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color:#1F497D'>I think that was a home for tuberculosis patients.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org
[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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Anyone
know what a "home for consumptives" is?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Dave Willis<br>
(blt 1962, c/n 4)<br>
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font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>To: nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org<br>
Subject: N&W in 1910--Office building<br>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:34:48 -0500<br>
From: nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tunga'>Bluefield
Daily Telegraph<br>
August 13, 1910</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>BLUEFIELD IS LOSING
ONE OF ITS LANDMARKS</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Terminal
Trainmaster Relates History of Old Division Office Now Being Torn Down</span></strong><span
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The official family at that time was John A. Hardy, superintendent, Captain D.
H. Barger, trainmaster, R. E. Winters, chief dispatcher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>[<em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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.</span></em>]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Gordon
Hamilton</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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