The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-06-02

R.yomotion "a Office Of Assistant
City Ticket Agent at Pithburg
Then Follows-office is High
One and His Friends Are All
GFatiied Rise Is Rapid. !:

One and His Friends Are AL
Gfatitied Rise Is Rapid.
Washington, Pa, May 27-Jer.
|Told r Vaughn, for the past Is
months in charge Of the local tickei
Office Of the B. & o. railroad com
pany has been promoted to the posi-
ton Of assistant city ticket agent in
ittsburg the change to go into eff.
feet the first of June. This ap.
pointment has come about in such a
way as to make it especially crafty.
ling to Mr.. Vaughn and his many
friends Mr.. Devaughn has learn
led at Pittsbnrg that B. N. Austin.
Of Chicago, general passenger agent
for the B. & o. road, but personally
unknown to Mr.. Devaughn, came
to Washington several weeks ago
talked to Mr.. Deyaughn as any
other patron Of the road would about
routes and rates, tarried about the
station for several dours, observing
the manner in which the young man
handled the business that came
along, and then went back to Pitts.
burg and reported that the man
they wanted for the vacancy there
was ont at Washington. Pa.
Though only six or seven years
|out of high school, ]. P. Devaughn
has already had opportunity to be-
come familiar with railroad work in
the freight office, on the road and in
the ticket office. BEGINNING about
'95, during his high school vacations
he worked on the station platform,
and in the summer of 1898 began
work regularly in connection with
the freight office. Here he remain
ed till the fall of 1900, when he was
transferred to the maintenance Of
way department, which maintains a
division department here. This
position he retained tin the middle
of October, 1901, quitting the road
temporarily just two weeks before
the wreck at the Brady tunnel, just
east Of town, when two men with
whom he had been working, James
Began, superintendent of trans
portation, and M. 4. Paddon, his
clerk, were killed. AZ
On October is Mr.. Deyaughn
left Washington, and going BY way
of st. Louis to New Orleans. he
shipped on a British transport for
South Africa. Landing at Durham.
Natal, late in November, he proceed.
ed TO Pietermaritzburg and enlisted
in the Second Johannesburg Mount
ed Rifles. He spent ten months as
a Tommy Atkins, and then returned
to his PENNSYLVANIA home. coming
by way Of England, where he spent
two weeks, and arriving in Washing
ton in MIDI October. Just a year az
Ter ne had left During that wear
he had Travelled $4,000 miles, and
had retraced 80 miles of all that dis
lance. eisst a
He Immediately resumed his. place
in. the Washington B. & o. FREIGHT
Office, and in March Of 1904 was
transferred from the position Of
cashier in tho freight Office to the
ticket Office. Isb \
w. a.. Preston is the name Of the
city ticket agent to whom Mr.. De
Vaughn is to be assistant. ut
wonld seem that the local station is
a sort Of training school for Pitts
burg, as A. ". Tiddy a few wears
went from Washington to the posi-
.ticpIof citS passenger agent in PITTS
burg. and is nof travelling passenger
agehtta The PLACE to be made vacant
,instAh 6fiee here Will be filed bv R.
F-pB erkebile, an old employee Of the
rnad; who comes here from Johns
town and Rock Woo. ;,as
J,sP. DaVatnhrlf iis a, raiiroad M !,