Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-07
THE VALLEY RAILROAD.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PEOPLE WHO OF
FICIATED AT 1.-THE ASSEMBLY
CONDITION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE
ROAD STRANGE PROPOSITION OF
RocKBRIDGE-THE sTAUNTON CoUN-
GIL DECLINES TO HAND OVER THE RE-
NAMING $50, OOO-PEPPERY SPEECHES
ALL AROUND-wHAT HER CO-STCCK-
HOLDERS INTEND DOING,
&C., &C., &c.
The much postponed meeting Of stock
holders of the Valley railroad took place
on Thursday night last. Thursday morn
ing the familiar Valley faces frequent
in attendance on these assemblies were to
have been seen on our streets and in
luxurious parlor car at the foot of New
Court House street nesting under the
caves of the Valley Depot were to be seen
the smooth shaved, well-dressed Baltimo-
reans, as scrupulously polite, and with
eyes as wide open to businesses as ever.
The
OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR
can't fail to impress mans memory. GU
will probably first catch the cold, bright
eye of vice-president Keyser, the very
brightness of which, like winter nights
stars, comes from their being so very cold
His dress is painfully neat, with per
lection of shirt bosom that arouses instant
envy, and is calculated to drive off every
friend he has in the world, for it is impos-
sible to like man that is so far ahead of
you in the important question of shirt
bosom. Before you get into the car you
were satisfied with yourself; before this
well-dressed icicle you stand abashed. He
asks you to sit down without being afraid
that you will bore him, for he knows well
enough that he can freeze you out OF your
chair in FIVE minutes if he gets through
with you in that time. What he has to
say is short, we'll connected, smooth, and
knowing, the trouble in talking to him
being that he knows what he knows and
what you know besides. There is no sur
prising the man with unexpected questions.
Somehow he strikes you rs a man that is
doing right, with-to his opponent, a pain
full exactness, that sort of right which is
founded more on justice than generosity.
He said at the meeting the other night
that he would have scorned " to make
Misrepresentation Of an affair in the re-
port. And he strikes you just that way
as a man who knows his business so well
and is so well prepared on every point
that misrepresentation would be too petty,
too unnecessary weapon to be used in
his armory; it would do for bunglers,
but not for such man as this. He IS
about 40 years Of age, with fine person
and handsome face, and we believe was a
merchant in Baltimore before getting in
to his natural element, railroading.
Moving about the room in quick ner-
vous way you see President Robert Gar
ret. He doesn't look to be more than
twenty three or four years of age, dressed
in a heavy, gray, fashionable street suit,
with his hair bobbed to painful degree
of brevity. He has quick, sharp mode of
talking, with a good deal more geniality
than Keyser. Or business he answers up
briefly, doesn't waste words, and, as it
wera, elbows yon out in kindly sort of
way that leaves you at the door with a
feeling of great doubt as to whether, if you
tried to go back again he would warmly
lead you in by the hand or coolly lead you
out by the ear. He doesn't seem to know
exactly what to make of the way our peo-
go back on him, and rather has the feeling |
described in that touching verse of Milton:
Thop OH Won coo mo on ,Ionu On
1 have my troubles here below.
They eat my bread and drink my tea
And go bout the streets talking bout me.
If this young man only knew that since |
railroads were known in Virginia the |
President of one in course of construction
has been considered the property Of every
man who owns stock and Of every man
who doesn't own it, to be damned on every
and all occasions; and could get an oppor-
tunity to compare his life with that Of the
Iamented Tunstall who built the DanYille
Railroad, and in whose memory the
stockholders generously constructed a
S24 station, he would see that his has been,
a bed Of roses:
In large armchair was to be seen Mr..
Decatur Fl. Miller of Baltimore, a gentle
nan of middle age wearing spectacles,
who is the perfection Of oil upon the wa
,ers. No matter how turbulent the waves
If stockholders may beat against the Direc-
;ory, he is incomparably CALM. He has
me of those heads that the slang Of the
,opuiace fifty describes as level. He sees
III the way to the end Of his road, and all