Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-05-12

agement of q division, then TO General
Superintendent in 1858, then TO Vice
President in 1860 and finally to the
Presidency in May, 1874, when the Of
fee was vacated by the death OF Mr.
Thomson, the eminent engineer and
organizer Of what now constitutes the
great network OF railways known as
tho Pennsylvania system In addition
No his responsible railroad labors dur
ing the war, he was called upon by
the Government to give his ripe expe-
rience and great administrative abili.
ties to the War Department as AS.
slstant Secretary, and he filed the po.
sition until q complete system was inau-
gurated in that important branch OF
the public service. Tho first blow to
bis superb physical power was given
by q violent conclusion when he was
injured in railway accident on one OF
the Western lines a quarter Of cen
tury ago, and the oppressive labors
imposed upon HIM after the fnan.
cial revulsion of 1873 and especially
| ly after his succession to the Presiden.
cy in 1874, have many times seriously
threatened his overthrow. He has OF.
ten been forced from his duties for rest
only when the grayest apprehensions
were folt by those about him that the
limit Of endurance might be passed
and that he would fall in the unequal
struggle. In the Autumn OF 1878 the
sequel to tho story of his herculean
labors was told when partial paralysis
called tho inexorable halt that pru.
dence had refused. A year of rest in
Europe brought relief but not cure,
and having filled the full measure of
public duty to those who made him
the guardian Of their interests, and
given health and prosperity to the
largest corporation Of the New World,
he retres to the rest that will no longer
be mocked, No man in like position
in this or any other State, has been so
much beloved by those who followed
his plane in the many desperate con.
tests he made for tho progress that the
whole Nation now points to with the
keonost pride Many of them who
were his seniors have filed the meas.
ure Of their days and gone before ;
others have scattered in the strange
mutations Of life, and some yet tarry
in every county OF the State, whose
eyes, though dimmed by growing
years, brighten over the recollections
of his iadeless friendships, and whose
devotion will endure to the end with
undated ardor While the great mass
OF those for whom he has labored and
fallen untimoly in the battle of active
life, and whose fortunes he has pro.
tected at unmeasured cost, will turn
from the setting to the rising sun, there
are multitudes of men unknown in the
great centres of hcartless fortune, with
whom his memory will ever be green,
and through whom his manly attri-
butes will widen the impress OF his in.
dividual life upon the world.
There could be but one name pre-.
sonted as thesuccessor of Colonel Scott.
George r. Roberts is the ono man who
possesses the ability, experience and
thorough comprehension Of the pres.
ent policy of the great corporation,
which are indispensable to the Presl.
dent OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
responsible responsible 7PSOsfaGSi l'uS"TESd sRltsa
voice of the directors and enjoying the
unbounded trust of the public. He has
been the most hearty accord with his
predecessor and the pre-eminent fit
hess of hispromotion will be univer-
sally recognized. The change will be
accepted in abiding faith that the
present wisely directed policy of the
Company viii be fully maintained. A.
j. Cassatt will probably succeed Mr..
Roberts as first Vice President, and
bring as nearly as is possible the same
progressive qualities to Mr., Roberts
that Colonel Scott brought to Mr..
Thomson when he was promoted to
the same position.-PhTd Times.