. Railway mechanical engineer . mes without its Y. M. C. A. The camp of the XinthEngineers is no exception. The moment the CommercialMuseum was occupied, the Pennsylvania Railroad Y. A. brought in writing tables, chairs, pens, ink and station-ery, and started work. It has printed special letterheads, andenvelopes marked Correspondence Table, Ninth RegimentEngineers. It has brought in a piano, a victrola, maga-zines and books, and its efforts have been duly repaid. William A. Patton, assistant to President Rea, is in gen-eral charge of the work, and J. Frank Keehler is the man-on-the-job.
. Railway mechanical engineer . mes without its Y. M. C. A. The camp of the XinthEngineers is no exception. The moment the CommercialMuseum was occupied, the Pennsylvania Railroad Y. A. brought in writing tables, chairs, pens, ink and station-ery, and started work. It has printed special letterheads, andenvelopes marked Correspondence Table, Ninth RegimentEngineers. It has brought in a piano, a victrola, maga-zines and books, and its efforts have been duly repaid. William A. Patton, assistant to President Rea, is in gen-eral charge of the work, and J. Frank Keehler is the man-on-the-job. They have arranged entertainments once ortwice a week, and now and again they have secured aspeaker, who talks to the boys on questions of that .Americans are not strong, linguistically, theyhave secured five French instructors, and the boys have beengiven an opportunity to learn the language free of charge. The Pennsylvania Railroad Womens Division for WarRelief will supply each member of the regiment with a. Some of the Pennsylvania Railroad Men In the Ninth Regiment struction—Captain, B. W. Kline, electrician, Peimsylvania,Williamsport; first lieutenants. Alba B. Johnson, Jr., Bald-win Locomotive Works, and William Welch, blacksmith shopforeman, Pennsylvania, Meadow Shops; second lieutenant,Charles G. Brown, .\ltoona shops. Company F—Pipe and tin shop—Captain, E. B. Whit-man, assistant road foreman, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh; firstlieutenants, W. B. Rudd, assistant road foreman, Pennsyl-vania, Jersey City, and F. A. Wightman, motive power in-spector. Pennsylvania, New York; second lieutenant, J. special apprentice, Peimsylvania. Altoona. The men are now quartered in the big hall of the Com-mercial Museum, with accommodations, incidentally, thatwould make a fellow who had been to Plattsburg or to theborder, green with envy. They have shower baths with hotand cold water—over 60 of them—and with 30 real Ruudheaters. They drill on Franklin
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