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...book or two under the cab seat. There is good reason for "Uncle Dan" to sympathize with the 500,000 men laid off railroads in the past two years. The business depression of 1883 took him out of his cab, put him to work as a conductor on the Soo. From conductor he started up the long grind of a rail-road operating man's career: trainmaster, assistant superintendent, superintendent...
...directly on livestock. During the past seven years 14,000 Northwestern farmers have borrowed $7,000,000 from it. Its chairman is Clive Talbot Jaffray, who is also head of First Bank Stock Corp. In addition to banking, Mr. Jaffray is president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ("Soo") Ry., subsidiary of the C. P. R. When he attends First Bank Stock Corp. directors' meetings he is joined by five other presidents of Northwestern railroads; Ralph Budd of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern, Henry Alexander Scandrrett of the Chicago, Milwaukee...
...they are understated if anything. Its main Montreal-Vancouver line runs 2,893.6 miles, but the 2,044 C. P. R. locomotives pull freight and passengers over 22,438 miles of track, including the 4,379 miles of the controlled Minneapolis. St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. ("Soo" Line). Much of its equipment is made in its 200 acre Angus Shops at Montreal...
Author McClinchey knows the Ojibways and likes them, lives part of every year on the island which is her novel's scene. Born in Sault Ste. Marie (the "Soo") she became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...
Benefactor. Rare indeed are musical enterprises of any sort which have been made to pay for themselves. The Dayton Westminster Choir makes no such pretense, has for patroness the able and energetic Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, widow of Engineer Talbott who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. Herself a good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti...