<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16825" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 14,
1909</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>LOCAL YARDS AMONG FINEST IN COUNTRY</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>Chesapeake and Ohio Division Superintendent
Surprised at Terminal Facilities Here</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>NONE MORE EXTENSIVE OR BETTER
ARRANGED</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Management Reduced to Scientific Basis, Fewest
Possible Number of Men Handling Work While Service is Efficient</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>THOROUGH RAILROAD MAN AND OPINION CARRIES
WEIGHT</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=left> J. D. Cary, of Hinton, division
superintendent of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway for the Hinton division, was
in the city yesterday visiting the Norfolk and Western division officers and
looking over the terminal facilities of the yard. Supt. Cary went over the
Virginian to Norfolk and is returning to Hinton over the Norfolk and Western by
way of Kenova.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. Cary went over the Bluefield yards
yesterday with Division Superintendent Becker, and he gives it as his opinion
that the yards here are among the finest in the United States. Coming from
Mr. Cary, this stands for something, since he has reached his present position
almost entirely through the yard and trainmaster departments. He is an
experienced trainmaster with a long experience with the Chesapeake and
Ohio as a yard master. To a Daily Telegraph representative Supt. Cary
said:</DIV>
<DIV align=left> "I have visited a great many yards in the
United States, and with an exception or so, notably one of which is the
Pennsylvania, I have never seen a more extensive or a better yard arrangement
than the Norfolk and Western has at Bluefield. The yard management has
been reduced to a scientific basis, and from an economic viewpoint it is one of
the best, if not the best, I have ever examined. The work is handled by
the fewest possible number of men, and the service is the most efficient."</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. Cary stands high in the Chesapeake and
Ohio service as an all around man, and his opinions were those of a man who
knows about what he is talking.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. Cary will leave this morning for Hinton
and will be accompanied over the Pocahontas division by Superintendent W. S.
Becker.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>