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PENSIONED. 
After 52 years of railroading 
Charles William Kennard, second 
oldest passenger conductor in the em- 
ploy of the B. & M. R.R., made his 
last trip Saturday afternoon and re- 
tired on a pension. Mr. Kennard 
lives at 14 Arlington street, East 
Somerville. 
cle went out saturday morning 
z.em Boston at ‘:°45 in charge of a 
local train to Marblehead. He re 
turned in charge of an express that 
reached the North Station at 8:40. 
He entered the passenger service of 
the old Eastern Railroad and _ kas 
worked ever since, with few vacations. 
He received no injuries in the per- 
formance of his duties, although on 
one occasion, 1863, when a baggage- 
master, he was in a head-on collision, 
where the two engineers 
firemen were killed and his car was 
so badly smashed that it was burned 
to furnish light with which to clear 
away the wreck. 
When Mr. Kennard entered the 
service the Eastern Road was double- 
tracked only as far as Salem. Hand 
brakes were used. When a train was 
about’ a quarter of a mile out the loco- 
motive left the train and the cars 
came into Causeway under their own 
momentum. He was promoted to be 
a conductor five years after he enter- 
ed the service. 
He was on the special train that 
brought the first regiment from Maine 
to the front in the Civil War. He was 
also onthe train that brought the 
first regiment fron1 New Hampshire. 
Mr. Kennard has also had charge of 
special trains transporting Presidents 
or | Presidential: candidates. 
One: of. Conductor Kennard’s most 
interesting experiences was in 1866. 
When. coming from Portsmouth his 
train ran into a snow storm. He left 
Swampscott: on time, but did not leave 
Lynn, less than two miles beyond, un- 
til three. days later. More than 100 
men tugging:.on ropes helped the loco- 
motive across Central square and it 
went on its way. He was in charge 
of the first Sunday train run on the 
Eastern Road. 
Mr. Kennard was born in Eliot, Me. 
July 20, 1842, the son of William L. 
and Mary Elizabeth (Frost) Ken- 
nard. 
For 30 years his run was down the 
North. Shore to Rockport and up to 
a few years ago he knew personally 
the owner and occupant of every 
house on the Shore. 
He married Miss. Lucy J. Lord in 
Beverly, Noy. 8, 1866. ‘They lived in 
Portsmouth and later in Charlestown, 
and two: 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
and built their present home 41 years 
ago. They have a summer home in 
Eliot, Me., where they plan to pass 
much of their time in the future. 
Their children are Representative 
William W. Kennard and Mrs. Agnes 
Frost Thurston of Somerville and Dr. 
B. D. Kennard of Peabody. Mr. 
Kennard is a charter member of Soley 
Lodge of Masons of Somerville. 
How We Usep To Live. 
Workmen fail to realize the tremen- 
dous improvement in industrial con- 
ditions characterizing the last half 
century. So marked:has been the evo- 
lution that it might almost be called 
a revolution. 
and Sharpe of Providence, R. I, 
hangs a copy of the schedule of the 
hours of labor required by the com- 
pany when Mr. Sharpe’s father was 
employed there in 1847-48. Except 
during May, June and July, when it 
began at 4.35, work began at sunrise. 
Workmen had their breakfast before 
beginning the day’s work only in the 
months of November, December, Jan- 
uary and February. During the rest 
of the year breakfast was served any- 
where from 6.30 to 7.30, and 40 min- 
utes only were allowed for it. Seven 
o’clock was the average time for end- 
ing the day’s work. While there was 
little artificial illumination, and that 
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inadequate, nevertheless, during the 
short days from November to Febru- 
ary work was kept up until 7 o’clock. 
Sixty years ago the hours of factory 
employment seemed to have been 
fashioned after those on the farm 
where conditions are so different. 
With the old wood-burning stoves, 
which heated fiercely the area near by 
but sent little warmth to remote 
parts of the great rooms, with small 
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cept on brightest days, and with no ~ 
veritilation the sanitary conditions of © 
50 years ago fell far below those pre-— 
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vailing in a modern factory. At pre-— 
sent, too, men receive a-much higher 
wage for a much shorter period of 
work, but here it is hard to make an 
equitable comparison, as the purchas- 
ing nowee of money was d1ii:rent 
from what it is now. The wants of the — 
workingman were far simpler fifty 
years ago than they are today. He 
now lives upon a higher plane in every 
way and is able to give his children 
a good education, thus giving them a 
siert 11 iife that makes for success, 
In the abolition of child labor and of 
hard work for women, in the intro- 
duction, too, of safety devices, much 
has yet to be accomplished, but the lot 
of the workmen of today marks a big — 
advance over what it was the middle 
of the last century.—Leslies Weekly. 
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