The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS

| The Story of Erie by Edward Har-
cid Mott, is a volume of history that
tells of the building of the Erie rail
read from the ocean to the great lakes.
The book is not a mere record of dry
facts and figures, but contains a story
CT row the son of a humble farmer,
William c. Redfield, beginning life as
a clerk in a country store and spend
ing his spare moments in the study
of history and surveying, came at last
to New York, and at the age OF 80
years gained absolute control of one of
the greatest railroad corporations in
the world, against the legal and finan-
cial giants of two of the weafthfest and
most powerful nations of the earth.
1t also presents to the reader the life
stories of manv others Of humble be-
ginning who rose to the highest posi-
lions in railroad and financial circles.
The author rec0unts how, seventy
years ago. there were less than sixty
miles of railroad in the country, and
this confined to the states of Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts and Maryland
How only the road in the latter atate
carried passengers as We'll as freight,
and how from this small beginning the
great. system east to the ocean was
built.
Then follows a history of the connec-
ton of the many great finarciers OF the
country with the enterprise, Begin
ming with Eleazar Lord, the first pres
ident who entered upon his duties on
Aug. 8, 1888, when the organization OF
the New York & Erie railroad became
fact. II is noted by the author that
on this date only 5 per cent of the re-
CURED Subscriptions had been paid, in
5}stead of the 10 per cent specified in
the charter. Then follows a story of
the fluctuations of the road through
Mr.. Lords three administrations. Var
ious ffnanciers take a hand at Gnanag-
ing the enterprise until in 1858 Jay
Gould took hold of it, john A. Dix
was then it's president for a brief
period, but the difficulties Of the COM
pany continued until 1885, when, under
the leadership of Eben B. Thomas, the
new Erie was evolved out of the old
road and materially strengthened by
consolidation with eight other roads.
This is shown in a. very interesting way
to what the fortysfx miles Of rail-
road of 1871 have grown.
Included in the work is series of
tables carefully compiled from official
records, showing the growth of the
Erie year by year from the beginning
to the present day; the number OF
miles of track laid every year; the
yearly increase of rolling stock; the
number of passengers and tons CT
freight carried every year; the srumber
of passengers, employees and others
killed on the railroad each year, the
annual earnings and expenses since
1S41; the cost of construction each
year; the amount Of capital stock and
bonded debt of the company, year by
year, to 1898; and the lowest and high
est quotations, every month, of Erie
preferred and consfnon stock, from the
first regular. quotation to the end Of
1885,
'.The Story of Erie" by Edward Har-
old Mott. Published by John 5. Col
Inns, New York.
1t Will be a long time before a pa
triotic public has heard enough of the
hero of the century-George Dewey.
Another life of the admiral from the
pen of viii NJ. Clemens has Just ap-
peared. Mr.. Clemens is known to the
reading public through his life of
and his Life of Mark Twain" He
now gives us very complete history OF
the life of the man that the entire
country is honoring.
In the course of fifteen chapters he
deals with the Dewey ancestry and
with every period of the great conn
mander's life from his boyhood up to
the time OIL MS GlGSdlLQIn III IdIIh do q
reward for his victory in the Philip
pines.
The book is exquisftely gotten up.
The binding is dainty blue, and the
cover contains an excellent picture of
the admiral. Both for students and
other readers it will prove to be a most
desirable addition to the library OF Ia
Life of Admiral Dewey" by VIII
NJ. Clemens Published by Street d
Smith. New York.
The 1899 Chatterbox has just been re-
ceived from the press OF Dana, Estes
& Co. of Boston. The 400 pages OF
poetry. story and Illustrations are as
fascinating as>ever, and a new copy OF
the ever-delightful book will be as
much priced by the youthful reader of |
today as was the first ChatteTbox that
ever came from the printers press.
'.Chatterbox, published by Dana, |
Estes e Co, Boston.
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