The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-14
PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY.
Another Anniversary of the Largest
Corporation in the World,
A SkETCH OF THE BIG SYSTEM
Used uorscs on Ira First short Line %.
Eighty Miles-Nov uas seven
Thousand Mites.

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| celebrated the anniversary OF the Penn
sylNania. Railroad company. officials and
I .,.,.,y r,.., -, r,tss,,,,i,g from .be oldest
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80 '''s !oei'stSs al '"e sS' - a.
! n.Arner as not 20 Interfere Win the WORK
ing OF the road
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! "S"'s '''-S as" ~ "9 '
/ l-1Auon Economist that the iehns!'Fahla
HsNsuai company WIS the largest corpo-
v,s7,- .,.s., o,s- IN rho ,vorli since
ho, .a. =, h. $50, -, ,,,..,s, s,,,y l., ma,
''a' Na'a IL Hes s"''1 On '''e' S"S'.'s IA .''"s
hitgde and Importance. ana l. without
doubt not only lin. greatest OF corl,ora-
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N-' ''S~ .''S nus 90 F '0H4'
| aud - manager Win greater aol4itS ana
! Integrity than any other IN America. 1t
I mas long t4ct, kuor.t, as the model road
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a. SCI .-r ia us rams Is '''e s'e"s Sci'oo'
! from which other rosds procured their tx
! peri managers
..- f.s,7-y ~ the great corpofatlo, is
/ The hls.3ry ef q, pc,.ad which cover, NEAR
I private ems ssIirlse Ia the building ami ope-
/ "a Ion W RAILROADS
! For murr ,a.u. twenty years prior 10 this
/ rlot railroads rad nceu chartered bat
-.l. uu.i;. AID ne State. ia oricr 10 secure
i. us cit-arns transportation facilities
rs al SO 'hese OF New 4orR. haa. at an
p "a "hsr Of Owes Sltt.l. QpV constructed =
I s'Nuil=d railroad ana canal Ane from
/ ] l.aGt.pn.- 100 P.t,solre, which 1t ope-
iS'r9 lN an unsatisfactory Way at a great
i--S.
4Ais through line WIS put IN operation
y! 80 ana oScupic0 praracSlly the salie
roats over wh.en The pennsylvania raii-
ro@i Trains now run.
J 4iHJSes We're USED Tor several years on
/ .Ie o.t.il 20 i1,tuad. me entire diS-
49,, 49,, > niies WIS riaa ~ nm nours. "a"
j i"IN-s '~llS ca lsri - Try twv'Ne mites.
ne itist 20 motive placed on ire road
was i.iS Istiteh htNA whtS! was haui"d
over iie iUrnp!he 10 L'AncaSter, as the
kal%
i.eieu, ana was run between Mat town
80 V.1nl .,i, ~ pf2tsa n ;a.!Ire and
pHt ca hat l!!ie N ~. 400 Horse
service "aS disc9utinn~A \, least forty
ia, ''''0'''es We're is''' ''1 10 oe N use III
I Suoh system. either Tor freight or pas
senSefs. could not compete w.ta the Erie
, li,.'' M',1m vas n'leh Mfs'r Deet t
/ county @Nd ti.e coinngreli! supremacy
/ et tu:.N ie'pAi9 "lloA h,1A heeii Wen man
,-',t.'' up 20 ''"a !e14Vi' was 'us' ~ Nc"
9FN' at,
~ az vas Iissel on tua I'm 81 AL'ihi'
~ A'.9tl p' a'ins the fs'-',s' H,..' sa,t-
rg@ II WIZ Ssnttai ot S,.,,sa IN IN
/ "a. liesr 20 increase II 10 s'V,VN,N", ~ ~
pony 60. " eo'Apany W2S 70 2"nd ne
io9l Nila ne money suillHS ~ ny sloNN
gr5 '-a li , is Effort Wa VA ae 10 10
raist 1ns money ii..' hoese 70 mouse, 'isist-
tons we''e mede Tor suosSrlp3ous' ne
newspapers lent a aelpihe HAND md &-p,
the matter netofe the people ai'u pup"
meetings. were "elN. -.
hrh success seeHltd aSs"Iea tAe MOST
prominent r9i4Way engineer or thc tliIt;
j. EDGAR ihemsrii '~i1a ensaged. ana
"ptcTcI upon l.la nnlies as cIiet engineer
o. the company III the carry part q. 1914.
Contracts Vera let on July 10, lSi' ior
the first construction work Tor the road
west from HARRISBURG. ana ON september
/ ! ~. the first division OF thu road, from
/ harrisburg TO Lewiston, sixty zone miles
one year later the zap was closed from
nous rail- line from Philadelphia to the
Portage ruai. The line from Jo!'nstown
80 ttt1souts va eoi"i.elsn III - on
1,,lti,,r. ~ ~, ,i,' "a, mein'- 10 1,ortsa