. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ands, his wife and daughter Marion,spent a couple of weeks at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Illinois Division Correspondent, Omer T. Goff, Secretaiy toSuperintendent In connection with the No-Accident Cam-paign on the Western Lines, we have a sugges-tion from crossing watchman W. E. Foutch atVincennes that trainmen be on the lookout atcrossings where watchmen are located so thatwatchmen can notify them of any defect theymight discover on trains. Mr. Foutch has alsomade several other suggestions in the way ofSafety that have been put to good use. closel
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ands, his wife and daughter Marion,spent a couple of weeks at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Illinois Division Correspondent, Omer T. Goff, Secretaiy toSuperintendent In connection with the No-Accident Cam-paign on the Western Lines, we have a sugges-tion from crossing watchman W. E. Foutch atVincennes that trainmen be on the lookout atcrossings where watchmen are located so thatwatchmen can notify them of any defect theymight discover on trains. Mr. Foutch has alsomade several other suggestions in the way ofSafety that have been put to good use. closely inspects all trains passing hiscrossing and has several times found defects,which he has reported to the train crew, andhas in all probability averted several takes a great deal of interest in his work, isalways on the job, and when he discovers acondition which he thinks should be corrected,he immediately gets busy. Mr. Foutch enteredthe service on December 12, 1874, as a freightbrakeman, was promoted to freight conductor. ()!)( A. C Grunz THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 95 December 6, 1878, resigned in 1882 and againentered the service in 1888 as a freight brake-man, was again promoted to conductor in 1897,and worked in that capacity until December 21,1913, when he again left the service. On May18, 1914, he was re-employed in the MechanicalDepartment as a machinist helper. In 1915,he was transferred to the Maintenance of WayDepartment as a target tender, and on Octo-ber 26, 1916, he was made a crossing watchmanat Vincennes, in which position he is still work-ing. The oldest engineer on the job since thedeath of our friend, Jim Reilly, is WilliamJones, who took his wife and saw the sightsof Chicago last month. Our engine foreman, Tat Miller, has at lastbought another automobile, after swearing thathe would never own another. Our trainmasteris in accord with the rest of us in wishing himthe best of luck with his car, for it is a longdrill from Sec
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