. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . to Superintendent, Ohio Division THE following is taken from Dusty Miller Tales in the Wilmington,(O.) News-Journal: The Murphy Reunion Most families are content to have a reunion once a year, but the railroaddivision of the Murphy family—Tom and Pat—holds a reunion everymorning at Blanchester shortly before 9 oclock. Pats the conductor on the Hillsboro district, the convenient and well-patronized branch-line train, plying between Hillsboro and Blanchester a goodmany times a day. Pats a prince. He knows everybody and everybodyknows him. His middle name
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . to Superintendent, Ohio Division THE following is taken from Dusty Miller Tales in the Wilmington,(O.) News-Journal: The Murphy Reunion Most families are content to have a reunion once a year, but the railroaddivision of the Murphy family—Tom and Pat—holds a reunion everymorning at Blanchester shortly before 9 oclock. Pats the conductor on the Hillsboro district, the convenient and well-patronized branch-line train, plying between Hillsboro and Blanchester a goodmany times a day. Pats a prince. He knows everybody and everybodyknows him. His middle names Oblige, and he goes on the theory thatmost anybody could take orders and run the branch train some way or other,. Tom Murphy and Pat Murphy but to run it right and make the passengers feel at home and want to comeagain, is an art, and Pats the theres Tom. Toms good-looking and conductorish in his well-pressed uniform,and hes an artist at smiling and being accommodating. Tom runs the main-line accommodations—the one that goes toCincinnati in the evening from Chillicothe, stopping everywhere, and thensome; and brings her back the next morning on the same style of operation—puff, whistle, stop: stop, whistle, puff; here she comes, there she goes—thesame old story day after day, but the little train is in the hands cf a man thatikes the job and thats 99 per cent, of success, remember. Pat gets into Blanchester from Hillsboro about eight something everymorning; Tom rolls in from Cincinnati a short time later, and if the brothersdont get time to talk a bit they always have time to wave a brotherly greeting. They go the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors one better. Father andMother Murp
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