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The new numbers will help government to use modern office methods for greater efficiency in handling un- employment insurance, and also other social benefits such as proposed pension plans: For these reasons, you are invited to apply for a Social Insurance Number, even if you are not a contributor to the unemployment insurance plan. IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE your employer will give you vapplication form. Fill it out and return to your empfulyer promptly. IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED and drawing unemploy- ment insurance benefit you will complete an applica- tion form when you report to the U.I.C. in person or by mail. IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYER registered with the Corn - mission, you will receive application forms automat- ically. If NOT registered with the Commission, please go in touch with your local U.I.C. office so that forms may be sent to you. Distribute applicatidn forms to Yak employees, have them completed and return them promptly together, not individually, to the Commission. YOU CAN HELP BY COMPLETING YOUR APPLICATION QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION OTTAWA . UIC..1.64A • ,.,,,,_'"4"eef'41-91'11"7'•-' • tven the Trains Had Difficulties Writing from his' residence RR 3, Hannon, Robert Reid, former well known Seaforth resident, recalls old-fashioned winters in this • district, when' all traffic, including teams, was brought to a halt. His recollec- .ttons were prompted by a gm in the Hamilton Spectator tell- ing of problems railway crews faced as they battled drifts on the Guelph-Goderich run, through Walton,. In his letter Mr. Reid said: "Enclosed clipping from the Hamilton Spectator regarding .those 'old-fashioned' good old winter days brings to mind the 'awful' winters We had in Hur- on County years ago. I canhot remember the year, but some folk in Seaforth will remem- ber the winter of the wreck in a cut east of town. A double- header with coaches hit this huge drift of hard -packed snow, one engine jack-knifed and left the rails; the tender pulled off the engine, scalding. Engineer Ferguson so badly that he died a while later, I believe, at the Commercial Hotel. None of, the i.assengers was enjured." This is The Spectator story which he enclosed: THE DAY WE DROVE A TRAIN CROSS COUNTRY! • (By. Tom Jones, in the Hamilton Spectator) Although it is over 40 years ago, 1 remember that storm as though it happened this winter. It was February 24, 1924,,- and I was firing engine 2028 on the Hamilton -Guelph passenger run. It' had been 'snowing for a week with the occasional bliz- zard and sub -zero temperatines. On our last run in from Guelph we were due in Hamilton at 7:35 p.m. and due out at 8:25 .p.m. But that night, Feb. 23, the train was cancelled in Hamil ton, line blocked. At five the next morning, engineer Roy Coon and I were called to take engine 753 and the snow plow and head upthe 111 miles • to Goderich. . The Hamilton'and Goderich un- bound passenger was stuck at Millbank, the downbound near Wallenstein. Bad Visibility By 6:30a.m. the roundhouse crew had affixed a huge tar- paulin across the eab and ten- der of the 753 in the form of a shroud, .tied the cummerbund around the middle and were • ready to whistle off as soon as conductor Fred Morgan handed up our orders, • As we approached Cootes Paradise, aJteal-nor*-wester was blowing and with winds of about 30 mph visibility was at a minimum. In the cab of a locomotive, behind a snow plow, the en- gine crew may as well be blind. All signals are transmitted from the man in charge of the plow, usually the roadmaster or an employee who is famil- iar with the physicaj. character- istics of the division. He ,trans- mits signals to the cab, siiich as crossing whistle posts, yard -limit boards, station order boards, etc., etc. ••Soaked We hit our first heayy cut between Moffat and Corwhin. We stalled, backed up -a half mile and Roy went after her, Old._ 753 lurched, . swayed crazily a couple 'of times and finally broke through. I was soaking wet on my right side from my shoulders to my ankles. Regardless of the precautions taken to en- close the cab on a snow plow, the fine snow, worse than rain, will seep through any small op- ening. Along with each shovel of coal the same amount of snow goes into the firebox. Roy was on the- right side, bundled up. with a heavy mack- inaw over his overalls, and he wasn't too comfortable at that. We reached Guelph and re- ceived orders that Nci. Bp, the downbound, , was stuck about two miles ,east af Wallenstein. When we arrived at the cut about, 9 a.m., the blizzard had increased in intensity and it was about three degrees above zero. Shovel Work 'We plowed to within two pole lengths' of the passenger en- gine and the extra gang began, shovelling. It was just noon when we broke through, back- ed to the passing trac at Elmira, let 638 by and headed west with' visibility about two pole lengths at best. We hit heavy weather but finally reached Linwood and took water, whistled off and about three miles between Mill- bank and West Monkton ' we found the stalled upbound pas- senger, which had been due in Goderich at 9:55 the night be- fore. It was now 3 p.m. and blow- ing at 40 mph gale with the temperature at six degrees be- low zero. Sectionmen and firemen were shovelling snow into the tender of the 2052 to keep water in the boiler and after taking set.- eral rushes at the, big drift we broke through, coupled the plow to the tail end of the last coach and pushed 637 into West Montrose. There we ran around the pas- senger train and plowed nnt the line into Guderich. • At 705 p.m. No. 637 arrived at''Goderich, only 21 hours late. Pot ng it Wasback to Glielph, but two miles west of Wallen - stein we were flagged down by a tiesPerak farmer. His. wife was critically ill with • peritonitis. The doctor had made it to the farm by horse and cutter but when they tried -to take the woman to hos- pital the horse got bogged down in drifts. A stretcher was hastily hn- provised and the farmer's fam- ily and the train crew stum- bling through the drifts, man- aged to get the woman to the track and aboard the cab6ose. They made her comfortable in a bunk and the doctor rode with herjas we highballed into Guelph ver the track we had plowed out only a few hours before. (The woman, mother of nine children, made a good recov- ery, we later learned). After disembarking our pa- tient and her doctor at Guelph old 753 and the plow headed down to Linwood. We turned the plow and en• gine on the "Y" and whistled off for the 16 -mile run over the historic branch. The regu- lar milk run .hadn't been out for two days. Pork Chops But just the other side of Tralee we struck a drift in a Cut, banked as high `as the en- gine. After several unsuccessful attempts to plow through we called it quits. With nothing to, do but wait, Roy Coon and I realized we were pretty hungry. Indeed, we had eaten nothing but the odd sandwich since 5:30 a.m. I scalded off the shovel with the sprinkler hose, tossed a slob of frozen butter on the scoop, held it -on the firing plate of the Arebed door' and when it began to smoke Roy tossed to thick pork chops to the shovel and began peeling some potatoes. He turned the chops and dumped the spuds in. Made a pot of coffee in an empty oil pot, set it on the boiler butt. We used the lid. trays of our metal lunch boxes for plates and I never relished a better meal, topped off with a slap of apple pie and good rich coffee, alter which we were good for another 12 hours. At 7 aan. an extra gang of sectionmen reached us from Guelph Junction and began dig- ging ds out. This' was accom- plished at 4 p.m. and we head- ed for Listowel. Between Tralee and Dorking we hit another heavy drift. We stalled, backed up and after four attempts we broke through. Odd Angle Old 753 again trembled as engineer Coon held the reverse lever •in the corner and the throttle wide open. She skim- .med, swayed, bucked, teetered, and finally. regained her feet, then suddenly we stopped. I turned on my seat box and was amazed to see the right side , of the tender titled at a crazy .angle Roy and I climbed frop the . cab to a drift, walked over the top of the snow bank to the front of the engine and gazed iz ave --at the side of a barn about 10 feet ahead of the' en- gine. The plow was off the track sitting at a crazy angle. Engine 753 had jumped the track, careened- across the froz- en ground, over the fence and nearly into the farmer's barn. The following morning the "big hook" reached us at 9 a.m. At noon we were re -railed, backed to Linwood, went around the "Y" and headed for Aber- deen Yard in Hamilton. 56 Hours We reached there at 4 p.m. and in the interim the blizzard had abated, the temperature had climbed to around 20 de- grees and the trains were mov- ing. We booked off at Aberdeen roundhouse 1' H & B at 4:45 p.m., having been on continu- ous duty for 56 hours,, although we slept in the cab while we were derailed. That was my first trip on a snow plow -and my lash for which I certainly did not shed any tears. Husband: "My, you're, extrav- agant. If anything should hap- pen to me, you'd probably have o -beg." Wife: "I'd get by. 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