Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-09
FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE.


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EmpIoye.
Early this fall the management OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad decid-
ed that the uniformed force should be
provided with service stripes, and on
the winter uniforms each man has one
or more gold stripes on his right
sleeve If he has been in the service for
five or more years. The gold stripe
stands for five years continuous en-
ployment by the company and glance
over the list develops an interesting
and instructive condition of affairs.
The ordinary man, in a peaceful
and uneventful vocation, is seldom in
continuous service for forty years, yet
ON the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
there is hale and hearty old man,
with keen undimmed eyes, and a
springy step that has been in the con-
tinuous employ of the company for
fifty years and is still better than
many men half his age.
w. H. Green is his name but every
body on the line calls him Captain
Harry and he has a record that any
man, in any station in life, would be
more than proud of.
Captain Green is probably the old
est passenger conductor in the world.
If he is not he has the best record, for
not once has he been suspended from
duty for any cause whatever. And
then, too. he has never been injured.
Green was born on September 18th,
1927, in Ceckeysville, Baltimore
county, Md, and entered the Baltimore
and Ohio service March 3rd, 1850, as
freight brakeman. He was promoted
in two years to freight conductor and
in 1857 was given a passenger train
and has served in that capacity ever
since He is now running through
trains between Baltimore and Cum
berland. Nd, and wears ten service
stripes on his right arm.
Next to Captain Green, in length OF
service, comes S. R. Hume, who is en-
titled to nine gold stripes Of five years
each. S. T. Gill and S. Riley are wear
ing eight stripes, and there are seven
on the blue coat sleeves of E. Caskey,
]. F. Galloway, j. E. Lee, E. r. Null
len, W. l.. Pearl, A. E. Pickett and L.
G. Watkins.
1t is a remarkable fact that the con-
ductors of the Baltimore and Ohio R.sal
Road represent SO many years of ser
vice. In fact, the average for 191 con-
ductors is twenty years. For instance,
there are eighteen with a record for
thirty years service, forty with twenty
five years, forty-one with twenty
years, ffty-two with fifteen years, and
twenty-nine with ten years. Among
the station masters one has five stripes
Capt. j. H. Magee, Of Camden Station,
Baltimore.
Some of the passenger brakemen
have seen long years of continuous
employment, there being three entit-
led respectively to four. five and six
stripes, five to three stripes, and sixty
to two stripes. There is one station
baggageman, j. A. Bains. who wears
seven bars of gold braid, and so does
G. H. Evans, train baggageman OF
these latter, three have six stripes, sew
enteen five stripes, five four stripes,
twenty-five three stripes, and fifty-sev-
en- two stripes.
For many years Baltimore and Ohio
train employees have had an enviable
reputation for politeness to passengers
and attention to duty, and the adoption
of the service stripe system will give
the travelling public an opportunity to
recognize long and faithful service.
The ladies of the st. Matthew's