George Carnes, L. I. Banker, Also Railroad Man 39 Years

Special to the Brooklyn Eagle

Syosset, May 15 — Funeral services for George Duryea Carnes, freight agent of the Long Island Railroad at East New York, Brooklyn, and a former president of the Long Island Railroad Veterans Association, as well as a director of the Syosset Bank, will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in his home here.

Mr. Carnes, who was born in this village in 1882, died on Monday in Huntington Hospital after a short illness. He was somewhat of an authority on Long Island history and well known as a public speaker.

In 1901 Mr. Carnes became agent of the Long Island's Wardenclyffe, or Shoreham, station of the Wading River branch. In 1901 he was made agent in Syosset, and later held various positions with the road until 1937, when he became freight agent in East New York.

He is survived by his father, Samuel V. Carnes; a son, George D. Carnes Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Elma Stull.