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...RAILROADMAN-Chauncey Del French - Macmillan...
...Railroadman recalls the flavor of Casey Jones or The Wreck of the Old 97. It tells of railroading in the days before air brakes and automatic couplers-when there was no standard-gauge track; when engines were thrown into reverse to bring them to a sudden stop; when railroadmen were the true aristocrats of labor, with something of the prestige transport pilots have nowadays...
...first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...
...Crugers, N. Y., in the black night, Burnett A. Ward, 40, railroadman, his wife and son were waked by a hammering at the door. Ward leaned out a window and saw a naked man. "What do you want?" Ward shouted. "I want food. I want a drink. I want cigarets," the madman shouted. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Ward, "knocking at people's houses with no clothes on. Go and put on your clothes." "They're in the woods," the man screamed...
...Railroadman Harahan had been too long in the business to retire in a fit of pique. Once messenger and clerk on the Louisville & Nashville, he became general manager of Illinois Central in 1904. From there he went to Erie as assistant to the president, later to Seaboard Air Line which he headed for six years and, finally, to C. & O. as president. When the Van Sweringens invited him to stay on as senior vice president under Mr. Bernet he swallowed his pride and accepted...