Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22
PRESENTATION.

Last evening the employees OF the Wichi-
| ia & Western railway company and
| friends of Mr.. T. C. Wales, late treasurer
| and auditor of that company, gathered at
| the hotel Metropole and handed to Mr.. j..
D. Houston, attorney of the road, the fol-
lowing letter and beautiful solitaire dia-
mond stud, which Mr. Houston presented
to MIR. Wales:
Mr.. t. G. Wales. late Secretary, Treasurer and
Auditor, Wichita & Western Railway Company,
Wichita. Kan.
Dear Sir: 1t is with sincere regret that
we learn of your resignation as secretary.
treasurer and auditor of the Wichitp &
Western railway company.
Upon the verge of your departure, we,
the undersigned employees ana friends,
have concluded to present you with a
slight testimonial as an evY Mnce OF the
good will and esteem IN W. Oh we have
always held you.
In this connection we 30 desire to
thank you for, and to express our appre-
citation of the uniform kindness shown US
at all times.
We therefore beg you to accept this dia-
mond stud, and we trust that in your
future calling you may meet with success,
and that your relations with whomever
as they have always been between yourself
and Yours respectfully,
w. E. Bailey, A. H. Greet, j. W. Walk
er, W. S. Goldsworthy, d. L. Shea, A. P.
Moore. r. I. Kinnaird, j. S. Coe, Geo.
Hoffmaster, f. r. Cannon, j. W. Magee.
l.. G. Mckenzie e. j. Bannln, I. +. Cos
tello, B. L. McCandless, Henry Hughes, j.
w H. Wood, J. l.. Servlss, Jos. Bertsche,
John Crowley, F. G. Wood, S. McAlpine,
H. p Palmer, 7. B. Campbell, c. p. Hol-
brook, W. n. Hamilton, P. B. Gillett, E.
D. Igou, II. S. Mears, j. r.. Startzell, w.
O. Gould, ,Jno. Horne, j. II. Gunther, l.
T. Smith, f. Z. Gillett, J. d. Houston.
Mr. Houston said among other things,
the boys of tho road have told me you
were to leave them tomorrow for your old
home in the east and they have assembled
here to tender their best wishes and bid
god speed in your journey; not merely to
your Boston home, but in all your future
life. They do not know that you will meet
them again and to assure you always that
they will remember you with kindness
and gratitude, they tell me they have
something they want you to take
as a kind of reminder of the busy
years you have spent with them in Wichi-
ia. do not know what it ls-it will be
here presently.
But then it makes no difference to you
what it is, for whether it be an humble
gift, its true value lies in the beautiful
sentiment that prompts the act: The SIM
pie garb of true friendship, is after all, the
brightest setting" for any gift, and | am
sorry TO say that it is one OF the rarest
jewels of them all.
Money purchased the little present which
/ now have here, and money can buy all
the shares and stock certificates of the
great corporation with which you have
been so long connected, but all Of the gold
of the world cannot purchase the good
will for you and yours, which these boys
bring as free offering to you tonight.
And now sir, let me join them in again
wishing you god speed in
your new life, and may all
the good and pleasant things we can think
of be yours.
Mr.. Wales. in accepting The gift, said:
Mr. Houston, gentlemen, and friends on
the line who are not present: If do not
accept your beautiful and valuable gift in
proper terms let this, my first experience.
be my excuse. l shall value the present
beyond its intrinsic worth on account of
the right good will and kind wishes which
prompted it; and as my silence will be
more eloquent than words | will not bid
you good bye now, but will, with your
kind permission, invite you to the dining