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No More Vacations For
Penna. Railroad Clerks
Notice has ben served on Penn
sylvania Kailroad clerks nt Altoona
that until further notice all vaca
tions will be cut out and they must
work full time on holidays. Last
Friday was the first time in many
years clerks at Altoona did not ob
serve Washington's Birthday. The
Altoona Tribune says:
"From one to three girls are per
forming the duties formerly accom
plished b yone man. and the short
age of help is becoming greater each
month. The Pennsy has ben prac
tically forced to increase its work
ing time in the offices and to ignore
holidays and Saturday afternoons
this month.
"Eliminating vacations will not
only minimize the number of passes
issued, but will simultaneously keep
employes more regularly employed,
save in cases of illness, and during
the present crisis when time means
not only money but efficiency, the
absence of vacationizing will help
greatly. The clerk or stenographer
going without a vacation this suml
mer will be doing his bit in that
way."
Flagman Troat Improves
After Long in Hospital
W. 1,. Trout, 4144 North Third
street, flagman on the Philadelphia
division of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. injured some time ago. is able
to be about. For a long time his
condition was considered serious.
Big Demand For
Used Cars
A larger number of people are going to
buy cars in 1918 than ever before. Some
are going to buy new cars and sell their
"used" cars and others who do not care
to put too much money into a car will
buy one that has been used.
"Use" doesn't hurt a car mechanically,
in fact some of them are much better
for the use. The only thing "use" hurts
in a car is the price. Depreciation in
value, from a commercial standpoint, is
as certain as day and night.
If you are in the market for a car,
read of the numerous bargains offered
in the "AUTOMOBILE" columns of
the TELEGRAPH.
If you want to SELL your car adver
tise it in The "AUTOMOBILE" col
umns of the Telegraph.
Reliable dealers and private owners
use this means of telling you what they
have to offer. Many a quick sale and
many a bargain is picked up in this way.
Use the telephone to send your ad to
the Telegraph.
I SPECIAL SALtf n
Electrical Household .Appliances
T° Reduce Our Large Stock of Electrical Household Appliances
This Sale Will Continue for Two Weeks
$ 5.00 6-lb. General Electric Irons $3.00
3.50 General Electric Toasters 2.10
10.00 El Bakos Baking Oven 8.00
7.50 Milk Warmers 6.50
7.00 Westinghouse Toaster Stoves .... 5.00
5.50 Westinghouse Toasters 4.00
10.00 Waffle Irons 7.50
7.50 Westinghouse Percolators 5.75
4.00 Auto Heaters 2.75
.20 General Electric Utility Holder .... 15c
• All Articles on Sale Will Be Sold With Usual Guarantee
HARRISBURG LIGHT & POWER CO.
_ 22 NORTH SECOND STREET
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MONDAY EVENING, TTARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 25, T9TS.
I While working in the MarysviUe
'yards he had his spine and hip frac
i tured and has been in the Harris
burs Hospital for several months.
Railroad Notes
The monthly meeting of the
Friendship and Co-operative Club
will be held Thursday night at
Eagles hall, Sixth and Cumberland
streets. Pftiininent speakers have
been secured.
Trains on the Pennsy were closer
to schedule to-day than they have
been since winter opened.
William Schell, clerk at the Bu
reau of Information, Pennsylvania
Railroad station, who has been on
the sick list, will resume his,duties
this week.
Two switching engines for the
Reading. Nos. 1457 and 1458, have
been completed at the company's
shops in Reading.
Nelson H. Anthony, employed in
the baggage department at the
Pennsylvania Railroad station, who
lias been suffering with a severe
cold, has recovered.
At the weekly conference between
departments heads of the Philadel
phia division, held in this city to
day, plans for furthering the gov
ernment were discussed.
No official announcement has
been received in Harrisburg regard
ing the removal of several fast trains
on the main line of the Pennsy. It
is probable that three days may be
set aside on which the entire pas
senger service will be cut except
trains needed to carry mail, and for
the accommodation of emergency
travel.
!RAILROAD RUMBLES
THRIFT STAMPS
FOR P.R.R. MEN
Souvenirs For Members of
Agents' Club at Annual
Meeting
J. It. NIXON
: Elected President of the P. R. R
Agents' Club.
At the annual meeting of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Agents' Club, held
Saturday at Hotel Brunswick. Ijancas
ter, J. 11. Nixon, freight agent for the
Pennsy in this citl, was elected presi- ,
1 dent. It was the eleventh session of
this organization and was attended
by 150 agents of the Philadelphia Di
j vision, including F. W. Smith, Jr., the
new superintendent, who was given a
I warm welcome.
| The occasion was featured with pa
i triotic introductions. One of the sou.
J venirs was a Thrift Stamp card, each
• card containing one stamp, and in
! scribed "till this cord and help win
I the war."
Business sessions featured the
afternoon session. Many matters af
fecting the welfare of the members
were discussed and tlie general con
duct of railroads at times found ex-
I pression.
Kleet \fn President
Frank B. Burroughs, formerly of
Lancaster, but no wfreight agent at
West Philadelphia, presided. He was
succeeded in the presidency of the
1 club by J. H. Nixon, of Harrisburg.
XI. A. Desmond, of Parkesburg, was
elected secretary, and R. J. Hussel, of
! Downingtown. treasurer. The mem
bers of the executive committee are:
■ J. W. Dennis, F. E. Williamson, J. A.
Oehme, J. It. Armstrong, W. S. Mus
ser, C. .1. Mclaughlin and Frank
Geisinger
i At the banquet in the evening pa
i triotic addresses were delivered by the
I I Rev. Dr. Rosenthal and Dr. H. M. J.
j Klein. The affairs of the nation were
1 laid before the diners in concise and
, foreceful fashion by both speakers ;
i and the need for absolute loyalty and i
i co-ordinate work made plain. The 1
! work of the government in financing,
, the war was alluded to and all ad- i
vised to take such part in the same 1
\ as their means allowed and not to
[ deny their country anything in this !
i crisis. The remarks of both speakers i
were loudly applauded. The meeting ,
and the dinner were the most success
ful functions yet held by the club. ,
IF. B. Burroughs was toastmaster. The
members of the banquet committee
were: F. E Williamson, R. j. Rus
sell. Jr., and C. J. McLaughlin.
Baldwin's Annual Report
Shows Increase in Sales
Philadelphia. Feb. 25.—Record fig
ures in all departments were estab
lished by the Baldwin Locomotive 1
Works last year, according to the j
annual report, issued last night, j
Gross sales were $95,263,565, com- \
pared with $59,219,057 in 1916, an in
crease of sixty-six per cent. Last
year's sales came $63,455,570 from
i construction of 2,748 new locomo- •
tives, $13,535,7u7 from other regular
work and $20,972,583 from shells and
other special work.
From last year's business the com- j
pany earned a manufacturing profit
of $11,779,019, against $6,361,710 the;
i previous yep.r, and after payment of
fixed charges and preferred dividends
and deduction of $1,750,000 for feder
al taxes, it was able to show a stir- i
plus of $0,905,722, against $1,219,465
the preceding twelve months. Such.
surplus income last year was equal
to nearly $35 a share on $20,000,000'
common stock, compared with a lit
tle more than $6 a share the pre
vious year.
Very large earnings had been fore
j cast, but what will surprise the
stockholders is the announcement
| that $15,800,000 has been charged off
from accumulated surplus for extin
guishment of patents and good-will,
; bringing the final surplus at the end >
i of the year down to only $55,346.
OFFICIAL TELLS
OF HARD WINTER
Pennsv Hard Hit When Mer
cury Drops Below
Zero
! The story of what is called the
worst winter in the history of Ameri-
I can railroading, the first winter the
j government ever ran the railroads.
! how snowdrifts 15 feet deep eovered
I tracks, below zero temperature,
j blizzards and blinding gales which at
! onetime stopped movements alto
; gether, is told in a report by Elisha
acting v'oe-president of the
| Pennsylvania railroad in charge of
operation. The story covers a period
of seven weeks from the middle of
December to the first week in Feb
ruary and records the handicaps
confronting the national railroad ad
i ministration at the beginning of its
regime.
The weather in the period covered
by the report was not only a record
breaking coid, but the heavy snow
falls and high winds and the unpre
cedented! length of the frigid spells
gave no time to recover and prepare
for the next emergency.
Extends Southward
As far south as Cape Charles, Va..
where ordinarily little trouble is ex
-1 perienced from snow or cold, there
were fifteen days on which it was
i impossible to operate car floats
across the mouth of the Chesapeake
Bay to Norfolk on account of the ice
barriers, and the passenger, mail and
express service was suspended on
three different occasions.
At Cresson, on top of the Alle
gheny Mountains, where a large
1 porportion of the freight for the
\ eastern terminals must pass, tem
. peratures of 18 degrees below zero
■ • were recorded, with high gales and
forty inches of snow. Prom Decem
ber 20 to January 28, the tliermome
> ter never registered higher than
■ i three degTees above freezing, and
that only for an hour or so on four
different days. , For ei&ht days the
thermometer continuously registered
zero or below, and this was follow-
I ed by a ten-day stretch on eight of
which the thermometer stayed below
, jzero.
On Renovo Division
On the Renovo division of the
Pennsylvania the thermometer was
below zero on fourteen days, the
, coldest weather in forty-five years.
On the Pittsburgh division of the
Pennsylvania there was a snowfall
of 211-2 inches in the month of
January, as compared with 9 1-2 in
ches in 1917. The Williamsport divi
sion spent five and a half times as
muih money in removing snow in
January as in the same m&nth a year
ago.
I.atest Storm
Reports made by the Eastern rail
roads to A. H. Smith, regional di
rector, showed that the snowstorm
of Friday and cold weather had had
some effect on operations, although
i j nothing like as serious as the storms
II of January. The loss from Friday's
k storm was reported yesterday at
j about 200 cars. Reports of cars above
1 normal on the eastern lines were as
1 follows:
E&stbound loads, 43,970; Increase,
i 2,234; eastbound empties, 4,115; de
) crease, 990; westbound loads, 31,012;
decrease, 897; westbound empties,
17,716; decrease, 147.
Standing of the Crews
HAIUUSUIIICi SIDE
Philadelphia Dlvlalon The 151
! crew first to go after 4 o'clock: 124,
; 108. 122.
Flagmen for 108, 122.
Brakemen for 124, 108, 122. '
Engineers up: Mohn, May, Baston,
| Black, Gaeckler, Grace. StaufTer,
Martin.
! Fireman up: Beistline.
' Brakemen up: Buford, Kugle.
Middle Dlvlnlon —The 15 crew first
to go after 1 o'clock: 226, 244, 32,,
CO. 235, 24, 33. 37. 248. 305.
j Engineer for 15.
j Fireman for 37.
Conductors for 32, 24, 33.
I Brakemen for 15. 33.
Engineers up: Cope, Nisslev,
: Fink, Titler.
Firemen up: Atkins, Boyer, Gross,
1 Slattery, Bickert.
Conductors up: Leonard, Hoff
nagle, Rhine,
i Brakeman up: Kirkpatrick.
Yard ISonrd —Engineer for 32C.
Firemen for 4-7 C, 5-7 C, t-lIC,
3-15 C.
Engineers up: Snell, H. R. Myers,
Levie, Bostdorf.
Firemen up: Stuart. Troup, Chor
penning, Sauerwine, Sherman.
ENOI.A SIDE
Philadelphia Division The 226,|
crew first to go after 3.45 o'clock: 1
201, 215, 223. 249, 21#.
Conductors for 215, 219.
Brakemen for 226, 201.
Brakemen up: Geltz, Shearer,
3rown.
Middle Division —The 107 crew first
to go after 2.30 o'clock: 246, 108.
Yard Hoard —Engineers for Ist 129,
| 3rd 129, 2nd 104.
| Firemen for 2nd 126, 3rd 126, 140,
Ist 102. 109.
Engineers up: Sheaffer, Bair,
Bruaw, Hanlon, Zeiders, McNally,
1 Potter, Fortenbaugh, Barnhart, Kapp,
•Teas, Gingrich.
Firemen up: Snyder, White,
Thompson, Morris, Whitehill, Hider,
| Haubaker, Miller, Holmes, Waltz.
, Meek, Rodgers, Deitrick, Boyer.
Metz, Crain. Shuey.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT
Middle Division —-Engineers up: J.
W. Smith, F. F. Schreck, Sam. Donn
ley, James Keane, J. A. Spotts, D. G.
Riley, J. Crimmel, A. A. Delozier, R.
i M. Crane, G. G. Keiser, O. L. Miller.
Firemen up: G. B. Husi, R. E.
I Look, E. M. Cramer. H. Naylor, Roy
' Herr, P. E. Gross. J. N. Ramsey, E.
' E. Ross, S. 11. Zeiders.
Engineers for 45, 19, 601.
Firemen for 25, 665, 19, 11.
Philadelphia Dlvlnlon Engineers
up: B. A. Kennedy. W. S. Eindley,
J. G. Bless, C. R. Osmond, B. F. Eip-
I pi, A. Hall, V. C. Gibbons, H. W. Gil- j
liums.
Firemen up: R. K. Strickler, C. C.
' Collier, W. M. Welch, J. Cover, E. E.
; Everhart, F. H. Cook, W. E. Sees.
Fireman for 578. No Philadelphia
! crews here.
THE READING
The 52 crew first to go after 12.15
i o'clock: 8, 53, 73, 16, 12, 18, 2, 71,
I 66, 57. 65. 4.
i Engineer for 2.
Firemen for 52, 57, 66, Jl, 2, 4, 8,
' 12, 16. 18, 21. •
Flagman for 4.
1 Brakemen for 52, 53, 57, 73, 4, 8, 21.
Engineers up: Plet, Seifert, Felix,
Minnich, Monroe, Barnhart.
Firemen- up: Hoffman. Hurley,
| Heagy, Slusser, Chrisemer. Kochen
| our. Coble. Strominger, Shover,
' Speck.
Conductors up: Hall, Keifer.
Flagmen up: Trone, Keim, Shultz.
Brakemen up: Breckenridge,
Cassel, Smith. Berger, Treas, Bru
ba!->i> Kroah, S. McKcever, Stahl.
THE MAN'S STORE OF HARRISBURG
The *Big "Push
The Last Forward Drive In Our
Final Reduction Sale
Ends This Week
around this part of NOW. And buy not
JyTAKE IT STRONG Well, to tell the truth, the country that Wm. only because the prices
that s what the it can't be made any Strouse's New Store has are extremely low—
boys of Wm. Strouse's stronger. The clothing had a phenomenal BUT BECAUSE IT
Store said to the adver- that the men of this sec- growth in the little over WILL BE THE MOST
tising man before he sat tion of the state have two years of its ca- , PROFITABLE IN
down to Write this final been buying in this sale reer. And that RAPID VESTMENT YOU
announcement of the is the BEST THAT GROWTH was due di- CAN MAKE. We are
MOST IMPORTANT COMES TO THE rectly to the high stand- giving you the oppor-
CLOTHING SALE IN TOWN BECAUSE ard of merchandise and tunity. YOU should
HARRISBURG. IT'S THE BEST the EFFICIENT SER- take full advantage of it.
Suits and Overcoats
Were $15:2 L*5 11.75 Were
Were Were
Were
Were $35 ~527.75
WhereAdler- Rochester
Monito Hose—Made in Harrisburg Mallory Hats
Emery Shirts \ Vassar
Boys' Suits, Overcoats and Mackinaws Reduced
1W Money OUR POLICY s Built
. ReZaS"! DO IT BETTER°\ B Be:Z e :
pr THE NEW STORE OF WM. STROVSE—EVER NEW—3IO MARKET ST *