The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-19

be made through the cooperation and
approval of school authorities or
others interested In such tours. The
appointees are the wives of agents
OF the Baltimore and Ohio and have
had wide experience In such matters.
Mrs. White Is the wife of the agent
ut Rockville. Md, and Mrs. Watkins
the wife OF the agent at Sykesville,
Md.
The travelling chaperons will make
their first trip on December 16, when
they viii accompany party of stu
dents of National Park Seminary, a
fashionable school for girls at Forest
Glen, Md. on special train from
Washington to Chicago. They will
also accompany other parties on trips
home for the holidays and will return
with them to their respective schools
at the close of the vacation period.
1t Is the plan of the Baltimore and
Ohio to retain the travelling chap
erones permanently in the passenger
department organization. as during the
year there are numerous parties of
young women excursionists who visit
Washington and other points of inter-
est in the territory reached by the
road. They will bestow the same at
tention that relatives. who often are
unable to make excursion trips,
woul DIDO.
Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad deny the reports emanating
recently to the effect that detectives
connected with the company have been
photographing employees seen indulg-
ing in intoxicating liquors.
1t was explained by those In posi-
ton to speak with authority that
while the Baltimore and Ohio insists
upon absolute sobriety on the part of
Its operating department employees
connected with train service, their
personal liberty is not interfered with
when off duty.
And in this connection It was said
that the statement attributed to. DR..
]. F. Tearney, chief medical examiner
Of the company, which 1t is claimed
has been somewhat distorted, was in
the nature Of professional treatise
and a suggestion that in case OF ac-
cident the administering OF stimulants
should be left to the judgment of the
surgeons than by fellow employees or
misguided friends.
According to reports from Wash
ington, the ships of the United States
navy not on duty in foreign waters
will be in their home ports for the
Christmas holidays The vessels Will
anchor at Portsmouth, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk and
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
made arrangements through It's pas
senger representatives to provide spe-
cial service for the officers and sail
ors OF the fleets desiring to spend the
holidays at home.
1t Is the custom to grant furloughs
TO as many OF the naval branch OF
the service as can be spared in order
to allow them to spend Christmas
with relatives and friends. Large
parties Of the officers and enlisted
men make the trip to various points
throughout the country, and 1t is 10
tA.ke care OF this travel that the Bal
timore and Ohio Is arranging special
accommodations this year.
Walter D. Owens has been promot-
ed to auditor Of subsidiary lines Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, eff
fective at once. succeeding ]. L. Kirk,
who died recently. He has been chief
clerk to the comptroller and secretary
of the valuation committee which is
assisting government officials in APP
praising the company's property, Of.
which committee he will continue to.
be member.
Mr.. Owens is native Of Baltimore.
He was born June 10. 1876, and en-
tered Baltimore and Ohio service in
June. 1892. as clerk In the auditing
department He was promoted in