March 1953 page 5

[image: man standing on balcony overlooking city]

GENE CULBREATH, the railroads' Eastern agent
surveys his territory from Woolworth Building.

[image: skyscraper office building]

NEW YORK OFFICE of P & N and D & S is on the
14th floor of the skyscraping Woolworth Building.

center, established a modest office
among the giants of New York City.
Since then the function of this office
has been expanded to include repre-
sentation of the Durham & Southern
as well.

Along old Broadway

The P & N-D & S office is located
on the 14th floor of the towering Wool-
worth Building, once the tallest struc-
ture in the world. In lower Manhattan
(233 Broadway), the Woolworth Build-
ing is close to the financial district
along Wall Street and to the textile
houses once centered on Worth Street,
always an important source of traffic
for roads serving the South. The P &
N and D & S share the Woolworth
Building with many other railroad of-
fices, including the Seaboard, the Nor-
folk & Western, the Norfolk Southern,
and the C & O.

Three men and a stenographer-clerk
make up the personnel of the New
York office. General Eastern Agent
E. E. Culbreath is in charge of traffic
sales and servicein the Eastern terri-
tory and heads the New York office. He
is ably assisted by District Freight
Agent George Egbert, a veteran traffic
man, and Commercial Agent John T.
Kenney, who recently joined the staff.
The mainstay of the New York office
is Mrs. Anna Kelly, who has kept the
office running smoothly and efficiently
for a number of years.

That Southern accent

As might be expected the New York
office is definitely a chip off the old
block. Its manners and policies, its of-
fice hours, its looks are not uch dif-
ferent from what you would find in
Charlotte or Spartanburg or Durham.
However, it is different in that it must
adapt its operations to the fast tempo
of New York taxis, subways, high
prices, big scale thinking, and to the
drudgery of daily commuting.

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