. Railway master mechanic [microform] . vernment rail-ways, the railways of other foreign countries, also the U. , leading railways of the States, Canada and Mcx-tea, marine boiler manufacturers and ship builders, 222 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC June, 1904. Railroad Paint SHop Edited by Devoted to the Interest of CHARLES E. COPP <£?.£> Master Car and General Foreman Painter B. <3b M. Ry. Locomotive Painters Official Oruan of the Master Car and Locomotive Painters Association. In Memoriam Many of our readers will be pained to learn of the suddendeath of Mr. George H. Worrall, f
. Railway master mechanic [microform] . vernment rail-ways, the railways of other foreign countries, also the U. , leading railways of the States, Canada and Mcx-tea, marine boiler manufacturers and ship builders, 222 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC June, 1904. Railroad Paint SHop Edited by Devoted to the Interest of CHARLES E. COPP <£?.£> Master Car and General Foreman Painter B. <3b M. Ry. Locomotive Painters Official Oruan of the Master Car and Locomotive Painters Association. In Memoriam Many of our readers will be pained to learn of the suddendeath of Mr. George H. Worrall, foreman painter of the B. & Somerville shop, which occured May 23. In companywith the Foreman Carpenter, Mr. Joseph Staples and Beede he went to Winchester, a distance of about 8miles, on an errand connected with his shop, and, on alight-ing from the train at that point, fell to the platform in anattack of heart failure. A Boston-bound express train wasstopped and his stricken form placed thereon and borne to. Mr. George H. Worrall. the hospital, where every means were resorted to to bring himto life and consciousness, but without avail. Following is a portrait and extract from a sketch of which was published in the Railroad Car Journal,September, 1896, then the official organ M. C. & L. P. A.: Mr. George H. Worrall, foreman painter, Somerville shop,B. & M. system, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1850. Whenhe was very young his parents removed to Kennet Square,Chester county, where he received a common school getting through school, with nothing in particular inview, he drifted to the West, and, traveling through a num-ber of the Western states, finally settled down in the Stateof Iowa and attended a Western college two or three terms,with the intention of becoming a master of teaching penmanship a few terms he became, to usehis. own language, paint struck, and served three years atcarriage and sign painting under Mr. B
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