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Vol. IX. No. 1 New York Central System January, 1948

One of the Central's 26 New Power Ballasters at Work Recent Wage Increases and Estimated Pending Ones to Cost New York Central $55,000,000

New York Central employes are aware that effective September 1, In Brief 1947, an Arbitration Board EIGHTY-SIX thousand non-operat- awarded an increase of 15 1/2 cents ing employes of the New York Central Railroad, excluding officers per hour to all non-operating em• and others, received the recent ployes on the New York Central award of l5 1/2 cents an hour, esti• Railroad, including leased Lines, mated to approximate $36,500,000 in payroll per annum, plus $3,000,- who were represented before the 000 in payroll taxes. Board by collective bargaining or• The cost of the settlement with ganizations. Approximately 86,- the Conductors and Trainmen will amount, with taxes, to about $9,- 000 employes were affected, ex• 395,000 per year. cluding officials, supervisors and On a similiar basis, the pending certain other classes of employes increases for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the who did not come within the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen scope of the award. and Enginemen, plus taxes, would be

cents about $6,159,000 per year. The cost of granting 15 1/2 The total cost of these increases an hour to all non-operating em• per annum is approximately $55,- ployes is estimated to be an ap• 000,000. The estimated annual total cost proximate $36,500,000 increase in of all increases, including payroll payroll per annum. In addition, taxes, since January, 1946, is $115,- the Company is obligated to pay 800,000. In 1946 the wage increases on the an estimated $3,000,000 increase Central were about $44,300,000 in payroll taxes, or a total of $39,- more than the Company received 500,000 a year. in increases in tariff rates. Let's Know the Facts- 26 Hew Power From 1930 to 1946, total wages, An agreement was reached with the including retirement and social se• Order of Railway Conductors and the curity taxes were about 40'/2 times Need to Produce Never Greater Ballasters Now In Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, in• what the stockholders got in div• creasing the rate of pay for these idends. In those 17 years stock• classes, effective November 1, 1947, holders received $17.50 per share, an average return of $1.03 per -Another in a Series by G. Metzman, President $1.24 per day or the equivalent of Use Upon NYC share per year. 15 1/2 cents per hour. In addition, there T NO TIME in the history of the United States has there been Heavy track power ballasters—self- were changes in a few rules which driven rail cars with three-ton ballast became effective on January 1, 1948. greater need to produce all we can. We need high farm and If we consider that the recent in• tamping hammers—are the latest de- These rules changes will reflect addi• crease of 15 1/2 cents an hour is ex- A factory output to stoprisin g prices, to get more foodan d velopment to speedmaintenanc e tionaand l remuneration over and above tended to all classes of employes, ex• supplies for the American people and also to build up Europe again. eliminate heavy manual work in road• the 15 1/2 cents per hour. cept officials, Division officers and bed rebuilding on the New York Cen• Production has been made easier by better machines, so more output It is estimated that the cost of this their assistants, the total increase in tral System. Track power jacks also may be achieved here with little extra work. settlement per annum, excluding pay• hourly rates since 1930 would be 58 are used with the tamping machines roll taxes, will amount to $9,000,000. cents. This means that the average In the inflation that we have heard so much about lately. there are to make it possible to achieve their The payroll taxes will be about $395.- full time worker in service since 1930 two forces operating. One is scarcity of goods. The other is abun• full efficiency. 000. making a total increased cost to has had his straight time earnings in• dance of money. A high level of production is needed to put more The new model power ballasters the Company of $9,395,000 per year. creased about $118 per month. goods into the stores and to soak up surplus funds. were perfected after two years of co• Negotiations for an increase in rates In the past two years wages have operative effort on the New York To prevent runaway prices and to stop further inflation, the first and changes in certain working rules Concluded on page twelve) need is to step-up production. The ladies will recall that the price of Central. Built by the Pullman-Standard are still in progress with representa• Car Manufacturing Company. 26 of nylons came down when they became plentiful Likewise, inflated tives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive the power ballasters are now in main• Engineers and the Brotherhood of automobile quotations will drop when output catches up with demand. tenance operation on the Central. Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. R. D. Starbuck Another reason for high prices now is that tons and tons of food When operating with a full section Should the Company settle this con• and other supplies are being sent to Europe by the United States crew, a single machine can tamp the troversy on the same basis as was done Government. These are to help people in Western Europe to re• ballast under 400 feet of track per with respect to the train crews, it is Retires; Other hour worked, or approximately three estimated that the added cost per year establish their economy and to repair war damage. times that accomplished by a gang would be about $5,900,000. Payroll working with hand-operated air or taxes would add an additional in• Officers Shift electric tamping tools. Thus, employ• crease of $259,000 or a total increased Europe is Split Into Two Parts ing the same track forces, these ma• cost to the Company of $6,159,000 a Gustav Metzman, President of the year. New York Central System, announced Europe is split into two parts. The important farm areas are back chines enable more extensive recon• ditioning and improvement of roadbed The final result will mean an in• that, pursuant to the provisions of the of the "iron curtain" or barrier set up by Russia. The big manufac• during the months when heavy track crease in the payroll for the New York Company's retirement regulations, R. turing centers of Europe are west of that line. So a large part of work is performed. Central Railroad, including leased D. Starbuck would retire as Executive Vice President on December 31, after their normal sources of food and other raw materials is in the hands Total weight of each machine is 15 Lines, of approximately $55,000,000 more than forty-rive years of service. of Russia or smaller countries tied to her. The Russian group allows tons and it is powered for movement per annum. little food or factory supplies to go across the line. over the rails by a gasoline engine. Notwithstanding there was a decline In making this announcement Mr. Wheels are also provided for lateral in the number of employes in 1946 Metzman said, "Throughout the many The policy of the United States, as expressed by Congress and the movement to remove the machine from compared with 1930, the total payroll, years of his service with the Com• pany, Mr. Starbuck's record has been President, is to help European recovery as much as possible by sup• Concluded on page twelve) excluding officials, Division officers plying large quantities of food and other material. Congress already and their assistants, has increased from an outstanding one and we are grati• fied that his great abilities and broad has appropriated $509,000,000 (House, December 17) for that $237,658,531 to $364,396,308. It will be observed that the total wage bill, experience will continue to be avail• purpose. Toledo Engineman which includes the cost of vacations able in the conduct of the Company's Full production by everybody here is needed to make the European granted, has increased $126,737,777 or affairs," adding that Mr. Starbuck will continue as a member of the program work and at the same time to keep this nation on a sound Saves Five-year-old a total of 53.3 percent. Board of Directors and of the Execu• For example, employes on the New basis. Without top production, inflation may be expected to continue. tive Committee. Imperilled in Creek York Central Railroad, including Fortunately, with the help of good American machinery, our rate leased Lines, received the following The office of Executive Vice Presi• of production is the highest in the world. One man in an hour here Thanks to prompt action by Engine- average annual earnings — 1930 as dent was abolished. can produce three times as much as a man in England, at least. For man John W. Adams, five-year-old compared with 1946: A. D. Dugan was appointed As• Melvin Goatley of Toledo is well and sistant Vice President, Operations and example- During the war munitions workers in the United States alive today. 1930 1946 Maintenance, effective January t. His averaged about 47.5 hours a week. The average in Britain was 54.1 headquarters will be at New York. One day late in November Mr. Conductors—Passenger, freight $4560 Since Mr. Dugan has been As• hours for men and 46.9 for women. Nevertheless, the personal out• Adams, when washing windows at his and yard $2770 1931 Engineers—Passenger, freight sistant to Executive Vice President. put rate here was nearly four times greater than in England. home, heard screams from near-by and yard 3008 4471 He entered the service of the Com• Swan Creek. He immediately tele• Trainmen—Passenger, freight pany in in the Engineering De• phoned for the fire department rescue and yard 2182 3469 1901 Firemen—Passenger, freight partment. squad and then dashed to the stream. 2221 3408 More Tools Here for Each Worker and yard Other year-end changes included Scrambling down the steep embank• 1799 3324 Station agents and telegraphers ment, he waded into the creek to pull the following: United States industry is more efficient largely because of the greater Shop craft mechanics, helpers & tool power provided for each worker. These tools usually have made the boy, who was wearing a heavy apprentices 1724 3164 W. A. Hamler, Superintendent, St. ee overcoat, from 3 1/2 f t of water. The Lawrence, Ottawa and Adirondack working conditions easier and more pleasant. The tools also have Floating equipment employes 3073 lad was revived by the rescue squad (Marine) 1827 3042 Divisions, retired December 31, after made it possible to increase wages steadily. This has raised the gen• en route to the hospital by the use Signalmen and their helpers 1892 2765 fifty-six years of service. Chefs, cooks and waiters 1483 2720 eral standard of living. of an inhalator. H. G. Farnham was appointed Su• Clerical and station forces 1504 2389 The constant stream of improved locomotives, rolling stock and Mr. Adams, who has been with the Maintenance of way employes 1190 perintendent, St. Lawrence, Ottawa New York Central 23 years, runs be• ALL EMPLOYES IN RAIL• and Adirondack Divisions, with head- (Concluded on page twelve) tween Toledo and Elkhart. ROAD SERVICE, 'except Officials, Division Officers and Concluded on page twelve) their Assistants) 1756 3070 Central Headlight January, 1948

"Wally" Snow Honored Treasury Woman Ends 44 Years" Work Dies as Work Ends The newly decorated Surrey Room of the Hotel Touraine in Boston was the scene on December 8 of a luncheon in honor of the promotion of Wallace M. Snow to General Eastern Freight Agent at New York. More than 100 people attended this luncheon, which was sponsored by a committee consisting of James S. Hamilton, T.M., American Woolen Company, as Chairman, Frank P. Soen, N.E.F.A., as Secretary-Treasurer, and supported by G. H. Albee, T. M., S. D. Warren Company; F. F. Crowell, T.M., Hood Rubber Company; J. D. Dawson, T.M., Norton Company; F. J. Gill, T.M., Oxford Paper Company; C. H. Lemke," G.T.M., Heywood-Wakefield Company; W E. Malone. A.G.T.M., Lever Brothers; G. W. Short, T.M., Megowan Educator Company, and H. M. Waybright, G.T.M., Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates. Also on the committee were F. C. Baker, Manager, Sales & Service, New Haven Railroad, O. L. Crawford, Thomas A. Ward, Assistant General F.T.M., Rutland Railroad, R. G. Hen• Freight Claim Agent, died in Buffalo, derson. F.T.M.. Boston & Albany. W. December 6, 25 days before he was to B. Hill. F.T.M., Bangor & Aroostook, Left to right: H. A. Dahmer, R. F. Hoppenstedt, and R. H. Mansfield, Assistant Treasurer; Miss Lydia K. Howe, Sec• retire on pension. He was 69 years old retary to Treasurer; E. Coles, Assistant Treasurer and G. H. Howe, Treasurer. W. A. Kember, G.F.A.. Canadian Na• and had resided at Buffalo since 1927, tional-Central Vermont Railroads, P. when he was placed in charge of the Miss Howe retired on December 31. She started as a stenographer January 15, 1904, since which date she has J. Mullaney, F.T.M.. Boston & Maine, Freight Claim Department office there. worked for seven Treasurers, latterly for G. H. Howe, not related. His railroad career began on August and F. A. Murphy, Assistant to the 1, 1895, when he entered New York Vice-President, Maine Central Rail• Central service as Baggageman at road. Ludlow, N. Y. He entered the Freight 'File Mac" Given Gifts at Utica Dinner of which very little has been rehabili• Mr. Snow was complimented for Claim Department at New York in 1897 tated. Most of the city still lies in his devotion to duty. He was presented and in 1922 became District Freight wreckage as when the war ended. with a gift to be used in his new home Claim Agent at Chicago. He returned Subic Bay, where the Naval Operating as well as a leather-bound album con• to Buffalo January 1, 1927 as Assistant Freight Claim Agent. In 1931 he be• Base is located, is about ninety miles taining the business cards of his came Freight Claim Aqent and was west of Manila by road and the town well wishers. appointed Assistant General Freight or barrio, as they are called out here, Claim Agent January 1, 1945. of Olongapo, is within the Naval Reservation. It is one of the largest barrios on Luzon Island. It is purely J. W. Hyson Ends 46 The engineers' office staff presented a native settlement. Mr. Hyson with a set of book-ends "About December 1. I expect to Years' Work in Boston and a pen and pencil set. take a special ride on one of the Mr. Hyson who is a painter in James W. Hyson. Assistant Engineer trains on the Manila Railroad up to water colors, plans to pursue his of the Boston & Albany, retired De• Northern Luzon for the purpose of hobby in his retirement. cember 31, after more than 46 years' making some color movies, some of service with the railroad. which I plan to make from the loco• motive. The Manila Railroad has Mr. Hyson, a graduate of Lowell favored me with a fine letter in answer Institute, as a mechanical engineer and D. E. Mumford to my request. It is a narrow gauge building engineer, entered the service Heads N.Y. City Kiwanis line some 244 miles long on the North• of the road September 23, 1901, at ern division and 470 miles long on Boston as an instrument man. D E Mumford Superintendent Safety, Central System, New York, re- the Southern Luzon end. I'm in While on duty at Chester. Mass.. in hopes of bringing back some interest• 1904 he met the girl who later be- cently was elected President of the ing movies from the Philippines. came Mrs. Hyson. They have one son I have made one sightseeing trip Kiwanis Club of New York. The club meets in the Hotel McAlpin. to Corregidor to view the ruins and viewed and stood on the spot where A testimonial dinner was given recently to Mrs. Mabel MacMartin, Tracinq General Wainwright surrendered with Clerk in the Utica Transfer freight office on her retirement after 35 years' the rest of the Americans when the B.&A. Conductor Dinner Guest of 200 service. Mrs. MacMartin is known from Coast to Coast as "File Mac" and her famous Rock fell to the Japs." work in handling hundreds of tracers and telephone calls each day has been outstanding and chiefly responsible for the reputation Utica Transfer enjoys as one of the points which can give prompt and accurate records for the Boice Gets Gold Pass past ten years. Elmer Boice, 69, New York Central Twenty-one letters were received from Traffic and Operating officials Road Brakeman and a former assistant expressing their appreciation of her handling of their daily requests for in• conductor, recently received a Gold formation concerning less carload shipments. The letters were placed in a Pass in recognition of his 50 years of portfolio and presented at the dinner. She received a watch and a purse from co-workers and friends and qifts service. from F. E. McGrath, A.G.T.M. and staffs of O. H. Grimm, AGFA, New Haven, He began as a signalman in the Conn.; R. J. Lynch, AGFA, Syracuse, N. Y.; C. W. Cumminqs, Division Freiqht Maintenance of Way Department, in Agent, Springfield, Mass., and former co-workers in Albany offices. 1897, on the Hudson Division. The Committee in charge was Mrs. Margaret Brault, Chairman, D. J. Shields, Miss Jane Schiffer, and R. E. Williams. Left to right above are shown Ernest Kessler, Assistant Freight Agent; Frederick MacMartin, one of her three sons present, and Ralph W. Tobin, Freight Agent.

James M. Galliher, Worcester, is shown receiving purse from Trainmaster Leroy T. Garling, Worcester, at a testimonial dinner in Shrewsbury, Mass., at• tended by 200. Left to right: John B. Hammill, former Superintendent; James L. Truden, retired General Manager; Mr. Garling, Mr. Galliher and Superin• tendent Albert M. Scott. Mr. Galliher retired Nov. 1 after 50 years' service.

'TWO hundred friends and former Joseph O. Lavoie of Boston; Assistant co-workers of James M. Galliher Trainmaster Leroy H. Stecker of West of 2 Minthorne Street, Worcester, who Springfield; Edward F. Kennedy of retired November 1 after 50 years' Worcester, Freight Agent; Ernest C. service with the Boston & Albany Thorpe of Framingham, former Wor• John K. Lovell, General Freight Railroad, attended a testimonial dinner cester Trainmaster, and Michael L. Claim Agent, retired from service at in his honor at the Froshinn Club, Corcoran of Springfield, Traveling the end of December. Shrewsbury, Mass. November 19. Conductor. Mr. Lovell entered New York Central Mr. Galliher. more affectionately Miss Margaret Galliher, daughter of Service as clerk under Robert L. known as "Genial Jim" to associates the guest of honor, was seated at the Calkins, Freiqht Claim Aqent, on May on the road and daily commuters on head table. Entertainment and danc• 1, 1899, and became Assistant Freiqht his Worcester to Boston and return ing followed the dinner. Claim Aqent at New York in 1907. In run, was presented with a purse by Trainmaster Garling headed the March, 1915, the office of Assistant Trainmaster Leroy T. Garling, Wor• Freiqht Claim Aqent was moved to committee, assisted by the following: cester, who was toastmaster. William V. Lynch, Harry A. Wells, J. Reginald Claudius, shown seated at right in a carralota, which is proceeding Buffalo and he remained there until he Speakers included: Superintendent Harry Fenlon, Patrick H. Manning, J. along the main street in Olongapo, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. succeeded Mr. Calkins as Freiqht Claim Aqent at New York in 1927. Albert M. Scott of Springfield; As• Frank Murphy, Walter J. Todd, Clif• Followinq the consolidation of the sistant Superintendent Wesley W. ton R. Largess, George A. Lamontagne EGINALD CLAUDIUS, former- early this year. Upon his discharge he freiqht claim offices of the New York Treleaven of Boston; James L. Tru• and. Anthony J. Copper. R Central, C.C.C. & St. L. Ry., Michiqan den of Boston, former General Man• The esteem in which Mr. Galliher ly of the Electrical Equipment En- expects to make his home in Pawling, Central R.R., Indiana Harbor Belt ager, B&A; John B. Hammill of was held by his commuter friends was gineering Office, New York, and new N. Y. His letter continues: R.R. Co. and Chicaqo River and In• Watertown, retired Superintendent; manifested on his last run, when he a Commander in the Navy, in a re- "Manila, which was once known as diana R.R. Co., he became General Freiqht Claim Aqent in November, Trainmaster Frank W. Scully of West was the recipient of a purse and hearty cent letter reported he expects to end the 'Pearl of the Orient.' is now 1931. Springfield; Passenger Trainmaster wishes. his latest tour of duty with the Navy nothing but a badly war-damaged city January, 1948 Central Headlight 3

B. Jackson, New Troy Agent, Feted in Rome, N. Y. Detroit Girl Bowlers Lose to Ypsilanti

New York Central employes, their wives and friends on Sunday, December 7, at the Avonmore Restaurant, Rome, N. Y., tendered a farewell party to Beas Jackson, Freight Agent, recently promoted to Agent at Troy, N. Y. Mr. Jackson had been Agent in Rome for the past year. William Netzband, representing the Yard force, C. H. Kerber, rep• resenting the warehouse employes and H. J. Pangburn, for the office force, paid tribute to Mr. Jackson. A. J. Murphy, H. J. Pangburn and J. C. Cronin were in charge of arrangements. D. G. Bogan, Chief Clerk, toastmaster, presented the guest with a Parker pen and pencil set. Seated, left to right, first row: Philip Felice, Felice Trucking Service; C. H. Kerber, Freight House Foreman; E. P. All-Stars. Front row: Ypsilanti All-Stars, left to right, Pat Crouch, June Ryan, Egan, Yard Conductor; Felix Banasiewicz, Trucker. Second row: H. Z. Zatwarnicki, R&D Clerk; Josephine Straub, guest; Evelyn Kindshoven, May Coxford and Florence Hirschmann. Second Row: All- Carolyn A. Laird, guest; Elizabeth Jackson, Assistant Rate Clerk; Ruth L. Grogan, Stenographer; Marguerite F. Jones, Stars of Detroit, Dorothy Hellstein, Geraldine Nau, Gussie Jacob, Frances Clerk; Beas Jackson, Freight Agent; Olga Washburn, Telephone Operator; D. G. Bogan, Chief Clerk; C .M. Dempsey, Cawood and Genevieve Zang. Billing Machine Operator; H. J. Pangburn, Rate Clerk; A. J. Murphy, Cashier. Standing, rear row, J. C. Cronin, Clerk; W. R. Burnett, Caller; Jos. J. Straub, Jr., Trucker; E. J. Fisher, Felice Trucking Service; G. V. Huguenin, Janitor; C. F. Laird, Checker; W. J. Netzband, Yard Conductor; E. D. Stanton, Clerk; G. C. Stanton, Yard Checker; Geo. Darrow, R. J. Darrow Trucking Co.; R. J. Darrow, R. J. Darrow Trucking Co.; F. R. Kilgallen, Yard Checker; M. Edwards, Demurrage Clerk; J. S. Carpenski, Receiving Clerk; Geo. Lesczynski, Yard Conductor; Antonio Greci, Section Foreman; J. J. Bowers, Yard Conductor. Mr. Jackson was succeeded by Benjamin J. Bulger, formerly Agent at Little Falls, N. Y.

talking about the various competing forms of transportation as separate and Fletcher Urges Railroads Be independent agencies, and concentrate upon the concept of transportation companies, each independent of and competing with each other. Air Operators; Tells of Subsidies This conception of a national trans• portation system, embracing all forms of transportation, cooperating in such For every passenger who travels by In like fashion, the government is a way that destructive competitive plane and for every pound of freight spending in 1947 $8,630,000 for spe• wastes could be avoided, leaving to which is flown, the American tax• cial weather services for air operations each form the traffic which by its na• payer pays the air lines a substantial and more than $7,000,000 for air ture it is best adapted to handle has subsidy. safety regulations. In addition, the been widely approved by regulating This was testified to in a statement government carries on the major part authorities, and by competent students made before the President's Air Policy of aeronautical research, having spent of transportation. Commission on behalf of the Asso• in that field hundreds of millions, ciation of American Railroads, by R. much of which contributes to the prog• Economies Would Follow V. Fletcher, Special Counsel. ress of commercial air transport. Mr. Fletcher argued for the right of railroads to enter also the field of There are many practical considera• Ad-Stars No. 2. Ypsilanti: Mary Annesser, Mary Stewart, Frieda Yohn, Barbara Annual Subsidy $150,000,000 tions that argue for the right of rail• Borusch and Beth Rust. air transportation. He added it would roads to enter the field of air transpor• Detroit: Irene Anderson, Laura Cibrario, Bernice Stolte. Silvia Newman and Helen Hennessey. be in the interest of a railroad in• air carriers is very probably as much tation. The economies and conveni• vesting in an air line to develop its as $150,000,000 a year. ences which would follow coordina• air traffic intensively, just as railroads This contrasts with a total private tion, thereby making available to pas• ON December 7 a team made up of Ypsilanti All-Stars interested in many bus and truck lines investment in air lines of about $300.- sengers and shippers by air the facil• Total the first five women in the averages Pat Crouch 157 212 171 540 have promoted such traffic, coordinat• 000.000. and with annual operating ities and experience of the railroads of the N.Y.C.A.A. Ladies' Bowling June Ryan 139 113 151 403 ing it with their railroad traffic. Mr. expenses of about $240,000,000 in the developed over a century of progress, May Coxford 174 185 128 487 League of Detroit met a team of better Evelyn. Kindshoven 125 142 154 421 Fletcher said, in part: year ending June 30. 1946. would improve and reduce the cost of bowlers from Ypsilanti. captained by Florence Hirschmann 155 133 188 476 There are subsidies in air mail pay• The annual public subsidy to the necessary service. Florence Hirschmann. a clerk in the 750 785 792 2327 ments which, under the Civil Aeronau• scheduled air lines, therefore, is prob• It has been sometimes asserted that Auditor Passenger Accounts Office, N.Y.C. Detroit All-Stare tics Act of 1938, are required to be ably as much as one half of the total if the railroads are permitted to op• Detroit. Geraldine Nau 134 147 135 416 fixed in sufficient amount to enable the private investment in this type of com• erate air lines either directly or Frances Cawood 151 149 162 462 Genevieve Zang 104 150 150 404 air lines to meet their costs. In effect, mercial transportation and is more through a subsidiary the effect would The match, rolled at Hall's Recrea• Gussie Jacob 137 170 137 444 the government through its air mail than five-eighths as much as its op• be to impede the growth of the air tion, was won by the Ypsilanti girls, Dorothy Hellstein 184 173 152 509 payments underwrites the operations erating annual expenses. industry, the assumption being that whose total pinfall was 2327, while 710 789 736 2235 of mail-carrying air lines, and guar• If subsidies were applied on a like railroads interested primarily in surface the best the off form Detroit girls A second team of girls from the antees their operating expenses, their scale to railroad operations, the tax- transportation would neglect or even could do was 2235. Neither team, Ladies' Bowling League of Detroit also taxes and much more besides. The payers would be called on for a con• actually retard the growth of transpor• however, bowled up to expectations. met defeat at the hands of the second National Federation of American Ship• tribution of more than $4,000,000,000 tation by air. But there is not the Their scores follow: team from Ypsilanti by 122 pins. ping estimates that in the most recent a year. slightest basis for such a conclusion. reported year this subsidy amounted to Instead, the taxpayers are called on It would be to the interest of a as much as $1.20 per each air line for no contribution to railroads but, railroad interested in an air line to de• passenger. on the contrary, will receive from them velop its traffic intensively. Railroads A far larger and more important in local, state and Federal taxes, more have interests in many bus and truck subsidy is that involved in airports than $910 million in 1947. lines but no one has suggested that provided, maintained and operated at The air lines are well past the so- the lines were handicapped by railroad public expense. In a study by the called "infant industry" stage which interest or even control. Harvard Business School of terminal might be held to justify subsidies to If ownership of air lines by the type airports,—the sort used chiefly by them. Their passenger traffic volume railroads were permitted, and widely scheduled and certificated air lines— already amounts to nearly 10 per cent availed of, we would have a system it was found that as of 1945 there had of that of the railroads and responsible of transportation where each form been invested in these airports approxi• officials predict that in a few years it would be doing the work it is best mately $775,000,000 and that the will represent more than three-fourths adapted to perform. annual cost to municipal and Federal of present rail Pullman traffic, one- We are not to be understood as ad• governments for operation, interest on third of rail coach traffic, all long dis• vocating the unrestricted right of the investment and the loss of taxes on tance first class mail, most parcel railroads to enter the air as carriers property thus withdrawn from private post, nearly half of the express busi• of passengers and goods. We advocate ownership, amounted to approximately ness and 10 per cent of rail-less-car- such legislation, however, as will place $58 million per year. load freight. railroads on an absolute parity with Other use is made of these airports The rapid growth of air transporta• other persons in the matter of securing but certainly not less than two-thirds tion, subsidized as it is from the certificates to operate. of their cost is due to the operations of pockets of the taxpayer, is something If the railroads are transformed into scheduled air lines. And yet, according to be considered seriously in any dis• transportation companies, operating air to a 1946 report of the Civil Aeronau• passionate survey of the transporta• as well as rail facilities, competition tics Board, these air lines paid in 1944 tion situation. The country must de• will be intensified rather than dimin• for the use of air fields, buildings, cide whether it is in the public interest ished. offices and all the other publicly pro• to develop air transport by artificial J. A. Loftus, General Yardmaster, West Side, New York City, standing fourth vided and publicly maintained facil• aids to the detriment of unsubsidized Christmas Fund from right, ended service December 31 after 54 years of work which began as ities, only $1,546,000. surface transportation, which is the a messenger at West 65th Street Yard. Mr. Loftus followed the career of his The subsidy resulting from this in• principal reliance of industry in time Helps Clevelanders father, J. A. Loftus, Sr., who retired 15 years ago as Superintendent of Freight adequate payment amounted in 1945 of peace, and even more so in time The clerical force of the Law De• Yards on the West Side. Left to right are shown N. J. Nicolini, Clerk; Ira Y. to $5.70 per revenue airline passenger. Hecht, Chief Clerk, Assistant Superintendent's office; R. G. May, Assistant of war. partment at Cleveland maintains a The federal government also pro• Superintendent; Miss Mildred R. McGrath, Stenographer; Miss Lillian E. Miller, The railroads are not asking for Christmas Fund administered by Mrs. Stenographer; Mr. Loftus; Joseph Smith, Assistant Chief Clerk, General Yard- vides, maintains, and operates special subsidies. They are making no war Josephine Ryan, into which each* per• master's office, and also from that office, Miss J. Heffernan. Stenoqraper and air navigation facilities—beacon lights, upon air line operation and develop• son contributes one dollar on pay-day, Harry A. Taylor, Chief Clerk. radio range stations and beams, and ment. They recognize the value of air and from which fund one can borrow the like. For these facilities analogous transportation both in war and peace. at reasonable interest. Needless to say, to the signal and communications sys• They do protest, however, a policy of this is a happy arrangement for those Heinisch Promoted ployed in various capacities during the tems of railroads, the Federal govern• wholesale subsidization out of funds "before-pay-day-blues." past ten years. ment has spent $337 million to 1947 raised by taxation to which the rail• Each December 15 the members re• December 1 was a notable day for He was promoted to Traveling and is spending in 1947 $55 million, roads themselves are large contributors. ceive their Christmas money; their Carl R. Heinisch, Percentage Clerk in Freight Agent in office of Division all without cost to the air lines which There is a way out of these diffi• share of the interest, and proceed to the office of the General Freight Agent, Freight & Passenger Agent Laffan at are major users of these facilities. culties. We should stop thinking and finish that St. Nick shopping. Cleveland, where he has been em• Charleston, W. Va. 4 Central Headlight January, 1948

708th Rail Grand Health Hints Two-way FM Radio in Use in NYC's DeWitt Freight Yard Contributed by the Medical Society Division History Out

of New Jersey The Saga of the 708th Railway Grand Division,' a history of the rail transport unit that supported the Care of the Kidneys United States forces during the critical Battle of the Bulge in World War II, EPHRITIS, sometimes called has just been published by the Balti• N Bright's Disease, is a partly in• more & Ohio Railroad Company, which flammatory, partly degenerative lesion sponsored and staffed the unit at the of the kidneys. This disease is third time of its formation. on the list of causes of deaths in the The 708th Railway Grand Division, United States. commanded by Col. W. S Cart, now Albumin in the urine may mean superintendent of the Boston Division disease of the kidneys, but the symp• of the New Haven, served throughout toms usually are not distressing. the European campaign. It went into Among them are a feeling of malaise, action to reconstitute the rail lines puffy eyes, moderate swelling of the behind the advancing Allied Armies lower legs, and decreased and highly shortly after the invasion of Normandy, colored urine. In children, convulsions and was under heavy fire at Liege dur• may occur. ing the Battle of the Bulge. Not a Kidneys normally have the function carload of freight entrusted to it was of filtering substances from the blood lost to enemy action. which might prove injurious or At various times in Europe, the poisonous. Their work is subject to 708th Headquarters was responsible interference from infections like the for supervising the activities of 16 dif• common cold, a severe sore throat, ferent operating battalions, each cor pneumonia and scarlet fever. This is responding to a division of a U. S. why doctors insist on bed rest after railroad, and five different shop bat• many seemingly trivial illnesses. Rest talions. The 708th was the first Rail• helps the body concentrate all of its way Grand Division to arrive in the efforts on elimination of the disease. European Theatre, and the first to op• Abuse of coffee, tobacco and alcohol erate trains into Belgium, Holland, injure the kidneys. Similarly, habitual Luxembourg and Germany as the U. S. contacts with poisons, such as lead and British forces advanced. which painters and printers inhale It established a record by delivering daily, or ingest with food contam• 30 trains of ammunition to General inated by dirty hands may affect the Patton's Third Army during the critical kidneys. battle of Le Mans, in the drive for the Preventing infections and having liberation of Paris. Members of the regular physical examinations insure headquarters are entitled to wear four early detection of kidney disturbances Testing FM Radio Transmitting set on westbound hump at DeWitt. Left to right are shown: S. M. Sherbeclc, Hump battle stars, and the unit was awarded and afford the best means of warding Conductor, A. N. Snyder, Assistant General Yardmaster, J. C. Sommers, General Yardmaster and Newman Evans, As• the "Meritorious Service Unit Plaque." off kidney diseases. sistant Superintendent. The 708th eventually came to in• clude among its personnel the repre* GREATER efficiency in freight car sentatives of 27 other railroads, among Niagara Falls Vets classification work on the New them the New York Central. The Honored at Dinner York Central System has been achieved book, at $5 a copy, may be obtained recently by the installation of two-way from the Public Relations Office of the At the second annual dinner and FM radio communication in two more B.&O., Baltimore 1, Md. dance of the New York Central Vet• important freight yards, DeWitt Yard erans Association, held recently at at East Syracuse, N. Y., and Garden- the General Brock Hotel, Niagara ville Yard at Buffalo, N. Y. Beech Creek RR. Falls, Ontario, 14 men retired during DeWitt Yard, the busiest classifica• the last year were honored. They tion yard on the System and one of Booklet Published were: Fred Hamscher, John Ott, the busiest in the nation, handling as Henry LeBrun, P. Fontanarosa, Peter high as 5,500 cars per day, has both A fifty page booklet, entitled "The Fita, John Moly, John Serpa, Daniel eastbound and westbound "humps" to Motive Power History of the Beech Sullivan, Fred Kolisch, W. Salt, and classify cars by gravity action. Both Creek Railroad, with Official Bernard Seriano. "humps" are equipped with fixed radio Engineers Roster from 1853 to John Maday, the President of the stations and seven attendant diesel- was recently published by C. C. Ed- Association, introduced J. E. Bren- electric locomotives are also equipped miston of 316 Pine Street, Clearfield, nan, who acted as toastmaster. M. R. with receiving and transmitting ap• Pa. Dwyer, Superintendent, and H. D. paratus. Eastbound operations use a Mr. Edmiston retired on May 31, Johnston, Assistant Superintendent, frequency of 158.79 megacycles and 1947, after 40 years as a fireman and Buffalo Division, addressed the hon• westbound 161.61 megacycles. engineman on the Beech Creek Rail• ored guests. Gardenville Yard has a "hump" for road. The booklet is the result of six Also attending were a number of westbound classification of cars only. years' work by him. representatives of industry. Here the "hump" conductor is provided He points out that the Beech Creek with FM radio communication and Railroad, part of the New York Cen• four diesel-electric locomotives operat• tral since 1900, was first known as ing in the yard are radio-equipped. A R. A. Whitcomb, Yard Engineman, operating trimmer engine in the East- the Susquehanna & Southwestern and J. L. Fox Proud of His Record frequency of 160.41 megacycles is bound Classification Yard at DeWitt. was founded January 1, 1833. It changed its name one year later to J. L. Fox, who recently retired used. the Beech Creek, Clearfield & South• after 40 years of railroad work, is During normal conditions of opera• Communications and the Equipment Yard near Albany, New York, as well western Railroad. Increase in its proud of the fact that in all the tion the availability of instant com- Engineering departments of the New as the Central's fleet of 24 tugboats in motive power has permitted a gain years he was a conductor he never munciation provided by radio avoids York Central. lighterage service in New York Har• in freight trains maximum loads from had a fatal accident to his crew, to many delays in classification work. It completes the most recent step in bor, are operated by radio communica• 1650 tons per train in 1900 to present- trespassers, or at highway crossings. The advantage of using radio, how• a System-wide program utilizing radio tion. day maximum loads of 10,000 tons. After four years' service with the ever, is mostly fully realized in operat• communication to promote further ef• Michigan Central in Jackson, Michi• ing under conditions of low visibility. ficiency in freight car classification The booklet can be purchased from gan, he started as a brakeman in Van Installation of the equipment, pur• yards and in freight car transfer serv• Mr. Edmiston at $1.25 per copy. Wert, Ohio, and in five years was chased from the General Railway Sig• ice. Safety Is First! promoted to conductor. nal Company, was made by the Gibson Yard at Chicago and Selkirk Rochester's New

Supervisors' Club, presided and pres• Jansson Heads Fun Association I. W. Martin Honored at Albany Dinner entation of the gifts was made by G. F. Miller, Past President of the Club. Police Association Has Dinner-Dance John H. Eble, Chief Clerk at West The New York Central Police A dinner-dance was held on Sunday Albany, was in charge of arrangements. Benevolent Association recently elected night, November 16, at the Doud Post the following: E. Jansson, President; of the American Legion to inaugurate C. Mahoney, First Vice-President; R. Four NYC Sons on the newly-formed New York Central Lee, Second Vice-President; D. Pal- Recreation Association in Rochester. Toledo Football Team ladino, Recording Secretary; W. Aery, The dinner-dance was arranged for, Financial Secretary; T. Sapronik, Four sons of New York Central and handled by, a Temporary Com• Treasurer; H. Shaw, Sergeant-at-Arms, employes went into action December mittee, composed of F J. Huck, En• and J. Sencen, Chairman, Entertain• 6 when the University of Toledo foot• gine Dispatcher; G. B. Madden, Crew ment Committee. ball team took part in its second Dispatcher; and G. A. Davis, Local At the next meeting, the guest annual Glass Bowl game there Chairman of the Conductors' Organi• speaker will be Thomas Spencer, FBI Two of the athletes are brothers zation. Special Agent. A film "America on and play on the line. They are Fred This affair was highly successful and Guard" will be shown. The PBA and Don Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. well attended, as there were 349 din• dance will be held February 14 in Vasa E. G. Black, 1738 Wayne street, ners served and 512 persons attended Castle Temple, 149th Street between Toledo. The elder Black is an Engine- the dance. Everyone seemed to have a Seated, left to right: A. F. Stiglmeier, Gen. Supervisor Boilers & Welding, New Gerard & Walton Avenues, The Bronx. man on the NYC. Fred is playing his good time, and it was evident that the York; L. J. LaFleche, President, West Albany Supervisors' Club; I. W. Martin; second year and last year was men• Committee had done an excellent job W. M. Nagle, Superintendent Locomotive Shops, West Albany; C. H. Mendler, Tulsa's Big Day Coming Superintendent Car Shops, West Albany; F. J. Marr, General Supervisor Piece tioned on several A 11-Ohio confer• in setting up this initial get-together. Work, Buffalo. ence teams. Both boys starred at Lib- Norbert Duckworth, a passenger Arrangements are being made to Standing: E. F. DeLisle, General Storekeeper, West Albany; H. S. Belden, Chief bey High School before entering the representative for the Central in Tulsa, have the different departments select Claim Agent, Albany; J. H. Seim, District Storekeeper, West Albany; John H. University of Toledo. Oklahoma, reports prospects are good representatives to serve on the Board Eble, Chief Clerk; S. A. Congdon, Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.; G. F. Miller, Ken Ramsdell, an end and one of for an attendance of a quarter of a of Directors. Chief P. W. Inspector, West Albany; J. V. Hughes, Trainmaster, Albany. the best pass receivers on the squad is million at the Silver Anniversary of the the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Rams• International Petroleum Exposition MORE than 200 friends, employes tion of Assistant to the General Super• dell. His father is a yard conductor. next May. The New York Chapter of Chicago Clerk Weds and officials of the New York intendent of Motive Power, with head• The son was an all-city end at Libbey Nomads organization is helping to Miss Rita J. Guinane. Clerk in Central attended a testimonial dinner quarters at New York. High. promote the attendance of visitors Division Freight Agent's Office Chi• to 1. W. Martin at the Aurania Club, Mr. Martin was presented with a Emerson Cole, hard hitting sopho• from foreign areas. cago became the bride, on Novembet Albany, recently. Mr. Martin, former wrist watch, a traveling bag and a more fullback from Swanton, Ohio, is The exposition grounds have been 29 of Joseph P Benson at the Our Superintendent of Shops at West Al• portable radio. the son of Elvin, who is employed enlarged by the lease of a 100-foot Lady of Peace Church. They will live bany, has been promoted to the posi- L. J. LaFleche, President of the by the NYC at Swanton. strip along the north side in Schenectady January, 1948 Central Headlight 5

Fourth of New York City's Milk Hauled by the New York Central Railroad

DAILY to the 10,000,000 inhabitants runs with 34 cars to Rensselaer for a of the metropolitan district of change of crew and service. It then New York City there flows more than speeds to New York City, with a stop one million gallons of milk from the at Harmon to change to electric power. city's great milkshed, which extends At Spuyten Duyvil one tank car is into the states of New York, New dropped to be moved to the Bronx Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Con• Terminal Market. The next stop is the necticut and Massachusetts. 130th Street Milk Yard on the West Such a tremendous flow of milk Side to drop cars billed there. Its has necessarily created an important destination is the 60th Street Milk transportation business all of its own. Yard, where approximately 50 per New York Central's stake in this traf• cent of the cars are delivered. It ends fic, handled by its Milk Service Depart• its run at 11:30 p.m. ment, is almost 25 per cent of the A second milk train originates as total, producing a gross revenue of Train 188 at Syracuse at 8:41 a.m. It more than four million dollars annually runs over the West Shore, doing some to the railroad. freight work besides picking up five The simple fact that the world's to six milk cars between Syracuse and largest concentration of people exists Albany. in New York City and its suburbs, In the Rensselaer yard these cars crowded against a seaboard, makes the are combined to make up Train 182 transportation of milk so important. with milk cars collected by the Dela• Because the consumer market is so huge ware & Hudson Railroad from as far and the suburbs of the city so' ex• west as Harpursville and as far north tensive, the milk must be brought from as West Chazy. With an average of distances of more than 400 miles. 20 cars daily, it runs down the Hud• Hauling from such distances is a job son Division to reach its final ter• of the railroads, particularly of New minal at 60th Street at 12:20 a.m. Milk tank is transferred from special flat car to truck trailer in Central's yards at 60th Street, New York City. York Central. The Rutland Milk Train, originat• The first known instance of carry• ing at Ogdensburg on the St. Law• ing milk by rail to New York City crew on the rear end. Collection of milk cars from the The cars at Richland were assem• rence River and picking up cars from occurred in 1842, when the New York Today the New York Central most distant points of hauling begins bled there by a Milk Extra which op• northern counties, runs down over the and Erie brought 60 gallons from brings four solid milk trains daily at approximately 8 o'clock in the erated out of Watertown at 8 a.m., Rutland Railroad through Vermont to Orange County, N. Y., in a churn in into the metropolitan area. Three morning. By this time farmers have some hours ahead of train 70. This be delivered to the Central at Chat- the baggage car of a passenger train. carry milk from the counties along the made their deliveries to receiving sta• train picked up a can car at Adams ham, N. Y., with a daily average of The operation proving a success, ship• Mohawk Valley and from counties tions at railroad sidings and the milk Center; at Adams two tank cars; at 20 cars. It then rolls down the Har- ments increased until the following north and west of the Adirondacks to has been tested, weighed and loaded Pierrepont Manor one can car and at lem Division, crossing over the "wye" year that railroad carried more than Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence into the cars, which were spotted on Lacona one tank car. These are coupled at Mott Haven Yard to drop one car 1,000,000 gallons to the New York River. They terminate in the 60th the sidings during the night or pre• together at Richland with two tank at the Bronx Terminal Market, others market. Meanwhile the New York Street Milk Yard on the West Side vious evening. cars picked up off the Oswego Branch at 130th Street and end its run at 60th Central and other railroads entered in Manhattan. The fourth train carries Pickup of these cars from station at Pulaski, in a special movement by Street, where it is due at 3:20 a.m. the field of transporting the com- milk from the Catskills and runs down to station toward a final assembly an engine crew. The fourth milk train originates modity. the River Division (West Shore) from point is made by local trains during the Train 70 arrives at Utica to be as No. 528 on the Catskill Mountain day. Some of these collecting trains combined with Train 64, which has Branch of the West Shore at Oneonta. also give passenger service. meanwhile collected 10 milk cars off Besides picking up seven or eight milk The solid trains of assembled milk trains generally begin their runs to New York City late in the afternoon, arriving at destination during the night. Unloading of cans and tanks immediately follows so that the return movement of cars can begin during the morning and individual cars be spotted at milk station sidings in the country that night. This establishes, where possible, a two-day cycle for each car. The longest haul of a milk car on the New York Central starts from Massena, N. Y., 410 miles from the 60th Street Milk Yard in New York City. Train 16 on the St. Lawrence Division originates here every morn• ing at 7:50 to run to Watertown, picking up cars enroute. It starts from Massena with one can car. It adds another can car at Nor• wood, off" the Norwood & St. Law• rence Railroad; then another can car at Potsdam. At Canton it picks up Piping milk into New York Central milk car at Dairymen's League Plant, one or two tank cars, depending on the Lyons Falls, New York day's supply; at DeKalb a tank car Loading milk on automatic conveyor at La Fargeville, N. Y. off the DeKalb Branch from Heuvel- All milk was shipped in cans, which Kingston to Weehawken, where it ter• ton; at Gouverneur a can or tank the Utica-Carthage Branch, leaving cars, 528 also gives passenger service varied in size from five gallons to 15 minates at a special milk yard there. car; at Antwerp a cheese car; at Phila• Carthage at 9:50 a.m. It is at Boon- between Oneonta and Kingston. Out gallons until standardization was Not all the cars in these trains are delphia a local tank car, plus another ville on this branch that the demount• of Kingston it is operated as a Milk achieved with a 10-gallon can. To collected from stations in the milk- tank car from Douglas Crossing and able, or slide-off, tank is used. A Extra to Weehawken Milk Yard, ar• handle the traffic the railroads fur• shed by the Central. Those arriving a can car from LaFargeville, off the tractor and trailer unit takes the tanks riving at 8 p.m. At this point the nished insulated cars, equipped for from the greatest distance are collected Clayton Branch; at Evans Mills a can from the car to West Leyden, 10 miles cars are unloaded to milk trucks which high speeds in passenger trains. Dur• by the Rutland Railroad, beginning at car. Arriving at Watertown a local off the line, where they are loaded use the 42nd Street Ferry in trips ing summer months ice was placed Lisbon, N. Y., and are delivered to the tank car is picked up, in addition to at a milk station more convenient for between the cars in Weehawken and on the cans to prevent souring. Central at Chatham, N. Y., to be another from Limerick and Cape Vin• farmers' delivery. The tractor and the pasteurizing plants in New York As the city's population grew and brought into New York City. Other cent, off the Cape Vincent Branch, trailer then returns the tanks to the City. the demand for milk increased, solid cars are collected south of the Mo• and one from Black River. car on the rail siding at Boonville. These four trains account for all but milk trains were inaugurated in daily hawk Valley by the Delaware & Hud• The cars leave Watertown for Utica The combined train, now No. 184, five cars, which are loaded at sep• runs, the first being operated by the son Railroad and delivered to the in Train 70, which carries passengers out of Utica, with an added car from arate points off the runs of regular Xew York, Ontario and Western on Central at Albany, where they are com• in two added coaches and stops for Si. Johnsville and another from Mid- collecting trains and are brought to February 1, 1871. bined with other cars and hauled down only one further collection of milk dleville, departs at 5:05 p.m. Stopping the city in passenger service. These The next important step in railroad the Main Line to the city. cars at Richland. at Fort Plain to pick up a last car, it are cut off at Harmon for West Side milk service was the construction of pulls and arrive at 60th Street Milk the first tank car, in 1903. Early tank Yard during the night. cars consisted of a glass-lined tank The reverse movement of the milk housed within an insulated car. More cars begins within a few hours after recently constructed tank cars have a their arrival. stainless steel inside tank insulated First out are the Catskill Mountain beneath a streamlined exterior. Fur• Branch cars, scheduled to leave Wee• ther development in this type of car hawken at 1 a.m. Then the West provides for removal of the tank both Shore cars to Syracuse depart from at country milk station and at city 60th Street as Train 793 at 2:45 a.m. terminal yard. Next train to leave contains the empty Use of the tank car eliminates the cars for the Delaware & Hudson, de• labor of moving cans, both in the parting at 5:30 a.m. as No. 183. The country and in the city, and of packing empties for the St. Lawrence Division the cars with ice. Instead, pre-cooled and west of Utica depart as No. 185 milk is pumped into the tanks at milk at 8:30 a.m. The last empties to start stations, then pumped from them to their return are those of the Rutland tanks on trucks in the city, and thus train leaving 60th Street at 1 p.m. moved to pasteurizing plants. During summer months can cars At present, 73 per cent of the equip• are stocked with ice at Richland and ment operating in New York Central Carthage before they are spotted at milk trains are tank cars, totalling 150 milk station sidings. The Milk Serv• as compared with 70 can cars. They ice Department harvests approximately are privately owned and have a ca• 14,000 tons of ice each winter, 50% pacity of 6,000 gallons. The can cars of which is used in icing milk cars. are owned by the railroad. All cars This ice is harvested mostly from are equipped for high-speed service. the Black River at Carthage. It is one When operated in solid trains, special• of the nation's longest natural ice cut• ly-built, heavy rider cars carry the train Making up milk train at Utica, N. Y., for run to New York City. ting operations. 6 Central Headlight January, 1948

The Story of an NYC Freight Waybill, Chicago to New York

In Englewood Classification Yard, Chicago, on Friday, December 5, freight train CN-2-NY-8, operating on a schedule which gives Chicago shippers third morning delivery in New York, is poised for its long dash to the East. Train Conductor F. L. Schiltz has received the waybills from Yard Clerk E. T. Hennelly, and in a few minutes Engine 5203 will start the long drag. Far back in the train is car NYC 196754, about which this is written. Thursday, a Chicago shipper requested by telephone to the Car Distributor in the Superintendent's office in the LaSalle Street Station, one 40' box car for movement of a load of enamel sheetware to New York City. He asked that the car be placed on the 18th Street Team Track for loading. This order, along with many others, was relayed to the General Yardmaster at Englewood. There a Yard Clerk checked the supply of cars and found a suitable one available.

The car, NYC 196754, was placed run. Any defects which develop be• early Friday morning at the 18th tween stops are repaired in the train Street Team Track. The car was if possible; if that cannot be done the loaded the same day with 1,121 cartons car is removed from the train and and a shipping order was submitted sent to the yard car repair track for by the shipper to the Team Track attention later. Clerk, who, in turn, informed the The next scheduled stop is Air Line Yardmaster of the car's disposition Junction at Toledo. NY-8 carries and delivered the shipping order to perishable freight, which requires icing the Billing Department in the Agent's enroute and which will be serviced at office at the Polk Street Freight Sta• Air Line Junction, where icing facil• tion, where the shipment was rated ities are available. As a general thing and the waybill was forwarded by no cars are set out or picked up at messenger to the yardmaster. In the Air Line Junction. meantime NYC 196754 had been The run over the Toledo Division switched out and classified for move• is made in slightly over four hours. ment in the combined CN-2-NY-8. A Again the regular oiling of the jour• yard puller crew took the car to the nals, inspections and air brake tests are Boxcar 196754 being unloaded at 33rd Street Yard, New York, third morning from Chicago. Englewood Yard, which it reached at made and NY-8 is under way—this 6:10 p.m. Upon arrival at Englewood time for the Collinwood Yard on the the car was inspected, journals were eastern outskirts of Cleveland, with Christmas Shoot oiled and it was classified with a num• new train and engine crews in charge. ber of other cars for the east of De- Engine 3015 is at the head, and will Held in Columbus Witt group. take our train through to Gardenville "The Christmas Shoot of the Central In moving this loaded car the nearly Yard at Buffalo. Ohio Pistol League, whose member• five miles between 18th Street and Collinwood, reached at 10:30 a.m., ship consists of law enforcement offi• Englewood, the co-ordinated efforts of is another operating stop where new cial in Central Ohio such as Sheriffs, car inspectors, yard clerks, yardmaster, crews take over. Ordinarily no cars Highway Patrol, Railroad Police, etc., train director, trainmen, enginemen, are cut out or picked up by NY-8 at was held in Columbus, Ohio, on De• switch tenders, bill and rate clerks this point. Inspections, oiling, and cember 7. This was the last monthly and car distributors all were called into general servicing require slightly over meeting of the year and its success play. an hour and we move eastward over was evidenced by the 75 shooting en• The "East of DeWitt" group in• the Erie Division. thusiasts who turned out for the event. cludes all cars for east of Syracuse. Just before reaching Buffalo, Bay Besides the regular team match, NYC-196754 and the others from 18th View, N. Y., the dividing point be• there was a Fortune Shoot, in which Street are only a part of the many tween the Line East and the Line West that make up CN-2-NY-8. A dairy determining the winners, and the mm of the New York Central main line, run is received from the Michigan ners were awarded prizes of various is reached and NY-8 swings around Central from the South Water Street articles of merchandise. the southern outskirts of Buffalo to Freight Station; a dead freight run is The New York Central Railroad the Gardenville Yard at 6 p.m., six received from Indiana Harbor, Ind., Police Team (Ohio Central Division) and one-half hours after leaving Col• and South Chicago, Ill.; from the consisting of Patrolman E. H. Adams linwood. At Gardenville perishable Chicago Junction comes a meat pull (Captain); Patrolman J. W. Fisher; cars again are re-iced, there being facil• from the "beef track" at Loomis Patrolman Fred Curry and Patrolman ities available at this point. New Street, and a livestock run from E. T. Noon, competed in the Fortune crews and a new engine, 2779, are Halsted Street, as well as other cars Shoot, but was not lucky enough to assigned. accumulated in the district. Generally, E. T. Hennelly, seated, Yard Clerk at Englewood, is shown handing Waybill to win any of the prizes this time. The the departure time of CN-2-NY-8 de• The next stop is DeWitt Yard, just Freight Conductor F. L. Schiltz. Below is copy of the waybill. next match will be held at Dayton, pends upon the arrival of the meat, east of Syracuse. Here NY-8 is Ohio, January 11 and it is expected which is the last run to arrive at humped and NYC-196754 is classi• our men will be in there shootin'. Englewood. fied with other New York City cars to make up Advance NY-4. The regular Our car and the many others are tests and servicings are administered Beech Grovers Wed classified by groups and assembled into and new crews and another new engine On Thanksgiving Day, Miss Doris a train which is now ready for the now 302, take over. The departure is Betzold, a clerk in Beech Grove Car caboose and engine. The "East of De- at 9 a.m. Monday. Shops, became the bride of Wil• Witt" group rides on the rear end. liam L. Ryan, in St. Peter and St. After another inspection and a terminal Selkirk Yard is the next scheduled Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis. air brake test, activated by the engine- stop before we reach New York City. Mr. Ryan was also a clerk in Beech men and checked by a car inspector, Near the eastern end of the Mohawk Grove Car Shops before joining the CN-2-NY-8 is now ready to "whistle Division Advance NY-4 leaves the Armed Forces as a captain. After being off" at 9:29 p.m. main line of the New York Central discharged from Military Service he Exactly two hours and six minutes at Hoffmans, a few miles west of entered the furniture business in In• later our train is in the Elkhart Yard, Schenectady, and crosses to the south dianapolis. 100 miles to the east. Here NYC- bank of the Mohawk River to join the West Shore line at Rotterdam Junc• 196754 and the other East of DeWitt tion, and thence along the West Shore A bowling team of Veterans from cars are combined with other cars to Selkirk on the west side of the Beech Grove Shop have entered the similarly classified which have reached Hudson, where after re-icing to pro• American Legion League at Indianap• Elkhart from Blue Island in a solid tect the perishables, inspections, oil• olis for the second year. The team NY-8 from that point. (Blue Island is ings, and receiving new crews it is sponsored by Big Four Legion a large classification yard located on crosses the Hudson River over the Post 116 and the members are: Joe the Indiana Harbor Belt where NYC Castleton Cut-off to rejoin the Main Piemen, Jr., T. E. Wilder, L. M. and MC eastbound symbol trains are Line on the Hudson Division. Isgrigg, Mike Quinn, J. W. Newbolt, assembled.) These cars come from and Gene Hinderliter. various western connections and are Farther to the south, at Harmon, classified over an electrically operated two electric motors, Nos. 308 and 325 retarder hump. replace the steam power. From Har• Chicago Trio Wed Once again the journals are oiled, mon NY-4 moves on to the 72nd Street Mid-November rang wedding bells the cars inspected and a terminal air Yards, New York City classification for three members of the Freight brake test made and our car of enamel yard, where it terminates as a train. Traffic Department in Chicago. is off again, now a part of a solid The arrival is at 9:55 Sunday night. On November 16, Miss Lois Louise NY-8 train. A new engine (Engine From the Englewood Yard in Chicago Tegtmeiter, Clerk in the Division 3005) and train crew are on the job to 72nd Street, this freight run has Freight Agent's office, became the and we move off the Western Divi• been made in the over-all time of less bride of Ownly Van Boyd, Rate Clerk sion. Departure is at 12:25 a.m. than 48 hours. in the office of the General Freight Saturday. From 72nd Street NYC-196754 is Agent in a beautiful ceremony at the The cars classified for CN-2 train taken promptly to 33rd Street Yard Woodlawn Immanual Lutheran have been left behind and soon, when by diesel switcher, arriving at 10:10 Church. A reception was held in the joined at Elkhart by other cars of the p.m., and placed ready for unloading evening for members of the immediate same classification, will move out as shortly after midnight, ready, as sched• families and close friends at the two trains—one CN-2 for Cleveland uled, on the third morning after leav• Wedgewood Hotel. They spent their delivery and another CN-2 for move• ing Chicago. Soon after business honeymoon at New Orleans. ment over the Ohio Central Division offices are open the consignee is noti• Purse for Beech Grover; Humble had served as Carman at On the preceding day Ralph J. from Toledo. fied by telephone by the Carload Ar• Beech Grove since Sept. 6, 1927, hav• Priebe, Clerk in the Rate Department, The oilings, brake tests and inspec• rival clerk of the car's arrival. A O. M. Humble Retires ing started with the Company on General Freight Agent's office was tions, such as those made at Engle• second notice, this one by mail from Otto M. Humble, Carman, retired April 9, 1925 as Carman Helper. Fel- married to Miss Irene Madosy in wood and Elkhart are "musts" at each the Demurrage Department, is sent from service in the Freight Shop at low employes presented Mr. Humble Bethel Lutheran Church, Evergreen. scheduled stop throughout the entire also. Beech Grove on November 26. Mr. with a purse. They honeymooned in Detroit. January, 1948 Central Headlight 7

Gibson Man's Alertness Reveals Broken Frog as Mercury Crosses It

The alertness and keen observation Investigation developed that the frog of Humphrey Williams, Acetylene had a piece broken and loose. This Generator Operator at Gibson, Ind., discovery resulted in the placing of a recently did their part to promote the slow order over this piece of track cause of safety. until repairs were made. Operator Williams, watching the Mr. Williams has received a letter passing of the streamliner Mercury, of praise from R. F. Culbreth, Master noticed that the rear truck acted pecul• Mechanic at Gibson and his act was iarly when passing over the frog op• noted by J. J. Brinkworth, Vice Presi• posite the generator plant at Gibson. dent and F. McElroy, General Mgr.

Processing Death Benefit Claims

The Railroad Retirement Board the death benefit payable under the lately has received numerous inquiries Railroad Retirement Act. Very often, regarding the reason for the delay in in such instances, the adjudication re• handling certain types of death-benefit quires considerable exchange of cor• claims. It is true that many cases have respondence involving a great deal of not been completed as quickly as the time. Board would like. If the deceased employee was re• However, it should be pointed out ceiving an annuity or a pension, any that the 1946 amendments to the Rail• overpayment made for months after road Retirement Act greatly increased his death must be recovered before a the amount of work in the bureau of death benefit is paid. retirement claims. More than 300,000 The amount of any death benefit, ex• old annuity and death claims had to cept a survivor annuity under a joint- be reviewed because of the* revisions and-survivor election paid under the in the law. Also, the new provisions Railroad Retirement Act before 1947 made many employes eligible for an• and any lump sum which may have nuities who could not qualify under been paid under the Social Security the old Act. This resulted in an in• Act, must also be investigated, since creased number of new claims being it must be deducted from the new received which had to be handled benefits. along with those which were being reopened. Actual Cases of Awards The large backlog of work is near- In order to show how actual death Part of forces in the Indianapolis Freight Agent's office shown in their cheerful, up-to-date working room. Identified ing completion, however, and it is left to right are: Dennis Delaney, Demurrage Cleric; James Ottinger, Transit Claim Clerk; Mrs. Mildred Hill, Transit benefits have been awarded by the expected that the processing of all re• Claim Clerk; Miss Grace Hoffmeyer, Comptometer Operator; Frank Monahan, Revision and Check Clerk; Robert Barnes, Board under the new law, a few cases tirement and death claims will be on Statistician; Miss Mary Fallon, Switching Clerk; Miss Dorothy Woods, Tracing Clerk; E. E. Burton, Assistant to Chief were selected at random from the a current basis soon. Clerk; Miss Ethel Lehr, Switching and Per Diem Clerk; A. D. Landis, Local Car Accountant, and F. B. Mayer, Chief files. All names are fictitious, but the Clerk. In far corner is John Callender, Loaded Car Distributor. In awarding death benefits no action facts have not been changed. In order of any sort can be taken by the Rail• to avoid repetition of phraseology, it road Retirement Board before notice of should be pointed out that a widow's a relatively simple process. It was his widow, if still alive and past age V. F. Jackson, who had been re• death is received. A notice of death annuity is automatically canceled if she readily determined that he was com• 65, was entitled to receive a widow's ceiving an annuity of $84.85 since may be mailed or brought in person remarries, or in the case of a widowed pletely insured under the Railroad annuity under the new law. September 1943, died on April 19, to any Board office. Notices filed by mother's benefit, if she ceases to have Retirement Act. His average monthly On January 17, an investigation was 1947. He was survived by his widow, mail often fail to include sufficient in• in her care an unmarried child under remuneration after 1936 was $231.76. started to find out whether Mrs. Roger aged 57, and by three children, all of formation, and a preliminary inquiry 18. A child's annuity is canceled if Inasmuch as his widow was left with was still alive, and, if so, her present whom were over 18. Notice of death must be directed to the nearest known he marries or is adopted before he two minor sons who were dependent address. She was located in February was received by the Board on May 2, surviving relative before the Board can reaches age 18. upon their father at the time of his and was asked to submit an applica• when the last annuity check sent to determine to whom to send the ap- Mr. Jackson was returned to the HH.. A. Miller wass a clerk forr aa death, she is entitled to a widow's tion for a monthly death benefit and to plication form. annuity of $38.03 a month. Also, each furnish evidence establishing the date Board. On July 15, a preliminary in• This inquiry asks specific questions. railroadcompany a t thetime ofhis is eligible for a child's of her birth. The application and quiry was sent to his widow to deter• as to ages and relationships ot sur• death was filed by his employer with annuity of $25.35. proof that she was past age 65 were mine whether any monthly death bene• vivors, and attempts to establish fits could be paid. Mrs. Jackson's reply the Board's district office at Washing• The final computations of the three officially filed with the Board's office whether the claim is to be handled by was received on August 6. An appli• ton, D. C, on July 7. The proper annuities were completed and the first at Dallas, Texas, on March 21. the Railroad Retirement Board or by cation form was sent to her on August application form for death benefits was payments, covering July and August, Mr. Roger's employment record after the Social Security Administration. 13, at which time she was also asked immediately furnished the employer were certified on August 27. All three 1936 showed that at the time of his to submit proof of her husband's for delivery to Mr. Miller's widow and annuities will continue in force until death he was completely insured. His Filing the Application death and proof of their marriage. The was officially filed with the Board's the older child becomes 18, provided, average monthly remuneration had completed application and supporting If the preliminary inquiry shows district office in Washington on July of course, that all qualifying conditions been more than $250. His widow will evidence were officially filed on Sep• that the claim probably comes under 21, together with a certified copy of the of the law are met. Mrs. Miller's and receive a lifetime annuity of $36.34 a tember 4. A review of the documents the Railroad Retirement Act, the death certificate, a marriage certificate, the younger child's payments will con• month. The claim was officially com- proper application form or forms, de• showed that the widow was entitled to and birth certificate establishing the tinue in effect until the latter becomes pleted and the first payment was made pending upon the number of survivors a lump-sum payment of $375.68. This birth dates of the two surviving minor 18. At that time, which in this case to Mrs. Roger early in September. Al• immediately entitled to benefits, are amount was paid to Mrs. Jackson on children. All of this evidence was will be October 1958, both annuities though the annuity was effective Jan• furnished to the claimants along with October 8. acceptable. The case was then mailed will stop. However, Mrs. Miller's an• uary 1, 1947, no checks were issued the requests for other supporting evi• At that time, she was also told that to the bureau of retirement claims in nuity will be resumed at age 65 in the to Mrs. Roger until September, since dence. Such evidence includes a copy when she reaches age 65, she should Chicago where it was received on July same amount as she is now receiving she had already been paid a lump-sum of a death certificate to establish the apply for a widow's lifetime monthly 23. In the meantime, the railroad com• and will continue as long as she lives. death benefit which had to be recov• date and fact of the employe's death; pany forwarded, on July 14, to the annuity. B. C. Roger died on October 30, ered. The amount of the first payment a marriage certificate to prove a wo• Board at Chicago, a statement of Mr. 1938, and his widow was awarded a was $30.72, the difference between the man's status as a widow under the Miller's earnings during 1947. lump-sum death benefit of $260, based monthly payments from January law; birth certificates to confirm re• Because Mr. Miller's service and on 4 percent of Mr. Roger's total rail• through August and the $260 lump David Gold lationship and age of surviving chil• compensation since 1936 had been road compensation after 1936. The sum which she had previously received. David Gold, familiarly known as, dren; etc. properly and completely reported, the case was reopened in January 1947, Later payments will be for $36.34, the "Goldie," to hundreds of employes of Applications may be filed in Chicago adjudication of the death benefits was however, since it was apparent that full amount of the annuity. the New York Central Railroad and or at any of the Board's field offices others in the neighborhood of the where representatives will assist claim• General Office Building at Cleveland, ants in any way possible. Sometimes died November 16, after an extended employers assist survivors in complet• Pipefitter Fogarty Retires at McKees Rocks Roundhouse illness. Goldie, who was 81, had ing applications, forwarding them to operated a news stand in the General the Board together with reports of any Office Building for more than 50 years service and compensation creditable to before his retirement in 1943. the employe which may not yet have Shortly before his retirement he was been reported. In many cases, em• tendered a party by his many friends ployers furnish this information with• and former customers, who presented out being specifically requested by the him with a substantial gift of War Board to do so, and frequently such Bonds. At this time he expressed his reports are the first notice of death appreciation of having been permitted which the Board receives. to become an American citizen. Mr. The payment of death benefits may Gold was from Poland, immigrating be restricted by certain circumstances. to America when he was 21 years old. For instance, an applicant may meet While Goldie was never an employe the age and relationship requirements of the New York Central, he was but fail to meet the dependency re• ever faithful to the company. Surviv• quirement. Furthermore, a monthly ing him are his wife, seven daughters, benefit is not payable for any month twelve grandchildren, and three great• in which the beneficiary is employed grandchildren. by a railroad or in which the bene• ficiary is paid $25 or more in em• ployment covered by the Social Security Beech Grove to Have A.A. Act. In the case of a child, benefits The management has approved the are not payable if he is past age 16 formation of the New York Central unless he attends school regularly, pro• Athletic Association of Beech Grove. vided such attendance is feasible. Two meetings have been held at The payment may also be affected which temporary officers were elected if the widow has been working on a and details of the organization out• job covered by the Social Security Act lined. All departments at Beech Grove and has attained age 65. In such in• are cooperating. stances it must be determined whether George T. Fogarty, a Pipefitter in the McKees Rocks Roundhouse of The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, recently The objective of this association is she is eligible for an old-age benefit rom retired after rounding out 41 years of service. Mr. Fogarty came to The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad as a Pipe- to p ote athletic activities such as under the Social Security Act. If she fitter Helper on November 1, 1906, and was promoted to Pipefitter on December 1, 1910. He has worked the "Night baseball, softball, basketball, bowling, is, that benefit must be deducted from shift" for the past 30 years. He was presented with a purse. etc. at these Shops. 8 Central Headlight January, 1948

Passenger Likes Our Carolina Special

A letter from William Mahoney, of Lafayette, Indiana, to S. W. Bone, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, pays the following tribute to our Carolina Special, train No. 406: "Today it proved to be a great pleas• ure for me to ride your Carolina Special, leaving Chicago at 1:00 p. m. and arriving Lafayette at 3:40 p. m. "I have ridden the Abraham Lin• coln, the B. & O. Capital Limited, the I. C.'s Green Diamond and the Burlington's Zephyr, but the trip today seemed to eclipse all of them. "The crew handling the train were unquestionably 100 per cent. The courtesy of the conductor was most refreshing and the engineer's starts and stops were done without even the semblance of a jolt or jar. "The coach in which I was riding was spotlessly clean and visibility from all windows was perfect. The heat was uniform and most comfortable for traveling. "Were I asked to name just one Fifty-two years of continuous service, without having been absent a single An Empire State Poster formed part of the wall decorations in the auditorium fault or objection I could only say of the Hartigan School, Chicago, on Citizenship Day. Viewing the poster are, day, is the record of James O'Donnell, Section Laborer at the Chicago Junc• there was none. from left, Sergt. Glen Viall of the Chicago New York Central police force; tion's Loomis Street Yard, Chicago, who on November received his Gold Pass. Wade Brown, N. Y. C. employe at Englewood; Lloyd H. Butterfield, Supervis• "A word of commendation when it's Mr. O'Donnell, who is 75, was born in Ireland, October 9, 1872, and came ing Safety Agent, N. Y. C, New York; Ruth M. Blue, Assistant Principal of the merited is a duty that I like to per• to this country in 1895. He arrived in Chicago April 30 of that year and the School, and Norman D. Anderson, Principal. form. Feel assured that after tonight following day started work at the Loomis Street Yard, where he has remained in my mind there is nothing but ever since. His present job is to take care of the switch lamps. orchids for the Carolina Special." In right center of above picture Mr. O'Donnell is shown receiving his Gold LLOYD H. BUTTERFIELD, Su• many skilful feats of legerdemain. Pass from F. A. Hess, Division Engineer, as William Desmond, Assistant Super• pervising Safety Agent, New York, Mr. Butterfield congratulated the visor of Track (left), and W. A. McGrath, Supervisor of Track (right), look on. Fellow workers are shown in background. was one of the principal speakers at teaching staff, the students and their NYC Grand Square the Citizenship Day exercises at the parents on the record they had accom• Hartigan School on the south side plished, and invited the students to be Club President of Chicago, recently. The occasion the guest of the New York Central was the award by the Board of Edu• to inspect the Englewood engine First Carload of Sprayers Starts for Africa cation to the Student Council of a house and a streamlined train at Root prize of $75, for the good record made Street at a time to be determined by the school's student body, in com• by their principal, Norman D. Ander• parison with other schools, in the re• son. He told briefly of the national duction of window breakage. The exer• service the railroads perform, and cises were attended by 125 parents and stressed the rights and obligations of 525 pupils. good citizens, including respect for Other New York Central people the property of others. He also em• participating included Wade Brown, phasized the possibility of injury to in charge of the coal dock at Engle• trespassers and why trespassing should wood, who introduced Mr. Butter- be discouraged. field, and Sergt. Glen Viall of the Another excellent address of the Chicago New York Central Police day was that by John Sengstacke, Department who mystified both chil• President of the Chicago Defender, dren and adults alike with his Chicago's leading Negro newspaper.

Above is pictured George M. An• derson, a Boiler Inspector at the Jackson, Michigan, Locomotive Shops. He was made head of the club at its recent annual convention. The club will hold its next convention in Jackson in September, 1948. The first full carload of Lowell Sprayers (manufactured at Lowell, Mich.) to be shipped to South Africa left Chicago Nov. 21 in N. Y.—4 for Wee• hawken, N. J., for loading into the S.S. Sharon Victory. The sprayers were con• signed to S. A. Boeresake at Johannesburg. On hand for the above picture, following loading of the sprayers into one of the New York Central "Star" cars at the Taylor Street (Chicago) team track, were J. W. Lilley, Office As• sistant to NYC Foreign Freight Agent, Chicago; J. L. O'Connor, D. C. Andrews Company, foreign forwarding agents, Chicago; W. P. Hansen, NYC Foreign Freight Agent, Chicago, and W. J. O'Hara, Export Manager, F. W. Karpin, Traffic Manager, and E. W. Setty, Credit Manager, of the Lowell Manufacturing Company.

Board. Veterans can either take their Arthur P. Button original discharges to the Board and get them back after the Board photo• Arthur P. Button, Assistant to stats them or the ex-G.I. can send Chief Engineer, Chicago, died sud• the Board a photostatic copy of his denly of a heart attack November 29 discharge with a notary's certificate in his home at 6565 South Yale that it is a true copy. (Such photo• Ave., Chicago. He was 59. stats should not be miniatures.) Mr. Button was born August 21, Pictured above holding framed original sketch of the Chicago campus of Copies submitted can be mailed to 1888, at Schaghticoka, N. Y., and en• Northwestern University by Vernon Howe Bailey, internationally-known artist, the Director of Retirement Claims, tered the service of the New York are S. W. Bone, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago (left), and Franklin Railroad Retirement Board, 844 Rush Bliss Snyder, President of the University. The picture was taken recently when Central October 17, 1909, as a rod- Street, Chicago, 111. Mr. Bone presented the sketch, reproductions of which appear on New York man at Albany. Subsequently he War service of railroad employes Central dining car menus, to Mr. Bliss. worked as Draftsman, Assistant Engi• (who were in railroad service in the Northwestern University was one of the first series of eight universities and neer and Engineer of Grade Separa• A glamorized railroad station done year preceding entry into Armed colleges featured on the menus. Others of the first group were Harvard tions, in which capacity he went to in white and gold called "Campus Forces) is counted as earnings of $160 University, Vassar College, University of Notre Dame, Union College, University Chicago October 1, 1939. On Janu• of Michigan, Butler University and the University of Cincinnati. Junction" has been the 1947 college per month in computing pensions un• ary 1, 1944, he was made Designing Altogether, some 125 universities and colleges adjacent to the New York shop at Marshall Field & Company, der the Railroad Retirement Act, but Chicago, where 24 co-eds from well- Engineer, Chicago, and on August 1, Central will be honored on the menus, and in each case the oriqinal campus only if such computation produces a sketch will be presented to the institution depicted. The college menus will scattered U.S. colleges are the sales• 1945, was promoted again to Assistant higher pension rate than otherwise appear in groups of eight, each group honoring that number of universities. girls. to Chief Engineer. available. This includes computation In the heart of the Sportsroom on Surviving are his widow, Mary of survivors' pension in case of death Field's 6th floor, "Campus Junction" Edda; a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Bax• of a railroad employe. St. Louis Notes Mr. Aye, who served this Company for has gold-tipped white iron railings sur• ter, and two grandchildren, Donald and rounding the enclosure, which features 42 years, is in good health. Barbara Baxter. Burial was in Joseph E. Swallow, Assistant Fore• an information booth, the observation Schaghticoka. man and Assistant Electrical Foreman, car of a train, "The Campus Express," Mr. Button was a graduate of P.&L.E. Veteran St. Louis Coach Yards, and Miss pulling out of station, a coke booth, white waiting benches with bright green Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Antoinette Seiner, of Indianapolis, $2807.50 Collected Ends 44 Years' Work cushions, and instead of the magazine- Troy, N. Y., class of 1912. He was were married recently in Indianapolis. in Indianapolis newspaper stand an accessory booth a Mason and Chairman of the Michi• Archibald Joseph McKinley, Chief Following their honeymoon at Miami piled high with collegiate hats, bags, gan Grade Crossing Committee. Motive Power Inspector, with head• Beach, the couple will make their New York Central folk at Indianap• scarves, and jewelry. quarters at McKees Rocks, Pa., retired home in St. Louis. Mr. Swallow is the olis distinguished themselves in the At each of the four main gates are on pension November 30, after com• son of Joe Swallow of Indianapolis, a recent community fund drive in that trains such as the "Campus Pacemaker," pleting over 44 years' service. foreman at Beech Grove Shops, where city. Under the leadership of Agent all listed to go to colleges in their Mr. McKinley entered the service of areas. Vets Urged to File the groom served his apprenticeship. V. F. Lowe, New York Central em• the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie as a Pictured under the "Campus Pace• —0— ployes turned in a total of $2,807.50, machinist in October, 1903, and maker" sign are Jane Easter, Peru, lnd„ Charles Aye, pensioner Car Foreman, of which more than $2,500 was in War Service Records worked in various occupations until a student at the University of Indiana; St. Louis Coach Yards, called on old cash. This compares favorably with Virginia Grace, Chicago, a student at The Railroad Retirement Board is June 1, 1929, when he was made the performance of the other industries friends recently before going to Miami, Wells College, and Maryellen Ryan, asking railroad ex-service men to Chief Motive Power Inspector. He is Florida, to spend the winter months. of the city. Chicago, from Trinity. register their war service with the now in California. January, 1948 Central Headlight

New Cleveland Dining Department Commissary Well Equipped Big Four Dining Crews Go to School

Left to right, Joseph Hunter, Waiter; Wilbert J. Mauerman, Steward In• structor; Herbert T. Hardy, Waiter Instructor; J. Wallace and F. Fenty, Waiters; B. Blassingame, Waiter-in-Charge, and George Williams, Waiter.

THE Chef-Waiter School moved to Cleveland Union Terminal. The Cleveland for a 10-day stand in actual work was carried out under November for the benefit of Big Four the direct instruction of W. J. dining car crews. There, under the Mauerman, Stewart Instructor, Herbert guidance of experts, the crew of one T. Hardy, Waiter Instructor, and train after another attended eight- Erwin West, Instructor Chef. hour classes, during which the entire General interest in these classes procedure of preparing and serving a was reflected by the attendance at a meal was gone through. part of one session of representatives The Cleveland program is part of of Cleveland newspapers, in company The Cleveland Commissary of the Dining Car Department, opened in 1947, is, perhaps, the most ideally located com• a general program being conducted with a group of New York Central missary on the System. While small and compact, it is completely equipped with refrigeration, storage and office space throughout the System. The classes officials, including C. F. Wiegele, to handle the full requirements of dining cars. serve as indoctrination for beginners, General Manager, E. J. Gibbons, As• Prior to the opening of the Cleveland Commissary, all dining car runs originated from home terminals at Chicago, sistant General Manager, L. A. New York, Buffalo or Boston. With the establishment of the Cleveland unit on January 19 it became the home as well as refresher courses for old- terminal of a number of trains operating between Cleveland and Columbus, Cincinnati and Detroit. And because of its timers. Schroeder, General Passenger Agent, central location it services other district cars with perishable and emergency supplies as they pass through Cleveland. The classes were conducted in a and R. R. Pierce, General Attorney, all The commissary, which is under the direction of W. F. Huser, Assistant Superintendent of Dining Service, is located special diner in the coach yard at the of Cleveland. directly behind the large mural at the south end of the main concourse of the Cleveland Union Terminal, with the office entrance directly across the hall from the Station Master's office. Left to right in picture are L. Buckner, Waiter- in-Charge; S. Hopkins, Stockman; J. Day, Waiter-in-Charge; W. F. Huser, Assistant Superintendent, Dining Service; E. Keys, Stockman, and G. Thompson, Stockman. Cleveland Matron Given Surprise at 76

Legion Post 999 "Adopts11 Drum and Bugle Corps

Mrs. Coulter, seated. Standing, left to right: Lucille Mawson, Passenger Transportation Department; Agnes McNamara, Equipment Department; Mabelle Ross, and Lillian Schwert, Signal Department; Katarina Marmalic, Elevator Operator.

MRS. REBECCA COULTER, Ma- on December 31, with many sweet Front row, left to right: Col. F. E. Hammond, Bob Turnquht, Edgar Lauderback, Jr., David Rossodivita, Harold Vena- tron in the General Office Build• memories of her thirty-two years serv• bles, Duane Tayerle, Robert Contorno, Lawrence Vaicunas and Miss Marie Alcan. Second row: Lucien Passarello, Earl ing, Cleveland, Ohio was given a sur• ice with the New York Central; how• Euler, Carny Shultz, Raymond Adamowicz, Donald Doty, Paul Loemker, William DeMarco, Michael Strugar and Vito Mari- prise birthday party on November 29, ever, her service to mankind has not nelli. Third row: Michael Rossi, Jack Gleason, Lee Osborne, Arthur Emser, Nick Valardo and Roland Kellam. In rear is her 76th anniversary, by women em• ended as she has ten grandchildren Walter Carlson. Raymond Adamowicz is the son of Walenty Adamowicz, boilermaker at Collinwood. ployes from the various offices. There and two great-grandchildren to watch were many gifts, flowers, and a birth• over. TWENTY-FOUR Collinwood special car on the Fifth Avenue Special mander; F. J. Troha, Second Vice day cake for Mrs. Coulter, who held (Ohio) high school boys, are 23 of the 24 boys. One of them, Commander; M. J. Chandler, Third open house, serving cake and coffee "adopted" by the New York Central Harold Gilliland, already was in New Vice Commander; C. C. Brehn, Chap• to her friends who dropped into the Lines Post No. 999, the American York. lain; L. R. Grady, Finance Officer; K. rest room to offer their good wishes. Legion, Cleveland, formed the Drum Officers of the New York Lines Post A. Heiny, Adjutant; William Bittel, Mrs. Coulter came to the New York and Bugle Corps which represented of Cleveland are A. S. Kappele, Com• Sergeant-at-Arms, and C. L. Moss, Central in 1915 as an elevator opera• the Post in the American Legion mander; Nich Fatica, First Vice Com• Historian. tor, when men were scarce. In 1918 parade in New York City. she was placed in charge of the ladies' The corps was organized last Febru• rest room as Matron, and for nearly ary through cooperation of high school Cleveland Freight Head and Staff thirty years has administered to the and Legion officers and was trained needs of those in distress with first under the direction of F. E. Hammond, aid, kindness, and consolation. Assistant Director of Music of the Mrs. Coulter has raised three chil• Collinwood High School and an Army dren and one granddaughter. Her two colonel in World War II. Miss Marie sons served in World War I and one Louise Alcan, drum majorette, also is died from the effects of wounds. Her a product of the high school, from only daughter died during the influenza which she graduated last June and epidemic in 1918, leaving a five- where she was drum majorette for the months old daughter. Mr. Coulter school band. died in 1927. The corps made its first public ap• This kind, white-haired lady retired pearance at the Ohio State Legion convention at Cincinnati, and its ex• cellent performance in that event How the Upper Set Pronounces It earned them the trip to New York. "Say Sam, didn't I see you coming The boys' uniforms, which followed out of the dentist's office today?" a railroad motif of blue denim jumpers "Yes, I was at a party last night Former Signal Maintainer, Louis F. and jeans, white peaked caps, and red and I ate some peanut brutal . . ." Doerner (Louie), from the Cleveland bandanas around their necks, were pro• "Why don't you learn to speak Signal District and well known around vided by the Legion Post, and musical English . . . it's peanut BRITTLE "BR", "QD" and "DK" Interlockings for his friendliness, who recently re• instruments by the New York Central. ... not BRUTAL ..." In the above picture, taken in the tired after 36 years of faithful service, Seated, left to right: C. H. Heiniscfi, Assistant Superintendent; H. P. Hannan, "Listen, mine pal, if you got teeth Cleveland Union Terminal just before has taken himself and wife to Miami, Superintendent of Freight Transportation and J. F. Sutton. Standing: C. J. Lilley, it's BRITTLE; if you haven't, it's Florida, for the Winter, where they ex• their departure to New York in a Edna Jones, A. F. Sicha, Helen Ripley and C. W. Wiegand. BRUTAL!" pect to enjoy complete relaxation. 10 Central Headlight January, 1948

Central Headlight The Train Ran Only for Him 8 Maple Published monthly for New York Central System employes and their fami• Flat River, Missouri lies in eleven states and two provinces of Canada by the Department of Public Relations. Contributions are invited but no responsibility is assumed November 14, 1947 for their return. Editorial offices, Room 1137, 466 Lexington Avenue, New General Offices, York City. New York Central Lines, Editor 230 Park Avenue. C. W. Y. Currie New York, N. Y. Gentlemen:

Associate Editors I write to say thanks, and to tell you of the dreams of two little girls. C. A. Radford Frank A. Judd Some of us are born to fame and riches and others of us are plain people. Cincinnati Chicago I happen to fall in the latter category, but my two daughters, 13 and 15, think I am just one step from the top. None of us had ever ridden more than once in our lives on a train. I Volume IX January, 1948 No. 1 had never eaten in a diner, had never been in a lounge car, had never slept in a berth. None of us had. Last week end the officers of a company with whom we are starting business wanted me in Battle Creek, Michigan, in a hurry. They wired me to come, by Streamliner, their expense. Gentlemen, I traveled in Story-Book Land, via New York Central. My The Fight Must Go On porters were the nicest men I ever met. I felt like an honored guest. My Mr. & Mrs. Frank Blascio, Sr., of 58 dining car captain treated me like a king, and I had exactly ten dollars East Street, Milford, Mass., recently in my pocket. The conductor, other train personnel, and station forces announced the engagement of their oday, and rightly, we hear much about Social Security. Less is were kind and courteous to me, a stranger only. Comfort and courtesy daughter, Rose Ann, to Louis G. Rosa, were mine, and for the entire trip the train ran only for me. Gentlemen, T said about Personal Security. What good is the first without the son of Michael Rosa of Providence, it was more than a treat to me, it was a revelation. R. I. Miss Blascio is a Freight Clerk second to make possible its enjoyment? My good wife and daughters were waiting up for me, and when we in the B&A office in Framingham, Mass. Even a fatalist cannot help stepping aside when threatened by on• finally went to bed, at 2:30, it was only on the promise I would tell them Mr. Rosa is a World War veteran, who served 38 months on the USS Wasp as coming danger. Why not then extend this caution to our daily work? more tomorrow. When you can make stars come in your daughters' eyes, it thrills, and it hurts. "Could we go—just a little way—some day, Daddy?" a Petty Officer 1/c. For years devoted men here on the Central have sought to bring Gentlemen, for your information, my wife and I are laying a bit aside home to every worker the gospel of personal safety. Yet the figures each week, and when it is enough, we're going to take those young for the year just closing indicate that in the rush of business we have women, with all the trimmings, via New York Central Streamliner, to Friendship Train, and accept my per• Chicago for a week end. A show or two, perhaps a little trip on the sonal heartfelt gratitude for your co• tended to become careless, reverting in some cases to old and danger• lake, a double at a nice hotel, and then home again. I want New York operation. Central to put BIG stars in their eyes. ous practices. For the twelve months just closing the total of employe Sincerely yours, About next spring, then, if you see two excited, thrilled young women injuries shows a moderate but undesirable gain. (s) Henry Bonnet and two equally excited, thrilled parents riding in style on the Streamliner, Under these circumstances it is good to know that vigorous meas• that, Gentlemen, will be a plain but happy family having the time of French Ambassador ures are being taken to protect the situation and to try to improve their lives. The President of the conditions this year. This effort is being warmly supported by of• What a small thing to many, yet of such are little girls' dreams. New York Central Railway, New York, N. Y. ficers of the official employe organizations. Again then may I say thank you for a pleasant trip, and my especial thanks to many unknown men who treated me so fine. We'll be on —o— It is felt that a considerable step forward is being made in the board again, some day! President Metzman has thanked all new visual training courses now being conducted in the New York Sincerely yours, employes who assisted in the success• Terminal District under the auspices of the Central's Safety Depart• Richard M. Batten ful operation of the train over our lines. ment, with the cooperation of the National Safety Council and the United States Department of Labor. These courses, which are in* tended to refresh the district supervisors' memory of Safety practices and to give them additional training in the light of constantly grow• Four Friendship Train Letters A Song of the Rail ing experience, will be duplicated all over the System as quickly as M bands of steel they reach afar, WARNER BROS. PICTURES INC. With my deepest thanks and best Across the country wide; this can be accomplished. West Coast Studios wishes, High on the trail, deep in the vale, Best of all, interest in the courses, which cover ten weeks, is Burbank, Calif. Sincerely yours, I'm there on every side. initially keen. This forecasts success for the campaign as a whole Drew Pearson Office of President Where cities throb, and pastures still —0— over the System. November 25, 1947 Lie silent in the night: CITIZENS FOOD COMMITTEE Moreover, the recent Regional Conference on Safety, held in Buf• My song is heardand ever will, Mr. G. Metzman, President Executive Office of The President In unity and might. falo, by 16 railroads, of which we were one, showed that there is New York Central Washington 25. D. C. Besides the river's steady flow, widespread appreciation of the serious problems involved. 230 Park Avenue CHARLES LUCKMAN Where hills and mountains rise; New York. N. Y. Chairman No phase of railroading pays greater dividends in happiness and I lead the winding way I know, December 1, 1947 security, both of the worker and of his family, than Safety work. Dear Mr. Metzman: Beneath the sunny skies. Dear Mr. Metzman: Due to the rapid mobilization of The transportation industry has And so in every season new, American generosity and good-will, the My mission's not to fail; made a significant contribution to the Friendship Train has proved a success But get you there and bring you voluntary food saving plan. Your Wrong Motions About beyond all expectations. through, most notable assistance came in the It was the immediate response of Heigh-ho for the Song of the Rail. dramatic launching of the Friendship state and civic leaders across the na• —H. P. Thorn Train early last month. Railroad War Profits tion that created public awareness of It is cooperation such as yours that the job to be done and brought about From the Railway Employees' Journal, five year peace period ending with has helped us to achieve our goal of the will to do it. The Customer December, 1947 1929. 100 million bushels of grain in the As National Chairman for the Railroad margin of total take-in short period of two months. We of Reprinted by courtesy of the Personal over expenses and taxes in the five Friendship Train, I extend to you my No other American business is sub• the Committee want to thank each one Finance Company. A framed copy hangs years ending with 1945 actually was personal thanks. Your participation in every Personal office. ject to as much government regulation of you who had a part in this great $60,000,000 less than it was in the five aided substantially in turning an as the railroads. Regulation not only The customer—the most important year peace period ending with 1929. crusade against famine. limits what they take in. Government altruistic idea into a magnificent ex• So there were no swollen war profits, As for me personally, I am sure person ever in this office. pression of American spirit. authority also largely controls what so far as the railroad industry is con* that we could not have reached our The customer is not dependent upon I know that you are proud, as I they pay out. cerned. objective so swiftly and so surely you—you are dependent upon him. am. to have had a part in it. The policies through which public The margin was even smaller last without your unstinted cooperation. The customer is not an interruption Sincerely, regulation and controls are applied to year, the first full year after the war, The unselfish and public-spirited way of your work—he is the purpose of it. H. M. Warner. the railroads are largely influenced and even though the railroads last year in which you have helped this program You are not doing him a favor by shaped by popular opinion. Everyone performed more freight service than — 0— from the very beginning is assurance serving him—he is doing you a favor in the railroad business consequently they had ever performed in a peace• by giving you the opportunity to do so. Washington 7, D. C. that the long term ^conservation plan is affected by what people generally time year. Last year actual railroad The customer is not a rank outsider November 29, 1947 will have the backing it needs to keep know, or believe to be so, about the profit was smaller than it was in 1939, grain flowing abroad as long as the to your business—he is part of it. Dear Mr. Metzman: railroads. the year the war began in Europe. It need exists. The customer is not a cold statistic Mistaken popular ideas about the was only about one third as great as I have just returned to Washington Sincerely, —he is a flesh-and-blood human being railroad industry never have a healthy it was ten years earlier. after spending almost three weeks Charles Luckman with feelings and emotions like your influence on those in public positions riding on different sections of the —0— own, with prejudices and biases—even who are responsible for regulation. Expenses up Three Billions Friendship Train, and I want to take Ambassade de France though he may have a deficiency of This is particularly important right Railroad intake, 1946 as compared this first opportunity to thank you for aux Etats-Unis certain "vitamins" which you think now, as the railroads are seeking raises the magnificent job done by the New important. with 1939, increased less than a billion Washington, 1st December, 1947 in rates that will bring the prices of and three quarters dollars. But in the York Central and all its personnel. The customer is not someone to the only thing they have to sell back Dear Sir: same period operating expenses in• It was my misfortune that I could argue with or match wits against— into line with the prices of the goods As the goods unloaded from the creased almost three and a half billion not ride on the New York Central nobody ever won an argument with and services they require. Friendship Train are being shipped dollars, largely because of higher branch of the Friendship Train, but a customer even though they may have to France, I want to thank you for prices for everything the railroads and Mrs. Pearson took my place and has thought they did. Freight Rates Stand Still the magnificent efforts furnished by those who work on them have to buy. told me of the efficient, helpful service The customer is a person who brings Freight rates stood still, as every your railroad in order to make that It doesn't help any railroad worker given by all of your officials and em• us his wants. If we have sufficient one knows, through several years while enterprise possible. for people generally to have false ideas ployes. At first I had hoped to switch imagination we will endeavor to han• prices of all goods were going up Without the railroad's generosity, about railroad profits in either war or from one train to the other via Pitts• dle them profitably to him and to steadily. Railroad rates still have a the cooperation of the workers who peace times. It does railroad workers burgh and Buffalo, but broadcast ar• ourselves. long way to go before they catch up gave their time freely, this fine generally serious injury to allow the rangements had already been made for with the parade of higher prices for gesture of the American people would public to believe that they enjoyed me at Altoona and I couldn't manage everything else. And every one who not have found such an overwhelming swollen profits during the war, because to make the change. depends on railroads for work and success. I want to express my pro• $5 Conscience it is not true. However, in various broadcasts that wages has a direct stake in seeing that found gratitude to your Company for The truth is that the railroads ac• I made along the line I endeavored to Money to Garner railroad rates do make headway—at having given such a courteous wel• tually earned smaller profits during mention the New York Central as well come to the Friendship Committee. Shortly before Christmas F. H. least to the extent of catching up with the war than in prosperous peace times as the Pennsylvania on each occasion. Above all, I would like to stress Garner, Superintendent at Chicago, re• the tail end of the high cost parade. when they were performing much iess 1 don't need to tell you that we will the merits of Mr. Gibbons, your ceived the following undated and un• The mistaken popular notion that service. continue to remember the fine con• General Manager, and his able as• signed communication bearing an Elk• the railroads enjoyed unprecedented It is the further truth that rail• tribution made by the New York Cen• sistants for having arranged every hart, Ind., postmark. profits during the war isn't helping road rates stood still during the war tral and the other railroads to the detail with utmost graciousness. Mr. "Just a mite to clear my conscience any in that direction. It is too far from while all other prices were going up, efficiency of the Friendship Train. I Gibbons did not spare his endeavors for some things I did while working the truth. and that rate increases since the war hope that this gesture of friendship in order to make the Friendship Train for the New York Central railroad The fact is that railroad profits in the and those being sought now will not made by the railroads and the Amer• a great success. five year period—1941, when the Japs that were not honest such as stealing bring rates to a level relatively as high ican people can be adequately trans• struck at Pearl Harbor, through 1945, Please convey my thanks and ap• time and some tools from time to time. when they finally folded up at Tokio— as the level to which commodity prices lated into friendship in Europe. We preciation to everyone on the New Yours in Christian Love." actually were less than they were in the have risen. are doing our best to bring this about. York Central who worked for the A five dollar bill was enclosed. January, 1948 Central Headlight 11

Chef Woodfork Guest of Honor at Dinner in Chicago Chicago Passenger Trio Promoted

A farewell dinner in honor of Chef George Woodfork, who retired after nearly 40 years of service, was held in Chicago recently at Barney's Restaurant. He entered service of the Dining Car Department February 4, 1908. L. C. Snyder, Superintendent Dining Car Service, Line West, Chicago, presided. Among out-of-town guests

present were former Traveling Chef W B Schappman of Cincinnti; John Whitehead Platform Steward at Buf- Three Chicago Passenger Traffic officials were promoted on December 1. falo and an old friend of George and Dan Flmchum of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, formerly a Chef on the Big Four. They were J.W. Switzer, center above advanced from passenger Traffic Man.

E. Stevens, General Inspector A T Labbe, Assistant Superintendent D.n.ng Service, Line West, Frank Vogel fo Assistanf fo Genera| Passenger Traffic Manager; S. W. Bone, right,

retired Cef, and J. Munley Ass.stan Foreman, 12t.Street Terminal, spoke briefly in_tribute to Chef Woodfork. from General Passenger Agent to Passenger Traffic Manager, and T. E.

who has been known to his fellow workers as one of the most generous men in theDining Service Department . Nerland. from Assistant General Passenger Agent to General Passenger Agent. Chef Woodfork was presented with a traveling bag.

World's largest dog food plant. Gaines Food Division of General Foods Corporation at Kankakee, Illinois, at right. At left is the corporation's corn mill, to which the dog food plant in connected byoverheaan overhead d conveyorconveyor .

THE largest dog food plant in the feet by 350 feet, part of which is Sherburne, N. Y., and was acquired world, the Gaines Food Division three stories in height. Erection of in 1941 by the General Foods Cor• of the General Foods Corporation, the building brought General Foods' poration, whose entire dog food pro• now is in operation on rhe lines of the investment in Kankakee to more than duction now is concentrated in the From left: L. C. Howe, Division Freight Agent; R. L. Milbourne, General Agent; Mark Stepelton; LeRoy Blue, General Freight Agent, and F. L. New York Central at Kankakee, Ill. 3 1/2 million dollars, and its roll of new plant. Smart, Assistant General Freight Agent. Formal opening of the new $1,500.- employes to nearly 400 men and A large part of the credit for locat• 000 plant was held November 13, women. ing the original corn mill in Kanka• an event which coincided with the New York Central officials attend• kee and cooperation in the recent ex• MARK H. STEPELTON, City General Freight Agent" and Division annual banquet of the Kankakee ing the ceremonies were M. J. Alger, pansion is given by James J. Mullen, Freight Agent, Chicago, decided Freight Agent; L. C. Howe, Division Chamber of Commerce and a joint Vice President. Traffic, New York; General Manager of the General to make the Army his career. Ac• Freight Agent; R. L. Milbourne, Gen• celebration was held. High ranking W. C. Douglas, Assistant Vice Presi• Foods operations in Kankakee, to the cordingly, recently fellow workers in eral Agent; LeRoy Blue, General New York Central executives at• dent, Freight Traffic, Chicago; Leo Industrial Development Committee of the office of L. C. Howe, Division Freight Agent; F. L. Smart, Assistant tended both the opening and a follow• Day, Assistant General Solicitor, Chi• the Chamber of Commerce, which is Freight Agent, gathered to give him General Freight Agent; H. A. ing reception by Clarence Francis, cago; E. J. Gibbons, Assistant Gen• headed by W. A. Kraus, General a send-off on the eve of his return to Coughenour Coal Freight Agent; M. Chairman of the Board of Directors eral Manager, Cleveland; H. P. Han- Agent, Freight Department, for the military service in the regular Army L. Seger, Chief Clerk to Assistant of General Foods, and the Chamber's nan, Superintendent, Freight Trans• New York Central in Kankakee. He Air Corps as a captain, the rank he Vice President, Freight Traffic; W. L. annual dinner in the evening. portation, Cleveland; H. L. Willard, mentioned particularly Mr. Kraus' held at the time of his discharge from Jones, Industrial Representative; H. The new plant, which has a ca• General Coal Freight Agent, Chicago; efforts. war-time service. B. Jutcher, Assistant Coal Freight pacity of 400 tons of dog food a H. W. Coffman, Industrial Agent, Mr. Kraus presided at the Cham• Mark started work with the New Agent; John Spiers, Commerce De• day, is located just east of the Gen• Chicago; LeRoy Blue, General Freight ber's banquet, at which Mr. Francis York Central on March 10, 1937, as a partment; L. N. Barbey and H. A. eral Foods corn mill, with which it Agent, Chicago; F. H. Garner, Su• was the principal speaker. The annual file clerk in the Freight Traffic De• Waller, Traveling Freight Agents, and is connected by an overhead conveyor perintendent, Chicago, and E. W. message was delivered by Donald partment. He entered the Army Air City Freight Agents M. J. Knappstein, system and which delivers corn mill Kemp and F. H. McNamee, Train• Gray, President of the Chamber of Corps as an air cadet in April, 1942, C. S. Steele, W. H. Grounds, J. C. products directly into the Gaines masters, at Kankakee. Commerce. Approximately 800 were and was discharged with the rank Malone, C. W. Bishop, F. J. Watson, plant. The other ingredients are The dog food business was started present. of captain. At the time of his dis• R. L. Sweet, J. E. Norwood, J. A. shipped in. The new building is 230 by Clarence Gaines 12 years ago in charge he was credited with shoot• Seiler, R. V. Marinier, L. E. Schroeder ing down six enemy planes over Ger• and R. E. Youngs. retiring commander, Glen C. Johnson. many and had been awarded two Dis• Officers of Commodore Vanderbilt Post No. 789, The installing officers were Erwin J. tinguished Flying Crosses and eight Harders and Harold Hobson, Post Air Medals. He returned to the New Chicago Commander and Senior Vice Com• York Central in December, 1945, and Bob Henry Elected mander, respectively, Second District, re-entered Army service on Novem• Cook County, Illinois, as Commander ber 17. A.A.R. Vice President and Sergeant-at-Arms. As a farewell gift the male mem• Robert S. Henry, of Alexandria, The installation was followed by bers of the department presented him Va., Assistant to the President of the several brief talks, including ones by with a substantial check, while the Association of American Railroads, L. W. Horning, Vice President, Per• ladies gave him a record album. was elected to the newly created post sonnel and Public Relations, and J. Attending the luncheon were H. W. of vice president in charge of the L. McKee, Vice President-Assistant Coffman, Industrial Agent; F. O. Public Relations Department of the to President, Chicago. Henry W. Stein, Assistant General Agent; W. A.A.R. by the Board of Directors re• Coffman, Past Commander, was mas• A. Hillman, Export and Import cently. ter of ceremonies. Agent; W. P. Hansen, Export Freight Albert R. Beatty, of Washington, Presentation of the Past Command• Agent; J. R. Tascik, Commerce As• D. C, manager of the Press and Radio er's Emblem was by Past Commander sistant; J. Carleton, Special Repre• Section of the A.A.R., was named Francis P. Madden. C. A. Bounds, sentative; A. C. Ripple, Chief to Assistant Vice President. Chief Clerk in the Auditor of Freight Accounts office, Gibson, acting for members of the staff of that office, presented the new Commander, George tello, Sergeant-at-Arms. Members of Daffy-nition N. Gilbert, a handsome purse, in the Executive Committee are Past Front, left to right: L. R. Whitson, Junior Vice Commander; A. E. Picard, recognition of his being the first mem• Commander, M. J. Ronayne, C. E. A wife is one who says "I do" one Senior Vice Commander; G. N. Gilbert, Commander; G. C. Johnston, Chap• day and "You do" every day there• lain; J. H. Dutton, Finance Officer; William Costello, Sergeant-at-Arms, and ber of that office to head the Com• Petersen, W. E. Doyle and R. S. after. M. J. Ronayne, Service Officer. Rear: W. H. Fulkrod, Graves Registration; mander Vanderbilt Post. Miller. Russell Miller, Member Executive Committee; O. W. Lipper, Historian; E. W. In addition to Mr. Gilbert, the of• The evening concluded with an en• * * 9 'aade, Member, Executive Committee; Earl Dutton, Adjutant, and Robert ficers installed for the current year tertainment program which included Cannon, Recording Adjutant. were A. E. Picard, Senior Vice Com• feats of magic by Glenn Viall of the Switch mander; L. R. Whitson, Sr., Junior Chicago New York Central Police BURGLAR comes home and finds PUBLIC installation of 1947-1948 Street Station. The ceremony was Vice Commander; Earl Dutton, Ad• Department, and a Memorial Interlude OLD MAID under HIS BED- officers of the Commodore Vander- presented before a capacity audience jutant; Past Commander O. W. Lip• by Kate Pentzer Stokes, dramatic * * * bilt Post No. 789, the American of members of the post, their families per, Historian; Past Commander G. artist and wife of K. K. Stokes, Gen• Legion, Chicago, was held in the and friends. C. Johnson, Chaplain; J. H. Dutton, eral Superintendent of Transportation Too True .. . True Too Gateway Restaurant in the La Salle The meeting was opened by the Finance Officer, and William J. Cos- of the Rock Island Lines, Chicago. There are no bachelor rabbits. 12 Central Headlight January, 1948

Let's Know the Facts Veterans Who Had AMSE President Confers Medal on Kiefer

(Concluded from page one) 50 Years Retire AMONG employes who retired other devices has been a big factor in railroad pay rises. Thousands at the end of December, with of investors in rail securities provided the funds for the new tools 50 or more years of service, were the following: and facilities. These made the railroad worker more efficient and William A. Hamler, Superintend• increased his productivity, which in turn brought higher wages ent, St. Lawrence, Ottawa and Adirondack Divisions, at Watertown, The New York Central System has under way an ambitious im• N. Y.. 56 years of service. provement program, already involving commitments totaling $225,- Joseph A. Loftus, General Yard 000,000. This is in addition to the vast sums needed yearly to keep master, New York, 54 years, 6 months. Francis A. Allen, Assistant Chief, the railroad plant in good condition. In 1947, for instance, upkeep Passenger Tariff Bureau, New York, of equipment alone cost more than $146,000,000, while maintenance 52 years, 3 months. Joseph A. McNamara, Head of way and structures came to $95,000,000 more. Clerk, Accounting Department, New Orders placed by the New York Central since the early part of York, 52 years, 2 months. Truman G. Case, General Fore• 1944 involve about $175,000,000. The war delayed delivery, but man, Car Department, New York, 51 many of the freight and passenger cars and locomotives are coming years. 3 months. from the makers' shops now. The trains will go over roadways and Welden A. Manship, Division Pas• senger Agent, Cincinnati, 50 years, structures improved at a further cost of $50,000,000. 1 month. Mark F. Wilson. Yardmaster, Chicago, 50 years. Improvements to Cost $1,650 for Each Employe NYC Orders 111 The total of $225,000,000 for the 1945-48 improvement program Paul W. Kiefer, (right) of New York, Chief Engineer of Motive Power and Rolling Stock, New York Central System, receives the Association of Mechani• will amount to about $1,650 for each employe of the New York Cen• cal Engineers' Medal from Eugene W. O'Brien, of Atlanta, retiring President of tral. These betterments will make our jobs less difficult and more Diesel Electrics; the Society conferred at the ASME annual meeting in Atlantic City, December 1-5. He was cited for "outstanding achievement in railway transportation." The attractive. They will permit a greater amount of transportation service ASME Medal is the highest honor conferred by the society. to our customers and keep the New York Central among the railroad Cost $21,000,000 leaders of this country. At the end of the war our road represented an investment of about The New York Central System an• nounced on December 17 placement of $18,000 in tools and facilities for each employe. The management's orders for 111 additional Diesel-elec• policy has been to provide the best in the way of tools. This has been tric locomotives at a cost of about R. D. Starbuck Ends 45 Years' Work made possible only because our tools have Been used efficiently and $21,000,000. (Concluded from page one) have produced better service. This sends the Central System's quarters at Watertown, N. Y. minal. postwar improvements program above J. D. Carkhuff was appointed Su• Winfred E. Doty was appointed In the next tew years the productivity of the railroads—especially the $225,000,000 mark—more than perintendent, Rochester Division, with Timber Treating Engineer, Line East the New York Central, which serves such a large section of American 175 millions for new motive power headquarters at Rochester, N. Y. of Buffalo, with headquarters at Rome, industry—must be kept at a high level. We must keep the production and passenger and freight cars re• N. Y ceived or ordered since the start of C. B. Fleming was appointed As• lines of many factories supplied and cleared. We must transport big Mr. Farnham, now Superintendent 1945. and roadway and struitures im• sistant Superintendent, New York farm crops to the centers of population here and overseas. provements involving expenditures or Terminal District, with headquarters of the Rochester Division, succeeds. The investors in New York Central securities have provided us with commitments of around 50 millions at West 72nd Street, New York. W. A. Hamler, who retires at the the best railroad tools available. It is to our interest to use the tools for the 1945-48 period. R. G. May was appointed Assistant age of 69. After spending much of Superintendent, Electric, Harlem and his career on the Pennsylvania Divi• well. Frank S. Austin, Manager, Purchases Putnam Divisions. sion, Mr. Hamler was appointed Su• and Stores, said the orders were placed We help all the productive machinery of this nation when we F. W. Trimmer was appointed Train perintendent at Watertown in 1931. by the Central and two affiliates, the Master, Rochester Division. He was born in 1878 at Camillus, transport goods rapidly and efficiently, with as little loss or damage as Pittsburgh & Lake Erie and the Indiana R. S. Reuss was appointed Train N. Y. possible. In that way we aid ourselves and the public generally, too. Harbor Belt, with the American Loco• Master, Syracuse Division. Mr. Carkhuff was born in Raritan. We curb the inflation that endangers the country and we relieve suffer• motive Co., the Electro-Motive Divi• F. H. Dugan was appointed Train N. J., in 1892 and entered the service sion of General Motors Corp., and ing in Europe. Master, New York Terminal District. of the Central in 1916 as signalman with Fairbanks-Morse & Co. To transport greater production from the nation's farms and indus• William M. Stewart was appointed and telegrapher after first working General Freight Claim Agent with tries will be a gigantic task. H( The orders are for eight road pas- headquarters at Buffalo. similar big job without serious congestion of traffic Our duty in the Clarence J. Conklin was appointed Navy as Chief Petty Officer Return• enger locomotives, 17 road freightin g to railroad service he was employed days ahead is just as great, for we will be fighting inflation here and Assistant to Manager—Claims, with locomotives, 15 transfer locomotives. hunger abroad. headquarters at New York. in the Fast Freight office, was pro• 64 switch locomotives and seven road John R. Stevenson was appointed moted to Trainmaster and since 1941 switch locomotives. Deliveries are To lick both is just as essential as victory in the war. Assistant General Freight Claim Agent, has been Assistant Superintendent of scheduled to start next summer and with headquarters at Buffalo, succeed• the Grand Central Terminal, Electric, extend into 1949. ing T. A. Ward, deceased. Harlem and Putnam divisions. The Central, which already has one Raymond J. Tiffany was appointed Mr. Stewart succeeds John K. Lovell, of the largest fleets of Diesel-electric Assistant Freight Claim Agent, with who has been General Freight Claims road locomotives in the country, or• headquarters at Buffalo. Agent since 1931. Mr. Stewart en• dered earlier this year 36 Diesel-elec• William F. Devitt was appointed tered service in 1900 in the Freight tric locomotives costing around $12,- District Freight Claim Agent, with Department, transferring to the Freight 000,000, and last year ordered 25 headquarters at Chicago, to succeed Claim Department in 1905. Since Diesel-electrics costing more than $11,- John R. Stevenson, promoted. 1945 he has been Freight Claim Agent 000,000. Many of these have been in New York City. With his ap• President H. J. Palmer was appointed Trans• delivered and are in service. portation Assistant to Vice President. pointment the office of the General R. G. May was appointed Assistant Freight Claim Agent is being trans• Power Ballasters Superintendent of Grand Central Ter- ferred from New York City to Buffalo.

95 Honor W. F. Nagle in Collinwood (Concluded from page one) the rails. Recent Wage Increases on NYC A gang of six men works with each power ballaster—a foreman, a machine (Concluded from page one) operator and four track laborers. The greatly increased. For example, the it was only .91 percent. track laborers, two on each side of the total cost of the 1946 wage increases machine, each throws a forkfull of Recently some one referred to your for the New York Central Railroad, ballast under the hammers at every tie railroad's enormous earnings. He was including leased Lines, but excluding tamping. probably influenced by the tremendous officials. Division officers and their business we are doing and did not Twenty-eight tamping hammers, at• assistants, amounted to $60,800,000. If consider the final net earnings after tached to a crosshead operated by air, the recent settlements effected with the payment of wages, taxes, cost of pound the ballast. The hammers are the Non-operating Employes and the materials, etc. Nor did he consider spaced 14 on each side of the tie, with Conductors and Trainmen are extended that the book investment, less deprecia• 4 outside and 3 inside of each rail. to the Enginemen, Firemen and tion on the property of this railroad The crosshead is raised two feet to Hostlers, the total wage increase would plus cash and material and supplies, fall of its own weight of 3 tons in amount to $55,000,000 per year The amounted to more than $1,698,000,000 each tamping operation. It completes total increased annual cost including Sometimes it is said employes should the tamping of ballast under a cross payroll taxes since January. 1946, receive a greater share of Company tie with six blows in 16 seconds. Bal• would be $115,800,000. earnings. Doubtless many do not last for ties at rail joints receives seven In the year 1946 the wage increase know what share they actually re• tamping blows. on this railroad amounted to about ceive. The size of the full crew with which $44,300,000 more than the Company A party was held by the Collinwood Supervisor's Club at the 999 American During the years 1930 to 1946, the machines operate totals between received in increased tariff rates. Prior Legion Hall in honor of William F. Nagle, Superintendent of Shops, on the total wages, including Retirement and 40 and 50 men. The first gang in the to the granting of the present increase occasion of his transfer to the position of Superintendent of Shops at West crew, preceding the power ballasters Social Security taxes amounted to Albany, New York Mr. Nagle was presented with some luggage- presentation in wages, application was filed with about 40 1/2 rimes what the stock• being made by J. E. Chandler, Master Mechanic. He also received a wrist by 100 yards, operates the track power the Interstate Commerce Commision watch from the office employes. About 95 people were in attendance. A steak jack. This machine speedily raises the for necessary increases in tariff rates. holders received in dividends. Ac dinner was served by the members and an enjoyable evening was had by all. track to its new level for the fresh Following the recent wage increase, a tually, the return 10 the stockholder The above picture was taken at the party. Left to right seated: S. D. Foster ballast, lifting both rails at once or supplemental application was filed with during these 17 years amounted to a Superintendent of Shops; A. L Wright, Superintendent of Equipment; W M. either independently so that on curves the Commission for a further increase total of only $17.50 per share of Nagle, Guest of Honor; J. E. Chandlei, Master Mechanic Standing, left to any desired super-elevation can be to offset the present wage costs Should stock, or an average return of $1.03 right: C. F. Burns, Assistant Superintendent of Equipment; H. T. Stonebraker, made The power lack replaces per year General Foreman Collinwood Locomotive Shop; F L Hoffman. Master this authority be delayed too long, or Mechanic, Buffalo; J. R. Hamilton. Assistant Superintendent of Shop at Beech manually-operated track jacks an insufficient amount granted, the The postwar improvement program Grove; and E. Axtell, President of Supervisor's Club. A trailing gang works with a con Company will be faced with serious of the New York Central System is ventional compressed-air tamper, hav- difficulties. now in excess of $225,000,000. More ing individually operated hand tamping Your railroad is one of the largest than $175,000,000 is to be expended Basketball Starts participating: Pullman Reservations. tools This gang performs a clean-up in the country. Yet during 1944, the for new motive power and passenger Accounting Department, G.C.T Ac- job of tamping between occasional ties year of its highest gross earnings, the and freight equipment. Roadway and The Manhattan Athletic Association counting, NYNH&H Ticket Office, lying too close together for the powet return on its depreciated investment in structures improvements involve ex Basketball League got under way De- Tariff Bureau, 33rd Streer and Bag ballasters to work without damaging properties used in transportation serv• penditures or commitments of about cember 9, with the following teams gage Department. the ties. ice, was only 3.80 percent In 1946. $50,000,000 for the 1945-1948 period.