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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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steppingon caboose. Can one look at these names and detailsand then question the wisdom of everysafeguard and of eternal vigilant ^? Thir-teen good men killed in the eight yearspreceding 1913 and not one in the sixsucceeding years. Of the men maimed in the years1905-1913, one lost his leg in yard col-Hsion because of shoving through yardat a high rate of speed. One lost his foot shoving a draw head. One lost a foot being bounced off a boxcar. One lost a foot because of a collisionin fog. One lost a hand while riding on side ofcar, hanging out. One lost an arm in slipping off foot-board. One was crippled because of hangingon a grab iron which pulled loose. Since 1913, however, only one manhas been crippled, and he lost his foot bygetting it caught back of a draw head. Can one look at the above facts andthen question the importance of safe andsane rules? Think! Thirteen deaths, six cripples in eightyears, 1905-1913, inclusive. No deaths, one cripple since 1914, aperiod of five years. 39
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John L. Mills, Section Foreman Representative Employe of the Baltimore Division In the issue of April, 1916, we started in the Magazine the series of portraits, Represen-tative Employes of the Railroad, the picture of the employe bting on the left page and the brieftribute to him, on the right. The accompanying sketch is the first in a new series and will befollowed by other similar sketches until each division has had its representative appear. Theselection of one man to represent a division does not mean that he is the only employe worthy ofthe distinction—rather that he is representative of the good character and fine record attained byother of his coworkers. You dont have to meet John L. Mills to know what sort he is. Justa survey of his section. Number 36, on the Metropolitan Branch, and youwould see there the character of the man whose pride it is. A beautifulstretch of double track, running through a beautiful country, it shows thepainstaking care and skill and work that this

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