Memorial services to honor railroad workers in Harrisburg
Central Pennsylvania railroad men and transportation union officials gather for the twenty second annual memorial exercises at Third and Harris streets in Harrisburg at 3 30 p m. The event is led by multiple locomotive and railway Brotherhoods with Rev J Bradley Markward presiding over devotional rites and the Pennsylvania Railroad Glee Club providing music including The King of Love My Shepherd Is and One Sweetly Solemn Thought. S J MecCarrell associate judge will deliver the memorial address, with further remarks by Rev Harry Nelson Bassler and an audience roll call of honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Patrick
D. B. Beigh
J. Bradley Markward
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Pennsylvania Railroad Glee Club
Ira L. Behney
J. Steward Black
C. N. Jackson
S. J. M. MecCarrell
Harry Nelson Bassler
Second Reformed Church
Beigh
Plan Union Terminal For Railroads at Hagerstown
Plans for a large freight terminal in Hagerstown Maryland to serve all entering railroads including Baltimore and Ohio Western Maryland Cumberland Valley and Norfolk and Western follow a Norfolk and Western visit. The proposed site southwest of the city measures about three miles by two and would expand storage and train movement capacity with several lines already endorsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Norfolk and Western Railway
Baltimore and Ohio
Western Maryland
Cumberland Valley
Norfolk and Western
Railroad Crew Standings and Assignments Report
Harrisburg Philadelphia Enola and Reading divisions list crews, engineers, firemen, flagmen, brakemen, conductors, and up crews with assigned numbers and names. Entries include up lists for multiple yards and shifts, noting times after which crews go and names such as Binkley Grass Sim mons Lefever Rouzer Blemm Rumfelt Reynolds Shrowder Miller Kowatch Starner Morrison Monroe Kautz Kruger Henderson Hain Gilbert Wert Kline Pleam Kennedy Lippi Sheckard Osmond Gillums Shindler Aulthouse Everhart Hershey Johnson Holeahemen Bordner Hoffman Petrow Stewery Miller Hum mellbaugh Kinderman Kepler Ward Snyder Bond Baxter Feaster Parr Cassel Wesley and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rouzer
Blemm
Rumfelt
Reynolds
Shrowder
Miller
Kowatch
Myers
Geib
Curtis
D. K. Hinkle
Holland
J. Hinkle
Sheaffer
Arndt
Holsinger
Cornell
A. W. Wagner
Wolf
Webb
Deaner
Hutchison
Snyder
Muller
Gross
Yest
Flagman
Starner
Morrison
Monroe
Kautz
Kruger
Henderson
Hain
Selway Jr
Gilbert, Laurer
Dill
Gormley
Wert
Kline Young
Crum
Sparrer
Alexander
McDougal
Buck
Graham
Crimmel
Keane
Winand
Keller
Hopkins
Lyter
Cornpropst
Gates
Beaor
Holtzman
Altoona
Philadelphia
Pleam
Kennedy
Lippi
Sheckard
Osmond
Gillums
Shindler
Aulthouse
Everhart
Hershey
Johnson
Holeahemen Bordner
Hoffman
Bream
Petrow
Stewery Miller
Hummelbaugh
Smith
Kinderman
Kepler
Ward
Bond
Baxter
Feaster
Parr
Cassel
Nicle
Wesley
Veteran Rudy Receives Pension Honor at Harrisburg Freight Station
Frederick Rudy, a Pennsylvania Railroad veteran of thirty years, was surprised with a twenty dollar purse on retirement at age seventy. James B. Kautz Jr. praised Rudy's loyal service and introduced him as a Roll of Honor veteran, recalling his Civil War return and decades of dependable work at the Harrisburg Freight Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Rudy
Pennsylvania Railroad
North Fifteenth Street
Rudy
J. H. Nixon
James B. Kautz Jr
Kautz
Wei
Harrisburg
Pennsy
Haig Strikes Entire Line Amid Spanish Dissension
The report notes soldiers siding with revolters and officers imprisoned as Spain faces internal turmoil. Dissension in Spain is linked to war issues and demands for reform. Venizelos’ return to Athens is forecast, likely aligning Greece with the Entente. Berlin decries Constantine’s abdication as Germany reacts to losing a Kaiser's ally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Germany
Athens
Venizelos
England
Greece
Constantine
Berlin
Pennsy Joins in Move to Help All Shipments
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a Department of Agriculture circular to farmers truckers growers shippers brokers boards of trade chambers of commerce and other groups to promote pooling and consolidation of shipments. It urges full carloads and prompt loading with practical methods to ship perishables without harming contents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transportation Department of
Pennsylvania Railroads
United States Department of Agriculture
Boards of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Harrisburg Unit Ordered Out for France Voyage
Harrisburg Bell Telephone signal corps units prepare for deployment. Captain Wattles and Lt Repp command the Philadelphia based D Company with Major Hubbel overseeing Bell system communications. Master Signal Electrician Hasskarl says Harrisburg unit is ready and to sail from Harrisburg to Philadelphia Sunday night. The first battalion to sail and exact timing remain undecided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
John J. Carty
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Signal Reserve Corps
United States Signal Corps
Signal Corps
Philadelphia
William P. Wattles
William F. Repp
Rexford M. Glaspey
Bell Telephone Companies of
Pennsylvania
General Pershing
France
J. W. Hubbel
Telephone Signal Corps
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Associated Companies
Bell Telephone Company
Victor L. Co. Hasskarl
Harrisburg
Hasskar
Fred Lutz
Victor L. C. Hasskarl
This City
Calvin E. Miller
Firestone President Paul Harrisburg Visits Local Branch
Paul Harrisburg, president of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co of Akron Ohio, surprised local manager L L McClintock with a visit to the North Second Street Firestone branch. The office at 210 North Second is a major Eastern branch with a large, well appointed facility and a service station at the rear selling solid truck tires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firestone Co
Paul
Harrisburg
H. S. Firestone
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Firestone
L. L. McClintock
Penn-Harris Hotel Construction to Start Soon
Dirt will be flying in a few days at Third and Walnut streets where the million dollar Penn Harris hotel is to be erected. E Clark Cowden civil engineer laid out lines for the contractors and excavations will begin shortly. Poster boards around the site will be removed on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn-Harris
Third
Walnut Streets
E. Clark Cowden
War Board Fixes New Rate For Daily Car Rent
Washington June 16 The Railroad War Board chaired by President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway announces a new per diem rental rate of 60 cents for one railroad using another road's freight car. The rate applies April 1 to September 30 with notices sent to all railroads. Previous changes raised the rate from 45 to 75 cents in December to force car returns. New rules broaden latitude in car service and returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Railroad War Board
Fairfax Harrison
The
Southern Railway
Hair Made Beautiful Wavy Hair At Sleep Time
An advertisement touts liquid silmerine to be applied at bedtime to create natural looking waves and curls. It promises a sleek glossy finish that resists heat wind and moisture, dries in waves and swirls, leaves hair soft and silky, and lasts for weeks per bottle from a druggist.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Central Penn
Harris
Hood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Plan Union Terminal
Binkley
Grass
Simmons
Lefever
Harnest
Graybill
Shandler
Bryan
Moore
Williams
Brenneman
Essig
Kersey
Blanchfield
Namer
Cook
Cover
ENOLA
Freighthouse
W. D. Bowers
Middle Division
Holidaysburg
George DeHuff
Eaglesmere
Bedford Springs
Johnstown
Pittsburgh
Coatesville
William H. Patrick
East
Middle West
Boston
Pere Marquette
William A. Spotts
North Fourth Street
Middle
Barley Cooney
William Shetley
Reading
Baldwin Locomotive Plant
R. V. Massey
Alseen
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
River Front Park
Republic Band of
Alma
Mich
New York
San Francisco
I. W. Dill
F. J. Major
Republic Motor Truck Company
J. W. Dill
Republic Trucks
Ewneeccanive
Haig
Smith Orma
Ford
Maxwell
Buick
Dodge Bros
Chevrolet
Overland
Camp Curtin
War Board
Chalmers
Detroit
Keystone Motor Car CO
Cameron St
C. H
SAT
Velie
Velie-Continental
Harrisburg x CO. FA
Vflie Motors
Yration
Moline
Illinois
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