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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>May 24,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>THINK STATION MASTER SHOULD HAVE A
MEDAL</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Men About the Depot Say Hardly a Day Passes That He
Does Not Prevent an Accident</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Some of the men at the depot think that Gus
Hubbard should receive a Carnegie hero medal. He is not a hero in the
commonly accepted sense of the word, but hardly a day passes that he does not
prevent someone from cutting his or her legs off or even ending their existence
on this earth. Gus is the local station master and his work is to see that
the trains get out of the depot on time and a number of other things which the
ordinary man does not see him do. Every day when No. 1 pulls out of the
station, preparatory to backing up on the second track so as to hitch up to the
dining car and Pullman which comes to this city from the east. Gus takes
his place on the curb and no sooner does he do this than two or three, sometimes
men and sometimes women, start to catch the train thinking they are about to get
left. This is where Mr. Hubbard shines, for often he sees these people and
shouts at them in a commanding voice with the result that they give up the
effort to catch the train and in this way prevent what might be a serious
accident. Somehow or other people will try to board that moving train
every day, and if it were not for the watchful station master, it is very likely
that someone would lose a limb at least once a week.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>