. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . onstruction on the following bridges:new double track bridge at Havre de Grace,across the Susquehanna River; new bridge atPhiladelphia, across the Schuylkill River; twogirder bridges across the Potomac River, on theMagnolia cut-ofT; three new spans at GastonJunction, Wheeling Division; new bridge atNew Martinsville, across Fishing Creek; twonew highway bridges in Baltimore Terminals,at Lee and Ostend Streets; two new spans acrossWhite River, west of Washington, Indiana; tenbridges on Midland District, most of them withconcrete ballast decks; new bridge
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . onstruction on the following bridges:new double track bridge at Havre de Grace,across the Susquehanna River; new bridge atPhiladelphia, across the Schuylkill River; twogirder bridges across the Potomac River, on theMagnolia cut-ofT; three new spans at GastonJunction, Wheeling Division; new bridge atNew Martinsville, across Fishing Creek; twonew highway bridges in Baltimore Terminals,at Lee and Ostend Streets; two new spans acrossWhite River, west of Washington, Indiana; tenbridges on Midland District, most of them withconcrete ballast decks; new bridge 829, acrossthe Scioto River, on Toledo Division; his lastwork was one of the bridges across the SciotoRiver, Ohio Division. During his long and important career with theRailroad, Mr. Barns made a host of friends whowill wish him many years of happiness in hisretirement. He is a live supporter of the Balti-more and Ohio and its officials and says that hegives up active work with the memory of manyyears of pleasant and profitable Charles K. Welch The Latchstring Is Out atGassaway IR. Editor—Some day you may be in-vited to aid the Board of Trade or theChamber of Commerce of Gassaway,West Virginia, in a quest for a suit-able design for a mimicipal seal. Let me urge you not to recommend some stiffrepresentation of a battle monument, but tosuggest as a symbol altogether fitting to thespirit of the town that they adopt a designwhich will show that the latchstring isalways out to the hand of the newcomer. Literally and actually, when they ^ee astranger, they take him in to their homesand their hearts. Your correspondent, Mr. Editor, can visual-ize some fifty or more towns and cities along theBaltimore and Ohio System, most of which hehas visited during the last two years. His stayhas been short in most of them, but he hasalways received a kindly welcome. In thelarger cities he sees but little of the social sideof railroad life, for most of the workers live farfrom their wo
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