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George Eichelberger
Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate.
Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the attached stencil scheme for Southern vent box cars from 1897. The "billboard" stencil uses new "SR" initials but also includes "R&D Despatch" negotiated Aug 1, 1887. (Contract No 28, the cover and page 1 are attached. I can post the other six pages if anyone is interested.) One question I cannot find an answer for.....why is "dispatch" spelled "despatch" here and on "Atlantic Coast Despatch" (PRR/ACL)? from the same period? Note the cover and first page of the contract use "dispatch" spelling. Ike Ike
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Robert Hanson
Bro. Webster says that "despatch" is a variation of "dispatch."
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Apparently both are correct.
Bob Hanson
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From: George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> To: main <main@SouthernRailway.groups.io> Sent: Mon, Oct 15, 2018 5:35 pm Subject: [SouthernRailway] Richmond & Danville "Despatch" Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate.
Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the attached stencil scheme for Southern vent box cars from 1897. The "billboard" stencil uses new "SR" initials but also includes "R&D Despatch" negotiated Aug 1, 1887. (Contract No 28, the cover and page 1 are attached. I can post the other six pages if anyone is interested.) One question I cannot find an answer for.....why is "dispatch" spelled "despatch" here and on "Atlantic Coast Despatch" (PRR/ACL)? from the same period? Note the cover and first page of the contract use "dispatch" spelling. Ike Ike
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Bill Schafer
Ike:
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The Oxford English Dictionary lists both spellings with equal status. “Dispatch” is by far the more common spelling, uniquely so in the 16th, 17th, and 18th-century examples. “Despatch” seems to have become fashionable in the late Victorian period, which might explain why we see “Despatch” on freight cars in that timeframe. (above info from internet) The word “dispatch” (and “despatch”) derives from the Spanish “despachar”, meaning to expedite or hasten.] —Bill
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darrell2010
Ike, Per a dictionary, "despatch" has the same meaning as "dispatch", but was a common spelling in the 19th century before dispatch became the more common spelling. Darrell Sawyer
On Monday, October 15, 2018, 3:35:17 PM MDT, George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> wrote:
Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate. Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the attached stencil scheme for Southern vent box cars from 1897. The "billboard" stencil uses new "SR" initials but also includes "R&D Despatch" negotiated Aug 1, 1887. (Contract No 28, the cover and page 1 are attached. I can post the other six pages if anyone is interested.) One question I cannot find an answer for.....why is "dispatch" spelled "despatch" here and on "Atlantic Coast Despatch" (PRR/ACL)? from the same period? Note the cover and first page of the contract use "dispatch" spelling. Ike Ike
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George Eichelberger
I “get” the two spellings but why did the railroad(s) chose to use the archaic version on car sides but not the contract wording? …..I’ll go with Bill Schafer’s “Victorian” era concept. Older items in the SR Presidents’ files use what could be considered archaic words and sentence structure quite often.
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Here is another one, I have asked before. Why did the Southern (and other railroads) put a “.” after their roadname on passenger equipment? Here is a superb drawing of a Southern coach dated September 8, 1900. The style disappeared from drawings not long after. The punctuation does not show on freight cars, including the two 1897 drawings in the archives. Ike PS If we had the highest quality prints made we could get of this coach, a wide vestibule version, a combine and a mail and baggage car, would anyone be interested in buying copies to support the SRHA archives? 
On Oct 15, 2018, at 6:28 PM, darrell2010 via Groups.Io <darrell2010@...> wrote: Ike, Per a dictionary, "despatch" has the same meaning as "dispatch", but was a common spelling in the 19th century before dispatch became the more common spelling. Darrell Sawyer
On Monday, October 15, 2018, 3:35:17 PM MDT, George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> wrote:
Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate. Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the attached stencil scheme for Southern vent box cars from 1897. The "billboard" stencil uses new "SR" initials but also includes "R&D Despatch" negotiated Aug 1, 1887. (Contract No 28, the cover and page 1 are attached. I can post the other six pages if anyone is interested.) One question I cannot find an answer for.....why is "dispatch" spelled "despatch" here and on "Atlantic Coast Despatch" (PRR/ACL)? from the same period? Note the cover and first page of the contract use "dispatch" spelling. Ike Ike
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Did you ever get an answer to your "period question"? I have noticed that on a lot of advertising of the era. I think that the last holdout, naturally, was the Wall Street Journal, which ran a period after the word "Journal" well into the 1990s. Doug Alexander Model Trains Department HobbyTownUSA 840 Barrett Parkway NW Kennesaw, GA 30144 Main 770-426-8800 Cell 404-272-2986
On Monday, October 15, 2018, 08:13:04 PM EDT, George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> wrote:
I “get” the two spellings but why did the railroad(s) chose to use the archaic version on car sides but not the contract wording? …..I’ll go with Bill Schafer’s “Victorian” era concept. Older items in the SR Presidents’ files use what could be considered archaic words and sentence structure quite often. Here is another one, I have asked before. Why did the Southern (and other railroads) put a “.” after their roadname on passenger equipment? Here is a superb drawing of a Southern coach dated September 8, 1900. The style disappeared from drawings not long after. The punctuation does not show on freight cars, including the two 1897 drawings in the archives. Ike PS If we had the highest quality prints made we could get of this coach, a wide vestibule version, a combine and a mail and baggage car, would anyone be interested in buying copies to support the SRHA archives? 
On Oct 15, 2018, at 6:28 PM, darrell2010 via Groups.Io <darrell2010@...> wrote: Ike, Per a dictionary, "despatch" has the same meaning as "dispatch", but was a common spelling in the 19th century before dispatch became the more common spelling. Darrell Sawyer
On Monday, October 15, 2018, 3:35:17 PM MDT, George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> wrote:
Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate. Looking around in the SRHA digital files for additional info on the SR Arrow monogram, I found the attached stencil scheme for Southern vent box cars from 1897. The "billboard" stencil uses new "SR" initials but also includes "R&D Despatch" negotiated Aug 1, 1887. (Contract No 28, the cover and page 1 are attached. I can post the other six pages if anyone is interested.) One question I cannot find an answer for.....why is "dispatch" spelled "despatch" here and on "Atlantic Coast Despatch" (PRR/ACL)? from the same period? Note the cover and first page of the contract use "dispatch" spelling. Ike Ike
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Bill Schafer
No, but it seems to me to have been a common convention at the turn of the last century. And the Wall Street Journal still places a period at the end of its title, even on the app on my cell phone, and even after being purchased by Rupert Murdoch.
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—Bill😱
On Nov 18, 2019, at 12:31, Doug Alexander <doug_alexander@...> wrote:
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Well Bill, then hooray for tradition! Doug
On Monday, November 18, 2019, 04:22:22 PM EST, Bill Schafer <bill4501@...> wrote:
No, but it seems to me to have been a common convention at the turn of the last century. And the Wall Street Journal still places a period at the end of its title, even on the app on my cell phone, and even after being purchased by Rupert Murdoch. —Bill😱
On Nov 18, 2019, at 12:31, Doug Alexander <doug_alexander@...> wrote:
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Matt Bumgarner
Ike- Have you happened to run across any lettering diagrams for a Richmond & Danville boxcar? Thanks Matt Bumgarner
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 5:35 PM George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> wrote: Until I learn how to cut some of the "thread" material out of messages, I'll make this separate.
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