Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — Fifty Years With One Road. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Years With One Road.

After 50 years of service. Conductor Edwin Birley on June 30 made his last official trip on his train, the Haverstraw express of the New Jersey & New York railroad. In all that time he never figured in a wreck and never once was criticized by his superiors. He is now past seventy. Birley nearly broke down when saying farewell to his brother conductors at the Jersey City depot just before the Haverstraw express left at 5:14 with Birley in charge for the last time. More than a hundred of the Haverstraw commuters gathered around “Ed” and shook hands with him on the trip. He began railroading as brakeman under Conductor James C. Blauvelt, who also retired ' when past seventy after 45 years of railroading. Blauvelt Is still living.