. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . mber of tableau ears j)ortraying different events of theRoads history, there were seven thousand employes in line in a specialuniform provided for the occasion. The Company engaged no less thanthirteen bands to enable this army to march with military precision. Aspecial feature of the management is the consideration shown employes,and as a consequence the verj best men are secured, who remain in theservice until old age entitles them to pensions. Thirty, thirty-five andforty years are no uncommon terms of continuous .service, and in severali
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . mber of tableau ears j)ortraying different events of theRoads history, there were seven thousand employes in line in a specialuniform provided for the occasion. The Company engaged no less thanthirteen bands to enable this army to march with military precision. Aspecial feature of the management is the consideration shown employes,and as a consequence the verj best men are secured, who remain in theservice until old age entitles them to pensions. Thirty, thirty-five andforty years are no uncommon terms of continuous .service, and in severalinstances it dates back even beyond this. No course followed by theCompany has created a better feeling among employcSs, or has been pro-ductive of more substantial benefit, than the organization and perfectingof the Relief Association. It is j)raftically a life and accident insurancecompany, combined with llic adilitional Irature of a provision to coversickness. A comparatively small sum of eaih niontlis wages is reserved to Ji. und r01!t Dt \\1 meet the premiums,and the benefits arepaid as the benefi-ciary is entitled tothem. In case ofdeath from accidentor natural causes, acertain sum is paidat once to the wife,children or lawfulheirs. It is a mostexcellent associationin all its details, and a lasting safeguard against destitution and the time it was organized the Baltimore and Ohio Company gaveoutright, to base operations upon, a large sum in its stock, which isquoted at about two hundred, and upon which a semi-annual dividend offive per cent is regularly paid. The association is managed by the officersand employes of the road, and bears upon its records the names of nearlytwenty-four thousand The system has proved so successfulthat other large railway corporations are adopting its general plan oforganization and management. The quartet remained in Baltimore longer than had been originallyintended, but there was so much of deep interest
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