Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-04-23

members apd through all the years
his interest in the welfare of the Or
der has been second to none.
When in a reminiscent mood Mr..
Carroll can tell stories of railroading
that are a revelation to the engineers
of modern days He was born in
Mannheim, Herkimer county. in 1897,
and came of family of railroad men,
his father and his four brothers fol
lowing that occupation. In 1852, when
he was fifteen years old he went to
Little Falls and obtained employment
as water boy for gang of trackmen
under William A. Everts, where he
remained for one summer. The follow
ing year he worked on the section
under his father, who was track boss
at East Creek. Under the consolids-
ton of divisions, in 1854, when he was
seventeen years old, Mr. Carroll Sc
cured position as fireman on a work
train which covered the territory be-
tween Albany and Syracuse. The
work was hard for a boy, but he went
at it with a will and promotion soon
came, when, after six months. he was
called to Utica and given the posi-
ton as fireman on freight train run
ming between this city and Syracuse.
He was too good a fireman to remain
long in that position and within a
few months he was firing on a passen-
ger train on the Syracuse division
with Isaac Vrooman as engineer.
BY this time he was getting used to
being promoted, so he was not sur
prised when on September l, 1857, he
was given position as freight engi-
neer He continued to hold this for
nine years and was then advanced to
| passenger engineer and had a run
from Utica to Syracuse, until the ex-
tension of the division to Albany. At
this time double crews were put on
passenger engines and Mr.. Carroll
was mated with M. Richard and they
ran passenger trains between Albany
and Syracuse for ~ years. Mr. Rick
ard was then elected railroad COM
missioner and for the next five years
Mr.. Carroll had Anthony Myers as his
running mate. At the expiration of
that time the rule was adopted re-
! quiring engineers to undergo a phys
ical examination, the men going in
pairs to New York, as they could be
spared. AS a result Mr.. Carroll was
taken off the road and given a posi-
ton as driver of an engine in the
Utica yards, where he continued until
he reached the age limit of seventy
years, when he retired.
During all his railroad career Mr.
Carroll had but one serious accident
CINE ran into switch that had been
blocked with ties, supposedly by per-
sons desiring to wreck and rob the
train. The engine was derailed and
Mr. Carroll's brother, Charles B. Car
roll now a resident of John street,
who was firing was slightly injured
Mr.. Carroll has represented division
No. IA, B. of L. E., at conventions at
Atlanta Ca, and at Chicago and for
26 years he had charge of the insur-
ance of the local division and of the
first assistant engineers. For many
years he was secretary of his division
and filled the Office with honor to him
self and to the organization One of
his choicest possessions is the badge
of the order, which is in the form of
a SCROLL inclosing a locomotive, with
a shield pendant, and bearing the fol-
lowing inscription brotherhood of
locomotive Engineers. Honorary
Member. G. |, d."