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...best wholesale houses in the city-Chevalier & Deming Post. Young Ames has freckles and unruly hair through which in moments of stress he rakes his rural fingers. He is wearing the same brown country-tweed jacket (an Edmonds property) that Dan'l Harrow wore in Rome Haul. He also has indefatigable industry, a bounding business precocity, and a talent, rather uncommon in country boys of 18, for slipping bribes where they will do the most good. "Do you remember my saying you were an unscrupulous rascal. Ames?" says realistic Mr. Chevalier, accepting the letter which Ames has purloined from...
Heretofore Edmonds' novels have rambled through the past of his native upstate New York, chiefly along the towpaths of the Erie Canal. He put the canal and its folkways into Rome Haul, Erie Water, Chad Hanna. He deserted the ditch only long enough to write his most successful novel, Drums Along the Mohawk. New York State's No. 1 regional historical novelist, he has an ability to bathe his restorations in a bright, bucolic, pre-New York Central freshness...
...Author. Says Walter Dumaux Edmonds of his novels from Rome Haul to Young Ames: "I'm a pretty good technician, sort of a fancy reporter who reports on the past instead of the present." Purpose of his fancy reporting: "To tell, through the daily lives of everyday people, the story of New York State and its key periods in history...
...single fault: graft. Corruption, he implied, has caused: 1) swollen profits of greedy trucking firms; 2) indiscriminate dumping of war materials just within China's borders; 3) the failure of needed medical goods to get beyond Rangoon; 4) use of the Road's limited capacity to haul luxuries, to be bootlegged at fantastic prices...
...Chinese admitted setting up supply dumps close within their border, far from points of need. They tactfully avoided saying that, before Pearl Harbor, China feared Anglo-American appeasement of Japan with the possible reclosing of ,the Burma Road, as in the summer of 1940. Therefore they had hastened to haul as much material as possible from Burma to safe points under their own flag...