. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . l not be long inconvincing you that you are entirelywrong. He is not one to impose his ideas andideals upon another without due regardfor the other persons fcehngs. He is adirect and forceful talker and when he isexpounding safety he is most loves an argument, for it gives him newideas, brings new thoughts and keeps hismind supplied with food. It was back in 1891 that Mr. Kelly firstwas employed by the Staten Island started out as an operator, next wasleverman and then in succession wentfrom agent to yardmaster, to brakeman,to
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . l not be long inconvincing you that you are entirelywrong. He is not one to impose his ideas andideals upon another without due regardfor the other persons fcehngs. He is adirect and forceful talker and when he isexpounding safety he is most loves an argument, for it gives him newideas, brings new thoughts and keeps hismind supplied with food. It was back in 1891 that Mr. Kelly firstwas employed by the Staten Island started out as an operator, next wasleverman and then in succession wentfrom agent to yardmaster, to brakeman,to dispatcher, chief dispatcher, divisionoperator, assistant trainmaster, super-visor of transportation, and, finally, totrainmaster. Constant application to duty, a sincerebelief in his employer and a rigid followingof all rules and regulations promulgated byhis employer, are the reasons for his the illness of his next higher superiorofficer he has shouldered the burdens ofkeeping the property going and he hassucceeded Trainmaster B. F. Kelly Mr. Kelly firmly believes that safety isjust as necessary a part of operation as iscoal or water for the engine, or grease andoil for the passenger cars. I became interested in safety, he saidthe other day, I might say, from the firstday I entered the railroad field. As I pro-gressed through the different positions,the more interested I became in my workfor safety. I have observed that thereare employes who do not familiarize them-selves with the duties assigned them, andthey do not succeed. I have seen manyreport for duty and then pick up the dailynewspaper and become absorbed in it, soonbecoming indifferent and careless to thedangers around them. Whenever I seeconditions like these, I try my best to cor-rect them, for I believe I am thus saving some poor fellow from running into dangerand, perhaps, being killed, or injured. Failure of the employe engaged in trainoperation to know thoroughly the Bookof Rules, Mr. Kelly
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