The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

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soEney Or Mr. Dissasu In the mAster o. getting
out tisls dssd1 for he land purchase. The con
pany wss anxious 10 gst some lists out % q. 10
start work. 1t was sn innssss lsbor 70. con-
pare the maps. tract books. sales entries and rail-
fO9d reservations ana Ct Of them an dednce .
list Er. Corley, ths Aesd O. the once, was una
voldably detained In New YORK with member
Of his family under medical care there Mr.
Myers was assigned 70 ether duties, and there
was no one but Mr.. Myers who had the expert
ence Of the once su6scienl 70 do the work.
For two or three weeks / was thus kept waiting.
Then appealed 10 the internal Improvement
Board and got m order authorizing Mr.. Myers
70 devote himself exclusively TO that work.
urged Mr. Myers to push the work all he posi-
bly, could, on account Of the delay that had been
had and the many interests waiting. He did %.
All through the heal Of September he worked
late and early, and % overworked himself that
with that and the heat and working In the base
ment Of the Capitol building, be became s.
riously III, having been invalided fer nearly two
months. but he accomplished the work assigned
to him by the Board In fine shape and in a re-
markaby short time In making my written re-
port 10 the company Of the great progress had
made explained that the credit of IL was u.sinly
due TO the great effort made BY Mr.. Myers, and
that they owed II 10 him TO make some recogni-
ton of the fact, but no mention of this OF of any
intention or suggestion Of doing anything Of The
kind, or Of any kind, was made to Mr.. Myers I'M
til the presentation was made, many months zf-
ter
When the business of the company was about
concluded here a. to general matters, the Vice
President Of the company came to Tallahassee
to confer here before relieving me of my charge.
In the general wind up he asked me IN what
way they could show their appreciation of the
obligation they were under 10 Mr.. Myers.
suggested the not unusual present Of a watch.
and which in this case was deprived of all cum
mercial value BY reason of the heavy engraving
on the cases. 1t would have been cheaper for
the company to have written its thanks upon q
sheet Of letter paper, but il was certainly more
appropriate to engrave them in the manner
adopted, and am sure that the editors Of the
papers who naturally made criticisms because OF
hearing of the presentation alone will now ad-
NIT that there was no improperly in the matter.
The work Of Mr. Myers was in no sense judi
ciaL 1t was purely clerical labor compiling on
cia lists where it was impossible for him to have
deviated from the true result in the case without
at once setting all the papers and records in the
Office In confusion and making his work worth
less for any purpose. The thanks of the CON-
pany were profered to Mr.. Myers, not for the
work he did, for that had to be done by some
body, sooner or later, but for working double
and treble time in order the more promptly TO
carry out the wishes not only of the Disston
company, bot also Of the Internal improvement
Board which had sold the land and was as anx-
ions a. any one 10 have the business completed
There were at least hundred men kept waiting
In one way or another for these lists half q
dozen printers were working on them page by
page a. fast as they were finally approved !;
clerks were set to work distributing the records
Of them in various blotter-books in the Jackson
vile oface, and sections of the printed lists were
distributed In dozen counties for parties of gra-
ders to work on in fixing the price of lands So
you see. Mr.. Editor, much depended on Mr.. Ny
era If he had worked along only usual Office
hours 1t would have taken him three months to
do the work, and retarded for that length of
time all operations under the Disston purchase
BY an effort few men could successfully make,
he crowded the work into one month, and thus
set the whole machinery in motion. These were
the extraordinary services he rendered, and in
this way he did well earn the testimonial which
his friends here will always be proud to see him
wear. Respectfully,
E. r. dunno, Fort Dade Fla