Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-09

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| cutlery dealer, cook. cotton buyer distiller,
dock master, dock commissioner, draughts-
man. electric platter, stationary engineer
fisherman, foreman, halter. Ice man, I'M
porters inspector Of buildings, inventor,
| letter carrier justice of the peace, hthog-
rapher, oil business, police justice. pilot.
newspaper manager, brewer, manager oi
| land company factory foreman, marble
| dealer, merchant tailor. messenger, nu-
scum director, president OF steam heatln6
company restaurant keeper, saloonkeeper.
steamboat man. steward, stock broker, SUI
perintendent of mines, superintendent OF
factories superintendent of prison, super
| intendent of elevator company, superlntend-
ent of coal and iron company, superintend-
emf Of railroad, superintendent OF iron mlA'
| teamster theater manager, music teacher,
teacher of garment cutting, wagon master,
warden of prison.
Railway Builders.
Captain Sladen has prepared an account
| Of the changes in the uniforms of the cadets
| from the beginning of the institution. Major
Eben Swift of the 18th Cavalry gives a his
| tory of the various Indian wars to date.
| with many interesting incidents. Major
Skunk gives a history of the services OF
graduates in the of 1872 and in the
| Mexican war Major Birkhimer reviews
| the civil war and the services of graduates
| Engineer Corps and Captain Herbert A.
| White of the 18th Cavalry discuss the Phil
| ippines and Major Noyes of the 9th lnfan-
| try the campaign for the rescue or the le-
cations at Picking in 10000, Captain Jud-
son reviews the achievements of graduates
| as explorers builders of railways and ca
nails and in other engineering work. He
brings out some interesting facts that are
not generally known; for instance that the
Baltimore and Ohio, the earliest important
| railway enterprise undertaken in the United
| States, was practically built by graduates
| of the Military Academy, chiefly William
Gibbs Mcneil of the class of 1917 and
! George w. Whistler of the class of 1919.
| Mcneil laid the rails upon which the first
steam locomotive ran In America. He was
afterward chief or consulting engineer in
charge of the construction of several rail-
ways in different parts of the country. in
Guiding the Northern Central, the Erie, the
Boston and Albany and the Old Colony.
Whistler was associated with him in most
of these enterprises, and the two may be
considered the pioneer railroad builders of
the United States. These two engineers"
says a well-known authority, exercised an
influence throughout the country for many
years. greater than any others. Indeed,
there were few works of Importance under
taken at that time in connection with which
their names do not appear" Whistler was
| the inventor of the locomotive whistle and
designed the first locomotive used in the
United States. In 1912 he went to st. Peters
burg, where he was employed for several
years by the Russian government in plan
ping, surveying and building lines of rail-
way. He was consulting engineer in the
construction of the present road between st.
Petersburg and Moscow. He also had
charge of other important public undertake
ings for the Russian government, such as
building bridges, Notifications and docks.
He was the actual designer of the defenses
at Cronstadt, which are considered the most
formidable in the world. He remained In
the employ of the Russian government until
his death in 1919, and was succeeded by
NJ he ri nj
who built a considerable part of the Lake
Shore and Erie railroads.
Heads Of Railways.
West Point has furnished forty-nine chief
engineers and twenty-five presidents of rail-
ways among whom numbered some Of
the great generals of the civil war. George
B. Mcclellan was chief engineer of the Hill
nois Central and president of the st. Louis
and Cincinnati, which is now part of the
Baltimore and Ohio system; H. w. Halleck
was president of the Pacific and Atlantic,
Abraham Buford of the Richmond and Dan
vile, Horace Porter of the West Shore,
James H. Wilson of the New York and New
England, Henry l.. Ledyard of the Michigan
Central, John Newton of the Panama, Will
liam H. Gordon and e. P. Alexander of the
Central Railroad of Georgia. The directors
of that road have erected a monument in
honor of Gordon, who devoted his life to the
upbuilding of Georgia. George w. Cass of
the class of 80 was the pioneer of the ex-
press business ana the HrSt president or the
Adams Express Company He was also
president of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago and of the Northern Pacific. The
Mobile and Ohio road was built by Andrew
Talcott. class of IS: John Childs. '27. and
Mitchell, %. The last named was better
known as an astronomer and as director of
the Cincinnati observatory. Talcott built
the first railroad in Mexico, and Wright, 20.
the first in Cuba The Panama railroad was
built by West Point men. Daniel Tyler,
class of 10, was president and chief engi-
neer of many railroads. He had special
down corporations. He was very eminent
engineer. In 1885 he built the first coke hot
blast furnace in America
The Oldest living graduate of West Point
is Thomas A. Morris of the class of 1884,
who built several of the early railroads in
Indiana and was chief engineer and receiver
of several others.
In municipal engineering in river and
harbor work. in the erection of public
buildings, in lighthouses and in canal con-
struction and similar engineering work the
graduates of West Point have been equally
mately 1888. 000, 600 for such purposes.
Training for Civil Life.
AS the book says. .'that training for civil
work as supplemental to peace training of
military character may produce soldiers
OF the highest type would seem to be proved
by the statistics OF the civil war. From
the relatively small number Of officers who |
served in the corps Of engineers at least
forty-one were general officers In command
OF federal or confederate troops during the
Johnston. Mcpherson. Humphreys. New
ton, Wright and Warren.
Winfield Scott Chaplin OF the clas9 OF [