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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employes magazine
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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forone month! If multiplied by the 365days in a year, the total would be45,625,000 watts and this amount of cur-rent would light more than two-thirdsof all the incandescent lamps on theBaltimore & Ohio System three hourseach day, for ten days. Now if all the45,000 lamps are left burning one houreach day during the year, it would meanthe enormous total of 821,250,000 wattswasted. With this amount of currentwe could light the great thirteen storyBaltimore & Ohio Building at Baltimore alittle over four years or we could haul1,297 trains of 2,200 tons each throughthe Belt Line tunnel, a distance of oneand one-third miles. If the 45,000 lampsare left burning two, three or four hourseach day during the year, the cost of cur-rent, to say nothing of the additionalcost of lamp renewals, multiplies stillmore amazingly. With these figuresbefore us it can readily be seen that theopportunity for saving in a seeminglyinsignificant item, may, by our earnestefforts, be made well worth while.
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ROBERT FINNEY BORN AUGUST 10. 1863 DIED AUGUST 24, 1915 ROBERT FINNEY, general agent of the Baltimore & OhioRailroad Company in the Pittsburgh District, died on August24, 1915, in St. Francis* Hospital, Pittsburgh, after an illnessof several months. Mr. Finney was born in Allegheny, Pa., and attended the publicschools of that city. The necessity for earning his own living pre-vented him from obtaining a college education, and at the com-pletion of his common school course, he became a clerk with theAllegheny Valley Railroad. In 1883 he went with the Pittsburghand Western Railroad as chief clerk in the office of the generalmanager. Early in 1889 he was made claim agent of this road andin December of the same year, superintendent of the PittsburghJunction Railroad, where he demonstrated his ability so clearlythat in 1894 he was made general agent of the Pittsburgh andWestern. In November, 1900, he became acting general super-intendent of the Pittsburgh and Western and the Pittsburgh

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