Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-22
A MODEST CEREMONY
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the gold with suspicion. but when they came to
realize that 1t was not counterfeit. there
Was great rejoicing among the majors and
the judges and the colonies"
After awhile the Senator cut down his pocket
pieces to % bills which he found did just as
well, and later still he got down to the practical
basis OF thirty-fve % bills, which he put in his
pocket each day and distributed among his
Capitolpensioners.
This. Of course. did not interfere with his
giving his check for larger sums, which were
borrowed" from him at frequent intervals by
persons in various walks of life.
great many attempts to get money from
ham In other ways than by loans or gifts were
maze. One method tried on several
occasions was TO force upon him
some papers pretending to represent
that he examine them. These papers he was
liable 10 stuff INTO his pockets and lose without
discovering what thew were. Then he was con-
ironted with reques; to pay for the papers,
(Which were OF great value, or stand suit for
damagea ~
HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY
line senator placed the greatest confidence in
tnose whom he employed. but he appeared to
possess Gift Of judgment which enabled him
TO select the right persons For a number OF
.ears 'onn q. MCCARTHY, formerly a newspaper
secretary and has been very largely in
trusted with his business affairs, being in
charge OF the Washington Office Mr.. Mccarthy.
who Is very shrewd reader Of human nature
and gifted with the power Of uncovering a
frand by quick process has stood between
the Senator and The vultures who Constantly
mover about. Many confidence games have
been nipped in the bud by Mr.. Nc
Carthy and much Of the Senator'S fortune
has been kept out of the hands of
impostors With absolute confidence the SEN
ator has passed hundreds OF thousands of dol
lars through the hands Of his private secretary
without safeguard or security Of any sort, and
many thousand dollars are kept in banks here
to Mr. McCarthy's credit to draw at his .discre-
ton.
BUILDING TIE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Senator Stanford always regarded the con-
struction OF the Pacific railroad as the greatest
work of his lfe. The company was organized
for the work in 1861
Ono year from that date Congress
passed an act granting TO the corporation a
loan OF bonds averaging S35. 900 a mile princi.
pal and interest to be repaid at the expiration
OF thirty years. In addition to this
alternate sections Of unoccupied land on
either side OF the road were donated to the
company absolutely. None of this subsidy
could be obtained till fifty miles we're COM
pieted and furnished with rolling stock.
As all OF the iron and most Of the other
material had to be transported from the
Atlantic states alorg two oceans and across a
foreign country on its way to California, but
little work vas done till the fall of 1868. and il
was not until July i, 1864. that the first
thirfy-one miles were completed From
TINS date commences the mighty
struggles ard trials Of the comnsny.
The next 100 miles Law across a chain of noun
tains. the most difficult to pierce, grade and
subdue OF any in the world Imagine
a series OF lofty cones rising one above
another till in distance Of seventy
miles an elevation is reached of 1912
feet above the starting point and that the
proposition was TO build a railroad up and
across those mountain peaks and down the
other side into the valie-. 900 feet below.
and some idea can be formed Of the magnitude
OF almost the FIRST work commenced by the
Pacific Railroad Company.
Many engineers examined the proposed road
and declared ii impossible to construct. and
Gov Stanford himself once, having climbed to
the top OF one Of the snow-capped Sierras ex-
claimed with q sigh: as it possible a
railroad can be built here?" But his de-
pression was only momentary, for his pene-
sting eve quickly saw that those lofty piles Of
clay and granite when cut up could be made
available in filling the chssms and precpices
that yawned between. Besides. his was a
faith that could. it literally did,
remove NOM tains." and he never allowed
W uouot aItetwaid Ana so armed, |
with shovel and pick. powder and steel,
did his army Of workingmen 60 forth 10
battle with the everlasting hills that
lowered to the clouds above them. During this
time sides OF whole mountains were torn off |
and many a granite hill of vast proportions
blown to 10000 pieces. On the Drinks |
OF precipices. down which they could some
times lock 1000 feet, were the railroad |
builders frequently required to toll, and |
OF other times amid avalanches Of snow aud ice /
which had Numbered down with awful velocity /
into their pathway from crags that seemed |
hung In the skies above them But by the |
steady and well-directed storm of sweat and /
steam. hammer and drill, and amid the boom of |
blasts that rocked the ground like an Garth 4
quake, the mountains were finally battered /
down. and on the 2Sth dav Of August. 1867.
the locomotive assembled to the summit, point /
higher than Mount Washington, the highest |
peak in New England.
HIS GREAT STOCK FARM
Senator Stanford found relaxation from his
many responsibilities in the fad Of fast horses.
and he took great pride in the fame Of his /
stable. from which were turned out a number
OF record breakers. In 81 Sunol lowered Nsud /
$. s record to 20sk and Arion lowered all
records for two-yesr.olds
The Stanford stock farm was probably the
greatest In this country. The Senator devoted
hinseh on this farm TO the development OF the
hnest trotters, and he did probably more than
any other man TO develop n breed of horses
whose speed has surprised the world
Y. NJ. c. A. Athletics.
The beautiful gold and silver medals dis