Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1911 — Two Old Time Postal ClerkS On the Daylight Limited. [ARTICLE]

Two Old Time Postal ClerkS On the Daylight Limited.

Two of the oldest maU clerks on the Monon have for some time made. Rensselaer their northern stopping point They run on passenger trains Nos. 37 and 38, Which are called the “Daylight Limited" between Chicago and Cincinnati, because’ the run is made altogether In daylight except during the shortest days of the year. The men are J. B. Connor and Patrick Farley. Mr. Connor lives at Hamilton, Ohio, and has been a mail clerk on the Monon and C. JL A D. railroad for' 27 years. He ihade the first through mail run between Chi engo and Cincinnati and until the shake-up of the last year ran be tween those cities on trains Nos. 31 and 32. Mr. Farley has been a mallclerk for $5 years and has aIBO worked almost all of that time between Cincinnati and Chicago. His home is at Liberty, Ind. The mail run on the “Daylight Limited” has its northern terminus at Rensselaer, and the accumulated mall from the north that is,carried south on No. 5 and then transferred to No. 37, make the run a lively one for a time after leaving Rensselaer for the south. It is not considered a desirable run. Both gentlemen have made a number of friends in Rensselaer where they spend every other night during the period they are working.