CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1901-10-24
CHAPTER l.
THI PARTY on SPECIAL 40, 218.

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better lay it aside unread. At Yale l
should have got the sack in rhetoric and
English composition. let alone other
studies, had it not been for the fact
that played half back on the team and
20 the professors marked me away up
above where / ought to have ranked
That was IL years ago, but my life since
i received my parchment has hardly
been Of kind to improve me in either
style or grammar. IL is true that one
woman tells me write well and my
directors never find fault with my com
positions, but know that she likes my
letters because. whatever else they may
say to her, they always say in some
form. II love you. while my board
approves my annual reports because thus
far have been able to end each with
81 recommend the declaration Of n divi-
dcnd Of per cent from the earnings
of the current year. should therefore
prefer to reserve my writings for such
friendly critics il IL did not seem neces-
sary to make public n plain statement
concerning an affair over which there
appear 70 bc much confusion ! have
heard in the last five years not less than
go ncaderings of what IL commonly
called ''tbo great K and A train rob
berry" some 80 twisted and distorted
that but for the intermediate versions /
shonld never have recognized them as
attempts 10 narra;e the series Of events
In which played somewhat proni-
nent part
have read or been told tha;. unas-
sisted. the pseudo hero captured a dozen
l.ss. Oft
agents himself. tina; he was saved from
lynchiug only by the timely arrival Of
cavalry. that the action Of the United
States government in rolscuing him from
the civil authorities WAS most high
handed intcrfercsice with state rights;
thni he received his reward from crate
ful railroad hy being promoted: that
lovely woman rs recompense fer his vii
lainy-bui. bother. its my business to
tell what really oocurrcd and not what
the world chooses to invent And II any
man thinks he would have done other
wi~c in my position can only say that
be Is better or a worse man than Dick
Goriosi
Primarily. IL was football which
shaped my end. Owing TO my skill in
the game. took postgraduate ai the
Sheffield Scientific school. thn, the team
might have my services for AN extra two
years That led to my knowing little
about mechanical engineering. and when
] left the quad for good went into
the Alton railroad shops itwasnt long
before ] was foreman of snciiun; ncxt
/ became a division superintendent. and
after had stuck 90 that for time l
was appointed superintendent Of the
Kansas and Arizona railroad. line cs-
tending from Trinidad I'M Kansas To The
Needles in Arizona tapping the Mis-
sour Western system Mt the firrt place
and the Great Southern at the other
With both lines we had important traffic
agreements as well as the closest rcia-
tions, which sometimes were little
difficult, ~ the two roads woro anything
but friendly And we had directors OF
each ON the X and A. board. in which
they fought like cats. Indeed IL could
only bc question Of time when one
would oust the other and then absorb
my road Ny headquarters wen at AL
buqucrque. in New Mexico. and ~ was
there, in October, 1890. that ] received
the communication which was the be-
ginning Of all that followed
This initial factor was a letter from
the president Of the Missouri Western.
telling me that their first vice president,
Mr.. Cnlicn twho was also director of
my road). was coming out 10 attend the
annual election Of the X and A.. which
under our charter had to b. held in Ash
Forks. A 7, A second paragraph told
me that Mr. Cullen's family nccompa-
MED him. and that they all wished to
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on their way. Finally the president
wrote that the party travelled in his own
private car and asked me to make my
self generally useful TO them. Having
become quite hardened to just such de-
mands, Mt the proper date / ordered my
superintendent car on TO No, 9, and
the next morning IL was dropped of at
Trinidad.
The moment No. 3 arrived climbed
into the presidents special, thnt was
the last car ON the train and introduced
myself to Mr.. Cullen. whom, though an
official of my road. l had never met He
seemed surprised Mt my presence, but
greeted me very pleasantly ms soon rs
explained that the Missouri Western
office had asked me to do what | could
for him and that l was there fer that
purpose His party were about TO sit
down to breakfast, and he asked me to
Join them. Sowe passed into the dining
room ut the forward end of the car,
where | was introduced TO My son, :"
Lord Rallcs.' and "Captain Ack-
land !" The son was junior copy of
his futiler. tail aud ilne looking; bat in
place Of the frank aud easy manner of
hi. sire, he was so very English that
most people would have sworn falsely
ns 70 his native land, Lord Rallies was
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