Evening journal., 1916-04-03

rifett1 MS attention % his instrument.
Il was a o2n Tor help, C. @. d." from
Bedford. IA IN the queer dots and
dashss ~ the Morse telegraphic code
it hooked lSe this;
49, ...
-..
go ..... ....
.....
He turned TO his typewriter and trans
scribed the message into English.
Then he called a messenger and sent
Il TO his chief
The result Of the message has gone
out to the public in the shape OF 1000
placards posted in the various passen-
ger and freight stations along the
lines OF the railroad east OF Pitts
burgh. This notice is to the effect
that the Pennsylvania is prepared to
teach telegraphy free, with the added
assurance that employment would be
found on the railroad for all who had
completed the course. This road main
tains q school at Bedford, Pa, for in-
struciion in telegraphy and train dis
patching
The reason for employing placard
publicity to attract young men into
the service OF the Pennsylvania
harks back to the needs OF the muni-
iion-making corporations which are
draining the labor resources OF the en-
tire country by offering big salaries
for men TO turn their efforts toward
grinding out millions Of shells
Not so long ago the Pennsylvania
was forced 10 comb the east for track
walkers to replace the desertlons in
this branch OF its system. Now the
telegraph operators have dropped the
KEY to carry orc or make high explo-
sive shells.
Equipment at School.
A part of the equipment at the Bed
ford school consists OF a room con-
tanning an up-to-date miniature rail-
road. A track encircles this room
upon which miniature trains are oper-
atod by electricity. In every detail
this department is laid out as perfect
In as any first class railroad. Booths
here and there manned by operators
with telegraph and telephone instru-
ments operate these trains on schedule
time. The whole system is under
the direction OF a manager, who issues
his orders for the dispatch OF passen-
ger and freight trains with as much at
tention TO detail as can be found on
any branch OF the entire $4,000 miles
OF the PENNSYLVANIA lines.
Ii is real railrOading. A mistake In
signals. for the tracks are itted out
with block signals electrically oper-
ated. may result in wreck and the
tie-up of the whole line Schedules
are vigorously maintained. The trains
shoot ahead over switches and cross
overs TO side track. while the Eek
press thunders by. Let there be but
one mistake sleepy signalman, an
operator doing at his key-and the
greatest bloodless catastrophe in the
history of the school is likely to re
suit. To the casual reader lounglng
in his easy chair while his small son
plays with toy engines on the floor
beside him such training is sport But
il makes railroad men.
The Pennsylvania points, with no
little show of pride, TO the big men
of the road who have grown out of
The telegraph department-those who
started with their fingers on a tele-
graph key and ended as, either COM
mercial or railroad "magnates."
The story of how Andrew Carnegie,
ihe steelmaster OF them all. who be-
gan at Is as telegraph operator on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and later left
the railroad business to take up other
lines. which finally led him to the
very pinnacle OF the steel world. out
of which he stepped when the United
state Steel Corporation paid him
between s30O.OOO.OO0 and 100000
BOO for his interests, is known to ey-
arybody.
Men Who We're Telegraphers.
An official OF the road pointed to a
number Of acting executives. former
masters OF the key. They include j.
J. Turner, first vice president of the
PENNSYLVANIA lines west OF Pitts
burgh: G.. L. Peck, fourth vice presi-
dent Of the same division; A. M
Schoyer, resident vice president at
Chicago; c. NJ. Scheaffer, general SUI
perintendent Of transportation east OF
Pittsburgh; ID. Il. Stewart, superin-
tendent Of passenger transportation,
located at Broad Street Station, and
o. ]. De Rousee. general assistant TO
President Rea William G.. Besler
general manager Of the Central Rail-