt do everything possible to be helpful. Stationmaster J. J. Crowley Retires B The employe who offers a helpful suggestion for They Can Bake a Cherry Pie------9 improvement in methods, service or efficiency helps The Appeal of a Railroad Job his company and adds to his own stature in our or By Robert Ledin------10 ganization. Milwaukee Road Women's
Club Membership------··--- 10 Real understanding demands that we UJork tOgether How to Make Friends by Telephone 11 and thin!?. together. It is the two-way street that lead~ Appointments ------12 to success. Retirement Dinner Honors W. E. Ring .------13 Retirements ------.------13
Home Department------15
About People of the Railroad ---- 16 ~ ( br'ouoJ1t em togeth~v. right ·t~J!~t, t Irne i PERFECT SHIPPING PREVIEW
One of the cartoons from the booklet, "Who Says We Can't Do Good Switching?" published by the Association of Ameri· can Railroads in connection with the 1952 Perfect Shipping campaign.
REIGHT damage is a thief that robs year.round loss prevention program and the impact is 16 times that of coupling F us all of usa:bIe goods, but for rail welcome the opportunity to participate at 4 miles an hour, and 64 times that of roads and railroad people it is far more in the Perfect Shipping campaign, more 1 mile an hour. serious. Freight damage drains off rail especially as it gives us an opportunity to It is also important that particular road revenues, undermines railroad jobs, work more closely with the shipping attention be paid to the inspection and lnd works at cross purposes to the rail public ... classification of empty cars. Experience roads efforts to please their customers. "What can we, as railroad people, do? shows that much damage ha.s occurred That is why no one can afford freight There is a job for many of us: the car and many claim dollars have been :OS5 and damage, and that is why The department, station and yard forces, wasted because a car was furnished for _ filwaukee Road joins every year with who select the car for loading; switch. loading that had a leaky roof, poor side ,hi pers and other railroads in a month. man and yard enginemen, who can walls, uneven floor racks, or decking 'ong concentrated effort in the direction create or avoid damage by the way they impregnated with some previous com )' ?e-rfut shipping, This year, as every couple cars; freight house employes, modity which contaminated foodstuffs, := , April will be Perfect Shipping train dispatchers and maintenance of It is particularly important that cars to _ ODth, way forces. All of these men and others be loaded with flour and other sack ":hi pers themselves, organized and have a responsibility to perform their commodities, empty tin cans, grain, :-:-' rough the 13 regional Ship· work in such a way as to reduce the perishables and livestock be in perfect • " ..\ i. ry Boards and the national chance of damage to freight entrusted to condition when set for loading. .' -~-'- 'on of those boards, will be the care of The Milwaukee Road." The importance of train inspections :-U:'':: ~ home ro railroad customers the This year's campaign is laying par. cannot be over.emphasized. Here is a __ - ::.lKe of safe packaging, correct ticular stress on the speed at which cars place where every employe on the rail· :al~ :0£;1 le'(- addressing, and safe load. are coupled, as high impact speed is one road can contribute his bit by watching •• 10. _rid cjng shipments. of the principal hazards when it comes or closely the running gear of cars in pass.. .-\s ior me indi"idual railroad em· to causing damage in switching. On the ing trains. If such inspections disclose ploye. sA.'e h::l' ling is the watchword. Milwaukee it accounts for almost 60 any irregularities which might cause ac· He is an indispensable part of the Per· per cent of the loss and damage claim cidents, word should be passed to the iee.: Shipping team. a "ital link in the payments. . train crew immediately so that they can istribution chain that extends from In switching cars, the force with manufacturer to customer. which cars couple together mounts by stop, inspect the train and take what Commenting on the coming cam· leaps and bounds as striking speed in ever action is necessary to avoid trouble. ?,aign, W. 1. Ennis, assistant to vice creases. So does the damage to what Perfect Shipping is railroading at its fCesident, in charge of claim prevention, ever is in the cars. When cars come to· best. Let's all do our part in making it .'aid. "We on the Milwaukee carry on a gether at 8 miles an hour, for instance, a reality.
March, 1952 3 Logs for lumber and a number of other uses go into the log pond at Weyer haeuser's manufac turing center at Longview, Wash. new values In• the Loe by Irv Luiten
A LOG, like a Milwaukee Road ta.nk car, Today, in the modern sawmill, left manufacturing centers in the Douglas fir is round. over wood from lumber manufacture be region of Washington and Oregon and If you load boxes into a round tank comes raw material for other forest prod. the ponderosa pine region of Oregon. car, you have shipping space left over. ucts plants. The trash burner is obsolete. In Weyerhaeuser's operations, utiliza When you cut "square" lumber from a lumbermen use all of the log and are tion of the forest crop has reached its round log, you have wood left over. manufacturing from it a wide variety of. highest stage of development at the This doesn't prove a thing about rail products other than lumber. company's largest manufacturing center roading, except this: No good railroad This effort to convert the whole log at longview, Wash., which is served by man would load boxes into a tank car into useful products is especially notice The Milwaukee Road and other lines. and have valuable shipping space left able at Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's Here, grouped on a 670-acre site, is a over. But it does prove something about lumber manufacture. A lumberman hasn't any choice; he has to cut rectangular boards from round logs. So he's bound to have wood left over. Few people outside the lumber indus try realize that less than one-half of each log that goes to the mill actually makes boards, two-by-fours and timbers. The Bales of Silvawool, a wood by-prod other half comes off the saws and planers uct, is loaded in to • ..,• .lIi.' in the form of slabs, edgings, trimmings, a box car at Wey· planer shavings and sawdust. erhaeuser's Long Finding an economic use for these view plant feftovers was long a sore problem in the forest products industry. But in recent years the engineers, chemists and physi cists working in lumber and pulp mills ,; have developed countless new products
~, from wood. In doing so, they've found ; economic uses for i vast quantity of forest material that was once burned in sawmill trash burners. I " The Milwaukee Road Magazine Wl<1e '-?rJe:y 0: tor- -r products plants. It may be applied quickly over the floors mill. Some are routed to the wood fiber The,' inclu ~e three siwmills, a planing and inner walls of boxcars to make them plant. Here libers in the wood are sepa n:i!l', .Jy',\ood?l or, a sulphite pulp tight for shipment of such freight as rated by a mechanical-and-steam process mi L ? ,~l~!'>_:t ? 'Ip mill, a bark prod grain. The Milwaukee Road has on test and are made into a fluffy, wool-like um pian;:. .:. m>o-.:l fiber pilot plant and two cars linished in this manner. product which is sold as insulation for ? phn: rur:-r ing wood shavings into In Weyerhaeuser's longview opera. homes, cold storage plants and water sm.a1l £w:: 0 -. tions, hemlock and white fir logs are heaters, as an ingredient in rooling felts, ti: log' .uriYe at the log dump in routed to the hydraulic barker at the suI. liber plaster and papers and paperboards. me Co'umbia Ri,-er at longview, they phite pulp mill. There apowerful jet of Weyerhaeuser's three sawmills at ir ,-: J ':: species, grade and size. water strips the bark from the log in a Longview were designed to lit into the T eo: :.nen lre routed to processing plants matter of seconds, Conveyors carry the carefully planned wood-utilization pat 00: eqUIpped to use them most efficient water-soaked bark to the power-plant tern. Each of the mills is engineered to stokers and furnace. saw lumber most efficiently from a cer .:. me of the highest-grade, larger The bark-free logs then go to a whole tain size and grade of saw log. One mill D{\a~ Ws fir logs are sent to the plywood log chipper, a big machine that reduces handles the large, old-growth Douglas l'an'-. There giant lathes "unwind" the the entire log into small chips in a few lir logs. A~other cuts the medium-sized .. : :-:lrch, 1952 5 development center at Longview a staff of 40 engineers, chemists and physicists works constantly to develop more new products and more uses for wood. The results of this work .wiIl be applied to alI Weyerhaeuser manufacturing centers in Washington and Oregon and wilI assist them in using alI of every log for some useful purpose. But Weyerhaeuser is only one of many companies carrying"on such research and development programs. Throughout the forest products industry men are search ing for better methods of utilizing all of each tree felIed in the forest. Today, thanks to scientifi~ knowledge and business efficiency, our forest prod. ucts industry is making more wood products out of less timber. Tomorrow? Who knows what marvelous new things Service Club President J. D. Wagner and Campaign Chairman Claude O'Brien with the wilI be made from a tree? completed poster. Service Club Aids Miles City Polio Drive THE MILES CITY (Mont.) Service Club of Appreciation presented by the Miles took its usual active role in the national City March of campaign to raise funds for the March Dimes chairman, of Dimes. Early in January a four by Sam Clark. eight-foot poster board carrying the Claude O'Brien, slogan "Join the 1952 Fight Against acting as general Polio" was mounted in the main haIl chairman, directed of the general offices and a metal box the Service Club was provided for the donations of em· campaign, with ployes and visitors. As money was re the assistance 0 f ceived it was converted into dimes which President J. D. were affixed to the board to outline the Wagner, Swan lettering. The completed poster carried Nelson, Jim Ben. Assistant Division Engi approximately $93 in dimes. It was de· nett, AI Gearey, neer J. Schell, designer of the poster. signed by Assistant Division Engineer Parke Burns, Don John SchelI who also designed the post CampbeIl, John ScheIl, Jack Hennessey, ers of previous years. Ed Gale and J. D. Martin. The party re To raise additional funds a stag party f reshment committee consisted of Sam was held in the club rooms Feb. 2. and Pete Leo, Corliss Yates, Dan Tedes In machines like this ground-up planer shavings Honored at the affair were Louis Rask, co, AI Perschillo and Jim Moyes. are compressed into Pres-to-Iogs. Cylindrical dies that fit tightly into the holes in the wheel's Otto Paeth, O. E. Achamire and D. O. rim compress the wood particles into miniature Gjerden, alI retired car department em fuel logs. Water circulates in the rim of the ployes. The proceeds of the party, added For our freedom and to preserve it, one mil wheel to cool it. lion American soldiers have died since the to the money mounted on the poster, the first Minute Man was killed on Apr. 19, enabled the Service Club to turn over 1775, at Lexington. Mass. The millionth to $200 to the local civic committee. Its die for his counlry gtwe hiJ life in Korea How much is a billion dollars? last Labor Day. (What are we at home doing efforts were rewarded with a Certificate to preserve our f"eedom?) Maybe this will help you to tlnder stand: If Christopher CoLumbus established a business firm in America the day he our safety seore discovered this continent, and he and his successors in' that finn managed their affairs so poorly that they lost $1,000 a reportable casualties on The Milwaukee Road through day, they would have to operate until February, 1952, compared with 1951 the year 4232 to pile up the first billion Per Cent Increase in losses. . 1952 1951 or Decrease Fatal Rep. Inj. Fatal Rep. Inj. Fatal Rep. Inj. The jedel'al government's gross public debt has increased $241 billion in the System Total . 2 91" 117 +100 -22 Casualty Rates 7.89'~ 9.97 -20% last 20 yeaH. "Estimated 6 The Milwaukee Road Magazine the NICE CUST'OMER Hook & Ladder Chief I'M A NICE CUSTOMER. I'm the one who never complains no mat. ter what kind of service or atten. tion I get. I'll drop by a railroad ticket window and stand there while the employes behind the window talk with each other and take their time about waiting on me. If the man or woman who finally wanders over to help me is im. patient or discourteous, do I complain? No, I just tolerate the situation. When I encounter carelessness or lack of interest on a train and maybe I'm greeted by a cold, stony stare from a conduc. Zane Hudson, the "Zip" of the Sheldon fire tor, do I actually protest to the railroad and suggest they fire department. the whole outfit and hire some employes who will be quick with a genuine smile and a friendly greeting? No, I just AT SHELDON, lA., a city of some 4,000, tolerate the situation. the fire toll for, 1951 was 19 fires, of which, thanks to the local fire depart. When I'm trying to get off a train, loaded down with ment boys, eight were brought under baggage and nobody offers to give me a hand; when I take control with a loss of only $5 or less. a seat and find it dusty; when I ask a simple question about It could be that a large part of the credit train connections and get a curt answer or none at all; when for this showing can be traced to the my train is nlOning late and nobody will tell me why or what generalship of Zane "Zip" Hudson, to expect; when my car of freight is delayed and I seem to get freight office employe at Sheldon, who is nothing but a brush·off on calling to ask why-do I call the city fire chief, for this is what appeared railroad and report a lack of service? No, I just tolerate the in the Sheldon Sun recently after the situation. annual fireman's dinner: I never gripe, I never fuss, I never criticize, and I wouldn't "'Zip' goes down in Our book as an dream of making a scene as I've seen other outstanding example of loyalty for not h only this community but the whole of people do. I think that's awful. 1@ii\/'lIl;.1 / t& northwest Iowa. He never had any train. No, I'm the nice customer. And I'll tell ing in public relations but we think he you what else I am. should rate a degree in that department I'm the customer who never comes back. ~/WJ. ~~ because of his keen interest in civic af That's my retaliation for getting pushed ~ fairs and his untiring wiltingne~s to do around too much. That's why I tolerate whatever you dish out things for his fellow men and to boost to me in the station, on the phone, or on the train. I know his home town of Sheldon." I'm not coming back. It's far more deadly than blowing my Hudson has spent all of his 47 years in Sheldon and likes the city, the people top. and his job well enough to want to live So you say, "Who cares if you never come back. We've out the rest of his life right there. He got lots of customers and lots of money. We'll never even has been with the Road nearly 29 years, miss you." And my only answer is that a nice customer like working between the freight office and myself, multiplied by others of my kind, can just about ruin handling mail at the passenger station; -" " any business. It has been done, many times, and it's still and for 24 of those yearsh€ has been a being done every day. fire department volunteer. The past sevy That's why I can sit back and laugh when I see you frantic. en years he has served as chief. "If you ally spending your money on expensive advertising to get can call it a sort of hobby, I think I have me back when you could have had me in the first place for a one," he says. few kind words, a smile, a little better service. Hobby or not, the Sheldon fire de partme~Lis recognized as an outstanding "civic.mincrect- organization by State and national offices. Here is a list of activo ities it has sponsored or taken part in -from the Circle Arrow Retailer, Western during recent years: ,Auto Supply Company, with adaptations by Purchased a flagpole for the depot the Baltimore and Ohio Magazine. y" park; staged rat eradication programs; March, 1952 7 ----~~~~I how are we doing? JANUARY 1952 1951 RECEIVED FROM CUSTOMERS for hauling freight, passengers, mail, etc...... •...... $21,637,594 $21,822,794 PAID OUT IN WAGES .. II ,599,074 10,886,199 PER DOLLAR RECEIVED (CENTS) . (53.6) (49.9) Payroll taxes on account of Railroad Retirement Act and Railroad Unemployment Insurance . 650,846 634,361 PER DOLLAR RECEIVED (CENTS) . (3.0) (2.9) - ALL OTHER PAYMENTS for operating expenses, taxes, rents and interest . 9,239,236 9,383,767 PER DOLLAR RECEIVED (CENTS) . (42.7) (43.0) NET INCOME . 148,438 918,467 REVENUE CARS LOADED AND RECEIVED FROM CONNECTIONS:. Number of cars ."...... ••.....•...... 126,517 135,897 Decrease 1952 under 1951 ...... •...... •...... •.....••...... 9,380 erected a toboggan and maintained a that, occurred during his seven years as Stationmaster J. J. Crowley skating pond at the city park; organized chief. One he failed to attend due to Retires a brass band to play for public gather his presence at a fire school in Ames, the ings (the chief plays the snare drum) ; other because he happened to be attend. JOHN ]. CROW promoted a spring clean-up program and ing a fire chief's convention. Along with LEY, stationmaster Fire Prevention Week; sponsored a ball his work as chief he has served four at the Union Sta team for the younger generation; took years as a director of the Chamber of tion in Milwau part in the local fly control programs and Commerce and three years on the Com kee since 1941, re the fund drive for a new hospital; as munity Council. tired Feb. 29. He is a veteran of 47 sisted in such local activities as a chil A growing reputation for his work in years of Milwau dren's Easter egg hunt, kid's fish day, the field of rural fire fighting has led to kee Road service kid's kite flying contest, Barbecue Day many speaking engagements, including and is almost as and Legion celebrations; held regional talks before the State fire schools at Ames well known to pa fire schools; entertained groups from city and Marshalltown, the mid-winter fire schools and adjacent towns, also Boy trons of the Road chief's meeting at Boone, the governor's J. J. Crowley in Milwaukee as .scouts who are interested in fire fight conference for fire prevention and the he is to fellow employes. ing apparatus; organized a woman's Missouri Valley conference of the Inter Starting as a switchtender in 1905, he auxiliary to the fire department. national Association of Fire Chiefs. He became a switchman in 1906 and district Hudson's own lofty devotion to duty has also written articles on the subject may be guessed from the fact that he has yardmaster in 1911. In 1914 he was for various papers and magazines. made yard director and from 1925 to missed only two fires out of the ~48 These undertakings have meant hours 1928 served as general yardmaster. He of work after Hudson's regular working became trainmaster in 1929 and night day, evenings, week ends and holidays general yardmaster in 1931. Starting in THE COYER. Just a train leaving spent in study and correspondence, and July, 1941, he served continuously as town-one of the hundreds that vacations arranged to allow for attending stationmaster until his retirement, except depart from Chicago every day, fire control meetings and fire schools. In for a period in 1947-48 when he again but it made a picture of beauty the stretches between fires the energetic took on the duties of trainmaster during and power against the background chief turns his attention to city better a time when there was a need for extra of skyscrapers. It is the west ment. At the present time he is cam. supervisors. bound Olympian Hiawatha round-" - paigning for clean alleys in his commu· Mr. Crowley has no specific retire ing the curve at Canal Street. nity; "Just public relations," he explains ment plans. The camera angle makes the it. curve appear much sharper than it actually is. In 1951 the railroads received approximately When you lend a friend five dol/llrs and 1 1/3 cents on the average for carrying a ton n~ver see him again, ifs worth it. of freight one mile. B The Milwaukee Road Magazine during which she was to present one of They Can Bake a Cherry Pie her pies to Gen. and Mrs. Douglas Mac Arthur and another to President Tru WHAT happened to that old fashioned Fourteen food editors and youth lead man. girl who took her pie-baking cues from ers judged the contest, which was held With each contestant her state cham mother? Why, nothing. She's been here in the grand ballroom of the Morrison pion, the decision was close. For the all the time, but quietly turning the Hotel. For the occasion it was convert first time in the history of the contest, tables. Nowadays it's mother who's tak ed into a giant kitchen equipped with the judges selected four regional cham ing lessons from her! 48 electric ranges. An 18-year-old high pions who were awarded $75 cash prizes The 48 purposeful teen-agers who school graduate of Carlisle, Pa.,. was and electric ranges. Miss Montana-Ar met in Chicago the week of Washing judged the winner. She walked away lene Steele-won the western regional tan's Birthday to vie for the title of na· with $150 in cash, the electric range on title. tional cherry pie queen offered the most which she baked her prize pie, and trips How the new method of pie.baking conclusive proof to date of their genera to New York and Washington, D. C, - the recipe way - compares with the tion's pie-baking ability. Sponsored by the National Red Cherry Institute to foster interest in uses for the fruit, the contest is held annually in Chicago as the feature of National Cherry Week. The pie-baking misses were the finalists of preliminary contests conducted 10 every State in the Union. Three of the cherry pie queens, to gether with their chaperones, traveled to Chicago on the Milwaukee Road's Olympian Hiawatha. Armed with the recipe and skill which had won the State of Washington contest the previous week, Miss Norene Grace of Puyallup came all the way from Tacoma. It was an exciting trip for the 16-year-old high school junior. En route the chef baked a cherry pie for her and she returned the compliment by presenting him with one of her own. No less thrilled- were Miss Arlene Steele of Missoula, the best of Montana's junior pie bakers, and Miss Shirley Smith, 4-H Club girl from Plummer, Idaho. They met on the train and with their chaperones made up a A courtesy exchange of cherry pies between Olympian Hiawatha Steward Maurice Barger and congenial party. Miss Norene Grace, Washington State pie baking champion. (Lee Merrill photo.' F. C. Barry of Glenview, III., Olympian Hiawatha conductor, points out the Chicago scene to Cherry Pie Queens Arlene Steele (left) and Shirley Smith. old fashioned handful of this and pinch and a half of that method can be judged by the fact that the majority of the con testants said they are the pie bakers at home. Shirley Smith, the 17-year-old Plummer High School senior, is a 4-H girl of nine years of cooking experience and says she keeps her family so well supplied with pie that occasionally they protest and she has to freeze the surplus. Norene Grace, too, has assumed the pie baking at home, to the satisfaction of her parents and a younger brother and sister. The job became hers, she smil ingly admitted, as the result of attempt ing to give pointers to her mother! Note: The recipe for the prize-winning pie will be furnished upon request. Address requests to The Milwaukee /f Road Magazine, Room 356 Union Sta " tion, Chicago 6, Ill. March, i952 9 .. money. There is nO revenue from the The Appeal of a Railroad Job engine while it is in the back shop or by Robert Ledin, roundhouse pit. When we repair that locomotive we help ourselves, the com· Machinist Apprentice, Milwaukee Shops pany and the country. The following article is reprinted from tbe Vocational School News, Even the seasons of the year affect . a paper published by the Milwaukee, W is., Vocational and Adult us. Starting in the spring, the Great Schools. Lakes shipping opens and iron are from the Mesabi range and coal from Penn· RAILROADING has a romantic sound ico. We have good working conditions, sylvania start moving. Soon we are to it. The click of the rail joints or the free of the strain of worry over high. dressing up' the Chippewas and the mournful sound of a whistle on a win. geared production. We have variety Hiawathas for the summer tourist rush ter's night kept the blood tingling in any job one names can be found on the to the Northland. Before that ends, the our old.time trainmen. Nowadays, with railroad. Our wages, while not the wheat harvest is on. Then other farm the advent of the diesel engine, the highest, are not the lowest either. produce, the fat cattle and hogs ship younger men feel the same pull from There is a certain satisfaction to be out. Meanwhile the regular shipments the roar of the stacks and the whine of derived from working on something keep on: lumber, pipe, autos, machin· the generators. We lost a little of the huge. I often think to myself, "Here ery, oil, beer, stone, leather. All require romance with the changeover, but the I am, 150 pounds, and I'm going to different cars and methods of handling. attraction of the road is still there. repair this monster of 200 tons and Yes, I'm certainly satisfied that I I suppose it is perfectly natural for make it useful again." The primary chose the railroad. There are many less me to want to be a railroad machinist. purpose of a locomotive is to make satisfying jobs, and few with its magic. First of all, my father is a railroad man. Secondly, I've always lived close to the tracks, hearing the trains roar by in the night and clank along during the day. Milwaukee Road Women's Club Membership I even learned to tell the whistles of the (as of Dec. 31,1951) different lines by their distinctive tones. CHAPTER VOTINC CONTRI BUTINC TOTAL MEMBERSHIP There is always an air of mystery about Aberdeen, S. D. . . 529 726 1,255 trains. Wh~re are they going? What Alberton, Mont...... •..•.... 70 77 Austin, Minn. . . 147 112 156 268 are they hauling? Avery, Idaho . 58 105 Beloit, Wis...... •...... 163 We of the railroad have many bene 122 158 280 Bensenville, III. . 74 159 Black Hills ...... •....•..•.. 233 fits. First, we really belong to a great 89 96 185 Butte, Mont . G7 81 148 fraternity. There are rail lines all over Channing. Mich . 100 74 174 Chicago-Fullerton Ave. . . 469 565 1,034 the country-the world, 'for that matter. Chicago-Union Station ...... •... 280 841 1,121 Council Bluffs, la...... •.. 82 136 218 Anywhere a railroad man goes he meets Davenport, la . 80 174 254 his own kind and can talk shop. We Deer Lodge, Mont...... •...... 122 146 268 Des Moines, la . 103 120 223 have a pension plan independent of Dubuque, la . 69 100 169 Green Bay, Wis. . . 132 156 288 Social Security. Our employes have Harlowton, Mont...... •.... 121 78 199 Iron Mountain, Mich. '" . 66 85 151 passes for free travel anywhere in the Janesville, Wis. . . 201 251 452 Kansas City, Mo. . . 86 118 204 United States, Canada and part of Mex- La Crosse, Wis...... •. 146 283 429 Lewistown, Mont . 119 165 284 Madison, S. D. 55 75 130 Madison, Wis. .. , 1'34 147 281 Malden, Wash. . .. 70 81 151 Marion, la . 134 118 252 Marmarth, N. D. . . 44 51 95 Marquette, la . 165 201 366 Mason City, la. . . 162 177 339 Merrill, Wis . 37 29 66 Milbank, S. D . 67 118 185 Miles City, Mont. 257 294 551 Milwaukee, Wi$. ... 342 1,207 1,549 Minneapolis, Minn. 221 788 1,009 Mitchell, S. D , 64 112 176 Mobridge, S. D , 154 124 278 Montevideo, Minn. 85 117 202 New Lisbon, Wis. . . 76 61 137 Othello, Wash. . .. 63 137 200 Ottumwa, la . 244 366 610 Perry, la . 246 255 501 Portage, Wis . 118 168 286 St. Maries, Idaho 60 70 130 St. Paul, Minn . 111 312 423 Sanborn, la. . . 82 92 174 Savanna, III. .. 200 284 484 Seattle, Wash . 134 147 281 Sioux City, la. . . 232 304 536 Sioux Falls, S. D . 95 179 274 Sparta, Wis. ,., . .. . . 31 59 90 Spencer, la. . . 61 89 150 Spokane, Wash . 84 99 183 Tacoma, Wash. . . 151 393 544 Terre Haute, lnd . 172 164 336 Three Forks. Mont. 70 65 135 Tomah, Wis . 246 265 511 Wausau, Wis. .., . 81 90 171 West Clinton. Ind...... •..•..•.•.. 88 133 221 Yankton, S. D . 41 49 90 Total Membership 7,974 12,270 20,244 Robert Ledin on the job in the locomotive Voting Membership, Cain-23l. Contributing Membership, Loss-128. Total Cain-l03. machine shop, Milwaukee. 10 The Milwaukee Road Maga:zlnil HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS BY 'fELEPHONE of Pipestone. Blasts from the whistle did not produce the expected result instead of bolting, the frisky trio, all doe, broke into full flight down the track. The chase kept up for nearly a mile before they scampered onto thf' when telephoning right of way. At one time the train was so close APOLOGIZE FOR MISTAKES upon the deer that Kaisersatt brought it to a stop for fear of hitting them. ''I've chased jack rabbits many times," When you receive a wrong number, do he said, "but this is my first experience you bang up the receiver or apologize to chasing deer. Now I know that a young the other person for calling by mistake! deer can run just about 25 miLes an hour It is equally courteous to be pleasant on the ties.;' when someone calls you by mistake. The crew who backed up Kaisersatt's tale of the doe-chasing passenger train were Conductor D. F. O'Mara and Brakeman R. H. Berg, both of Austin, 8nd Brakeman Bill Malone of Jackson. • An'd if they live to be a hundred, they ------will never forget it. Freight No. 219 had pulled into the Hiawatha Avenue THANKS FOK TH£ yards in Minneapolis Feb. 21 after an when telephoning ... INFOKltfATIOH. I'U CAU icy mn from Aberdeen, S. D. A party AriAIN IF I NUl) ItfOK£. riOOI) 8Y£. of workmen started steaming the snow WHO SHOULD END THE CALL? off and were half way through the operation when there was a flurried pro. Ordinarily, the person who originates test from the cab. Poking his head out the call ends the conversation. However, of the window was a big fat pheasant ;ooster! some business firms prefer to let the cllstomer hang up first. Open Hearings on Unemployment Insurance -from How to Make Friends by Telephone, published by the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. HEARINGS opened Mar. 3 in the House Intersta:te Foreign Commerce Committee and on Mar. 4 before the Senate Labor Committee on identical bills designed to increase unemployment and sickness payments under the Railroad Unem. ployment Insurance Act about 45 to 50 Truckers Withdrawing trucking companies which filed the case per cent. The bilIs are sponsored by From Explosives Case have withdrawn. According to an arti labor organizations. cle appearing recently in the Wall Street Current unemployment p~yments THE CAMPAIGN opened by 60 trucking Journal, the truckers told the commis. range from $1. 75 a day for earnings of concerns last fall to ease present regu sion they were, in effect, "tired of the $150 to $199.99, to $5.00 a day on lations governing the carrying of ex long-drawn out affair and didn't think earnings of $2,500 and over in a base plosives by truck appears to be dying for their position justified a continued ar year. The bilI now under consideration lack of conviction. Nine more truck gument." would increase daily payments from ing concerns recently told the Inter $3.00 for those receiving compensation state Commerce Commission they were of from $300 to $479.99 a base year to quitting the case. $7.50 per day when compensation is The move has run into opposition What's the Price of Venison and Pheasant? $3,500 or over. As in the case of the from various organizations and indus present law, all would be paid by the tries, due to the threatened tragedy if A RIPLEY-TYPE story of deer stalking railway companies; none by the em trucks are permitted to move explosives by rail was circulating all over the H&D ploye. on the highways. Groups which have Division last month. Certifying to it opposed the move along with the rail as gospel truth were Engineer John T. roads include the American Automobile Kaisersatt, Madison, S. D., and the crew 1/7e come into this world cryin~ while all Association and some of the railroad of an eastbound passenger train Feb. 9. arollnd fJS are smiling. May we so live that we go Ollt of this world smilif'K whll, brotherhoods. The deer, they said, were first spotted everybody arollnd liS is wtepinK.-Persi"" In all, abo'ut 25 of the original 60 between the rails about nine miles west Proverb March. 1952 11 I ~ appoiDtlDt!Dts III Office of President service from 1942 to 1946. He has 'Effecti ve Mar. 1, 1952: since served as assistant division engi . K. W. Cunningham, in addition to his W. G. Lacey is appointed general neer at Aberdeen, S. D., as assistant other duties, is appointed chief, of the agent, Detroit, Mich., succeeding E. D. engineer in Chicago, and as division pass bureau, succeeding E. A. Witt who .Schafer, resigned. Mr. Lacey has been retired Jan. 31. All requests for passes general agent in Indianapolis since 1946. and correspondence in connection there He started with the Road in Minneapolis with should be addressed to him at Room in 1920 and subsequently was city 826 Union Station, Chicago, Ill. freight agent in San Francisco and traveling freight agent with headquarters Finance and Accounting in Cincinnati. Department S. P. Elmslie is appointed general agent, Indianapolis, succeeding W. G. Effective Feb. 1, 1952: Lacey, promoted. Starting with the Road F. W. Lippert is appoInted assistant in 1923 in Duluth, Mr. Elmslie became .to comptroller. Mr. Lippert started with city freight agent there in 1925. He the Road in 1911 in the accounting de has been traveling freight agent with R. W. Middleton H. E. Hurst partment and served in various positions headquarters in Detroit, city freight until 1922 when he was employ~d by engineer at Terre Haute and Miles City. agent at Minneapolis, and most recently the U. S. Railroad Administration. H. E. Hurst is appointed division traveling freight agent with headquarters Subsequently he was with the Le.e. engineer of the Trans-Missouri Division in Minneapolis. and also with the Republic Coal Co. with headquarters at Miles City, Mont., He re-entered Milwaukee Road Service replacing Mr. Middleton. Mr. Hurst, a in 1925 and was appointed tax account graduate of the University of Wash ant in 1934 and 'assistant general ac ington, started with the Road in 1938 countant in 1943. He has been general and served as rodman and instrument accountant since 1945. man until he entered the Army in 1941. He has since served as assistant engineer at Spokane and assistant division engi neer at Terre Haute. Most recently he was assistant engineer-construction on the Air Line Yard project in Milwau kee. S. P. Elmslie I. P. Gran Traffic Department Effective Feb. 16, 1952: 1. P. Gran is appointed traveling freight agent with headquarters at R. B. Birchard is appointed assistant Minneapolis, succeeding S. P. Elmslie, general agent, Chicago, succeeding G. F. promoted. Mr. Gran entered Milwau F. W. Lippert J. T. Martin Quinlan, promoted. A native of Mil kee Road service in the operating de waukee, Mr. Birchard started with the partment at La Crosse, Wis., in 1937. J. T. Martin is appointed general railroad there in 1922. He has held Transferring to the traffic department accountant. Starting his Milwaukee Road various traffic department positions in in 1944, he has been senior city freight service in 1926, Mr. Martin held vari cluding those of chief clerk to assistant agent in Minneapolis since 1948. ous positions in the office of the auditor general freight agent and traveling W. Wire is appointed city freight of expenditure until 1946 when he was freight and passenger agent with head H. agent at Minneapolis. Mr. Wire started appointed traveling accountant. He quarters in Mason City. He has been his railroad service in Minneapolis in transferred to the office of vice president city freight agent in Milwaukee since 1946. Since May, 1951, he has been and comptroller as special accountant July, 1951. in 1948 and was promoted to assistant chief clerk in the freight traffic depart general accountant in 1949. ment in St. Paul. G. E. Baker is appointed city freight Engineering Department agent at Minneapolis. Mr. Baker has been with the Road since 1936, starting Effective Mar. 1, 1952: in the traffic department in Minneapolis. R. W. Middleton is appointed division He was city freight agent at St. Paul engineer of the Rocky Mountain Di from August, 1944 to September, 1950, vision with headquarters at Butte, Mont., since when he has been chief clerk to succeeding W. E. Ring, retired. Mr. general north western freight agent. Middleton has been with the Road since e. e. Strauch is appointed city freight 1940, following his graduation from agent at Milwaukee. Mr. Strauch Purdue University. He was in military R. B. Birchard W. G. Lacey jointed the Milwaukee Road force in 12 The Milwaukee Road Magazine .. Retirement Dinner Honors W. E. Ring Head table' group. From left: S. Lee, retired roadmaster;' H. Beers, retired instrumentman; R. W. Middleton, sue· cessor to Mr. Ring; As sistant Division Engineer N. C. Sullivan; Division C. C. Strauch W. H. Wire Engineer W. E. Ring; Superintendent A. C. Kohlhase; A. Jersey, re 1945 as chief clerk in the traffic de· tired roadmaster:' partment in Davenport. He has been traffic representative there since August, 1951. H. R. Meek is appointed city freight agent at San Francisco. Mr. Meek's FIFTY Milwaukee Road people and other World War 1. Following his return previous Milwaukee Road service has friends of W. E. Ring, division engineer from France, he was made assistant en· been at Terre Haute. He started in the of the Rocky Mountain Division, paid gineer of the maintenance of way at engineering department in 1941 and him the tribute of a testimonial dinner Butte and Lewistown. In July, 1925, he transferred to the traffic department in on Feb. 21, the occasion being his reo became division engineer of the old 1948. He was appointed chief clerk tirement, which became effective Feb. 29. Northern Montana Division at Lewis of the department in August, 1951. The affair, held at lloyd's Cafe in Butte, town and subsequently was division en· Mont., brought together a good repre gineer at Miles City and Aberdeen, S. D. sentation of division supervisors and reo He had held the position of division en· After the first of January, 1952, benefit payments to "etired railway employes under tired associates of the honored guest. gineer on the Rocky Mountain since the Railroad Retirement Act will total Mr. Ring entered the employ of the Nov. 1, 1942. $736,000,000 a year. Such benefits in 1951 Road in June, 1913, as an instrument. During his 39 years of service Mr. were at the rate of $636,000,000 a year. man on the old Northern Montana Divi· Ring earned the reputation of being one sion at Lewistown. He served in various of the best maintenance men on the PUBLIC RElATIONS is the lette,· you do,/'t , positions and was assistant engineer in railroad. He and his family will make write when you're mad and the nice letter the valuation department at Minneapolis you write the next day after you've regained their home in Butte among their many your sense of humor. when he left for military service during friends. COAST DIVISION retirPlDfJRls ALTVATER, CLARENCE A. Agent-Opec. .. _ Cusick, Wash. BREITENGROSS, REINHARDT Agent·Operaror Lind, Wash. DOTEN, FRED G. The following employes' applications for retirement were Loco. Engineer...... Tacoma, Wash. recorded dur,ing February, 1952 HENSLEY, GROVER C. Car Inspector Tacoma, Wash. JACOBSON, CARL H. CHICAGO GENERAL OFFICES BURSON, JOHN E. Loco. Engineer. . .Tacoma, Wash. Crossingman ... Chicago, Ill. LOVELL, CHARLES G. LAHEY, JOSEPH F. CANNON, WILLIAM B. Asst. Elect. Engr. ....Seattle, Wash. Divn. Fre. Agent ..... Chicago, Ill. Switchman ' Chicago, Ill. LUTTER, ERIK MEYER, HARRY H. DELEO, MERCURIO M. Carman Tacoma, Wash. Clerk Chicago, Ill. Laborer Chicago, Ill. McDONOUGH, JOHN MOSS, JOHN W. GROBE, WILLIAM Loco. Carpenter ,Tacoma, Wash. Tel. Oper...... , .. Chicago, Ill. Carman . .. Bensenville, Ill. MILLER, FRIEDRJCH SHENK, ABRAHAM H. KEIDEL, HARRY C. Car Inspector Tacoma, Wash. Telegrapher Chicago, Ill. Mach. Opec. Chicago, IIi. WITT, EDWARD A. KILIAN, JOHN DUBUQUE & ILLINOIS DIVISION Chief Clerk . , Chicago, Ill. Car Inspecror Galewood, Ill. MATUSEK, LOUIS CARRER, WAYNE H. Sec. Laborer .,...... Chicago, Ill. Sec. Laborer Osgood, Mo. CHICAGO TERMINALS PIEKARZ, STANLEY CARTER, FRANK C. Carman ... Chicago, Ill. Mach. Helper ...... Savanna, Ill. ANTOS, JOHN J. SILKOWSKI, BRUNO FISHER, CHARLES H. Carman . Chicago, Ill. Tractor Opec. .,. . . Galewood, Ill. Sec., Laborer .. _..... , ... Ottumwa, Iowa BARTKOWICZ, JOHN W. THJELEN, GUSTAVE E. HANSON, THOMAS W. Mill Man Chicago, J11. Caller .. Chicago, Ill. Crossing Towerman Dubuque, Iowa BROWN, HARRY P. WIND, FRANK C. KINDELL, JOHN P. Rate Clerk Ga1ewood, Ill. Yard Clerk . Chicago, III. Loco. Engineer Savanna, Ill. BURAK, JACOB M. ZARRRAS, SAM KUSCH, HARRY W. Snow Gang Laborer Chicago, Ill. Laborer Bensenville, Ill. Laborer Dubuque, Iowa M=ch, 1952 13 SEWARD, MINNIE B. KENNEY, JOSEPH E. Relief Agent Winfield, S. D. Machinist Milwaukee, Wis. SMITH, HERBERT E. LOUGHRAN, THOMAS B. Sec. Foreman Adams, Minn. Machinist . Milwaukee, Wis. If SMITH, WILLIAM R. MILLER, HARRY G. Conductor Austin, Minn. Mech. Engineer ...... Milwaukee, Wis. EVEIWTHIN6 THOMPSON, HARVEY H. PAADER, HUGO F. T~E FOR Boilermaker Helper Austin, Minn. Machinist ... .Milwaukee, Wis. RAILROADER. PALEKOVICH, WILLIAlv( LA CROSSE & RIVER DIVISION Laborer ...... Milwaukee, Wis. SCHLITT, JOHN ~ GRUNKE, WILLIAM C. Cabinet Maker .Milwaukee, Wis. Switchman ...... Portage, Wis. ZALUSKI, FRANK McKEEN, RALPH L. Carman Helper .'Milwaukee, Wis. Sec. Laborer Red Wing, Minn. McLAUGHLIN, ROY F. f; Loco. Engineer Watertown, Wis. ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION PAPKE, WILLIAM E. EVERYTHIN(J. RING, WILLIAM E. FOR T~E Loco. Fireman Milwaukee, Wis. Divn. Engineer Butte, Mom. RAIL I?OADE~ PAULUS, GODFREY F. SAINT, CHARLES L. Crossingman . . . Wausau, Wis. Conducror Great Falls, Mont. UTKE, LOUIS W. Laborer ...... Tomah, Wis. TRANS-MISSOURI DIVISION e- VAN WORMER, ERVAN R. ","_., P;f O),ui:/ Conducror . . . . Wausau, Wis. GENCHOFF, PETE WEBER, HARRY J. Sec. Laborer .. . .. Mobridge, S. Ii. LUND, SOREN C. Trucker POrtage, Wis. GRANGER, GEORGE W. Machinist . Savanna, Ill. WIDMARK, ADOLPH Brakeman Miles City, Mont. ZARWELL, HENRY P. . Loco. Engineer Minneapolis, Minn. TEATS, BURT A. Sec. Laborer New Albin, Iowa Machinist Miles CilY, Mom. MADISON DIVISION HASTINGS & DAKOTA DIVISiON RADITCH, ANDREW W. TWIN CITY TERMINALS Machinist Madison, Wis. GAST, OTTO H. LEWIS, BEN L. Car Inspecror Aberdeen, S. D. Switchman .... Minneapolis, Minn. MILWAUKEE DIVISION HEWIT, LEW F. NELSON, ALFRED Loco. Engineer ..... Minneapolis, Minn. DUDKIEWICZ, HARRY Srower ...... Minneapolis, Minn. MEIER, FRANK Hostler Helper Green Bay, Wis. NELSON, JOHN R. Sec. Laborer Roscoe, S. D. DUQUAINE, VICTOR D. Telegrapher .. Minneapolis, Minn. MEUWISSEN, PAUL Sec. Laborer Crivitz, Wis. POTACEK, JOSEPH Pass. Conducror Minneapolis, Minn. EHR, JOHN M. Boiler 'Worker...... Sc. Paul, Minn. STIELOW, WALTER T. Loco. Engineer Horicon, Wis. RYAN LAWRENCE A. Operaror Summit, S. D. MUNTNER, JOHN M. Switchman Minneapolis, Minn. Conductor Milwaukee, Wis. IDAt-!O DIVISION OLSON, HANS A. Loco. Fireman Green Bay, Wis. ELVERSON, ERNEST A. SCHUMAKER, HAROLD P. Speaking of government employes' taxes, Ex. Gang Laborer Spokane, Wash. Sec. Laborer .. . Hilben, Wis. the Washington Post says the Bureau of ZIMMERMAN, ARTHUR J. Internal Revenue has discovered ab01lt IOWA DIVISION Conductor Mayville, Wis. 4,000 federal workers in Washington ANDERSON, JOSEPH R. Switchman Clinton, Iowa MILWAUKEE TERMINALS & st-Iops are delinquent in paying their income BEAN, FRANK W. taxes. Since only about 10 pel' cent of ADAMECZ, JASPER Agent Jamaica, Iowa J. . government workers are in Washington, Carman .. Milwaukee, Wis. GRESWOLD, THOMAS S. ENGL, PHILLIP one might assume that a total of about Operaror Tama, Iowa Carman Milwaukee, Wis. 40.. 000 fedel"al employes owe back taxes. McGILL, EDWARD H. GELMAN, SAMUEL Switchman Co, Bluffs, Iowa They have one advantage, tho/lgh. Fn. Handler Milwaukee, Wis. MULLEN, JAMES V. . GORMLEY, JAMES H. Their pay checks can't be attached. Agent Madrid, Iowa Mach. Helper Milwaukee, Wis. Other people's can. SIMMER, JOHN J. Sec. Laborer Perry, Iowa WESCOTT, CHARLES L. Train Baggageman Marion, Iowa Railroad Hour Spring Schedule IOWA & DAKOTA DIVISION IN THEIR 181st Railroad Hour program, the American railroads will !-iOELTZNER, JOSEPH M. present the charming musical romance "Sari". Margaret Truman, the Fireknocker Mitchell, S. D. President's daughter, will be featured along with singing star Gordon LARSON, EDWARD G. MacRae. The next shows on the spring sd:edule are: Pass. Conductor Mason City, Iowa Mar. 24-Kiss Me Kate with Patrice Munsel REAGAN, JOHN A. Conductor Sioux Falls, S. D. Mar. 31-Countess Maritza with Blanche Thebom ZABEL, REINHOLD A. Apr. 7-Roberta with Nadine Conner Sec. Laborer Sioux Falls, S. D. Apr. 14-Rosalinda with Dorothy Warenskjold Apr. 21-Erminie with Nell Tangeman IOWA & SOUTHERN MINNESOTA DIVISION Apr. 28-The Pink lady with Nadine Conner BELLING, HENRY F. CoaleI' & Pumper Chandler, Minn. 14 The Milwaukee Road Magazine hOUle depart",ent individual preference," he said. "If you don't like garlic, just leave it out. Or rub the salad bowl with a cut clove of the best garlic-Mrs. Huntsman does that." There is no question about his own SALAD DRESSING preference. It's garlic every time, along with a liberal toss of sliced onions in his you ever ate! salad greens. "Doubly delicious," he assures the timid. "You'd better try it." How to Fold a Shirt LAY the shirt, right side up, flat on When there's a salad to be fixed, Grandpa Huntsman knows his way around the kitchen. the ironing board. Thumb crease the Here with his daughter, Mrs. Barbara McFall, collar over the neckband seam. Button and granddaughter Lynn, 4, a~ their home in the collar button, the first button and No MATTER how the rest of the world La Grange, III. likes its salad dressing, R. H. Hunts every other button. Then with the left hand grasp the yoke about a thumb's man, cashier in the passenger traffic found in a homemade dressing. Here it distance away from the collar. Grasp department in Chicago, will take his is: the shirt tail with the right hand in a daughter's recipe for French dressing Barbara (Huntsman) McFall's straight line from the position of the every time. Best he has ever eaten, he French Salad Dressing left hand. Pull taut, forming a fold. says. 1 cup vinegar 1 cup oil Grasp the sleeve, put ends of the Mr. Huntsman's contribution of this 1· cup sugar open cuff together and lay the sleeve family recipe to readers of The Mil 1 can tomato soup straight along the fold. Fold the shirt waukee Road Magazine is in response 2 tablespoons dry mustard under and repeat the process on the to our recent reque'st for effective ways 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce t to other side. to stretch the food dollar. It makes a sal and pepper taste 4 cloves of garlic chopped fine generous quart of dressing and costs Place the right hand underneath the Shake well in a quart jar and chill. Makes shirt tail where the sleeve cuffs lie. Put considerably less than the commercial approximately one quart of dressing. products. And the flavor! Well, Hunts Being a good fellow who does not your left hand directly on top. Now man makes no claim to being a gour want anyone to be cheated out of this turn the shirt completely over. The met, but he does confess to a deft hand unique taste thrill, Mr. Huntsman re shirt tail will extend beyond the cuffs; with salad dressing-the salads and cently passed around mimeographed fold it up over the cuffs and then fold drinks are his kitchen chores-and he copies of the recipe to fellow employes the tail up to the yoke. vouches for it as a gustatory delight. The in the Union Station. Along with it he A pin at each side of the yoke will recipe is based on the now familiar advised users on the proportion of gar insure a neat fold, no matter how many canned tomato soup formula, but with lic ("There is no such thing as a little times you have to move the shirt. undertones of seasoning not usually garlic."-O. O. McIntyre). "It's an (By the G-E Consumers Institute) r ..··-~·---_ .....·..,.."..-.....".-- It's an Idea! t " Pansy I Here is a carpenter's trick that will I help avoid splitting when you are nail I' ing near the end of a thin board. Turn Spread r. the nail over and blunt the point slight. ly, resting it on a hard object. Accord C ROC H ETED pansies ing to Better Homes & Gardens mag form a colorful ring of azine, the flat point tears its way through yellow, lavender and the wood, rather than pushing fibers green for the center of aside and causing splitting. each motif in this bed spread. The background and ruffle are cream Keep a couple of ice cubes handy colored cotton. Di rec when you press freshly laundered cot tions may be had free tons or linens. To prevent wrinkles, from The Mil wa ukee Road Magazine, Room ease a cube over dried-out spots to re 356 Union Station, Chi dampen them during the ironing. cago 6, III. Mcrrch, 1952 15 about people of the railroad The Women·s.. Club held a box social and Al Erickson, line I & D Division square dance aCt Mason City Saturday eve man at Sioux City, re tired recently from Karen B. Rugee, Division Editor ning, Feb. 9. Prize for best cakewalk was won by M. A. Bost and prize for the most service. He started Superintendent's Office, Mason City attractive basket by Mrs. P. H. Geelhart. with the Road in the Switchman Harry M. Erwin and wife have Percy Geelhart claims credit for designing telegraph departmem returned from California where they visited the basket but admits that his wife deserves at Milwaukee in 1907 their daughter, Mrs. A. B. Conwell, for credit for everything that was in it. Mem and worked at \'V'aba seven weeks.' Mr. Conwell is stationed with bers of the committee were Mr. and Mrs. sha, Aberdeen and the Air Corps at Mather Field. While Mr. P. J. Weiland, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kemp Mason City before and Mrs. Erwin were there the Conwells and Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Woodhouse. As coming to Sioux City presented them with a grandson who has goodwill chairman of the club, Rita Kemp in 1909. The em been named Kim. says the whole affair was the result of one ployes in the pas of her brainstorms. senger station had a The joint passenger station at Sheldon, A. Erickson Ia., has been remodeled to include a new farewell party for Al freight office and srorage room. The station SANBORN-RAPID CITY and presented him with a new reel for his will now be known as Sheldon Jct. and will Albert J. Gall, Correspondent fishing rod, for we expect that he and George handle the freight business for The Milwau Trainmaster's Office, Mitchell Wean, retired roadmaster, will be giving the kee Road, as well as passenger accounts for bullheads in the Sioux River a bad time, the Milwaukee and the Omaha Railway. R. J. Dispatcher Carl Anderson and family of come spring. Coleman will remain at Sheldon Jct. as agent, Mitchell have returned from a little trip ro Your correspondent had the pleasure of and G. E. Kennedy and V. F. Kellar will be Florida. Carl said he was just scouting attending a very unusual open house at the second and third trick operators, respective around for a place ro go for a vacation. home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. (Gus) Cline in ly. W. A. Peterson, former freight agent, E. J. Dunn, brakeman at Mitchell, re Sioux City-Mr. Cline is a former SC&D is now agent at Parker, S. D., aDd B. H. cently became the father of a baby girl. engineer, having retired in 1937 after 50 Bothmer, former operaror, has taken over Conducror H. W. Hopkins and family at years of service with the Road. They were the agency' at Inwood, Ia. this writing are vacationing at San Pedro, hosts to friends on Feb. 23 to celebrate Calif. Also looking after some business in· H. M. Davis has been appointed operator their 70th wedding anniversary. Mr. Cline terests at the same time. is past 90 and Mrs. Cline is 87. They were at Spencer, Ia., while H. E. Browman is on a L. R. HalversoD, switchman at Mitchell, both able to receive their many friends and leave of absence. is in a Chicago hospital for treatment ro accept their congratulations. We were hap Lloyd Kellar, clerk in the superintendent's his back. He is coming along nicely at this py to see so many of the retired people there. office, has a new baby---a television set. Its writing. John A. Reagan, the oldest conductor on one peculiarity is that it works better with Mrs. O'Neil, mother of J. J. O'Neil, the division, retired Jan. 15 after 51 and a the aerial on the ground rather than on the cashier at Rapid City, and Mabel, former half years of service with the Road. His roof. clerk in the freight office at Mitchell, now friends hope he will enjoy many years of Margaret NoJterick has been appointed to of Chicago, is making her home with her son good health and happiness. the temporary position of roadmaster's clerk Jack at Rapid City. at Mason City while Juhl Salier is on leave Engineer C. L. Farris, Conductors Paul P. of absence due to illness. Smock and Tom McComish, all of Mitchell, I & S M Division Looked like old times ro see Carl Anderson and Claus Otten, section foreman at Lennox, H. J. Swank, Division Editor and Bing Torpin walk into the office the are all retiring. Superintendent's Office, Austin same day recently. The Milwaukee Women's Club at Mitchell entertained the retired veterans at the Elks Paul R. Citurs, retired car department em Club on Feb. 19 with a potluck supper. They ploye, passed away at his home Jan. 31. He had a very good turnout in spite of bad had been retired since Sept. 18, 1946. weather and had a nice program. Everybody C. W. "Bill" Siegfried died Feb. 11. Bill enjoyed the visit with old friends. retired from service in 1948. Jake Erkes, formerly of Canton, is the new Harry Wilson, Sr., retired agent-operatOr, section foreman at Sheldon. passed away in St. Paul Feb. 13., Harry re Car Foreman L. A. Lindemer, Mitchell, tired Oct. 28, 1938. A son, Harry, Jr., is a has been transferred ro Minneapolis. Helge fireman on the I&SM First District., Larson of Madison is taking his place at Ray Hoffmann, chief carpenter's clerk, Mitchell. visited his daughter Rita at Ogden, Utah, over the WashingtOn Birthday week-end. SECOND DISTRICT Congratulations to Trainmaster and Mrs. J. T. DeYoung on the arrival of a daughter, Fay Ness, Correspondent Nancy Ann, Feb. 8. Assl. Superintendent's Office, Sioux City Vern R. Blanchfield, Austin freight office. Switchman John D. McQuisron, Sioux underwent surgery at St. Olaf Hospiral, Ciry, 'retired Feb. 1. He started with the Austin, and returned home Feb. 26. Car Road Sept. 25, 1915 and had worked at Agent Dick Hogan at this writing is con Sioux City since that time. He plans to fined to Colonial Hospital, Rochester, under make his home' in Oregon sometime this going treatment. year. Frank Kovaleski, section foreman, Austin, PICTURE PERSONAGE. Charles Laughton, the Passenger Conducror LeRoy Wright has returned Feb. 29 after spending the winter famous motion picture star who is equally been seriously ill with virus pneumonia at in Alabama. He reports having a wonderful noted as a speaker, leaving Sioux City on the his home. Also ill at his home in Sioux winter down south and looks in very good Midwest Hiawatha Jan. 18, bound for Chicago. Falls at this writing is Train Baggageman, health. He had just completed a speaking engagement Harold P. Peters. Two bowling teams from Austin have sent before the Knife and Fork Club in Sioux City. Mrs. R. Ratkweicz, wife of fireman, is ill in their entries for the Hiawatha tournament ! Parlor Car Porter Thomas is in the background. in a Sioux Ciry hospital at this writing. to be held in LaCrosse Mar. 29. They are the 16 The Milwauk6l61 Road Magazinll .1 Milwaukee Austin and Lefty's Bar teams, Hospital. He also came up with the news SLEEPING & DINING CAR DEPARTMENT that his foster son, Corp. Thomas Karouski, The Milwaukee Women's Club of Madison, Marie Keys, Correspondent S, D., met at the home of Mrs, Barney Mor was home on leave from Cao:Jp Carson, Colo., gan Feb. 12. Twenty five women were pres where he is an Army cook. Congratulations ar~ extended to Porter ent. Mrs. A, P, Vogel presided over the Our sympathy to John Duffy, Galewood Willie Fleming and to William Stuckrath business meeting, which was followed by a rate and bill clerk who was formerly at Ben· upon the new arrivals in their respective social hour. Refreshments were served by senville. John's wife passed away in Febru f<:milies. Mr. 'Stuckraih is working as jani Mrs. H. J. Bennett, Mrs. Helge Larson and ary. tor while Jack Constanza is serving in the Mrs. Morgan. Glad to see Trainmaster Johnny Malvin Army. Helge Larson, equipment maintainer, has back on the job after a knockout blow from Ronald Clausen joined our ranks recently been promoted to car foreman and transfer that old virus bug. as file clerk. We regret he had the misfor red from Madison to Mitchell. He has al Mrs. Robert HellOn, wife of operator at tune to be in an automobile accident since ready begun his new duties at Mitchell. Mrs. Sturtevant, Wis., came home to our cold his employment, sustaining a fractur~d collar Larson and children will remain in Madison weather after six wonderful weeks in and bone in four places. until housing can be found for them. Leonard Barry will succeed Mr. Larson at Madison. Dispatcher N. O. Frizzell, has been trans ferred to Wausau, Wis. Mrs. Frizzell and son will remain in Madison until the end of the school term. Robert Nangle, Jr., 13-year-old son of Bob Nangle, expressman, had the misfortune of breaking his arm when he fell on the ice Feb. 1. A. B. Holter, former engineer at Madison, S. D., passed away Feb. 4 following a long illness. He was a member of the Locomotive Firemen and Engineers and retired from service Oct. 31, 1948. Pfc. George Lucas, son of Section Foreman George Lucas, Madison, spent a 3D-day leave at home. Jack Morgan, former brakeman, has returned to Camp Richardson, Alaska, fol lowing a 3D-day leave which he spent in Madison making the ?cquaintance of his four month-old son and visiting his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Morgan. M!Sgt. Robert Martinson, son of Section Foreman Norvin Martinson, is also stationed at Camp Richardson. Congratulations are in order for Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rath, (conductor) on the birth HOLLANDERS OF DISTINCTION. The Netherlands ambassador to the United States, of a daughter Feb. 15. Dr. Jan H. Van Roijen, and Madam Van Roijen (right) arriving in Milwaukee Feb. 18 Chief Carpenter L. M. Farley and Road on No. 27 for the purpose of taking part in Milwaukee's "Netherlands Week". Greet master A. P. Vogel called on Kenneth Vogel, ing them are Edward T. Tal, Wisconsin representative of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, B&B foreman, who recentl)' underwent sur and Mrs. Tal. gery at the Naeve Hospital at Albert Lea. Carl Berg, retired chief dispatcher, was honored recently by Cyrus Chapter No. 26, Royal Arch Masons, with a 50-year member. ship certificate. around Los Angeles. Since Feb. 29 Harry Deal, dining car Louis J. Cornille Jr., machinist in the ste~\"ard, though he has had but 16 years' Chicago Terminals steamhouse at the Bensenville roundhouse, is sl'rvice with our railroad, is among those doing nicely after his recent accident and is who have sufficient railroad service and age BENSENVILLE able to have visitors in room 219 at Elmhurst requirements to retire. He will now have Dorothy Lee Camp, Correspondent Hospital. Louis is a brother of Yard Clerk time to do the many things for which appar George Cornille-they raise those huge pan· ently there is nOt sufficient hours while regu Special Officer Harley Edmonds, at home sies. larly employed. We rejoice with him in his at this writing after an operation, wants to Clerk "Hi" Nelson spent his recent vaca· retirement. thank his railroad friends for their good tion in Arizona, visiting his brother. Conductors T. J. Nolan and W. J. Snip, wishes and stacks and stacks of "get well" Mrs. Claude Quinn, wife of Jay line con and Tony Heckle, assistant bar man in the cards. duCtor, has returned from Phoenix, Ariz., commissary, had very enjoyable vacations dur Our sympathy to the "Smoky" Merriman where she spent the winter. ing February. family. Mrs. Merriman passed away in Feb Lee De Lacey, teletype man at Bensen Enos Baker, employed as a trucker in the ruary. She is' survived by her h~sband, a viII, has left us for a day job at Western laundry since Aug. 23, 1923, passed away retired Milwaukee Road man, two daughters Avenue. Feb. 27 after a prolonged illness. His re who are Galewood telephone operators, and "Deacon" Freeman is driving a brand new mains were taken to San Diego, Calif., by two sons, one a switchman and the other a Henry J. to replace the one that burned his wife and daughter. yard clerk at Bensenville. around Christmastime. J. Robert Norie announces his marriage Engineer Henry Taubman and wife cele Tom Moran, who is new to the railroad, on Feb. 26 to Mrs. Leslie Milton Esterday. brated their 25th wedding anniversary Feb. has taken over the duties of night bill clerk. We regret to report the illness of the 25. father of Porter R. L. Archie, Steward C. E. Yard Clerk John Miller called to say ''I'm A determined soul will do more with a Iden and the mother of David Smith. a grandpa!" Daughter Jeanne Lola and hubby rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will ac Sympathy is extended to Cook G. Tread Elmer H. Barkmann became the paIents of a complish with all the tools in a machine well upon the death of his brother, and to boy, David Allen, Feb. 18 at the Oak Park shop.-RlIpert HlIgh,s. Cook William Carpenter upon the death of March, 1952 17 his father. and unless you know the pass word, you sponsored by the Daily Chronicle. She is We hope that good health will soon return cannot enter. Also, the stairway was replaced. known in Spokane for her Children's Hour to Porters W. A. Stewart and Price Collins. The Spokane yard, with only two crews programs of which she now has five groups. working now, had three of its six regu Programs ate given for retarded and spastic GALEWOOD lar men in hospitals or laid up at home children at the Veterans Hospital, as well as Norma Gunderson, Correspondent lecently. Fred Hoover fractured his ankle by for other children who are interested in these slipping on an icy SpOt and has not returned varied programs of movies, musical acts and Irene Gonsior changed her name to Du to work at this writing. John Stilz and stOries. Mrs. Allen says that the International mariowskion Feb. 2. The girls presented her Howard Gibford were in the same hospital Lions Club has asked for a monthly report with a satin bedspread, sheet and pillow cases and same room for treatment with the same of activities, and during February the attend as a wedding gift. ailment. Mr. Gibford has returned to work ance at all programs tOtaled 1,492. Mrs. Allen Bill Clerk Steve Hetman is the proud and Mr. Stilz hopes to be back on the job has the distinction of being one of tWO daddy of Donna Jean, born Feb. 1. soon. honorary members of the Lions Club in the Sympathy is extended to Telephone Opera January 30 was a big day for Don Sharpe United States, or any other country, as far as tOrS Helen Bitz and Edna StOne whose mother when his wife presented him with a baby i,; known. Mrs. Adolph Carufel has been very passed away Feb. 5, and to John J. Duffy, girl, Patricia Kathleen. helpful in these programs during the past night bill clerk, whose wife passed away year. suddenly Feb. 16. W. T. O'Reilly had the misfortune of frac· Harry Willison, assiStant chief clerk, re turing his hip at home and underwent an ceived his 50-year veteran's button Feb. 8. operation for setting of the bone. Seattle General Offices Charlie Attwood, special officer, is back to Engineer Charles Mahoney passed away Margaret Hickey, Correspondent work after an op~ration, very much stream recently in a local hospital following an ill General Manager's Office lined. ness of several months. He had not worked Switchman W. I. Pounders is recuperating since August. Mr. Mahoney started railroad Agnes Horak of the traffic department was at West Suburban Hospital after his accident ing with the Milwaukee in October, 1908 on a delegate to the west coast conference of Feb. 11. the old Trans-Missouri Division and the the Womens Traffic and Transportation Club Orto Schulze, retired, of Spirit Lake, Wis., following year came to the Idaho Division. in San Francisco Feb. 22 and 23. The con was in to visit the boys in the freight house He was a charter member of the Puget ference was attended by delegates from the Feb. 26. Sound Milwaukee Pioneers Club. His home clubs at Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Fran was at Malden. cisco, Oakland, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. Dick Stark of the yard department has a Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Julia Fields, reaSon for that big smile, a son born Feb. 26. Brakeman Eugene M. Olsen was drafted into the armed forces Feb. 7. Since his em telephone operator, on the death of her Francis Mason, chief telephone operator, ployment in 1948 he has worked out of mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Tippett, at Seattle tOok a three-week trip to California. Malden, but Sandpoint, Idaho, is his home. Feb. 5. George Rutter, assembler, returned to work Word has been received of the birth of John H. Vassey, retired agent, 74, died at March 3 after being off several months on a baby girl to Lt. and Mrs. Kenneth Nelson a hospital Feb. 9 following a long illness. account of disability. at San Diego, Calif. Ken was chief clerk in The Vassel's had moved from Spokane to the general agent's office, having been re Ellensburg about two years ago. He is sur called to active service last OCt. 9. vived by his widow, Grace. Funeral services Idaho Division Lorraine Hardman, former file clerk in were held in Spokane. Me. Vassel' retired the engineering department, has applied for Mrs. Ruth White, Correspondent from the agency at Malden in October, 1944. pension under the Railroad Retirement Acr, Superintendent's Office, Spokane George Savidis, office engineer, has returned on account of physical disability. to work following a stay in the hospital and Oldtimers and former employes of the John Guinotte, retired assistant engineer in Spokane freight office would not recognize recuperation at home. the Seattle engineering department, suffered [he place now that a clean-up job has been The Spokane Milwaukee Women's Club a cerebral hemorrhage Feb. 17 and at this completed, including laying of a new Boor. held a luncheon February 12 with 32 present. writing is in a critical condition in Provi The boys at the car desk contend that is Mrs. L. J. Dieziger served as hostess, assisted dence Hospital. where most of the work is done because the by Mrs. Harriet Ashton and Mrs. N. B. Jones. Douglas Carmichael recently returned to floor was dented badly at that spot. A gate Mrs. Blanche Allen was asked to serve as railroad service as city freight agent in the has been added at the end of the counter one of the judges for the annual baby COntest general agent's office, having been in the Marine's since October, 1950 as a commis sioned major. Ewell King who held the posi tion of city freight agent is now chief clerk, displacing Ivan Evans. Mr. Evans has trans ferred to the passenger department as reser vation clerk. Mary Jo Glosup, daughter of principal assistant engineer, who suffered a severe at tack of polio in September, 1951, we are happy to report is now recovered to the point where she has resumed her usual activities. Iowa Division EAST END Benjamin P. Dvorak, Correspondent Milwaukee Passenger Station, Cedar Rapids Signal Maintainer O. W. McBride was called to Delta, Ohio, due to the death of his father on Feb. 13. He had been ill with pneumonia. His widow survives him; also FOR FRIENDSHIP. Recent scene at Othello, Wash., as local Camp Fire Girls entertained two sons in addition to O. W., Walter who members of The Milwaukee Road Women's Club and their friends. The majority of the is a retired signal maintainer Jiving in Slater; girls are from Milwaukee Road families. Othello Chapter has sponsored the Chesk-A la., and Howard; and a daughter, Hazel May (Friendship) group since it was chartered last April. Members give a hand with Leatherman. Me. McBride had celebrated his activities such as' fund raising programs, group guidance, and so on. They will take an 89th birthday Feb. 9. active part in sponsoring the National Birthday Council Fire in Othello this month. Mrs. George Price of Marion was a sur- 18 The Milwaukee Road Magazine ------_..._--_...... ',. gical patient in a Cedar Rapids hospital in January. Charles Morrow, assigned as section fore man at Hawkeye and who has been incapa citated for several years by ill health, died recently at ludlow, Mo. He had worked lor many' years in the maintenance of way de partment on the old Kansas City Division. His widow survives him. Chief CJerk G. R. Barnoske and wife toured louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and other southeastern states while on vacation during February. Time Revisor W. E. Failor was acting chief during Mr. Barnoske's ab sence. The meeting of committee ·No. 29 Water proofing of the A.R.E.A. held at the organ ization's headquarters in Chicago Feb. 14 Scenes at the retirement party held at Savanna, III., Feb. 28 in honor of Chief Carpenter was attended by Assistant Engineer Robert V. E. Engman. Seated at the speakers' table, from left: Superintendent E. G. Kiesele, J. Brueske, who serves on the committee. Mr. Engman, Assistant Chief Engineer H. B. Christianson and Division Engineer W. E. The annual convention of the A.R.E.A. in Fuhr. Details are reported in the D&I Division news. Chicago in March will be attended by Divi sion Engineer R. A. Whiteford and Assistant Engineers S. C. Thomas, R. M. lowe and R. J. Brueske. locomotive Engineer Edward Keating visited with the George Mulhollands in Fresno and with friends in los Angeles dur ing January, then made his annual trip to Hot Springs, Ark., in February Howard R. Zemanek, son of Electrician Robert Zemanek of Cedar Rapids, who is stationed with the Navy at Balboa, Canal Zone, has been transferred to the Navy re serve training center in Cedar Rapids for four months' temporary duty. He arrived home in February to take over his duties. Mr. and Mrs. William Achey of Marion celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary Feb. 6. They have lived in Marion ever since their marriage at Bertram in 1897. Before his retirement in 1935 Mr. Achey was em ployed as an engine inspector. D & I Division Illinois Bar Nov. 19 and before the Federal Merwen Taylor, with Mrs. Taylor, was in Bar Nov. 20. Since that time he has been Denver, Colo., for the Washington's Birth· E. Stevens, Division Editor associated with the law firm of Deming, day week end as a guest of his sister Muriel Superintendent's Office, Savanna Jarrett & Mullinger, Chicago. George Clay, retired car department em and his brother Cliff, formerly of the division V. E. Engman, chief carpenter of the ploye, passed away at the home of his daugh engineer's office in Marion. D&l Division since 1937, retired Mar. 1 after ter, Mrs. William Dunn, in Savanna Feb. 21. J. P. Whalen, retired roadmaster, has at 45 years of loyal and efficient service. Mr. Mr. Clay entered the service of the rail this writing been confined to Mercy Hospital Engman started his railroad service as a road's car department Apr. 9, 1912 and re in Cedar Rapids for several weeks. His con carpenter helper and has been a chief car tired Apr. 1, 1940. Surviving are three dition is reported as being much improved. penter for 34 years. He and Mrs. Engman cia ughters and a son. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil B. Dvorak are the have planned a vacation trip to California parentS of a baby girl born Jan. 25. They have for the first weeks of his retirement, then named her Berth lynn. Virgil is statistician will return to Savanna and move their house QUAD-CITIES AREA in the superintendent's office at Marion and hold goods to Minneapolis where they plan Russell Tubbs, Correspondent Yours Truly is the proud grandfather. to live. A dinner party was held in the Perishable Freight Inspector, Nahant, la. Claire Beuhling is working second trick at Women's Club headquarters at Savanna Cedar Rapids. lyle Roodman has been work Feb. 28 in honor of Mr. Engman, with 70 We are sorry to report the death of Clell ing the swing job since James Houstman was friends and fellow employes present. Super B. Moore and Roy E. White, switchmen at called to military service. intendent Kiesele and Division Engineer Nahant, both of whom were in ill health for The retirement of George Ireland at the be Fuhr acted as toastmasters. Following the din a number of months. Also the death of ~ichael ginning of the year marked the close of more ner, which was served by members of the Behan who passed away recently at rhan a half century of railroading for the pop Women's Club, talks were given by various hIS horne after a long illness. Mr. Behan a ular Wyoming, Ia., agent. George was 21 persons present and Mr. Engman was pre retired carman, was 91 at the time of his death. when he started his apprenticeship at Ana sented with a gift, along with the best wishes mosa, la., in 1898. He served as an extra in of his many friends on the railroad. J. E. The new addition to the yard office build the Marion district and in 1900 was made Collings has been appointed chief carpenter ing at Nahant is nearing completion at this agent at langworthy. He was transferred from to succeed Mr. Engman. writing. It will provide a locker room for there to Wyoming in 1931. At both places he The Martin Bardills of TeIre Haute, the 'carmen, a record room for the yard office took an active interest in community affairs, formerly of Savanna, are receiving congratu and wash room facilities. Ernie Johnson, retired engineer and wife serving ar langworthy as postmaster and at lations on the arrival of their second daugh vacatio~ Wyoming as councilman, mayor and justice ter, born Feb. 16 in Mercy Hospital, Du are enjoying an extended in Texas of the peace. At present he is convalescing buque. and California. from the results of a stroke which he suffered First District Engineer David U. Truninger last year, but otherwise he is in good health. and Mrs_ Truninger attended the graduating The fung of a laddef was nevef meant to In his retirement he has the companionship exercises of their son David at De Paul fest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long of Mrs. Ireland with whom he celebrated 50 University College of law in Chicago Feb. enough to enable him to put the other some years of happy married life in 1950. 10. David was licensed to practice before the what highe,..-Thomas Huxley. March, 1952 19 i. in Chicago. who like to sing. Won't you lend your vOIce ChicagoGeneralOffi<;:es Ann and Fred Kaechele had a very enjoy to the group? Rehearsals are held in the FREIGHT CLAIM DEPARTMENT able vacation in Florida. Ann's nice tan tells \'{fomen's Club room in the Union Station Palmer G. Lykken, Correspondent the stOry of where she spent her time. on Monday evenings at 5: 30 P.M. Marie Horan returned co work recently March 31 is the date of our next engage We understand th·at Ruth Mathiesen is after an extended· illness. She is looking fine ment at Myrtle Lodge, 4240 Irving Park planning to move to· Florida in the near and feeling well. Road. future and is looking: forward to the sunny Len Palla was mildly shocked one evening weather the Florida Chamber of Commerce when he dropped by the company lot to pick CLAIM PREVENTION, REFRIGERATOR & brags about. up his 1949 Ford and found it had been MERCHANDISE SERVICE Jim Ebeling is the proud owner of a new liberated by some person or persons. He 1952 Dodge. is presently occupied thoroughl}' examining A letter from H. Baird Tenney, instrUCtOr Eddie Knapp and wife have moved into every Ford he sees. in the industrial management institutes of the their new home in Glenview, Ill. He used to Warren Appel has received his "invitation" University of Wisconsin, commended highly live only a few blocks from work, but is from his draft board. a talk made recently by C. R. Dougherty, assistant manager of CPR&MS. Substituting for W. 1. Ennis who was attending a com mittee meeting in Cleveland, I1'Ir. Dougherty handled a traffic management panel. "The comments of rhe men who attended," wrOte Mr. Tenney, "gave him a very high rating based particularly ·on his thorough knowledge of the subject. The session was a constrUCtive one, and I'm sure of benefit to the railroad." PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT F. J. Carney, Correspondent Passenger Rate Office, Union Station When CPA Gene Hammer and Charlie Rank of Advertising made a trip out Omaha way recently with the Chicago Passenger Club bowling league, they were served up a whacking sample of hospitality, \'{festern Style, courtesy of the Trans-Missouri Pas enger Club. The occasion was a match game between the tWO leagues, the results being nor coo happy for Our Side. The high point, ac cording to Charlie, was a tOur through Boys CONVENTION TRI! CONFERENCE. E. P. Schilling, district passenger agent at Philadel Town. He was impressed with not only the phia (center), completing arrangements with W. H. Patrick, Jr., chairman of the trans physical layout (1,260 acres, 68 buildings, portation committee of the United Lutheran Church of America (left) 0 and Clifford 700 boys), but with the principles of dem MacMullen, passenger representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia, for the ocratic living and self-reliance inculcated in transportation of approximately 225 delegates to the United Lutheran convention in Seattle these youths. Oct. 9-15.· From Chicago, the eastern delegates will travel on the Olympian Hiawatha. The long week end over Washington's Birthday saw our co-workers taking off in all direCtions. Don Pierre and Art Newell of Advenising, with George Schwandt of rhe GPA office, took a triangular trip: Excelsior Springs on the Milwaukee Road, Kansas rapidly becoming used to the idea of falling CHORAL CLUB NEWS City, then up to Omaha on the Burlington, stopping long enough to take in the town, out of bed one hour earlier. Theresa Glasl, Correspondent Anthony Folk and wife enjoyed a rwo then back to the old stamping grounds. Art week vacation in Bozeman, Mont. The program we presented under the auspi and George are comparatively new recruits to Bud Bloethner, Herman Grell, Ed Knapp ces of the Fellowship Club of Endeavor Pres the railroad life; this was their first long trip and Bob Hall have taken over the planning of byterian Church on Feb. 20 had a most on our line. the retirement party t6 be given in honor of spontaneous aud ience. A special request was Over the same holiday Bob Bielfeldt and our good friends Joe Martin and Andy made for "Dry Bones", a spiritual, in which Bob Klose of Passenger Rate, along with Anderson on the eve of their retirement. The Phil MacDonald, George Dempsey and Ed some of their freight department friends, gave party is arranged for May 1. Additional de StOll handled the solo exclamations. Our the Twin Cities a whirl. Despite predictions tails can be secured from Bud Bloethner. thanks to Jim Olson, a former member of of three feet of snow and zero temperatures, Kay Marshall and Elaine Pedersen were the bass section, who assisted in this pro the boys set out armed with copies of "The welcomed into the Milwaukee family. Kay gram. Minneapolis Visitor." They repon that be was married Feb. 16 to Petty Officer John We are happy to report that Viola Neu sides the usual tourist beat the}' took in the Builders Show and crowded in some Hen ~arsh~ll at ~I?iphany Church, Chicago. John schwander, soprano, and Robert Neuschwan IS statIoned lO··Norfolk, Va. der, bass, both former members of the club, nepin Avenue night life. Dick Abrams says "hello" from Florida have renewed their affiliations. Art Dreutz, Jr., of the reservation bureau, and mentions that George Loderhose, retired John Slijepcevich brought his tape recorder is on the mend after a wicked spill from a freight claim agent, and wife have stopped and recorded several numbers during a recent ladder while washing the windows of the in to visit him several times. George is stay rehearsal. Besides being entertained, we family residence. The fall resulted in a dis ing at Nokomis, Fla. It certainly is nice to benefited by noting where improvements located forearm. It will be another eight hear from our friends and to know that they might be made. weeks, Art eStimates, before the arm will be are well. Little Constance, daughter of Marcy Cianci in bowling trim-his favorite SpOrt. Sympathy is extended to the family of of the soprano section, accompanied her to Ralph Burton on the death of his father-in rehearsal on Feb. 25. A charming future law and to Howard Balow on the death of maSCOt is in prospect. All bridges used by railroads if placed md his mother-in-law. Our spring membership drive is in prog /0 end, would ex/end a distance of about Martin Huber has left the employ of the ress. The club is open to employes and mem 3,750 miles, or from N ew York to Los Road. She plans to take up a new position bers of their families in the Chicago area Angeles with about 500 miles to spare. I 20 The Milwaukee Road Magazine ·1; Old reliable Fine, tempered and true, the old straight razor waS handed down from father to son. So it was with all fine things, including the rare enjoyment of a Dutch Masters Cigar. Now, as then, the fragrant aroma and rare mildness of this fine cigar is one thin~ the man in the family can always rely on. utch MastersJCi a~s 2fir 25¢ andup " ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT After an enjoyable Christmas season with engineer-system, who came to us Feb. 4 from H. E. Dalisman, Correspondent their daughter in Massachusetls, Mr. and Mrs. the Universal Oil Products Co., Riverside, Savidis traveled down the east coast and ar Ill. Ed received his B. E. in 1948 from the Bruce Mitchell, Magazine correspondent rived in the "Fountain of Youth" country John Marshall- College in Chicago. He also for this office and contributor of part of the the first part of January. P. G. plans to loaf, has joined the F.O.P.P. (Fraternity of Proud ntWS below, left the Road Feb. 29 to work fish and travel around Florida until such time Papas)-a boy, Edward Joseph, was born to for the Chicago South Shore & South Bend as he can find a suitable home for the Mrs. his Mrs. on Jan. 16. Railroad at Michigan City. He will be asso and himself. He'll have to change his driving Not to be outdone by anyone, John (Bing) ciated with another former Milwaukee Road habits, as he's quite a speed demon and he 1. Kampwirth, squad boss in E. E. Burch's man, 1. F. Pohl, who is now office engineer says the speed laws in Florida are strictly office, announces another son, Donald Joseph. for the South Shore. Bruce' came to the en enforced. P. G. wishes to be remembered to This is his fifth boy, Must be getling difficult gineering department in 1948 from the indus his friends. to find names by now. trial department where he had been employed C. 1. Waterbury, assistant engineer in B. ]. The list of home owners in this department since 1945. Prior to that time he had been Ornburn's office, had a letter from R. W, is growing by leaps and bounds. Frank Fuller with the C&NW and the Cbicago Tribune. (Rudy) Jobnson, retired assistant engineer, of K. E. Hornung's office recently purchased Joe Kirchen, who was called back into formerly of E. E. Burch's office. Rudy writes a home at Libertyville. He expects to take military service in December, 1950, is due to from Yuma, Arizona, the locale of "El possession April 1. And now comes word be released from the Army. He is in need of Rancho Johnson," which must be a garden that Ralph D.Claborn, of W, G. Powrie's a pla.ce to live on his return to Chicago on or spot. He tells of the trees and vegetables office, has purchased a new ranch-type home about May 1 and will appreciate hearing from growing in this lush Spot (cwo crops a in Elgin, Ill. ML and Mrs, Claborn and son anyone who knows where he can get an year); also about the irrigation projects in Timmie will have moved in by the time this apartment for himself, his wife and little Joe. the vicinity and the benefits derived from the gc-ts to press. Mail will reach him at the Engi neer School, water being diverted to the desert region N, E. Smith, assistant engineer in B. J. Department of Topography, Fort Belvoir, Va" which will transform the arid area into a Ornburn's office, leaves us to take over new or addressed to Lt. J. G. Kirchen, 207 Lynn veritable Garden of Eden. Rudy, his wife and duties with K. 1. Clark, principal assistant wood Street, Apartment 204, Alexandria, Va. family are all fine and he sends regards to engineer at Milwaukee. W. G. Powrie, chief engineer, recently re his friends back here, He would like to hear Sando Monteon, instrumentman in H. B, ceived a letter from P. G. Savidis, retired from some of you folks. Christianson's office, has been transferred to office engineer, sent from Orlando, Florida, Welcome to Edward J. Miglio, new in the the division engineer's office at Mason City, where he is sojourning with Mrs. Savidis. office of H. B. Christianson, assistant chief Sando is probably better known to those on March, 1952 21 r I I line as the "manhour man." Joan :iI'fadl in the loss of their father on Holger Johnson, assistant engineer in Mr. Feb. 3. Omburn's office, and family enjoyed tWO days Margaret Bradon, formerly with the e.G. of winter sports at Iron Mountain,' Mich., W., joined the Milwaukee Road family in the weekend of Washington's Birthday. The our office on Feb. 18. trip on the Chippewa-Hiawatha was relaxing Announcement was received that l\·frs. for mom and pop and eventful for the kid Agnes Howard Ryan, former secretary in our die~. The Johnson family are all accomplished office, passed away Feb. 17. skiers. Holger, in his school days, competed After many weeks of illness we are pleased in this SpOrt in Sweden. to report the return of Helen Retzke, Mamie Dahlman and lrven Steger. AUDITOR OF EXPENDITURES OFFICE Rose Erwin, at this writing, has been Betty Melnikoff, Correspondent ccnfined in a hospital since Feb. l. Helen Thompson has been on leave of The stork left a baby boy at the home of absfnce since Feb. 18 on account of illness Cora Kissiel, formerly of the track timekeep in her family. ing bureau, Feb. 18. The baby was named FLORIDA HOLIDAY. Mary Heslick, telephone George, OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PASSENGER operator at the Galewood freight yard in Chi Barbara Kennelly, formerly of the accounts ACCOUNTS cago (right), taking an early February vacation receivable and material bureau, was married in Florida. Here stopping at Fort Lauderdale Jan. 30. Bill Tidd, Correspondent for a visit with a friend, Mrs. J. Vodicka. Pliying a visit to our office recently was Betty Juke and Ralph Thielman were mar Margaret Gable, formerly of the typing ried Feb. 9. Betry's husband was home on a bureau, and Oscar Leinberger who was for 30-day leave. They will make their home in for her convalescing husband who was re merly office boy and is now in the armed Wisconsin after his discharge from military cently discharged from Hines Hospital. service. service. Mary Jean Hefner has been transferred to Sixty four members of the Women's Club Among those who are ill at this writing: the Union Station. attended the Feb, 19 meeting, Movies of the Dorothy Sedlack with an acute infection; Emily Trezek with fiu and strep throat; Tony railroad and civil defense were shown. An AUDITOR OF STATION ACCOUNTS afghan will be auctioned, the proceeds to be Naatz had lobar pneumonia; Harriet Rosselit AND OVERCHARGE CLAIMS and Rose Finnell recuperating from opera llsed to decorate the club rooms with drapes Lucille Forster, Correspondent and other improvements. tions; Susanne Manasian on a three-month leave, due to ill health, Catherine Haupel'[ of the central station accounting bureau and John Brode said "I OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF EQUIPMENT We welcome back Roy Tiedje who because ACCOUNTS of ill health has been on a furlough; also do" at St. Monica's Church Feb. 23. They Juanita Chambers who was home with a honeymooned in New Orleans. Harry M. Trickett, Correspondent broken wrist. Wedding bells rang for James J. Sides, Mary Shank, who has been On leave be Among our early vacationists is Florence claim checker, and Rose Ann Clemnza on cause or illness since Jan, 3, extends her Brociek who visited her husband at Camp Feb. 24 at St. Bartholomew's Church. The appreciation for cards and gifts received. Pickett in Virginia. Marilyn Scholle spent newlyweds spent their honeymoon in 'Miami Edward Hopke, our night messenger, re her vacation redecorating her home prepara Beach. signed as of Feb. 29. tory to a 25th wedding anniversary party for Pvt. J, J. Canty of the Marines visited us Sympathy was extended to Catherine and her parents. Peggy Rosenthal played nurse recently while home on furlough. Jack Jennings of the suspense bureau is conlined to St. Joseph's Hospital at this writing. New members of our Staff are Joe Beau OPERATING -161 RECEIVING vais, claim checker, Wayne Neff, central MOTOR TRUCKS and station accounting, John P. Brower, traveling TRACTORS AND FORWARDING claim adjuster, and Thomas Hart, record POOL CAR room force. TRAILERS DISTRIBUTORS Traveling Auditor F. G. Herrick and wife ace vacationing in California at this writing. ESTABliSHED 1880 Twin City Terminals MINNEAPOLIS PASSENGER STATION P. D. Carroll Trucking Co. J. J. Taylor, Division Editor General Superintendent's Office CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Signal Supervisor Herb Dunn decided he had enough snow and ice for a while and recently spent a month in Miami Beach, Fla., PREFERRED NON-CANCELLABLE PROTECTIONfor RAILWAY EMPLOYEES HEALTH-ACCIDENT-LIFE (Death from any cause) HdSPITAL BENEFITS • NON·CANCELLABLE POLICY , NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION REQUIRED 'GOOD IF YOU LEAVE SERVICE ON PENSION OR OTHERWISE EMPLOYEES M.UTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION ~ 1457 Grand Avenue St. Paul, Minn. ~ I 22 The Milwaukee Road Magazine • f visiting relatives, with a side lrip to Havana, Foreman J.' J. Mintz has returned from a Cuba. California vacation with a nice coat of tan. Afler having spem a good many years suc District Diesel Supervisor Emil Baeyen is cessfully selling Safety to the Twin GIl' recuperating after surgery and a sojourn in EDWARD KEOGH Terminal employes, Matt Medinger, retired a hospital. safety engineer, is trying out his salesmanship Machinist George Schultz has returned to PR.INTING COMPANY on Ford automobiles. his job after an operation. Labor Agent Charlie Ryan is confined to Stenographer Nell Hiddleston is gaining PrinterlJ and Northwestern Hospital with a broken leg, nicely following her illness and hopes to having been struck by an automobile recently. leturn to work soon. PlanographerlJ District Safety Engineer Frank Washburn Machinist Ed Wandberg is the latest re spent the week of Mar. 3 to 7 in the hand cipient of a "gold" 50-year pass. 732-738 W. Van Buren St. brake instruction car at South Minneapolis Joseph Tritz, of the locomotive department, for the purpose of instructing our yardmen, retired Feb. 1 following 43 years of service Phone: Franklin 0925 both the new men and the old timers, in the with the Milwaukee. practice of safety. Sympathy is extended to survivors of the Chicago, Illinois Assistant Engineer Don Nelson is the man deceased Boilermaker Foreman Walter Nich to consult for advice on how to take long ols, locomotive department, and Laborer PROMPT AND EFFICIENT SERViCE automobile trips with small children. Don Edward M. Winkler. recently returned from Yuma, Ariz., where Former Car Inspector Edward E. Ekelund he, Mrs. Nelson, and sons Donny and Kenny of the car department, passed away Feb. 20 visited with relatives. He says that the following heart attack. Ed had received his weather was wonderful, and a good time was 50-year "gold" pass last year and was plan had by all, but kids two years and seven ning to take his vacation at Tucumcari, N. CREOSOTED months old respectively are a little too young M., soon. He had worked on Feb. 15. for that much of a trip. He sent his family Welcome to George L. Wood, Jr., and MATERIALS home by train and drove back alone. familI' (from Sioux Falls), transferred to and M&B Sorter L. A. Paulson is vacationing the schedule car shop ~s wrecker foreman with his wife and family in San Diego, Calif., Feb. 1. Also to Loren A. Lindemer and at this writing. family (formerly at Mitchell), transferred to COAL TAR Minneapolis shops as assistant foreman. SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS CAR DEPT. Leonard J. Barry of the St. Paul repair PRODUCTS AND COACH YARD track was appointed equipment maintainer Republic Creosoting Co. Oriole M. Smythe, Correspondent at Madison, S. D. Helge Larson was trans ferred to Mitchell as car foreman. J. Glenn Minneapolis District General Car Supervisor's Office Kasak succeeds Mr. Wood at Sioux Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Kassin and daughter Edward L: Erickson succeds A. J. Demmers are vacationing with relatives near Los An· as shop foreman at Minneapolis. geles at this writing. Bachelor Elmer Holte of the Minneapolis ST. PAUL TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT light repair was married to Miss Rhoda Anderson at Bethany Lutheran Church, Min Brooksie Burk, Correspondent neapolis, Saturday evening, Feb. 23. c/o General Agent Carman Helper Apprentice Thaddeus Kraw We have had our new general agent, G. F. czynski and wife are rejoicing over the birth Quinlan, for almost a month now, and have of a son Feb. 22. Carman Helper Walter decided that Mr. Beem's office in Chicago Kawulak and the Mrs. also report a baby boy really suffered a loss when Mr. "Q" was born to them Feb. 20. Mr. and Mrs. Warren promoted from there to here. Velenchenko (Helen Velenchenko of sched Another change was scheduled to take place ule car shop) have a baby boy who arrived on Mar. 1. Our chief clerk, Bill Wire, will Feb. 7. get out from behind his desk and do a little Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Mary Troyer walking as city freight agent in Minneapolis. (nee Schmitz) in the loss of her mother who Our livestock agent, Frank Arndt, has been passed away recently at Sioux City. enjoying (?) an enforced vacation in the . Welcome to Mrs. Edna Bowers, formerly hospital since Feb. 6. According to his doc clerk in the store department, who returned tor, Frank should rejoin us around the middle THEY STAY FRESH! permanencly on Feb. 1 following the resigna of March. tion of Mrs. Winnifred McCarthy. We received a long and interesting letter RAY-O-VAC COMPANY Assistant Master Mechanic Brossard re from our former co-worker, Maj. John cemly enjoyed a visit from his three-month· Maher. When he left the United States in Madison 10, Wisconsin old grand-daughter. He declares she is a doll. November, his destination and home for twO RECENT'S INDIANA'S NEW MODERN COAL MINE & WASHERY QUAI.ITY COAl. BLACKSATIN 6" Lump--6" x 4" Washed Egg-4" x 2" Washed Nut Originating on The Milwaukee Road VVashed and Dried Treated Stokercoal 1'/2" x 3/16" 3/4 " x 3/16" DEEP SHAFT MINE The Perfeetian ia Preparation and Size Low Ash-High Heat Content. Porous Pancake WASHED Clinker-Easily Removed ~ty 2,500 TOlll D&//y STERLING-MIDLAND GOAL GO. 8 So. Michigan Ave•• Chicago. III. March. 1952 years was supposedly Tokyo, but Jfrer two ST. PAUL FREIGHT HOUSE Still Greater days there he was "diverted" (0 Korea, where Allen C. Rothmund, Correspondent he is commanding officer of a group of pilOts. Sibley St. Freight House His inspiration to write us was seeing a little Switchman Frank Boucher passed away PROTECTION engine, complete with our "Hiawatha" in signia, chugging across the scenery. We do suddenly Jan. 2l. for CARS and LADING Not many years ago George Quinlan was get around, don't we? CARDWELL WESTINGHOUSE a clerk in this office. Today he holds the FRICTION DRAFT GEARS position of genetal agem at Sr. Paul. He MINNEAPOLIS LOCAL FREIGHT AND succeeded Roy Burns who passed away re 10 absorb horizontal shocks TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT cently. George was formerly assistant gen CARDWELL FRICTION BOLSTER G. V. Stevens, Correspondent etal agem in Chicago. SPRINGS Agent's Office Several changes in this office, as follows: 10 absorb vertical and lateral .hocks Elsie Monheim now in the cashier's office; Don Hessburg and George Keenan spent Harry Carr now switching clerk; and Bill their vacation together in New Orleans and CARDWELL WESTINCHOUSE• CO. Burfiend, demurrage clerk. CHICACO took in the Mardi gras. My son, Capr. Dudley Rothmund, was CANADIAN CARI;>WELL CO., LTD. Mrs. Pauline Seiler and her husband left transferred recently from Tokyo, Japan, (0 MONTREAL recemly for their annual trip (0 Phoenix, Seoul, Korea. Ariz., and poims wesr. Bob Medinger, recently appoimed chief Florence McCauley, retired, was the guest clerk (0 General Agent Homes at Denver, of honor at a luncheon ar Charlie's Cafe Ex was a visitor here recently while completing ceptionale Feb. 16. She leaves Mar. 10 (0 arrangements for his move from this office (0 spend the balance of the wimer in Cali the mile-high city. fornia. MAUMEE "Katie" Beringer's father reports that she INDIANA writes she will be married in June. Her Terre Haute Division husband-to-be is an Englishman she met while WASHED AND WEST CLINTON AREA DRY OEOUSTED he also was stationed in Ethiopia in the English foreign service. Earl H. Lehman, Correspondent c/o Yardmaster, West Clinton ENGINEERS, FIREMEN AND SWITCHMEN Warren Hutson, former yard clerk, was on Donald E. Kurtz, Correspondent a recent furlough from service in California. c/o South Minneapolis Roundhouse Brakeman Willian) ScOtt Jr., SOn of En gineer William SCOtt, entered the Army dur Sympathy is extended to the relatives of ing February. Oscar Ladwig, Minneapolis yard and L&R A card from Agent Homer Snow of Sioux Division engineer, who passed away suddenly City, la., says he saw C. H. Averitt's name Feb. 12. He was the brother of L&R Divi in a recent issue of the Magazine. We are sion Passenger Engineer Al Ladwig. glad Mr. Snow located his friend in this Clarence Sutton, L&R Division engineer, manner. has returned from a three-week vacation in Conduc(Or Jay Kindred was quite ill during Florida. He is contemplating building a February. home there for his retirement days. Crane Operator William Miller of Chicago The friends of Conductor Art Swanson and was here in February on a work assignment Switchman George Danicich, both of Min between Wesr Clinton and Faithorn. neapolis yard, were saddened to learn of their Mrs. R. T. Davis, wife of our yardmaster, CARTER BLATCHFORD, INC. deaths and extend sympathy to their sur is home from an Illinois hospital and her vivors. friends will be glad (0 hear she is regaining 80 E. JACKSON BLVD. L&R Division Engineer Ed Nelson and his her health. CHICAGO wife spent their recent vacation in Florida. StOre Department Chauffeur Ben Douglas Minneapolis yard and H&D Division En is convalescing at his home at this writing, gineer Dillie McGuire and his wife have after several weeks in the hospital. returned from a California vacation. A valentine was received at the home of Harvey Pitts, L&R Division passenger en Conduc(Or J. 1. Maloney Feb. 14 in the form gineer, completed his last run Feb. 28 after 46 of a baby girl. They have named her Sherrie RAIL JOINTS years of cominuous service. He and his wife Ellen. Reformed and heat treated wiIJ live in Concord, Calif. George Garrard, retired roundhouse em Minneapolis Yard Fireman Howard Kurtz, ploye, and wife returned Feb. 15 from several to meet epecifications for who recently was inducted into the armed weeks' visit in California. service, was gramed an emergency furlough Yardmaster Cyrus Bodle and wife were on new har8. due (0 the death of his two year-Old-son vacation in February. They did not go to Larrj'. Florida as planned, but enjoyed rain, snow WEST COAST WOOD PRESERVING CO. We are proud to serve "The Milwaukee Road" in ] I [ supplying treated ties and structural timbers. OjJice: 1118-4th Avenue, Seattle, Wash•• Plants: Eagle Harhor and West Seattle I, 24 The Milwaukee Road Maga:.(ne .1, and ice right here. They acquired a new on a U. S. destro}'er, was returned to the States Plymouth before he came back to work. in January and he and Mrs. Boyd came to General Yardmaster R. T. Davis was on Terre Haute in February for a visit with his vacation in February but was obliged to spend parents. They have since returned to Cali part of it in the hospital getting a ch'eck-up. fornia where he will take a short course in eJectronics, after which he will again go Corp. E. E. Max overseas. welJ, former! y of the Bedford freight Duff}' Nunley, telegraph operator and dis house force, is now patcher, who has been stationed at Adak in stationed in Ger the Aleutians for about a year, was in Terre many. He was pro Haute in February on a two-month leave. He moted to corporal reports to Washington, D. C, in March. last October. Corpo Mrs. and Mrs. Lennes Brown (retired car ral MaxwelJ is mar man) are spending the winter with their ried and has one daughter in California. child. (Thanks to Herbert A. Brown, retired clerk, is spend Clerk W. C Bahr, ing the winter in California with his son. Eliminate equipment damage Corp. E. E. Maxwell Bedford, for t 10 i s Clerk Bruce Blaker has a new television with economical, corrosion news. ) set and is spending most of his evenings at free DEARBORN cleaners Corp. Jack - 1. home now. Moody, son of Ear! Moody, chef of the Free-rinsing Dearborn cleaners work Assistant Car Foreman Anderson has pur in any water ... contain no abrasives Terre Haute Division business car, is now chased a new home at 1800 South Sixth stationed at Fort Knox as a gunner instructor. · .. leave equipment bright and spar Street, Terre Haute, and will move as soon kli~g without dangerof subsequent cor While with a cavalry division on the Man as he sells the property where he is now rOSiOn. Low cost and greater cleaning churian border he was seriously wounded in living. Andy says he needed more room. effectiveness make Dearborn cleaners November, 1950. Taken to Japan for treat economical to use. ment, he was later sent back to Korea. He Conductor Walter Chambers and Brakeman is now home after an exciting year in action. William Young, on Extra 574 Feb. 12, dis • INTERIOR CLEANERS George F. LundwalJ, retired clerk, and covered a broken rail at Fayette. Thanks to • ORGANIC SOLVENT TYPE CLEANERS wife are spending the winter in the Florida these employes for being on the alert. • HOT TANK CLEANERS sunshine. He was formerly a yardmaster at Martha Swanson, Milwaukee Magazine • EXTERIOR CLEANERS • ELECTRICAL PARTS CLEANERS West Clinton. correspondent in the office of division. store Richard Hale, son of Car InspeCtor Elza keeper in Terre Haute several years ago, and • SCALE REMOVER CLEANERS Hale, was recently on a month's furlough who now edits a news sheet for Commercial ASK ahout Deorhorn's Dual System, non-streak from the Korean front. Solvents Corp. in Terre Haute, attended the anel sheen-proelucing cleaners Sympathy is extended to Engineer Carl Van Midwest Editors Institute at Northwestern Please note our new aelelress Mr~. Meter in the death of Van l.vfeter Jan. University early in February and talked over DEARBORN CHEMICAL COMPANY 29. Burial was in Roselawn near Terre old times with Marc Green, the present Merchandise Mart Plaza • ChIcago 54, III. Haute. editor. Sectionman William Cartright took a week end plane ride to New Orleans Feb. 8.' It's a small world, says Bill. Homer McMillian, retired carman, was in Youngstown Steel Sides for Repairs to Freight Cars the Paris, Ill., hospital for treatment during Youngstown Corrugated Steel Freight Car Doors February. Camel Roller Lift Fixtures Carman George Bain Jr. and wife are the Youngstown Steel Door Co. 6' Camel Sales Co. parents of a son born in the Paris hospital -OFFICES 332 S. Michipn An. 500 Fifth A veo Feb. 13. George Bain Sr., retired conductor, Chicall'o The Arude New York and Carman Henry Mindemann are the proud Cleveland grandfathers. -PLANTS- Hammond, Indiana • Youngstown. Ohio Operator W. R. Ramey of Humrick is in a Danville, III., hospital at this writing. Charles 1. Francis, retired carman. died at his home in Terre Haute Feb. 5. He was the father of Malcolm Francis, West Clinton carman. We extend sympathy to Clerk Bruce Blaker in the death of his mother in February, TERRE HAUTE DISTRICT T. I. Colwell. Correspondent Superintendent's Office, Terre Haute Sympathy is extended to the family of Ted UNION REFRICERATOR TRANSIT LINES Pearce, stores department, who passed away Feb. 10. 4106 N. Creen Bay Ave., ,Our sympathy also to Clerk Betty Foradori and other members of the VanLeer family Milwaukee 12.; Wisconsin in the death of her father Feb. 4. Mrs. Edward Bevington, wife of dispatcher, was in Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, in February for an e}'e operation. Congratulations to Division Engineer M. 1. Bardill and Mrs. Bardill who were presented with a new baby daughter, Sarah, on Feb. 16. William E. Bo}'d, son of our agent at Terre Haute, who has been in the neighbor hood of Korea since June as a lieutenant j. g. March, 1952 25 RETIRES AT ROCK BUCKEYE FOR D. Congratulating CAST STEEL PRODUCTS Yard Clerk James Fan FOR RAI LROADS nan on his recent retire ment after 30 years of Truck Side Frames service. From left: Ed Hurley, demurrage clerk; Truck Bolsters Lee Gray, car clerk; Mr. Couplers Fannan; W. P. Hyzer, Yokes and Dratt Castings chief clerk; Bess Mul lane, cashier; and George Miscellaneous Car Castings Cholke, bill clerk. The Six-and Eight-Wheel Trucks group represents 214 years of railroading. ---THE-- BUCKEYE STEEL CASTINGS CO. COLUMBUS 7, OHIO Orlando, Fla. Also vacationing in Florida La Crosse & River are Ticket Clerk Gaylord Carpenter and family. Division R, J. Mogan has been assigned first extra dispatcher at Wausau. Pre8ent Day THIRD DISTRICT Returning to railroad service as an opera SAFETY Requirements M. G. Conklin, Correspondent tOr after having served as sheriff of Wood Assistant Superintendent's Office, Wausau DEM~ the Best County at Wisconsin Rapids for several years Equipment Funeral services for "Tim" Donovan, re is Arthur E. Berg. tired engineer, who passed away Feb. 7 were hdd at Tomah where Mr. Donovan and his SECOND DISTRICT LAKESIDE f~mily have made their home since his re tirement. He is survived by his widow and H. F. Ogden, Correspondent I Superintendent's Office, La Crosse FUSEES twO sons. Fill the Bill Gregory Schaad, formerly clerk at Brokaw, Engineer Harvey O. Pitts has retired, mak Safe Dependable Efficient passed away recently at Merrill after a ing his last trip on the Olympian Hiawatha month's illness. Funeral services were held Feb. 28. He hired out as fireman in 1906 LAKESIDE R~ILWAY at Merrill where Mr. Schaad made his home and was promoted to engineer in 1910. Most FUSEE COMPANY and where he had worked as clerk for eight of his service was in passenger operation, Beloit, Wisconsin years before transferring to Brokaw. Imme working on the Olympian Hiawatha as engi diate survivors are his widow and one daugh neer since its inauguration in 1946. He has ter. lived most of his life in Minneapolis, but in Orville Best, who has been released from his retirement intends to live in Concord, the Navy, has returned to service as fireman. Calif. Returning with Orville was his bride, for C. F. Miller, retired time revisor, writes LOCOMOTIVE: merly of California. . that he is enjoying his new surroundings at Sgt. James Adamsheck, son of Agent Ontario, Calif., and would like to hear from FEED WATER HEATERS (The Locomotive Water Conditioner) William Adamsheck, has been home on a us "rails." He enclosed a picture of his very BLOW-OFF EQUIPMENT 21-day furlough from Camp Gordon, Ga. attractive home at 1620 Orchard Avenue. COMPR.ESSED AIR He was graduated from radio telegraphers' Edna Schroeder, file clerk in superinten RADIATION school last fall and finished Leadership oent's office, at this writing is spending her (ALL-Cast Directional Finned school on Jan. 25. On his return, he will vacation in Florida. Aluminum Elements) go to Fort Benning, Ga., where he will enter For Interstage or Final Cooling officers' candidate school. FIRST DISTRICT Engineer Bill Streeter observed a recent UNIT HEATERS birthday with a dinner at The Club. In K. D. Smith, Correspondent Operator, Portage addition to another birthday, he had also WII.SON ENGINEERING passed his 45th year in railroad service and We are happy to announce the arrival of was wearing his recently acquired "45-year" Linda J 0, born Feb. 17 to Mr. and Mrs. CORPORATION button. Joseph Pieche at La Crosse. Joe is Train 122 So. Michigan Ave., CWcago Agent John Steele and Mrs. Steele are master Reidl's clerk at Portage. He says he spending the remainder of the winter in sure got a break, because now he won't MARSH & M~LENNAN INCORPORATED INSURAN£E 231 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET • CHICAGO 4, ILLINOIS Chicago New York San Francisco Minneapolis Cleveland London Detroit Boston Los Angeles St. Paul Columbus Vancouver St. Louis Washington Seattle Duluth Buffalo Montreal IndiaupoUs Pittsburgh Portland Phoenix Havana Toronto 26 The Milwaukee Road Maqazi.M • have to wash dishes any more. the same year anOther brOther, Will, entered A large number of people from this area service as a conductOr. Will continued until attended the SportS Show in Milwaukee. 1902 when he went west to the mining Among them were Engineer Charles "Rubber country. A fourth brOther, F. S. Craig, jaw" Woodman who was greatly disap starred to work at Perry in 1891. He was pointed inasmuch as he made bets he could employed on the Chicago Division until his beat the trained seal in a race. He had [he retirement in 1942. lead until he came to the end of the run Charles M. Craig of Marion, Ia_, was the way when the seal dove intO the water, first of the junior members to work for [he leaving "Rubber" panting at the barricade. Road. He started as a caller in 1902 and We understand that ConductOr Howard went into train service in 1903. He is now "Spider" Heberlein purchased a new gimmick a conductor on the Midwest Hiawatha be called a deer harness to haul deer oue of tween Chicago and Marion. The late. Roy B. the woods. He wanted to try it oue on his starred at Perry in 1905 and came to Lines wife, but she said nothing doing, she could West in 1911. From 1943 to 1946 he was still walk. a trainmaster on the Idaho and Coast Di GOt a letter recently from Corp. G. M. visions. Seth and Sam, sons of Will, also Anacker now stationed in Korea, wherein he were with the Road for several years. states things are quiet right now. Both The third generation of Craigs is repre sides seem to be waiting on the weather. sented by Roy B. Jr., son of the deceased. He says he will be glad when he can trade He has been in service since 1937 and is now his rifle for a No.4 scoop shovel. We will a conductOr on the Coast Division. furnish his address on request. George is 8. W. Raymond 21-iewel Elgin. 8 adjustments, to po· a fireman on our division. His father is an SEATTLE YARD sit jan, temperature and isochronism. Gold-filled case, $87.50. Stainless steel madel, $71.50. (Prkes in· engineer on the Madison-Portage morning F. J. Kratschmer, Correspondent dude Federal Taxi subject to change without notice.) run. Switchman W. G. Kapral announces an Section Foreman Sackmaster and his crew increase in his family, the arrival Jan. 17 of at Portage yards have been sleeping with Helen Ann, a brand new baby girl. one foot on the floor lately due to the snow Dave Elder, foreman of the car cleaning storms which call them out for switch clean [racks who has been on a leave of absence Every tick whispers ing, etc. for several months, called at the yard re For myself, I'll be glad when the lirst cently. He was looking well and says he angleworm appears, even if it is blind! feels fine. Carman Emery Dutrow underwent an op uProved Coast Division eration Feb. 18 at White Center. At this writing he is doing fine. Harry W. Anderson, Division Editor DorOthy Kellar, clerk in the car depart Superintendent's Office, Tacoma ment, enjoyed a week at home during Feb 50 Million The sudden death of ConductOr Roy B. ruary, resting and catching up with her Craig, Sr., of Tacoma on Jan. 23, which I home work. reported last month, served to bring to at Jim Harrery, clerk in the yard office, bid Times" tention interesting facts about this well in a job of timekeeper for an extra gang. known Milwaukee Road family. At the His position in the yard was taken over by present time the members have an accumu Clarke Jones. . You get proved dependability lated service of 207 years. E. A. PanchOt and his traveling welding from an Elgin B. W. Raymond. The name of Craig lirst appeared on the crew have been working around Seattle yard company payrolls in 1883 when Sam Craig, and vicinity the paSt month. Because Elgin alone has made over father of ConductOr Roy and his brother 50 millionfine watches ...morethan Charles, started to work at Perry, Ia. He was A total of 95,943 new freight cars were anyotherwatchmakerin the world. employed there until his death in 1899. In placed in ser'vice on the Ame";can railroads 1884 Baum Craig, Sam's twin brother, starred in 1951. This was at the rate of 263 cars a And that experience has made as a conductor at Perry. He died in 1886, day throughout the year. Elgin B. W. Raymond railroad watch a standby for trainmen through five generations. Remember, too, that Elgin's B. W. Raymond is the only rail road watch with the heart that never breaks. It's the guaranteed DuraPowerMainspring that ends forever the main cause of watch repairs, mainspring failure. Before you buy, see Elgin's B. W. Raymond -timed to the stars in Elgin's own observatory. ~ (.(.F'T ",'ooPLRV/LC-£ THf?U.. HOlJRS l1t;o, SENRToR--' Wf,Rt: ELGIN wt ('{IOIN(, eN 7iI'1KtN RoLLER, 8SARII'f'-S :Iot) IrNoul,!" WATCHES ( Adverti3ement) The Dependable Way to Tell-Time March, 1952 27 TACOMA E. L. Crawford, Correspondent c/o Agent Time Is Our Business Warranr Qfficer George Schwanz, whose presenr headquaners are Ft. Lewis, Wash., visited the freight office gang in February. CHAS. H. BERN He has been on military leave of absence the Union Station Bldg. Chicago, Illinois past three years and looks in the pink of condition. Cashier Ivar Berven's daughter Suzanne MILTON J. HEEGN was recently appointed editor of The Trail, a College of Puget Sound weekly news maga 29 E. Madison Street Chicago, Illinois zine, Chief Yard Clerk R, D, Shipley has re turned from Cross Plains, Wis., having vis H. HAMMERSMITH ited his mother who is seriously ill. 332 W. Wisconsin Ave, Yard Clerk Jack Beavers bid in the file Milwaukee, Wis. clerk position in the superintendenr's office, replacing Harry Anderson who is now as NEW SPROUT, Start of a new generation in sistanr time reviser; Bob Huntsman taking the Clover family, veteran railroaders. Con Official Watch Inspectors the car distributor's position on accounr of stance, 14 mon'ths, is the daughter of Coast Fay Clover being chief clerk in the Tacoma Division Fireman C. K. Clover and grand for freight office. Leonard H. Williams is now daughter of Fay F. Clover, chief clerk in the on the position formerly held by Jack Beavers Tacoma freight offiec. Mrs F. C. (Mable) in the yard, Clover, ,·.,ho makes her home with the Fay ')he MILWAUKEE ROAD Chief Claim Clerk Dolle's wife and son Clovers, is her great- grandmother. have been visiting the past two months in Specialists in railroad watches, fine California and Mexico, Mr. Dolle is not a jewelry and personal gift items, very good bachelor and is looking forward to their return. Trans-Missouri Division Always at Your Service The Milwaukee Road in Tacoma is again having the pleasure of various grade schools WEST taking advanrage of educational trips on our D, B. Campbell, Correspondent Nos, 15 and 16 between Tacoma and Seattle. Superintendent's Office, Miles City This is quite an excursion for the youngsters and a colorful sight at our depot. Custer County's first annual livestock feeder Grain Doors James S. Eccles, former chief clerk in the tour exceeded the expectations of its sponsors, superintendenr's office who has been retired the Miles City Chamber of Commerce and the Railroad Cross Ties for several years, stopped in the freight office Custer County Extension Service, when 200 recently, looking very well, He recently un farmers and ranchers visited seven different Hardwood Lumber derwenr an operation, feeding operations Jan. 31. Cattle were fea Thomas E, Norwood, only son of Tommy tured in five of the StopS while sheep were Timbers Norwood, baggage clerk at the Tacoma depOt, shown at the other twO in the irrigated areas was inducted into the armed forces in Feb at Kinsey, Horton and Miles City. ruary. Thomas is only 20 but already an The Montana State Livestock Commission' repo~t anist and inrerior decorator at one of Ta placed Miles City third in total cartle coma's leading depanment stores, sales and second in horse sales for 1951. Webster Lumber Company While most other points showed losses from the saJes of the previous year Miles City, with 2522 Como Aye.. West We know that a fool and his money are the new salesyard, reponed a large increase. St. Paul. Minn. soon parted, btlt what would be intel'esting A considerable ponion of this livestock was to know is how they got together in the first shipped to feeders or other markets over our place. rails. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dorland returned reo cently to rheir home in Whitefish, Mont" after attending funeral services of Edward Shriner, Mr·s. Dorland's father, in Miles City, Mr. Dorland took the opportunity to visit his DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES many friends in Miles Ciry and on the rail road where he was a switchman before his lor retirement in 1949. Don Lackner, machinist apprentice, has en PASSENGER, FREIGHT listed in the Air Corps. Harry O'Neil, wesr end passenger conduc AND SWITCHING SERVICE tor, is convalesci ng at his home in Miles City after a long illness, \'\ford has been received in Miles City that • H. J. Jacobsen, retired store department em ploye, passed away in Detroit Jan. 24, Mr. IN SERVICE ON OVER 60 RAI LROADS Jacobsen was born Mar. 14, 1865 at Rodby, Denmark. He came to this country and be • came a naturalized citizen ar Milwaukee, Wis., in 1896. He was a life member of Miles City Lodge No. 537 B.P,O. Elks, ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION Charles E. (Chuck) Pering, former round GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION house clerk at Miles City, was appointed LA GRANGE, ILLINOIS, U. S. A. business manager at the Montana State In dustrial School Feb, 5. Sixry-five members of the Women's Club 28 The Milwaukee Road Magazine enjoyed a potluck dinner at the clubhouse di nner at the Cross Roads Inn Feb. 21. Those UNION MADE Feb. 4. Valentine Day was the theme of the present were Mrs, Bertha Helland, Mts. Ann decorations. Included with the business meet Anderson, Mrs. Eleanor Klar and Maureen ing were reports by Mrs. O. H. Bethke, wel Piner. The group later attended a show at the OVERALLS fare chairman, Mrs. D. Finlayson, sunshine Montana Theater. chairman, and Mrs. John Gray Jr., member Henry B. Rivers, fOtmerly chief carpenter ship chairman. After the business meeting at Miles City, passed away recently at Mis the group was entertained with a program by soula, Mont. Mr. Rivers was assistant chief Mrs. lydia Umhofer, students from Custer Catpenter from 1933 until his retirement in County High School, and the Mincoff sisters, 1941 when he moved to Missoula. Funeral Joyce Tooke was accompanist. services were held there and burial was at Mrs. Ethelyn M. Richards died Feb. 13 at Deer lodge, with the Masonic lodge in a Miles City hospital. She had arrived JUSt a graveside rites. few days previous to visit her son, Chief Dis patcher Charles Richards. Mrs. Richards was born in Independence, Ia., on Dec. 7, 1878 Milwaukee Division and spent the Jatter part of her life with her FIRST DISTRICT AND SUPERINTENDENT'S children. Survivors include three sons, Charles 'forlongest of Miles City, Stanley of Chicago and Ken OFFICE neth of Missoula, and tWO daughters, Mrs. J, E. Boeshaar, Correspondenl wear on Doris Davidson of Othello, Wash., and Mrs. Superintendent's Office, Milwaukee Arlene Quinn of St. Paul. Burial was in the family lOt in the Custer County cemetery. Brakeman Roger Zinke has signed up for a any iob ... The women members of the Miles City four-year enlistment in the Air Corps and has Milwaukee Service Club held their spring lefr for training. The new stenographer in the signal de partment office is Mary Brown, buy Lee Roy West, retired engineer, who was mar ried recently dropped in to pay us a visit SANFORIZED and introduce his wife. TAILORED SIZES Brakeman H. M. Kaiser is recovering slowly from his recent illness and is going out to Ohio to recuperate. The new home of Conductor Jim Kom· Satisfaction Guaranteed or berec is finished and he has moved the fam· your money back. ill' in. Jim can give you all kinds of pointers THE H. D. LEE CO., INC. on patience, which he developed while wait· Kansas City, Mo.• South Bend, Ind· Minneopoli~, Minn.• Trenton, N. J. ing for the contractor to complete the house. Son Francisco, Calif. • 8oaz, Ala. Steve Cudahy who became ill during a trip to Arizona has had had an operation and is now making a recovery. Clarence Steed of the signal department who has been ill for some time has returned Under all condition. and at all time•. to work. T-Z Products g-ive unexcelled service. Trainmaster SCOtt is sporting a new Pon· T-Z "Clingtite" Dust Guard Plugs tiac which he bought because his previous car was one of those which you can't figure MW Journal Box lids out whether it's going forward or backward. T-Z Tender Hose Couplers Hank Schommer who has been ill for quite T-Z Smoke Preventer Nonles OLD RAI LROADERS NEVER Df E. Photographed a while was in to see us recently. He is look T-Z Boiler Washout Plugs on Feb. 22, his 85th birthday, Old timer George ing better. T-Z Blow-off Valve Mufflers Washburn,IViilwaukee. \Vis., presents this preof Agent G. R. Anttonen of Libertyville at· T-Z Products, as standard equipment, that he is still very fit after 15 years of retire tended the claim prevention meeting in Mil· .are daily provinll' tbeir merit. men t George was a section ·man from 1888 to waukee Feb. 26. 1905 when he became a passenger brakeman T-Z Railway' Equipment Co. and dynamo baggageman on the Pioneer Lim;'t Taxes paid by the railroads of the United g So. Michigan Avenue ed. He retired in 1937 with an unblemished States were 27 times greater in 1951 than Chicago, Illinois train service record. they were in 1900. SOLIID FUELS OF REAL MERIT REPUBLIC COAL & COKE CO. General Offices: 8 S. Michigan A venue, Chicago 3 Branch Officeo: St. Louia. Minneapolio, IndianapoIia. Peoria, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, New York, Cincinnati, KaIllal City, March, 1952 29 MILWAUKEE DIVISION THIRD DISTRICT F. T. Buechler, our retired superintendent, tells us that he is going ro move ro Aberdeen, Frank C. Ziel, retired conducror of Ray S. D., in the near future. The family home mond, Wash., informs us that he recently is OUt there and the Buechlers plan ro live heard from Mr. and Mrs. John W. Phillips in it. and that they are now living in Au'stin, Tex. Mr. Phillips was an engineer and subsequent ly a traveling. engineer and rrainmaster at Milwaukee Shops Horicon before he retired. He has nOt been well and it occurred to Mr. Ziel that his rail DAVIES YARD road friends would be glad ro know of his We had a fine demonstration of bronco whereabouts. riding here by Kenny Feustel on his yellow SECOND DISTRICT steed. Next stop for Ken will be the rodeo. After being on the road for most of a M. B. Herman, Correspondent week, the Wreckers came home to defeat the Asst. Superintendent's Office, Green Bay Air Jammers in their match game. The Air Mike Sahaida has been released from the Jammers' excuse was rhat they gave them Army and is back at work in the round roo much spot. The next match game (Feb. house. 24) was close, hut the Wreckers won again Brakeman John Noel was home on leave without the spot. We had some fine bowling from the Army recently. He has been sta by Ned "Sylvester" Day who went on record tioned in Georgia. with a big "79". The amateurs, Stanley, We are sorry to report that Ed Crim, our Ken, Waldara and Tommy, of the Wreckers, passenger ticket agent, is seriously ill in a showed the boys how the game should be hospital at this writing, and that Engineer played. .,. John Millea and Machinest Ed Bader have Congratulations are extended ro August been confined ro their homes with the "flu". Beir who has been promoted to foreman of Engineer Hans Olson, Curtis Sparks, the yard; also to Mr. Hense who rook rhe ,1. trucker at Channing, and Section Laborer place of Bill Stark, retired, at the Air Line Schumaker have retired. We wish them a yard. long rime in which ro enjoy their well earned Ruby Brugger is vacationing in the sun leisure. shine of Florida and Cuba at this wnttng. At this writing Engineer C. Hornibrook is From the reports we ger, he's out catching vacationing in Florida, Charles Donlevy is some of the big fish around there. vacationing in Mississippi, Art Lynn and Pvr. Merlyn Kruse, who is stationed at John Olson are still in California and Dick Fort Riley, Kans., was back at the yards re Isaacson has gone ro Florida; also Jerry Fen cently ro let us know what Army life is like. "YES sirree boys, HAMILTON ciI, and Ted Hansen has gone to Tampa. WiJJiam Reidy, who has been ilJ the past on a railroad watch has Understand that Switchmen Otro Klug year, paid us a visit recently. and Harry Harvey were down at the SPOrtS Gordon Morrison has been inducted inro always meant the best your Show in Milwaukee. rhe Nav)'. money can buy-in design, in Engineer Thomas Aberly died suddenly at Teofil Bagrowski, retired, came back ro the quality, in accuracy, in advanced Channing on Feb. 9. old stamping grounds recently ro visit. He engineering." Agent A. W. Liese, Appleron, has re was looking like a retired banker. This new No. 16, 21-jeweI992-B tired. B. R. Scholtz has been assigned to Wedding bells rang for Roben Hamilron the station. on Washington's Birthday. watch with its handsome rolled Engineer Henry L. Bushey has retired At the present writing Mr. and Mrs. Ru gold case has 9 adjustments-6 to after many years of service. dolph Brugger are vacationing in Florida. position, 2 to temperature and 1 to isochronism. Its long-lasting Dynavar main spring is harder than the finest carbon steel spring, assuring you dependable power for a lifetime. Its Elinvar-Extra hairspring and Aurium balance wheel protect its unvarying accuracy from the effects of magnetism, tempera ture changes and moisture. Ask your time inspector about a Hamilton No. 16-the finest, most dependable railroad watch your $71.50 can buy. Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Pa. THE WATCH OF RAILROAD ACCURACY 30 Thll MHwoukee Road Magazine • .. FINEST IRON MOUNTAIN SO· MADE CIAL. Scene at a recent Women's Club party for the chidren of employes at Iron Mountain, Mich. About 30 were present Mrs. Anthony Ambrosia, shown here at the piano, is president of the chap ter. Assisting hostesses were Mmes. Harry Kas· ten and Joseph Ashenn brener, Jr. "Rubber Heels CAR DEPARTMENT-OFFICE AND SHOP ception at the V.F.W. clubhouse at N. 27(10 SUPERINTENDENT ~.nd W. Clark Streets. Her husband.to.be, and Soles Vincent O. Freihoefer, Correspondent J;,ck Myrechuck, recently returned from his second enlistment in the Marine Corps. Fred GUtowsky, machinist apprentice in [he Hatry Schupinsky, rerired, made a visit THE electrical department, was married on Feb. to the shops Feb. 28. He showed us letters 9. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in and cards from Fred Koop, former general Florida. foreman of the locomotive department, who Machinist Herman Krettlow, better known is spending several weeks in Los Angeles. as "The Duke of Basses Bay" by his 'fellow ~~SYSTEM Harry is full of stories. . workers, was recently eJected vice chairman Stockman Rudy Freuler and Chauffeur of the Milwaukee Hiawatha Service Club Herman Janke participated in the 100th Unit No.2. RAILROAD Wisconsin skat tournament on Feb. 17. By A recent visitor was Tom Czaplewski, their moaning we know (hey missed the WATER TREATMENT former carman, who is now a salesman for grand prizes by only the closest margins. Husting Beverage Co. and also for real estate. Chemicals • Equipment Bob Zirkel, 13, son of AJ Zirkel of the We are glad to see Carman Carl Ricketts Blowdown Systems G.S.K. office, won the junior title, a first in back on the job after being off for several Laboratory Analyses weeks on account of illness. rhe 220, 440 and (he half mile events, at Testing Kits • Field Service (he Midwest skating conference at Detroit Harold Fligge, checker, is seriously ill jn Research • Surveys the hospital at this writing. hb.· 23 and 24. Quite an achievement for a youngster' John Schlitt, cabinetmaker, retired Feb. 18 NATIONAL ALUMINATE at the age of 77, after 34 years of service CORP. with this company. Also on the retired list The 1950 census showed that Montana has are Evan Nenkoff, carman, who retired Feb. 175,619 families, an increase of 16,000 over 6216 West 66th Plac•• Chicago 38, Illinois 25 at the age of 63, and Peter Jovovich, the number in 1940. laborer in the paint shop, who retired Feb. 25 at the age of 67. Sympathy is extended to the family of Alex Pichalski, retired carman helper, who died Feb. 15 at the age of 70. PROTECT YOUR INCOME! If it's sometimes difficult to live within your in STORE DEPARTMENT come, just think how much more difficult it Earl L. Solverson, Correspondent would be to live without it! Make sure of extra Leo Milner, Sr., age 70, retired Feb. 28 after 24 years of service with the store de· money during periods of disability by insuring partment. He started in the scrap yard, under Provident's Income Protection Plans de served several years with the builders store, signed specially for Milwaukee Employees. about 11 years handling the acetylene and oxygen and the past few years with the freight car store. His co-workers wish him ON THE JOB-OFF THE JOB PROTECTION good health and many opportunities to enjoy his retirement. • Natural Death SALARY • Accidental Death and We are sorry to report that Stockman Frank SAVINGS Dismemberment Banaszek lost his mother Feb. 25. She was • Accident and Sickness LIFE • Hospital·Surgical (including Disability 88. Burial was at Holy Cross. Her four sons INSURANCE Family Coverage) and two daughters attended. Ray Spears, of the steel gang, is the father REPRESENTATIVES WANTED of a baby girl born Feb. 17 at Milwaukee We have several open ('erritories where we need aggressive men to act as full Hospital. She was named Nancy and is the or part-time represenfa.tives. Good income possibilities. For full informatIon write: first addition to the family. RAILROAD ACCIDENT DEPT. William Fuss of the D.S.K. office is the proud papa of Lynne Ann, born Feb. 15 at PROVIDENT LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY St. Anthony'S Hospital. It is the first child. Jean Turenske of the D.S.K. office is to be C HAT TAN 0 0 G A, TEN N E SSE E married Apr. 26 at St. Rose's Church; re- March, 1952 31 ~\\ un.noo PAID IN \~\\ \'1. • AU mrs. 8tNtl"s A THE SCHLOSSERS OF There ~ MIL W AUK EE. Frank no assessments Schlosser, head rate clerk at any time in the inbound rate department at Fowler Street station, Milwau kee, takes pride in the fact that he is one of the seven Schlosser brothers. He is third from the left in this group. Another brother is deceased. . ! LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT Pershing. Leone Schneider, Correspondent Sympathy is extended to the family of Joseph Siepe who passed away recently. He The beautiful tan that Foundry Clerk Rita was a retired foundry molder. Bednar has is real. She has the Florida sun Frank Flick, retired maintenance man, was to thank for it. The pictures she has make a recent viistor at the foundry. He looked us want to see this beautiful spot. in tiptop shape following his accident. An Top man on the foundry seniority roster, other visitor was Joseph Manthy, retired Molder Henry Wrasse who worked over molder. 50 years for the department, has decided to retire. The employes want to wish him all Specialtiea the goodness that life has to offer. We know of twO very happy people. One Rocky Mountain Division DELICACIES FOR THE TABLE is Steno Betty Larson who JUSt moved into . Frozen Foods, Cheese, Poul a lovely apartment after hunting for a long NORTHERN MONTANA try, Game, Fruits and time. The other is Oliver Weissenborn, in Pat Yates, Correspondent Vegetables his very nice and roomy flat. Oliver is a Car Foreman, Lewistown clerk in the diesel house. The people of Harlowton were saddened E. A. AARON & BROS. A hearty welcome to Lou Howell after by the sudden death· of Night Roundhouse CHICAGO, ILLINOIS his long illness. We are all happy to con Foreman Bernie "Spike" Edson Feb. 6. Spike gratulate him on his marriage to Myrtle was born in Cedar Rapids, la., and started railroading with the N.P.S. and the N&W. He came to the Milwaukee in 1911 at Miles City where he served his apprenticeship and worked at the machinist trade until 1922. I He went to HaIlowton as a machinist Mar. AIRCO 6, 1925. He was active in the Moose Lodge and had worked through all the offices, being one of the Stare officers for 1952. He will PRODUCTS and SERVICE be missed by all who knew him. Bert lvIilliman, retired condUCtor, is in the Harlowtown Hospital receiving treatment at for this \"vriring. GAS AND ELECTRIC WELDING HAND OR MACHINE GAS CUTTING FLAME CLEANING, FLAME HARDENING CAR SCRAPPING AND RECLAMATION II AIR REDUCTION Chicago • Milwaukee • Minneapolis • Seattle General Offices: New York 17, N. Y. LET IT SNOW. Evidence of late winter weather at Lewistown, Mont, showing a snow cut wid Offices in Other Principal Cities ener with steam up. This is X900002, a well known sight in Montana when the going is heavy. 32 The Milwaukee Road Magazine Roundhouse Foreman]. H. Trapp and Mrs. ling who has completed 45 years of service at Glendale yard, has gone into switching Trapp of Harlowton announce the arrival of with the Milwaukee, and to Cashier Max service. His vacancy has been filled by Don a son Jan. 21. The young man was named WoelB who now has 30 years to his credit. ald Spring, a newcomer to Milwaukee Road Robert William. Both men have been presented with veterans' service. We received word here that W. R. Gold· buttons. Anyone see a stray dog? Four car knockers brand, retired conductor, passed away Jan. PhyJlis Kowalski has been "recruited" by in the district, Danny Kehl, Verne AJlie, 31 at Tacoma. He srarted to work for the tbe superintendent's office, Union Depot, to George Henning and George Clark, have Milwaukee on the Rocky Mountain Division fiJl in while Grace Johnson vacations. Bette been on the lookout for one since a picture in 1915. He was passenger conductor at the time of his retirement. Roundhouse Foreman Art Keeler is recov ering at the Lewistown Hospital from an operation. Passenger Conductor Lou Wandell is in the Great FaJls Hospital with pneumonia at this Here's Why the Nation's Freight Rides on writing. Conductor Ed Dunn is taking his place. Brakeman FIord Trumpower and Mrs. Trumpower are the parents of a new babl' girl born at the Lewisw,,;n Hospital Feb. 21. She was named Elsie Dale. SOLIO JOURNAL BEARINGS Operator Donald Samuel who holds ~ reg ular job at Ringling has returned to work after having lobar pnuemonia. He is relieving V. P. Traanes at the Great FaJls yard. Traanes took time off to visit with his brother who is home on furlough from the armed service. I just recently found out through Road master Tony Spatafore tbat my good friend Agent Claude Brown at Great FaJls became .' a grandfather in December. Congratulations. Conductor Jack Christie is back on his passenger run between Harlowton and Great FaJls after being off a couple of months foJlowing an operation. Conductor Henry Bernett held Jack's job during bis absence. I have received word that Helen Jackson, daughter of T. S. Jackson, section foreman at Arrow Creek, joined the W.A.S. and is stationed at the Lockland Air Force Base, San Antonio. Agent BiJl Reeser at Geraldine is on vaca tion at this wriving and is being relieved by his daughter, DoJly Boggess. Right for Railroads ... in Performance Milwaukee Terminals and in Cost CHESTNUT ST., NORTH MILWAUKEE (;, NORTH AVENUE ith on-line rolling stock, standby time keeps them idle 21 Dick Steuer, Correspondent Wfreight or passenger cars, 5 to hours a day. Chestnut Street Station 10 million trouble-free car miles Dollar for dollar, you just can't with solid-type bearings is an beat solid-type bearings for rail Edward E. Ross, retired Chestnut Street often accomplished fact. And road rolling stock. You can take agent and a railroad man for 63 years, passed what about interchange? As the biggest loads and make the away Feb. 10 after a long iJlness. IvIr. Ross standards of maintenance and fastest schedules. You save up inspection are improved, "on to 1500 pounds per car . . . and was born at Carthage, Ohio, and began line" performance will be ap get the smoothest ride on any working for the B&O at Cincinnati at the age proached with interchange equip standard truck. Be sure to get of 16. He came to the Milwaukee as a clerk ment. Just as important, the low your free copy of "The Facts at Chicago in 1893. Three years later he cost solid bearing makes possible About AAR Solid Journal Bear came to Milwaukee as clerk at the Fowler the very lowest per diem inter ings". Just write a post card or Street station and was made chief clerk there change rates for car rental. That's letter to Magnus Metal Corpora in 1907. He was appointed agent at Chestnut vital to railroads because from tion, 111 Broadway, New York Street in 1918 and remained there until 1941 50% to 80% of the· cars you op 6; or 80 E. Jackson Blvd., when he retired. Mr. Ross was a past com erate are foreign, and necessary Chicago 4. mander of 'vilisconsin Commandery No.1, (Advertisement) K. T., and a past master of Independence Lodge No. 80, F. and A.M. He was a mem ber of Tripoli Shrine; Byron Kilbourn chap ter No. 195, OES; Wisconsin chapter No. Whitford will handle the "steno" duties in showing a car knocker on the CRIP appeared 7, RAM; Wisconsin Council No.4, R&SM; her absence. Billing has been assigned to in the newspapers. This car knocker's helper and Bethlehem Shrine No.1, White Shrine Ollie Yerman and Pat Daly. was his dog, and it was claimed that he of Jerusalem. He was also active in the Assigned on bulletin the past month, helped his master by seeking hot journal Royal Sons of Borneo, a railroad men's Ronna Vollbrecht is now steno-clerk at North boxes with his paw aod reporting with a organization which he helped organize years Milwaukee and A. ]. Wuerl is yard clerk at bark. When the dog enc0untered a leaking ago. Blatz yard. air hose he reported that too. So, has anyone Congratulations to Yard Clerk Hugo Zar- B. C. Schall born, third trick train clerk seen a stray) . March, 1952 33 FOWLER STREET STATION counts ot the "Cinder Pit" meetings in los Angeles, passed away Feb. 8. We'll miss Pearl Freund, Correspondent Par"s occasional visits back ro the H&D. An infrequent though very welcome visitOr O. K. Mohn, retired brakeman from the Andover line, passed away at his home and around the office is our former janiror, Anton was buried at' Aberdten on Feb. 20. Strukel, who is now retired on a disabilily Our sailor, Brake pension. A trip now and then ro his old man Tom Darring home rown of Pueblo, Colo., with rhe Mrs. is ton, sent me this pic Anton'S idea of ' enjoyment, and we hope he ture and I thought continues to take them for a long while. 1'd sneak it ro rhe A local newspaper recently paid tribute ro readers of the Mag Mr. and Mrs. louis Kaladich on the occasion azine. Before he left of their golden wedding anniversary, louis, for service Tom ar a former employe in the warehouse, has been ranged for his on the retired list a number of years, younger brother, Congratulations are in order for our former TESTIMONIAL. Retiring Feb. 1 with 49 years Mike, to hire OUt as of service, W. A. Stark, chief inspector and co-worker, John Brower, who recenrly re a brakeman, so rhe ceived an appointment to the Chicago ac car foreman in the Milwaukee Terminals, is T. H. Darrington H&D is still sup honored by mechanical and operating depart counting office, For the past few years he has plied with a Dar ment associates, and by representatives of the been employed in the tracing department of rington. Tom's smile is due in pan to tbe C&NW, the 500 Line and the URT, with a th general rraffic office in the Plankinton fact that she juSt· said "yes" and accepted a testimonial banquet. Presenting him with a gift Building and prior ro that in the cashier and diamond, w211et here are General Car Foreman W. L, tracing departments at Fowler Street. OUt Hopkins way, at this writing they're Wi tters (left) and District General Car Fcre The RB\VA of Milwaukee attended a din limping along without Agent Torbenson, man J, J. Drinka. ner Feb. 21 at the Medford Hotel for the pur who is in the hospital for the removal of a pose of hearing a talk given by larry Vol finger, and Clerk Bob Spriggs who is con brecht who is affiliated with the Railroad fi(led to St. Barnabas Hospital in Min Retirement Board, Questions were fired from neapolis. all sides and Mr. Volbrecht pleasantly and Conducror Ben Bishop has taken it easy capably supplied the answers. Resulr-a well since December and is staying indoors at his idormed chapter. home in Minneapolis due to an asthma con dition. He expects to be back on passenger by March. H&D DIVISION Our faithful news reporter, Steve Brophy, MIDDLE C:r WEST tells of the Minnesota picnic that came off as per schedule Feb. 16 at los Angeles. , R. F, Huger, Correspondent Operator, Aberdeen Other H&D-ers on hand were Marcus SchoH, Olaf Tweter and Oscar Sorby. The Twin Agent Van Horn, Ortley, is recuperating 1. City Terminals were represented by Dan from an operation for the removal of his Flynn, Charles Davis, John Griswold, S. J. appendix. Herman Hansen relieved during DeField, William Gillick, G. Blyberg, Pat his absence. Madigan, A. Hoard and M. Weatherall. Dispatcher Jerde, Aberdeen, who ,o/as off Retired men present were Bill and Cad recently on account of illness, is back to Schmitz, Tom Kirk, A. Bonniwell, William work. He was relieved by W, 1. Mayer, McGuire, M. Vail and Ed Harmon. There The Milwaukee Road bowling team at must have been smoke and cinders a-plenty' Aberdeen will be represented at the bowling tournament in la Crosse in March. Those LEAVING SERVICE. Carman Otto Gast, Aber making the trip are Clarence Hehn, Carl Railway employes and members of their fam deen, S. D" in a souvenir pose as he retired Bogg, An Bourgeau[t, Carl SteinJicht, Bob ilies comp1'ise a group of appl'oximately 4, after 36 years of service. Mr. Gast started rail Tadlock, Jack Seiler, Don Rue, Bruce Daniels 500,000 persons-l,300,000 wage ear/lei'S and roading as a track man but 'ransferred after a and W, C. Wallis, 3.. 200,000 dependents, according to an esti few months to the car department. For the Terry lee arrived at the home of Operator mate by the Associatioll of American Rail future he expects to do a lot of hunting and Heiser, Aberdeen, on Jan, 31. l'OadS, fishing, along with helping his son-in-law in the sheet metal business. EAST END GOOD MEDICINE Martha Moehring, Correspondent Asst. Superintendent's Office, Montevideo lPe have always felt that a good laugh is a Engineer John Kane, who has spent some stim/dating thilzg, but could ne'ver l'eally COACH YARD time at Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, say "why," other than it made ItS feel better has been moved to the new hospital at New Richard Flechsig, Jr. mentally and physically, Recently, however, Prague and will enjoy hearing from you we came >ZC1'OSS all a1'/ide explahzing why Aleksander Djuricic has been ill fo[' a few "rails." laughtel' is 1'eally good for ''au, and we hasten weeks at this wriring, John Hubin is the new agent ar Milbank to 'pasj our lIew-found knowledge along /11 Marshall Jansen who has been ill for a since the death of Charlie Mayer. He was you. In case you have been holding back couple of weeks is now back on the job. formerly second rrick opetator at Milbank. a little chuckle 01' an olltright gu(jaw--Iet We are sorry to repon the sudden death Engineer Edgar Sheridan has retired. loose, brothel', Here's what it will do f01' of Mary Korzan's husband. We extend our Amon'g the pieces of mail that greeted En ,·ou: sympathy. gineer Bill Hasleau on his birthday was a Shakes and stimulates ,'our liver, your Orill Wright's wife was taken ro the hos brand new Sears Roebuck catalogue, and Bill lungs, your heart, your intestines, YOU1' stom pital recently to undergo an operation. was quite impressed to think thar a large ach and yom' glallds. LAughter releases ten Robert Yanda who was an apprentice here corporation like that would remember! sion and pent-up energy, soothes the nerves, a few years ago will be back working as a Engineer Charlie Ross lost his home and stimulates the body and makes you feel good carman, all his possessions by fire recently, Mrs, Ross all over. John Freda, the yard's biggeSt fisherman, was able to get out with some of their clOth Just think-practically a maior overhaul scarted on an ice-fishing rrip recently but ing and when Charlie came home off his run every time you laugh. So laugh it up didn't get rhere because of an accident. He the neighbors were waiting to take him home you'll feel better and so will thfl people brought his little red worms home again to for the night. al'olmd you. save for the next trip. Pat lawler, famous for his descriptive ac -Two Minutes With You .I 34 The Milwaukee Road Magazine Captain Raymond Harvey .MedalofHonor THE 17TH INFANTRY REGIMENT was attacking Hill 1232 near Taemi-Doug, Korea. Able and Baker Com panies became split by a Red-held ridge. Charlie Com pany, Captain Harvey commanding, was moving up to fill the gap when the dug-in Red guns pinned it down. Calling for covering fire, Captain Harvey advanced alone through a hail of enemy bullets. One by one, he personally wiped out four emplacements of machine guns and automatic weapons. Then he caught a bullet through the lung. But he stayed on, refusing evacuation, until sure the objective had been won. "In Korea," says Captain Harvey, "we stopped ag gression by united strength. You were helping-every time you bought a Defense Bond. Because your Defense Bonds were doing more than just helping keep you, and your family, and your country financially stable. They were backing us up in the field with American production power, the surest support any fighting man can have! "I hope you'll go on buying Bonds-many, many of them. For your Bonds-;-and our bayonets-are making America strong. And in today's cold-waning world, peace is only for the strong." * * Remember tbat when you're buying bonds* for national defense, you're also building a personal reserve of cash savings. Remem· bel', too, that if you don't save regularly, you generally don't save at all. Money you take home usually is money spent. So sign up today in the Payroll Savings Plan where you work, or the Bond A.-ivlonth Plan where you bank. For your country's security, and your own, buy U.S. Defense Bonds now! Peace is for the strong..: Buy U S. Defense Bonds now! T',e U. S. GQoermmmt does not pay for tllis ad"Vertri. SWITCHBACK. Scene along the Milwaukee in the Bitter Root Mountains, looking east from Tunnel No. 21. ----- --- ..-..- -_ .... .~