The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-03-14
PHILIP MURRAY ROUNDS
OUT IS YEARS SERVICE
FOR PENNSyL vANIA ROAD

Honor Roll" of the Pennsylvania
that OF Philip NJ. Murray of this city
SEVENTEEN birthday.
Forty-five years of service with the
exception of short time when he
was given. leave OF absence to engage
In business enterprise, afterwards
returning to the service of the com.
pany, will be the record OF Mr.
Murray.
From the old fashioned wood burn.
ing engines of the '70's to the nam.
moth coal burners Of today, Murray
has seen the road grow. Few of the
fellow workmen OF his youth are
alive. All the engine drivers he fired
for when fireman, are dead. Grizzled
and bent. but In full possession OF all
HIS faculties and with keen wit that
bests his fellow workmen Of today, lie
is still working out the few days left
Of his service to the company.
In July 1871 Murray was employed
on the G.. II. e. d., which then operated
between Richmond and Cincinnati,
and was given the position of fire.
man. The engines of that day were
small wood burners. coal at that time
being used on but few roads. The
engineers of that day with whom he
worked were: George Yingling, Dave
Corey, r. Crull, w. Brewer and ].
Meyers All these men have since
died The living comrades Of his
firing days Of the c. II. & ID are Pat
Conroy, now yard engineer at Rich
mond passenger station; John Dolan,
a through passenger engineer on the
Richmond division running through
this city from Logansport to Cincin-
natl, and Mr.. Kennedy, stationary
engineer at the Carpenters Mills, of
this city.
The engines all had names as well
as numbers, and were named for Of
fcials of the road, or for men who
had been instrumental In making the
railroad possible. Some of the names
were the ID. Barnett" sc. w. Nc
CURE" 81. Fletcher" Joe Terrence"
The speed of these passenger engines
with two or three wooden coaches was
about forty to fifty miles an hour.
The freight engines were capable OF
making a run from Richmond to Gin
cinnati or return with eighteen cars
in about ten hours
Stops were made every twenty
miles for wood, which was kept stored
in mammoth wood rcks, cut the right
length for the engine. Storellouses for
wood were maintained at Cincinnati,
Collinsville, Skunk Hollow, and other
places The seemingly inexhaustible
supply of wood at these places made
It cheap fuel
From the time he hired Murray
fired and ran engines on the G. II. q
ID. between Richmond and Cincinnati
until the consolidation of the c. Fl.
& ID and the Richmond division He
Camh to the Richmond division in 1881.
y3orH and reared at Camden, Ohio, he
then renounced his Buckeye home
stead and became a Hoosier, and Sc
cured a position as hostler at the
Richmond shop, located on street
where the large water tower and
water softener are now located. He
alternately ran yard engines and
worked in the shop for the next few
years until he secured furlough and
went into the barrel hoop business.
This proved a failure and he returned
to the service of the railroad company
at his old position as hostler.
At that time he was working as
hostler under Robert Hodgin, father
OF Robert Hodgin, now an engineer on