Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14575024247)

Identifier: baltimoreohioemp04balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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ere held. The Industrial Future of Curtis Bay By J. D. LucasYard Clerk THAT Balti-more is fdes-tined to holda great place in thefuture industriallife of the countryis a fact that seemsto be acceptedwithout questionby the officials ofthe many greatcorporations nowlocating in its im-mediate vicinity. Of late especialattention has beengiven the tract ofland across theriver from Balti-more City, on Cur-, tis iBa3^ Its won-derful industrialgrowth has drawnto, it the eyes ofbusiness men from all over the country. In thelast few years almost every industry locatedon this tract has enlarged itself to many times,its former size and some of the new plants havebeen established on a truly gigantic scale. A trip through this wonderful industrialdevelopment is of great interest. LeavingCamden station by train and turning off in thedirection of Westport at West Baltimore, wefirst come to the plant of the Consolidated GasElectric Light and Power Company, employingseveral hundred men. In the immediate
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STRAIGHT PIECE OF SINGLE TRACK JUST NORTH OF PATUXENT ON THE SAVAGE BRANCH The trees brush the flies off the engineer and fireman vicinity of this plant there are also the Carr-Lowre\ Glass Company, which employs sometwo himdred men in the manufacture of bottlesand other glassware; the Chesapeake IronWorks employing 150 men; the Westport PavingBrick Company, which employs 150 men in themaking of various brick and clay products;the Maryland Veneer and Basket Company,which employs nearly 100 men in the making ofbaskets; and the J. H. Geis Lumber Company,the H. G. Gray Coal Company and several other firms erii-plo3^ing smallworking forces butall helping to makethis area an indus-trial beehive. Passing our in-terchange point atCliffords, we moveon to Masonville,a small settlementat the entrance toCurtis Bay Yardand then travelover the south-bound trackthrough the yardfor a mile. As thetrack turns east-ward the plant ofthe Ellicott Ma-chine Corporationis seen. This con-cern started in asma