Peninsula Enterprise

With Company. Started At Tasley March 24, 1892

AGENT AT MELFA THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS

Popular And Outstanding Citizen Of County and Active In Church and Fraternal Circles

Cape Charles, Va., March 16, 1942—Three Pennsylvania Railroad veterans on the Delmarva Division, Charles A. Neugebauer, freight conductor, Purnell J. McBriety, engineman, and George M. Rew, agent, have been presented with the railroad's gold button as an award for completing 50 years of continuous service.

Superintendent Paul W. Triplett and Train Master J. H. McClintock contacted these employes on Wednesday, March 11, at their home terminals in Clayton, Del., Salisbury, Md., and Melfa, Va., where the presentations were made in the presence of friends and fellow employees. Messrs. Triplett and McClintock congratulated these men for their remarkable record and wished them long and happy futures.

George M. Rew, agent at Melfa, Va., entered service on the former N. Y., P. & N. R. R. as a station helper on March 24, 1892, was made operator on May 1, 1892, promoted to relief agent on October 15, 1903, and appointed agent at Melfa, Va. on May 14, 1904. During his almost 38 years as railroad representative at Melfa, he has created an enviable reputation as a popular and outstanding citizen in Accomack county, where he has been very active in church and fraternal circles. Mr. Rew's hobbies include raising prize flowers and fruits as well as pleasure boating on the Chesapeake bay. He has owned and operated a number of fine craft and is considered an authority on fishing and navigating the nearby tributaries.

Charles A. Neugebauer, freight conductor on the Clayton-Oxford local, residing in Clayton, Del., was employed on the former N. Y., P. & N. R. R. on July 16, 1891, was transferred to the former Delaware Division on May 23, 1893, and was promoted to conductor in 1902. He has also acted as assistant yard master in the Clayton district when needed and served in the Delaware Legislature.

Mr. Neugebauer is well known and very popular with the public and his co-workers over the entire Del-Mar-Va peninsula.

Purnell J. McBriety, engineman on the B. & E. shifter, Salisbury, Md., was first employed as a shopman on the old B. & E. R. R. on January 7, 1892, and was promoted to fireman, then engineman, in December of that year. He, as well as his brother Ernest S. McBriety who served as chief clerk to former Superintendent Polk of that railroad, has devoted practically all of his time to railroading, making it a vocation as well as a hobby. Mr. McBriety is very well known in and around Salisbury where he is admired as an outstanding citizen.