Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-26
AN EXCEPTIONAL PARTING.

All the Employees of the Birmingham Lines
Unite in Honoring President Patrick
What They and He Said.
There we're relations SO exceptionally
pleasant between President Patrick, late of
the Pittsburg and Birmingham Passenger
Railway Company, and his employees. that
the cordial demonstration thereof at their
parting Wednesday night are worthy of
more than mere passing notice. Superin-
tendents Delany and Roseborough, in behalf
of the entire force on the two branches of
the line, presented President Patrick with a
splendid gold watch and chain when he
came to the Office to clear up things before
his final departure. The addresses of pre-
sentation and acceptance are, by request,
appended in full:
MIR. Patrick;
Our fellow workmen, employees upon the line of
railway you have so long. faithfully and success
fully controlled and managed have devolved upon
one of the most pleasant duties which have
fallen to us since our ASSOCIATION together.
The many years in which you have been so ac-
lively engaged as chief of the passenger railway
system stretching through the main avenues of
our city have brought you into close contact with
your employees, and have given to them an insight
Into your habits, your care and your thoughtful
ness, as well as your sigma, ability In managing
workmen have been associated with you the
higher has been their esteem for you, and for the
integrity and manly solicitude you have for them.
In the most trying times these men have felt and
known your desire to promote their best interests
and the appreciation with which you have
watched their work. Their efforts to do their
whole duty was not lost upon one Indifferent to
a laborious and often unwelcome duty.
And as you have thus been considerate of the in
been 10 the best Interests of those whom you i'm
mediately represented. The splendid equipment
porous p @ Coz condiiicn IN in which il stands to-day,
evinces the intelligence, frugality and executive
No better passenger railway in all its parts be
found in this State. Its daily increasing traffic is
city van and the favor II with which the public view
your road.
things, as you lay down your office your employees
ask us 10 hand you this in token of the due esteem
in which you are held by each one. 1t is a free
will Offering of the employees, rendered you in a
spirit Of gratitude that they have been favora-
the thoughtful care OF a conscientious employer
has not been lost upon those whose action he di-
Sir, for them we invoke upon you the continu-
ance of that prosperity which You SO richly de-
serve, and the more and more enlarging centers of
the honest tsskmaster is after all the liberal
and beneficial employer; and Is ever certain to
whom he 50 unselhshly labors. To that end allow
US in their behalf 70 present to you this watch and
chain as q token OF their high esteem.
President Patrick replied:
Iaccept your kindly and munifcent offering as
an exponent of the good will and esteem in which
am held by you all. Permit me to thank you,
not much for the value of the offering for the
expression Of approval and cordial Il cling thus
rendered Ii has been my effort for the past ten
years, while in command as chief officer of that
corporation, to rescue 1t from the condition
found IL (almost a wreck). How well / succeeded
is evidenced by the price now paid $50 per share
for the stock. the par value of which is $50. and
the selling value when 1 took II so per share.
This change was accomplished, you well know,
by the most arduous and asslduous attention, and
with your cooperation, in a faithful, honest and
earnest attention TO the duties assigned you, and
without which my efforts would have been futile.
again thank you for this token of respect and
esteem. and shall ever cherish IL one of the
choicest of "reminiscences.
1t is my pleasure and privilege TO commend you,
and al, to my successor, In the full assurance
Won will deport yourselves as men, and in return
will be treated as such.