Railroad rumbles new contract for W U lines
Philadelphia reports the Pennsylvania Railroad directors approve a July 1 telegraph contract with Western Union and return of Postal Telegraph service. Construction costs for the upgraded system run about 2 million dollars amid a historic labor demolition of Western Union wires ordered by A J Cassatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Postal Telegraph Company
Pennsylvania
Western Union
Pittsburgh
Western Union Company
A. J. Cassatt
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
New York
Delaware River
Gould
Rail crews listed by divisions and ranks in Harrisburg and Enola
The document lists Philadelphia and Reading division crews with first to go times after 4 o clock and after 3.45, naming each crew number, engineer fireman brakeman and conductor up, plus individuals in multiple roles across the Harrisburg area and Enola side including Philadelphia division personnel and Reading division lineup with yard, signal, and maintenance staff across the 12 crew, 228 crew, and 240 crew groupings. It details specific personnel by name for engineers firemen and brakemen as well as conductors and flagmen across the two main lines and the Reading division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Hogentogler
May
Maxwell
Gable
Tennant
Howard
Brodacker
Martin
Wiker
Brooke
Shocker
Gemmills
McGowan
Riner
Kinter
Nauman
Hochlander
Shimp
Walters
Vanboskirk
More
Harnish
Troutman
Lotz
Kugle
Walden
Hoffman
Brymesser
Bitner
Penner
Fissell
Reese
Albright
Peightal
Snyder
Namer
Cook
Kline
Burris
Beshore
Weston
Mitchel
Colyer
Price
Alcorn
Arter
Aughe
Shrowder
Hineman
Lower
Beers
R. E. McCarl
Bowers
Rumbaugh
Graff
Rowe
Myers
Clemm
Yard Board
Geib
Curtis
D. K. Hinkle
Holland
Seal
J. Hinkle
Sheaffer
Webb
Montel
Deaner
Johns
Arndt
Noss
Holsinger
McConnell
A. W. Wagner
Hutchinson
ENOLA
Flagman
Sturgeon
Small
Essick
Walthmar
Flack
Miller
Grubb
Hevel
Codwell
Triest
Lacey
Wolfe
Bowman
Seibert
Wireman
Bordner
Minnich
Beecher
Ferrow
Shults
Bentz
Farling
Mites
McCormick
Grady
Len
Signal changes on P. R. R. lines
The Pennsylvania Railroad switches to green as clear track and yellow for caution with red remaining danger. Trainmen will learn details at the Friendship and Cooperative Club meeting at Eagles Hall Sixth and Cumberland Streets. E. B. Hunt will explain the Relief Department rules and address misrepresentations with a social program and refreshments to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendship and Co-operative Club
Eagles Hall
Sixth
Cumberland Streets
Signal Department
Pennsylvania Railroad Relief Department
E. B. Hunt
Relief Department
Committee On Entertainment
Red Owens Quits Motive Power Manager Post
Red Owens resigns as Motive Power manager of the Pennsylvania railroad team. Jack Frey succeeds him as pitcher and the squad will play at the Medows next Saturday. Owens cites lack of support for his recent kick at Baltimore. Charles J. Householder of West End A. C. assists and has secured Jackson A. C. for a Fourth and Seneca street game with a one arm pitcher named Davis. The Baltimore division pay car completes its semimonthly trip today. Reading system employees receive pay for the first half of the month. Local employees will attend a York meeting tonight of the Mu-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red" Owens
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jack Frey
Medows
Owens
Baltimore
Charles J. Householder
West End A. C
Jackson A. C
Fourth
Seneca Streets
Davis
Pennsy
Reading System
York
Harrisburg Conservatory Graduation At Technical High
Eleven musical pupils graduate at the Harrisburg Conservatory of Music in a crowded Technical High School auditorium. Harold Emil Marsh impressed with Bruch Concerto in D minor, while baritone C. B. Shackley charmed the audience with The Drummer Boy and a Lohr love lyric. Address by Dr. Mudge and Prof. Decevee urged high ideals and enthusiasm for a successful life as diplomas were awarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Technical High School
Harrisburg Conservatory of Music
Harold Emil Marsh
Madame von Bereghy
Bruch
C. B. Shackley
Edward German
Lohr
Mudge
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Decevee
Reading Railway and Pennsy announce major bridge and rolling stock orders
The Baltimore division will replace steel bridges with concrete structures and a 130 foot turntable is planned at Reading roundhouse. The CB&Q orders 79 Baldwins at nearly 4 million dollars. A concrete arch bridge over the Schuylkill in Fairmount Park costs 1 million. No further summer curtailments. about a dozen suburban trains canceled. main line and seashore trains unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tual Beneficial Association
Pennsy
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading Roundhouse
Reading
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
Baldwins
Schuylkill River
Fairmont Park
Philadelphia
Reading Railway Company
Parade recruits march to Armory amid city enlistments
A parade forms at the Armory at 7 30 to march through downtown and return to the court house where Company C recruiting will operate. Several Steelton men enlistment figures rise as new readers join. retired soldiers report for recruiting duty and stenographers are sought for the signal corps in Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walnut
Company C
Steelton
John Kostoff
Luis Skukan
Thomas M. Rodgers
George H. Rowe
Freeman Hoover
Andy L. Gollas
Joseph Dobrnic
Cyrus M. Shoop
Harrisburg
Sylvester P. Sullivan
North Street
Clayton J. Durbrow
Hummel Street
George C. Lehman
Huber C. Brinton
New Market
Harry W. Kintz
Carlisle
Thomas Parker
Jersey City
N. J
Francis O. Crystal
New York City
Gettyspurg
The
Red Cross
Victrola Records
Walnut Street
Amthor
Signal Corps
Calder Building
Henry Levin
Boas Street
Wharton
Philadelphia and
Reading
Stover M. Smith
United Telephone Company
Pennsylvania
Victoria
Rotary rally bills enlistment drive at Orpheum Theater
About six hundred attendees heard remarks at the Rotary Club rally at the Orpheum Theater. A Fourth Regiment band concert preceded introductions by Emerson Collins and Captain George F. Lamb. Seven men volunteered to join the Rotary contingent, with long roster lists of local enlistees following, noting addresses and corps affiliations.
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Rotary Club
Orpheum Theater
Floyd Hopkins
Rotary
Fourth Regiment
Emerson Collins
Jesse E. B. Cunningham
George Edward Hawes
George F. Lamb
United States Army
China
Philippines
Lewis
Cav
Tony Blanteno
Cumberland
Inf
Ross Coble
Harris
Med
Samuel S. Capin
Herr
Percy A. Chronister
North Fourth
Eng
Nick Ciello
North Seventh
Clarence C. Cooper
South Twentieth
Sig. Corps
William D. Colston
David F. Corkle
Woodbine
William D. Clay
Twenty-first
Lenox
Joseph W. Cooper
Market
M. D
James E. Cassatt
Susquehanna
Bruce C. Deitz
State
F. A
Gopito Dix Marko
South Third
Nicolas Damiani
Cherry Avenue
Nick Dirito
James V. Dumberry
South Ninth
Edgar L. Derstine
Hurst A. Eckels
South Fifteenth
James C. Fitzpatrick
James W. Fesler
South Cameron
Park A. Groff
Allison Street
Burtis Hawks
Second _ street
James M. Hill
Wood Street
Clarence M. Hartman
Broad
Charles H. Harper
South Seventeenth Street
Charley Johnson
Cowden
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W. A. Lines
Atlona
Jacob Otto
Blair County
Demetrius Hods
Frank Kramer
Robley
Sparrer
Alexander
Keiser
T. TD. Crane
Buck
Graham
Crimmel
R. M. Crane
Lyter
Cornpropst
Bealer
Holtzman
Dysinger
Hartzel
Winand
Keller
Gates
Pleam
Sheckard
Hall
Lippi
Doerstler
Everhart
White
A. L. Floyd
F. L. Floyd
Burley
Red Owens
Musser Studio
Harold BP. Marsh
Mary M. Moyer
Marguerite Snelbaker
Pearl Heisey
Russell Zimmerman
Ada Gross
Ruth Beatty
Alice Barker
Marian Douglas
Maude Ferry
Marian Matter
Ray H. Klucher
North Sixteenth
Boyd C. Kohler
Derry
Samuel C. Keller
Carl K. Kochnauer
John H. Long
Rudy
Bruce
Longacre
Curtin
John
Long
Forster
Paul F. Lombard
North Third
Michael J. Lyons
John J. Linko
Market Street
C. A
Lobin Lewis
Penn
James M. Morland
Med. Dept
Joe Millis
William L. McCarthy
North Fifth
GC. A. C
Wood E. Mo
Dauphin
Paul G. Magill
North Sixth
Clarence H. Noggle
Nectarine
Paul R. Nebinger
Kittatinny
George C. Neff
M. D. James McC, Newell, C. A. c.; Willum H. Orcutt
South Seventeenth
Charlie Peter
Dewberry
Orpheus Page
Sig Corps
Moses Pinkney
Lloyd L. Palmer
Charles H. Roeder
Green
Paul M. Rhodes
Harry E. Root
Vernon
Robert M. Reed
Third
John J. Ruder
Greenwood
F. A. Ignat Stalar
Leroy E. Stauffer
Paul L. Smith
North Twelfth
John H. Simon
South Fourteenth
Bertram A. Shoaff
Regina
George Sachko
Seidel
Lemuel T. Shaeffer
I. A
Alfred Swailes
A. C
Joseph S. Smith
George G. Swartz
Boyd Street
Harry B. Schiffman
Ira L. Schiffman
Charles 8. Segelbaum, Jr
South Second
J. Stanley Hollar
Harry F. Sleathour
South Front
Nayor A. Staples
Guy W. Showers
South Thirteenth
John A. Wood
Paul S. Worcester
Sign
Russell Wiest
Winfield Hf. Wilson
Reily
Charles Webb
Stephen Wheeler
George A. Winn
Sig
Harry D. Wilhelm
Howard G. Wilt
Paul FB. Watson
Henry L. Walter
David P. Yost
Clay F. Zerby
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart
Sewere
la Vallieres
Dives
Pomeroy & Stewart
Street Floor
Rickseeker’s
Bates
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Basement
Wochsese
Nottingham
Cial
Mary Jane
Fancy Pongee
Men's Store
Shepherd
Totes
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Market Street
White Crush Outing
Umbrella
Osee WC
Cecevreserveens
Cress Sc
Seafeewss
Baer
Ecru
Hoffer's
Hecker’s
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