Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1913 — Long Record of Good Service. [ARTICLE]

Long Record of Good Service.

Forty years’ service lQ; one signalbox is the wondsrful recqrd of Waltet Down, signalman in the Elmesthorpe signal-box on the London and NorthWestern railway, near Leicester. Thousands of passengers and goods trains have been dealt with by Down during that long period, yet he has never made a mistake. Down’s assistant, George Faulkner, who 1b now sixty-five years old, worked with him in the same signal-box for 31 years, •bujt retired a few years ago.