Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-20
|DN0|NY knife OF B. & 0.
PUTTING RIGHT AND LEFT
~ Employees Have Been Laid on,
ND shenandoah Division" Is
But "a Memory.
RCHANTs FAR FROM PLEASED
virginia Valley, Shippers Are
"iking Boycott - Retrcnchment
[oicy' Is Being Felt at Other
|laces on Limo.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
INCHESTER. VA. December 1s-
no economy knife of-the Baltimore
Ohio Railroad has been cutting
and left on the ShenadoaS
SION during the week now clos
"hen II was reported recently
upwards OF 1000 employees would
'aiu on at various places all over
system. ono OF tho head officials
SAID this division would not be
US the company was then en-
ing the smallest number of men
elble. and the services OF none ~
could be dispensed with. How
some or them have been laid or
given duel positions at less nav
SUI othcrs transferred to Bruns
n: In fact the name "Shcpundoah
oh is but memory, as this part
nc ROAD mas been added to the Bal
49,, ui.ision. The changes came so
uehiy mat many Of the men whose
vices are retained do not know when
9uit one days work what they
nc ooing the following day. nor
."cs Know from whom TO take
ers. Men who have served the com
anywhere from twenty-five TO
man lorty years continuously
.. either been laid OFF without a |
hotice. or given jobs Carving nj !
~ one-third less pay. The railroad
pany mas also taken on two pas. !
ger trains on this division. refuses
parsons TO ride on q mixed
thht Tor years made an import
connection with the Southern Rail |
Ut Strasburg Junction, and now
npiates disseminating the Shen-
Dan specials. made up OF Rova,
equipment, which have been r,,n
between Baltimore and Washing
and Lexington without cbnnoa .,
since last summer
my or the Wholesale merchants
5n,utacturers. retailers and other
f.hess men Of the Virginia valley
.hau9urated n boycott movement
o.s are being made to have an
~ VIII in the future shin ali thsir
|'os over other roads and direct ina,
Fchandise and other commodI,i.s Ia
oeo Tor them shall be shinned nl,e
pc. mo policy OF rctrenchment :.
lS teit also at Brunswick. Md
\ ',nsours' w. Va: Cumberland. Md
4 ~ many other cities and towns I'm
SHOPS are situated. and IT IS
ruicted by veteran railroaaers that
least several thousand mcn-o1d ia
ing and married and single alike
= nave TO look for employment else.
efe oy the first OF the year.
CHARDS ARE DAMAGED
by HEAVY SLEET sToRu
Exports received here from man,
Antics or the lower Shenandoah
lIey and the West Virginia border
Inties tell OF great deal of danagc
ing oeen done to apple and peach
haros by recent sleet storm. Trace
'he orchards along the mountain
pes seem to have suffered more ,h,n
ers' Many trees that have bccn
ring only year or two were
ken down by the siect, which rro,e
inches thick In numerous in
ncea. and hundreds OF Older ,roo,
e stripped OF large and small
nches. A great deal of replan,inK
nave to be done. Even largo
cory and locust trees. which arc
ally capable Of more resIstcnce
e broken down. and many country
pnone iiNes were severely crippled.
line that had Just been completed
warren County was practically de-
ished. but is being rebuilt.
GORE DELIVERS
FIRST OF LECTURE SER1Es
ne hrst OF a series Of m!dwinter
ures by some OF the mort eminen,
liars OF the country. to be rIven
"a, ne John Haniley Memorial Library
inehester. was delivered on Thurs
night by DR.. James Howard Gore.
Washington. who spoke on Belgium
Her People" DIR. Gore Is ma
o! Gore. this county, and has been
lected with the governments scien-
research work for number of