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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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ged organization. I would onlyadd that my idea of a good rule to follow,the rule that I learned early in life frommy father, is: Obey orders and alwaysbe on time. That his listeners agreed with him thatthis rule was a valuable one to follow,and that they thought Mr. Barnum him-self was a fine example of its worth, wasattested by the outburst of applausewhich greeted him as he took his seat. Upon inquiry from R. N. BegieUj gen-eral superintendent of the Baltimore &Ohio Southwestern, Mr. Barnum thenstated that under the new plan for carsalvage, $20.00 net per cdr could berealized for the lumber alone. Hereto-fore this lumber had been burned.Further inquiry from Mr. Thompsondeveloped the fact that $90.00 to $75.00is obtained for scrap from a box car andalso that in burning these cars the valueof the iron is reduced from $1.25 to $1.75per ton. F. Kerby, supervisor of locomotiveoperation, then suggested to Mr. Bar-num the advisability of a plan on therailroad whereby more comprehensive
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TiiK BAr;riM()iii; and oiiio iimiLovrs macazink training of our own men could 1)0 given.He also said that groat results wouldaccrue if our men were sent to variousother lines to study new methods, etc.Mr. l^arnum assented, hut emphasizeclagain the value of keeping up with ncnvmethods as introduced in the meetings ofrailway- conventions and pul)lishe(l inrailway magazines, as he had advancedin his original address. After a brief consideration of derail-ments, started by Mr. Stevens, E. M.l(ay, assistant engineer at Cleveland, sug-gested the economy of portable saw millsfor reclaiming lumber, and in the dis-cussion which followed, in which Mr.Barnum, Mr. Syze, assistant superin-tendent, and Mr. Redgrave, engineer-maintenance of w-ay of the Staten IslandLines, and G. E. Wilson, supervisorof locomotive operation, had a part, itwas pretty well agreed that these mills areprofitable. The chairman then computed the largesaving on the whole System which wouldbe brought about by these new econo

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