Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-19
OUR CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.

OOl. James moore is well kuOWu W
| thousands of our citizens, and yet,
among the numerous new corners to a
residence among us, he is only known
as Chief Engineer of the Central Rail
road Company of New Jersey. His
position as Chief Engineer of Com
pany like the Central might, without
further proof, be generally accepted as
good evidence OF superior ability.
Since, however, he has concluded to
stand for the May orally Of the city. we
deem it not amiss, at this time, to tran
scribe "A few incidents ofhis past life Aud
to begin with: Justice demands that
we should avon him 10 be de-
cided non politician; for we know full
well that he stands to-day candidate
before the thinking people of this city,
not for the love of standing, but as
other good men have stood before. will
ing to sacrifice portion of his time and
comfort for the whole body polite, and
for nothing else.
Born in the year 1913, in the glorious
old county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
| he is now, at the age of fifty-five, en-
ioying the full vigor of the true prime
OF manhood-at the age when u man
who looks back on well-spent life can
|
begin TO enjoy the fruits thereof, while
looking calmly forward to his sure and
eternal reward
Those who meet the Colonel in his
daily rounds OF busy care, will all attest
that his temperate life has scarcely
shaken the good constitution with
which he was endowed. At an early
age be entered the profession Of Civil
and Rail Road Engineering, and with
slight exceptional intervals has contin-
ued in active practice of the same up
to this time. His earlier engagements
were upon the "Penna. Central and
Philadelphia and Germantown" Rail
Roads. His first settlement in Eliza
BEETHOVEN some thirty five years ago,
was soon followed by his undertaking of
the engineering of the Elizabethport
and Somerville Rail Road Line. Not
long after we find him engaged on the
Morris Canal Work, and about the year
1916, up in green old Vermont making
preliminary surveys for route for the
Vermont Central Rail Road. The road
having b.en located and built, Col |
Moore, was elected to the Superinten-
dence of the same, which office he held
for year or two, until about to engage
upon the Vermont and Canada Rail
Road
Returning to Vermont about the year
1851 he again filled the office of Super
intendent of the V. C. r. r. until call
ed in the Fall of "a to Michigan, to
take the general management as Super
intendent of the Michigan Southern
and Northern Indiana Rail Road, ex-
tending from Chicago to Toledo about |
$50 miles with connecting Lake Steam
ers for like distance from Toledo to
Buffalo. The condition in which he
found the above mentioned Road, his
administration of two years, and the
condition in which he left it, very con-
clusively prove him to be one of the few
who are justly entitled to the name and
rank of eminent Rail Road managers.
Approaching that his arduous duties,
were threatening his health, las the
same duties only too soon robbed his
immediate successor of his very life,
he, in the Fall of '56 resigned his
charge, and once more sought the old
familiar scenes and settled permanently
in Elizabeth.
Not long after his return, he took the
contract for building the East Pennsyl-
vania Rail Road, extending from Allen
town to Reading This work he COM
pleted in 1859, and thus added the last
link, necessary to form complete
chain, and gave to our own Central"
the opportunity they have since so well
improved of developing a superior
through Western Route, to the fair
distancing of all competitors.
He soon after took charge of the sur
veA for the South Branch Rail Road,
running from Somerville to Pennington
and for the Central Rail Road Exten-
sion across Newark Bay &c, and in fact
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