The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-02-16
REASONER OBSEOUIES.
special Trains Bore Hundreds of sincere
Mourners-To Touching Eulogy by Or.
MAcnaughton. Pastor of Deceased.

order that employees of the road
might attend the funeral of Andrew
| Reasoner, at East Orange. A train
J was also run from Hoboken to East
Orange The Rev DR. John Mac
naughtan, of this city, otficiated, as
sisted by the Kew. DR.. Phrainer, of the
Mum avenue PresbyterianChurch, and
the Rev. Or. Smythe.
| Prayer was offered at the late resi-
dence of the deceased by DR.. Mac
naughtan, after which the funeral
procession proceeded to the church
two blocks distant. The pulpit plat
form was banked with floral tributes
the centre piece being large pillow
with the word Husband" in blue
| immortelles.
| The honorary pallbearers were Fred
erick III. Gibbons, former treasurer of
the road Samuel 7. Varian, former
superintendent Of transportation;
Solomon Griffith, former superinten-
dent of construction; President Will
liam H. Truesdale, Superintendent
Raymond Du Puy, Mayor James NJ.
Seymour of Newark; Mayor Edward
e. Bruen, of East Orange; Judge j.
Franklin Fort, Judge Francis Child,
| f. Wolcott Jackson, president of the
|
Robert + Westcott, president of West
colts express; Vice Chancellor Henry
c. Pitney, Harry A. Freeman, Henry
w. Ford of Morristown Carolina
Lambert, of Paterson; James e. Rey-
nolds and William G. Thomas, of
East Orange, and William HI. Seward,
of Chester.
Benjamin Chaplin, of the M. q. E.
r. r. E. A. and three of the oldest
conductors of this division, Henry
FL. Hoffman, Abraham Ball and d. X.
Kinson followed the bearers.
DR.. Macnaughtan, the pastor of Mr..
Reasoner while the latter was a resi-
dent of this city, and who had for
years been closely associated with
him, delivered the eulogy in a voice
often broken with emotion. He said
in part
from Hoboken to Buffalo, said DR..
Macnaughton, there are sad hearts
today. All along the line every man
who is handling a lever or a throttle
is thinking of this hour, thinking sad
ly of the friend who has gone. And
the wives and mothers. who nave ex-
perienced the kindness that was so
freely given, are thinking with sad
hearts of this service. / can hardly
trust myself to say the words that oc
cur to me- 1t is hard not to exagger-
ate even when speaking of the highest
excellence, but l feel confident that
nothing that shall say will be chal-
lenged by this splendid assemblage,
which is, more than anything else, a
spontaneous tribute to the memory of
man, who under outward apparent
roughness had heart bigger than his
own big body.
Born in January, 1928, consequent
ly seventy seven years of age, he early
in life was launched out in the world
to make his own way drifting finally
into railroad enterprises and evident
ly, in the very beginning of his career,
before it became conspicuous, he
earned place in the confidence of
his superiors.
Dr. Macnaughton referred to his
selection to accompany President
Lincoln to West Point during the
War of the Rebellion as an instance
of the confidence reposed in Mr..
Reasoner.
Thirty two years ago, " continued
the speaker, "he came to this rail
road, to become the creator of it, and
no mans name is more intimately
connected with it's construction and
development than is that of Andrew
Reasoner, and no man ever gave its
concerns more unwavering care and
thought than he gave it. He slept and
walked with that railroad i'll his mind.
Those of us who knew him well can
recall that every night he would go
to his telephone before retiring to see
| that everything was right along the
line.
He had his reward in the condi-
tions that he created. In thirty years
not one passenger was killed on a
train of the road, except in that fear
! full accident which nearly broke his
heart. During his administration we
| boarded train with the consciousness
that there was man at Hoboken who
was watching over us, that he had the
| loyal cooperation of every man on
the road Look at the millions that
have been conveyed over tae road in
all those years without an accident,
record not made by any other road,
but due to his sagacious superinten-
dence.
He had the power to get out of
men fidelity and eXactness. Not
man on the road but felt his honor
was concerned in carrying out Mr..
Reasoners purposes. That there was
but one accident in all those years
showed that not only was there man
watching over the road, but there
were men who felt that not only
would a mishap carry serious conse-
quences to them, but severer pain to
the heart of their old, white-haired
friend.
"Every man knew that justice
would be done him. | sat in his Office
in Hoboken one day, when conduc-
tor came in. 1t was foggy day, and
it had been charged that conductor
had failed to leave signal on the
line The man came i'll and said that
he would bring his brakemen to prove
that the signal had been placed as re-
quired. Justice was Immediately ex-
tended to him, and he was compli-
mented for having done his duty.
"He not only made the men feel
their responsibility, but there was a
sort of kinship created. 1t was
Father Reasoner' with the men. Few
said Mr.. Reasoner However stern
he might be in demanding that every
man must do his duty, he remembered
the needs of every man in his en-
ploy. When other roads were entan-
gled in strikes and differences with
their men, this road was moving on
because loyal hearts loved the super
intendent and did their duty. If a
man was sick, some one who lived
near him had to report his condition
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