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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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l, for every one of the men in theSignal Department of the Baltimore Divi-sion was represented in the gift andthere are many more of us who wouldlike to have been represented had we THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 39 known of the affair before it was all over.The inscription says: Presented toCharles A. Thompson UPON HIS retirement AS SIGNAL SUPERVISOR Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyBY theSignal Men OF THE Baltimore DivisionJanuary LsT, 1919 The tray is of silver and, like the owner,speaks for itself in the accompanyino picture. It is really so handsome thatthe ♦picture does not do it justice, how-ever, and we understand that Mr. Thomp-son is now arranging a large christeningparty so that other friends can sae thereal article and how it stands up underhard service. One thing m this respect—the tray will never give better servicethan has he to whom it was given. Mr. Thompson has worked more yearsin the Signal Department than any otheremploye of the Baltim_ore and Ohio.
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Tribute to Whom Tribute is Due 40 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE C9 From the time of his entering mainte-nance work in 1882 mitil his retirement,in hot weather and cold, in the ordinarywork of the dsiy and in emergjencies,night time or day time, and for the manyhazardous duties into which, especiallyin the old days, his profession called him.Air. Thompson has never missed a call.Of such a record he ma)^ well be proud.We hope that the days of his retirementwill bring a rich reward for the older,sterner days of labor and that we mayshare his optimistic and youthful spiritfor 3ears to come. Arthur Kirkendail Now RegionalSupervisor of Safety, UnitedStates RailroadAdministration IRTHUR KIRKENDALL wasappointed Regional Supervisor ofSafety in October, 1918. Mr. Kirkendail was born atPhiUipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey,where he received a common school educa-tion and where, even as a boy, his ambi-tion was to become a locomotive engineer. He was employed as brakeman on theLehigh

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