Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-09-09
LARGER B. & 0. R. R. PAYROLL
In Five Years the Amount Paid Out
Has decreased from $500 to $1,000
With More to Follow.

Recently there has been a good deal
said about the great improvements the
baltimore & Ohio road will make in
this locality, but little has been told OF
What has already been dome which is
OF more substantial character and
does more for the welfare of the
people of the community.
This paper has called attention at
Tunes to the large pay roll of the road
at this place and it is only recently
that the merchants have considered it
worth while to keep open for s. & o.
pay day might 1t is the general inn
preston that the shops are not do
ing much and that they add very little
10 the industry of the city.
VIII it surprise you to learn that the
pay roll at the shops is more at the
present time than it was when they
were moved away from the city some
years ago? Well il is and it Is ilcreas-
ing right along.
Five years ago the force at the
shops were only turning out some re-
pair work and the pay roll at that
time was s1,S00. Under the supervi-
zion of Mr.. 2. It. Brantmer the scop.
of the work has been gradually i'm
creased until nearly all the depart
ments of the Maintenance of Way
work is done here. Frogs and swift
ches are made, not only out of old
material, but recently they have been
turning out new frogs and switches,
and after the latest approved designs
and used on the main line of the sys-
tenn. The scale work is also done
here. under the direction of Mr.. John
E. Oliver, and during the past week
scores of scales have been shipped to
all points along the line and you would
have thought that lit was a scale fac
tory rather than a railroad shop that
was turning them out. ALI the hand
GERS are brought here for repairs, and
hume rous other things are brought
here for repair.
Besides the Worlds Fair EXHIBIT in
the east roundhouse a large part of
that is now used by the signal tower
people. The yard about the shops is
full of old and new iron of all shapes
that DIS being worked up into service
able material and thousands of dollars
saved to the company.
When the shops were brought back
here adj old machines were put into
use. Now now machines OF late pat
tern have been added and others will
replace the Anticipated ones in the
near future and still mere improved
machinery added.
Last week twenty-five more man
numbering forty it now numbers about
$40. and as a consequence there will
be large increase i'm the number of
dollars that come into the Golfers of
this city next week when pay day
comes around. Instead of that $1,000
being divided among a few men there
villa be $4,000 divided among 140 For
September the pay will be even
greater and will run about $1,100
more.
When you know the facts the Bal
timore e. Ohio shops is no mean in
Gustry and is am institution that the
city would not like to have pick up
and leave again.
This pay roll does not include the
trainmen, yardmen and others that
draw their ray here. The sum total
paid out hero by the comranv each
month approxirnates 100000 There is
mo means of getting the exact amount,
but those who know place the FIGURE
somewhere near the amount. That
means more than third of a million
dollars coming into Martinsburg every
year from the Baltimore & Ohio.
That is iust about one-fourth of the
amount of the annual revenue of the
company at this station.