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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Consumption was what they called TB!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=734073921-26012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Consumption
was what they used to call cancer. I would guess the "home for
consumptives" was a final stage care facitily of some
kind. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=734073921-26012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Bill
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[mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>NW Mailing
List<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Norfolk
Western Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: N&W in 1910--Office
building<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Anyone know what a "home for consumptives"
is?<BR> <BR>Thanks,<BR>Dave Willis<BR>(blt 1962, c/n 4)<BR> <BR>
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building<BR>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:34:48 -0500<BR>From:
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<DIV><FONT face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 13,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>BLUEFIELD IS LOSING ONE OF ITS
LANDMARKS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Terminal Trainmaster Relates History of Old
Division Office Now Being Torn Down</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Bluefield is losing one of its oldest
landmarks, the old division office, which is being torn down. A nice
lawn will take its place. The building has been standing since July,
1888, and is almost a part of the town. Within its walls the
preliminary plans of the great Pocahontas Division were carried out and each
room has such a history connected with it that old railroad men stand and
watch it coming apart without even daring to walk inside of it, so great is
their respect for the old site of their former battles to make the road a
success.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> J. M. MeIlhaney, terminal trainmaster,
gave the Daily Telegraph a short history of the building last night.
He easily remembers it from the days when this most wealthy division of the
Norfolk and Western was only the Pocahontas branch.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. McIlhaney says the first offices were
maintained in the present freight depot. This was in July, 1888.
About this time twenty-two years ago the offices were moved in the building
that is now being torn down. The division at that time was called the
Radford and Pocahontas division and John A. Hardy was superintendent.
The road at that time went to Powhatan, while branches ran to Pocahontas,
Goodwill and Simmons. The Clinch Valley division was not in operation
at that time.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The official family at that time was John
A. Hardy, superintendent, Captain D. H. Barger, trainmaster, R. E. Winters,
chief dispatcher.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The yard office was located in the
northwest room on the first floor while the trainmaster's office was
overhead on the second floor. The dispatcher's office was in the north
bay station. The waiting room for trainmen was on the first floor in
the northeast room, while the timekeeper occupied the room above.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The supervisor, or roadmaster, as he is
known occupied the southwest room on the second floor while the reading room
for trainmen, out of which grew the Railroad Y. M. C. A., which now has a
large building of its own, recently erected on Pulaski street, occupied the
southeast room in the old building now being torn down. The yard
master, who was either a man named Wright or Joe Collins, occupied the other
room on the south side. The attic at that time was used as a bed room
by the trainmaster and other men, the dispatchers many times turning in to
sleep there at that time, which was long before the present regulations as
to hours of work went into effect.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> It was hard at that time to get a house
in this city and the first house completed by the railroad was the building
on Princeton avenue, recently owned by Weslie Wilkes, which was first
occupied by J. M. McIlhaney, who was at that time a train dispatcher.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Since July, 1888, many changes have taken
place in the Norfolk and Western but the old building was occupied as an
office until about a year ago when the offices were moved to the old
Bluefield Inn building, which was remodeled for office purposes. This
building is one of the most imposing structures in the city and at one time
Thomas F. Ryan wanted to purchase it as a home for consumptives. The
Norfolk and Western, however, would not consent to the bringing to this city
of a home for consumptives.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The destruction of the building removes
another of this city's landmarks and for years to come the few men who are
left on the road who were here in 1888 will look to where the building now
is and feel that something is lacking.</DIV>
<DIV align=left>[<EM>I wonder if the wooden building in the attached
picture from Neg. 21413 in the Virginia Tech image database isn't the
division office described in the article. It has a bay on the north
side as described for the location of the dispatcher's office.
Also, the article states that the building will be replaced by a "nice
lawn," and vintage photos show a lawn east of the passenger
depot where the parking lot was in later years and about where the
building in question is in this picture.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV><BR>
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