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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">The chap's picture appears in the actual Press story. Amazing that he loved his work enough to stay almost twenty years beyond normal retirement age. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RjkbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3928,4069460">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RjkbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3928%2C4069460</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Pittsburgh Press, Wednesday,
January 15, 1947, page 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Circled World 3 Times—<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial">Trolley Official Retires at 84<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial">After Making Traveling His Hobby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Rode in All Means of Transportation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>John S. “Jack” Shedd, who has covered
as many iles about the world as in Pittsburgh as general agent for the
Pittsburgh Railways Co., is retiring.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At 84, Mr. Shedd still has
restless feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But for the
present, he plns to remain at his Knoxville home.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For 37 years he hs been general
agent in charge of protecting Pittsburgh Railways property – otherwise known as
a railroad detective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But in
addition to that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>riding <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>about <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>world <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>every <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>conceivable
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>means <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>transportation
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>– <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">including
trolley – has been his hobby.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Takes Inventory of Travels<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In his home today at 330 Jacunda
St., Mr. Shedd scanned an oilcloth map of the world and took inventory of his
travels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It amounted to visiting six continents
and 90 countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This includes
every state in the Union.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“I’ve made three boat trips
around the world by different routes, flew from England to Paris in 1932, plus
donkey and camel trips in Africa, and others via auto, Chinese junk, horseback
and even by freight train,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Modern Sherlock Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He took one ride sitting on a
soap box in a freight train en route to the Great Wall of China.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But Mr. Shedd, who looks more
like a professor or bank executive than a detective, says he has found live
here as interesting as abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Besides investigating accidents
and tracing stolen trolleys, Mr. Shedd has handled lost article puzzles that
would have delighted Sherlock Holmes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“One was finding a package
containing $2000, all in $2 bills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I traced them to a careless bank messenger who rode the trolley from the
clearing house,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Rode in Police Wagon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Six times he traced stolen trolleys but
most of the time they were taken by former emplolyes on a busman’s, or rather
trolleyman’s holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Mr. Shedd, a native of Boston,
did trolley work in California, Wasington State and Montana before coming to
Pittsburgh in 1898.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He worked for
the old Monongahela St. Railway and joined Pittsburgh Railway when they merged
in 1902.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“In my time I’ve ridden on about
everything,” he said, adding that when he first started work in Poston his
first ride was in a police wagon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Carries Good Luck Charm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He said he was employed by a
company when he was fighting another for the trolley franchise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“I helped plaster our posters over the
rival company posters,” he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>After being thrown in jail, the company bailed him out an hour
later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Mr. Shedd carrys a good luck
charm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It‘s a “Toonerville”
trolley check which he took out of a fare box.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>He said the check wasn’t good for a ride although in his day
he rode on many a “Toonerville.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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