The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-03-17
SOME OLD TIMERS.
Veterans o. the Punch AMI Lantern
Names Almost Forgotten.

Names Almost forgotten.
The following brief sketches Of some
our old times conductors is from the
Reno Gazette: 1t has beef the settled
policy OF the best railroad managers TO
change men as little AZ possible and
t4is has been a strong point always with
the Central Pacific road. Men like
General superintendent j. A. Fillmore
aud his aids, who have all been on top
of fright trains themselves, know thai
io know the road and the customs OF the
country adds greatly to IA mans value
aud contributes TO The success Of the sys-
tenn. The most successful division on
the road perhaps has been the Truckee,
having hardly an accident for a score OF
Years until that at Saliva made up for
lost time.
Among the first anne on the payroll
OF the company are several that are now
running letween Truckee and Carlin.
w. Ii. Case anne from the Union Pacific
in 1869, and has run n Train On this div
ision longer than any other He is
one of the best men too, that a railroad
ever had,-sober, trustworthy and as
honest rs the sun. lie was born i'll CO.
lnmbns, Ohio, 30 long age that he never
tells the date. When he struck the road
it was at ~Promontory.
j. b. McGonagle struck the G. p. in
1868 aud broke the road to .Clark's stat
ion. He crossed the Truckee at Wads-
worth on the temporary bridge and
struck out east through the sagetimber
IN Goose Neck hill. lie worked for the
road when it was the Shoshcne division,
and Andy Ryder and George Woods
were running 10 the front where j. Nj.
Campbell WAS superintendent. Among
The old conductors OF that day, Marshall
Was killed on the hill, Chamberlin died
of consumption, Clinch OF Bright's dis
ease, Woods OF brain trouble and Harry
Davis, while lieutenant governor, OF
heart disease. Uncle George Cornwall
too went long ago. Hugh Darrah is u
cattle king in Paradise valley, Andy
Ryder is in politics in Oakland, well to
do and much respected. Geo. ii. Rice
was train master at Carlin in 1870, DIR.
J.J. Meiggs was in Elko and W r..
Chamberlain and wills. Bender had The
eating house al Carlin. u. Gillette. who
Was division superintendent, is now
stewart of the Masonic Temple in Oak
land, taking life easy "n a we'll earned
competence. X. s. Mattison, also u
superintendent, is in the company's
employ in California J.. II. Wnited, 80
long superintendent here, came out in
1870 as dispatcher at Carlin, and has
been in charge of the division for nearly
fifteen years. lie was born in New York
in 1891, aud is a thorough telegrapher
aud trainman. He eaily made II home
among us and has a promising son at
Stanlord's.
M. L. Coats, the well known conduc-
tor, has had All eventful lie. lie enlist
ell AT fifteen and came 10 this coast
while a boy. He went TO work on the
siIt,is in 1868 and has been on the pay
roll ever since. lie has been a locomo-
five engineer, and from that ven to the
hind end of the train to act as conduc-
tor. He had his share of accidents, in
one of which the fireman Was killed
and another where the engineer was
crippled by a big smashup between
Bishop and Deeth. Mr.. Coats is a
native of Ashtabula county, Ohio.
George Derbyshire, a popular man,
came out in 1875, and like a lot OF good
men with interesting histories, is too
modest to talk
The railroad boys 90 through a good
deal to serve the public, and get too
little recognition ,or the great work
they do.