. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ing, Jr.,Thirteen Year Old Son of Machinist,Mt. Clare ShopsSECOND PRIZE, CLASS CDorsey, Maryland, is my home like it for the freedom of the country andfor the kindness of the people. Not many years ago we had only onehouse in Dorsey. This was the old DorseyEstate. When the Baltimore and Ohiostarted laying its tracks. Miss Eliza Dorseygave the Railroad a strip of her is how the village got its name. During the Civil War soldiers were sta-tioned along the Railroad. A regiment ofsoldiers had their barracks not far fromDorsey At one time o
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ing, Jr.,Thirteen Year Old Son of Machinist,Mt. Clare ShopsSECOND PRIZE, CLASS CDorsey, Maryland, is my home like it for the freedom of the country andfor the kindness of the people. Not many years ago we had only onehouse in Dorsey. This was the old DorseyEstate. When the Baltimore and Ohiostarted laying its tracks. Miss Eliza Dorseygave the Railroad a strip of her is how the village got its name. During the Civil War soldiers were sta-tioned along the Railroad. A regiment ofsoldiers had their barracks not far fromDorsey At one time our town had one of thelargest camp meetings in the state of Mary-land, known as Wesley Grove Camp. TheBaltimore and Ohio ran special excursiontrains to haul the people back and thousands of people took advantageof these excursions each season. Dorsey has a factory which manufacturesfirebricks. The chief industries are farmingand railroading. Dorsey, which has aboutfive hundred inhabitants—including the{Continued on Page ^8). 36 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, July, igzz Employes Who Are Taking the Curt oi Service of Baltimore and Ohio Inspires Passengersto Poetry and Song ON June 28 Number 6 carried a partyof passengers enroute from Denver,Colorado to Boston and Canadafor the convention of the NationalEducational Association. G. W. Sturmer,grand president of the \eterans, was on thetrain and enjoyed pointing out to theseeducators (for most of them were schoolteachers) the historical points on the Balti-more and Ohio from Pittsburgh to Balti-more. The folks in the party declared that theyhad never enjoyed a ride so much in theirlives and that the Baltimore and Ohiodining car service was the best in the to cap the climax Miss Katherine , state superintendent of Public In-struction of Colorado, wrote the followingpoem, which she and her companions sangto the rolHcking tune of Marching ThroughGeorgia: Bring out the ukelele, sound the glorious n
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