The Railway agent and station agent Volume 4-5 ; A monthly magazine devoted to the interests of ticket and freight agents and the traffic departments of the railway service

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...road since railway trains to turn their wheels began, at every station you will see a solitary man. His brow is damp with beaded sweat, his heart with woe is cleft; most earnestly he wants to go, the man that's always left. If the train due at I P. M. should wait till half past eight, there'd be one man come down to go just 30 seconds late. J. D. Anthony, chief clerk in the Erie passenger office at Cleveland, and formerly chief clerk under General Passenger Agent Rinearson. was married Feb. 24 to Miss Josephine E. Thompson of Cleveland. Mr. Anthony is the possessor of the happy combination of efficiency and popularity, and has a bright future before him in the passenger service. A shortage of $1,823 has been discovered in the depot ticket office of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Paul C. Benedict and Edward Herron, ticket clerks, are held responsible. They deny all knowledge of the shortage, claiming that there is a mistake somewhere, but they will make good the deficiency and will be given every opportunity to discover the error. The ticket office of our respected treasurer, T. W. Venemann, of Evansville, which we believe has been definitely located in Indiana, was burned out Feb. 23, but happily Brother Venemann escaped from the ravaging flames and writes that he is O. K. From his cheerful mood we judge that he is well insured and that the loss will not be irreparable. The conflagration will probably cause an unprecedented building boom in Evansville, as Mr. Venemann will of course erect an imposing edifice to replace the one destroyed by fire. The general passenger agents held a somewhat unostentatious and quiet convention at Chicago the middle of February. A full report of their proceedings has not reached us. E-O. Mc...