Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14575242060)

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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its and squirrels heshot you can readily see why there is a scarcityof game in this section of the country. Murray Gardner recently paid a visit to NewYork City. Murray says he had a good timeand is sorry his stay was so short. Miss Julia Grobe visited friends in Philadel-phia the other day. H. L. Gordon is home on a sick furlough.He certainly is missed by his friends at theoffice. Messrs. Mitchell, Hohman, Doron, Kohler,Prechtel, Austin, Rutter and Ahrens wererecently guests at an oyster roast. From allaccounts it was a bang-up affair, and they areanxiously awaiting another. Auditor Freight Claims Office Correspondent, H. Irving Martin The employes in the O. S. & D. division areluxuriating in an atmosphere of stillness whichhas been so profound and deep that it couldalmost be sounded with a plumb line. It issuspected that some unkind person in theO. S. & D. division nicknamed the transporta-tion division The Boiler Shop or accusedthem of usfng a battery of rapid-fire guns. TO
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1831 1833 1835 19 oo l31o 1313. l<iie ^;...(iie^ THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EAHLOYES MACAZINE 70 Possibly tlio hoo-hivo of industry (transporta-tion division), the l)usy hoes of which arcjaunty girl typists and cheery faced youngmen presided over by Mr. Shields as KingBee, resented the appellation of Boiler-makers and shook the O. S. & D. dust fromtheir feet and sought comfort and consolationin the file room. In this spot they are securelycanned and the music from the fast flying tyi)e-writers escapes through the windows into thecorridors and loses itself among the lockers. Mr. Barnes, the chief engineer of the mailcrew and Mr. Elliott, the simshiny guardian ofthe files, listen to the gentle jingle of thetypewriter bells and pass out a letter or a claimfile at each tap of a gong. Mr. Elliott says that taps are generallysomided when a man goes off duty, but that hehears these operators sounding taps all daylong as they set the pace, which means forMessrs. Barnes and Elliott a flood