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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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ue of the Magazine. It is boundedby 11th and 13th Avenues and 25th and26th Streets and its tracks accommodatemany cars. It is equipped with a pon-toon float bridge, so that freight carstransported from St. George on car floatscan be run directly into the yard. Piers 7 and 22, North River, and Pier21, East River, are busy and fascinatingplaces. Here are piled merchandise andcommodities from the four quarters ofthe globe. Bags of rice, cases of bulbsfrom Holland, cotton from the south (forreshipment), farming implements, reels ofbarbed wire bound for the war zone,hogsheads of tobacco, cases of cruderubber from South America, bananasfrom Peru, cases of peanut oil fromChina, sissal (sister of hemp, used intwine making) from Mexico, flour fromSt. Paul, casks of palm and olive oil fromItaly—the products of all the world,which have been, or are to be, lighteredacross the bay by our efficient navy, passthrough these clearing houses to be trans-ported over the great Baltimore andOhio System.
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The Reflections of a Trooper By Herbert D. StittStaff Artist, Employes Magazine, Late of A Troop, 1st Maryland Cavalry Oh, its sweet to sweat through stables, sweet to empty kitchen slops,And its sweet to hear the tales the troopers tell. —Kipling. BEGINNING with that eventfulmorning of June 19 last, whenthe newspapers of the countrybore across their front pages thestartling statement: President WilsonCalls Out Entire National Guard of theCountry, the routine life of manythousand young men throughout theUnited States was suddenly upset. Earlythe same morning telephones became ex-ceedingly busy, and by noon the armorieswere filling and dough-boy officerswere breaking speed limits in a madendeavor to recruit their companies tofull peace strength in order that they might exist as an integral part of theNational Guard of our State. When the mobihzation call is sounded,there never is and never has been anytrouble in keeping the roster of a cavalrytroop up to its maximum allowance.There i

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