Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-09
RAILROAD MEN.
Splendid Service Rendered by
officers and Employees in
These Trying Times.
The Louisville and Nashville Taken
as an Illustration.

deserve it. and it is a melancholy fact
hat many of the most unworthy have
managed to bring themselves into favor
able notice, while modest and true
worth, like an unpublished diamond, is
passed by almost unobserved. It has
been all and more than.the press could
do to publish a daily list of the dead, to
give some new cases, mention the con-
yalescents, and..now and then a physi
clan, q nurse and a visitor, and give q
few incidents caught up by observation
or hearsay. The record is necessarily
and painfully incorrect, for it has been
made up and put in print by the rem
nauts Of a decimated editorial and typo
graphical force and often by volunteers,
who themselves had sickness and death
in their families or among their imme'
date friends, and felt liable every hour
to the fatal plague. There is no arm so
strong and no heart so full Of courage
but what it sometimes weakeus under
the constant prospect Of almost certain
death-end what q reward as far as this
world is concerned A Consciousness Of
duty discharged, mingled with a doubt
whether the sacrifice Of life is not too
great for the good accomplished; a line
in a paper perhaps, a kind word by a
few friends, tears possibly by dear ones,
a grave in a ditch which no relative may
ever find to adorn with the simplest
slab. Life is so sweet, even to the old,
the weak, the deerepid, How terrible
then the struggle when a strong man
feels himself sinking and knows that &C
few will find time to mourn for him and
that so many will say, he threw his life
away unnecessarily.
1t is so com mon for railroad men, es
pecially those 10 subordinate positions
to be cool, prompt aud courageous, that
we are apt TO overlook their services in
times like these when 80 many other
have come TO the front; we desire, how
ever, to call attention to this class, anC
hope in this and future articles to do jus
tics to all the roads running into Mem
phis. The people are not aware or havl
lost sight Of what these roads have beer
doing and are doing for our plague
stricken city. To day we will speak o
the Louisville and Nashville, or as it |
generally known here, the Memphis ant
) Louisville railroad, and those connecte,
with it at this end of the line. In th
] first place it is proper to say that DR.
Stamford, the president, and the genera
8 management representing and %sctivel
expressing public sentiment at Loui:
vile, have continued to run this end Z
a the line at great loss, have carried i'm
mense supplies for the distressed at fire
or nominal rates, and have extends
every possible courtesy and liberality !
refugees aud to nurses and physician
coming to cur assistance. This gen
srous policy amounts substantial,
to az immense contribution, the sun
J total of which will hardly ever b
I made known, but it adds that niue
more to our debt of gratitude an
to our deep sense Of favor received froI
9 our humane aud sympathetic fellow me
of all sections. The officers aud en-
ployes of theM Memphis division have acts
like good and brave soldiers at the from
e and their noble conduct and bearing d
J, serves to be recorded.
e The superintendent, Colonel Jam,
Montgomery, whose headquarters haV
been at Bowling Green ever since his a
9 pointment, has responded promptly al
4 assiduously to every call Of distress. Z
has proved himself hot only a humar
ia and accommodating gentleman, but .
able executive officer. He fills his biz
and important trust worthily, and
ever on the alert. His division is a
mirably handled and we have not hea.
= a single complaint 10 all these troublo'
times.
Colonel John 7, Flynn, the gener
agent, is known to all our people and
81 everybody along. the line, having be-
10 connected with the road almost eV
- since it was built. He resides here O.
ie sees to everything personally at this .
of the line. OF course nothing is neal,
ted and all is done we'll. He is a
IS the most thorough railroad men in
ll' South.
OF The employees here, aud running
ct this division who hsve:remAined on du
are AS follows:
Billy I, Bender, acting foreman Of
Ily shops, which he runs with colored /
IS chsnics.
Of Frank Riley, Joe 0'Neil, James Chs
ST. berlain, - Breaker (sick), o.
ed Haynes (sick), Albert Smith, JC
81 Clarke, John Nicholas and E. NJ. WI
JUS lock, engineers.
JohA ZAbn, Thomas Nicholas, "
nj. Ashley, b. Cora, j Ohm Dauiels,and B
led Buchanan (sick), hremen.
ae. Harry Noah, yard master; John {
tv. livsn, station Baggage mani ]. ]. wills
ere chief clerk; George Knapp and ,
rIs Theirs, clerks; Horner Davis, telegri
DR. operator.
hat Q B Cole, Pat Kelly and John
rue bert, conductors Of passenger trains,
Frank Young, Ben Aiken, Abe Dol