Show Oldest Conductor of Them All J F Traveling ling as Railroads Guest Forty five c years In tho time service vice of ot one railroad always on tIme the same run and 43 y years years ars In charge of or of pas passenger ncr nger trains and never nc In It a wreck Is the time record of ot Barney c. an Cavanaugh u h late hate conductor on onnie tile the Milwaukee m aukee division of ot the Chicago and Northwestern railway now retired on pension Mr MI Cavanaugh left Salt Lake Lale after a brief visit here early mornIng morn- morn leg InS over the Salt Lake Route for tor Loa IMa Angeles During the preceding day n he had been bee around seeing the time city and In Incidentally incidentally In- In visiting a few old friends There are many in time the city elty who remember tho the veteran conductor of or the North North- western Mr MI Cavanaugh confesses to 71 summers He lie doesn't look it His hair Is scarcely tinged with gray Jray and his huge hUJe figure ure Is Isas Isas Isas as straight and generously proportioned as that of man many a n. man maci 2 20 0 years his J Junior unior I OIl could have fooled them 10 yea years If It ItI I had known what the they were after said Mr 11 Cavanaugh as h he sat nat In tim the Salt Lake route offices But nut they have used ell me pretty well They ha have vc provided mo inc with a 0 pension that enables me rue to travel around the country countr wherever 1 want to Mr Ir carries with him personal person person- al letters from tram the general manager of his ol old road read that are aro written as any army man writes an old friend and are arc accompanied lell by passes that will take the tho veteran wherever he wishes to goNo goNo go o. o No 0 he said I do not know kno knoof of anybody an any any- body bodi bod who has been a conductor longer than I have ha c especially on the same line lInc and arid In the seems same My h run was vas from Chicago go to I kee lee an and back Tho The Northwestern when I I entered Its service on a freight train 4 45 years yc-arn ago ao was as nothing like the finely finch I equipped road It is now Then there was wasa a line itne of or M rails over which a train traveled from Crom Chicago to Milwaukee In four hours nn and one There Thero wits was one erie train a day lay an and If It you OU did not get up In time to catch It as it left at 9 o'clock In the time morning you ou had to wait walt until next morning and get Set up earlier e Now thero there are twenty passenger trains a n. day over tho division They make the trip tell In an hour and 15 43 I minutes Th There re Is I. Isone Isono one ono well wen equipped 1 track double line tot for passenger traffic and an two moro more tracks for tor freight I OIl have been conductor of or passenger trains for tor 13 43 years and during tho the latten last lat ten of at them I had tho the finest train on the theline line the line the express Wo Vo left Chicago at nt 9 o'clock In the morning had hd hada hda a few hours' hours wait walt In Milwaukee and rei returned re- re I i turned again at nt about 4 o'clock In the afternoon Mr Cavanaugh was In Salt Sail Lal Lake e three years ago aso on his way wap to Portland Oreto Ore to attend the time Order of ot Railroad Conductors Conductors' Conductors Conductors' Con Con- doctors doctors' convention at tho the L Lewis and Clark exposition This how however ver will b bt hla first trip to Los Angeles Ho He will make maJc the thc whole coast COlst as far north as u. Seattle and Victoria B. B C. C before returning re re- turning home homo to Chicago That Cavanaugh Is 5 proud of ot his record 13 is shown by the business card he hc carries It bears bears' the legend l 1562 in iii ono one corner an and ll 7 in the other |