Arizona citizen., 1873-07-26
COLONEL THOMAS A. SCOTT.

fame as a railway king has become worldwide, WAS born i'll London county, Pennsylvania, less than hal1 a century ago, and now, in the prime of life, he stands foremost in the rank of engineers and diplomats who have indelibly written their names in the steam-railway history of this country
 His public career dates from his boyhood. when he selected the railroad as his future theatre. The State of Pennsylvania at that time built and operated railroads and canals, and at fifteen he was promoted from his active duties on the road between Philadelphia and Columbia (which latter place was the eastern terminus of the canaD to the responsible posi- tion of collector of tolls at Columbia. The construction of the Pennsylvania Central over the Alleghanies being completed, his skill as an organizer, his knowledge of men, by which he won their confidence and hearty CO., operation in his labors, led to his selection as Superintendent of the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. While still youth, his continued successes as ruler among men soon gave him the position of General Superintendent of the entire line, and from that hour new duties in enlarged spheres have been crowded upon him, until to-day he presides over sixty railroad companies, reach ing south and west from New York and Philadelphia over 16,000 miles, and employing over 10000 operators of various kinds. His wonderful ad- ministrative capacity and his liberal treatment of employees have been such that he has never had strike on any of his lines, and probably no set of men engaged in any work in the country have so unbounded confidence and respect in their chief as have the batta]ions who are proud to serve under the banners of Colonel Thomas A. Scott.
 In 1861, when the storm-cloud of war burst over the country, and the mastering and transportation of men and supplies became at Harrisburg an inextricable mass of confusion that arrested the marching of men to the front, Colonel Scott was sent for by Governor Curtin, and, seated in the Executive Chamber, his, marvellous energy and skill soon brought order out of chaos, and wrought change that led President Lincoln and Sec retary Cameron to send for him, and install him at the War Department as Assistant Secretary of War, in charge of transportation and supplies. Soon the telegraphic wires reached from his desk to every camp, warehouse, and railroad station rails went down through the streets of Washington and Baltimore, and the armed camp in front was given the connection with the sources of supplies that relieved the administration from a world of care and trouble, and enabled the great War Secretary to devote time to matters of state. This led him, on Colonel Scott being summoned back to his railroad duties in Pennsyl- vania, so long neglected, to write him the following merited tribute:
 June l, 1862.
 DEAR SIR-In taking leave Of you, in consequence of your resignation of the office of Assistant Secretary of War, it is proper for me to express my entire satis faction with the manner in which you have discharged your duties during the whole period of our official relations. Those duties have been confidential and respon- sible, requiring energy, prudence, and dis cretion, and it gives me pleasure to say that to me you have proved to be in every particular an able and faithful assistant. Yours truly, EDWIN M. STANTON,
 Secretary of War.
 COLONEL THOMAS A. SCoTT.
 After the battle of Gettysburg, when 1t became important to rapidly transport from Washington to Ten nessee two whole army corps over route exceeding thousand miles long, Mir. Lincoln again sent for Colonel Scott, gave him plenary powers, and in less than ten days twenty thousand men, with all their trains and SUD- plies, reinforced the Army of the Cumberland, which movement, for and magnitude, has never been excelled in the annals of war.
 Called to the presidency of the Union Pacific Railroad in its hour of trouble, he restored confidence to it's