The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-10

slant;' ne was 1t aL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS am
Il pokoht Mountain, among other battles.
His army corps, the Twelfth, was one
OF the two transferred from the Army
of the Potomac to- the relief OF Rosecrans
4 at Chattanooga The work Of getting the
troops to Rosecrans In time fell on the
shoulders CT Col. Scott q Of the Pennsyl-
vania; It was at this junctu7p that
Capt. Green met the Pennsylvania man;
( and the latter was 80 impressed with
i the aid that the Captain gave him that
when the war was over he took the vol
unteer soldier into his employ as priva te
secretary. It was while he was close to
Scott as secretary, and later as gassis:
tant that Green gained his knowledge OF
finances that has been SO Invaluable to
the Pennsylvania. Capt. Green has been
the recognized financier and mout hpiece
OF the road since the death OF Vice
President Du Barry about fifteen years
ago. 81 y 8,S9
3s Some idea Of the work thai falls 1 to
from the following statements In five
years the Pennsylvania has issued 1892
900, 900 worth Of new securities. It has
retired S107, 0O0, 900 OF old securities, leav-
ing net gain OF 1925 900 0Oo. These fig
fures are exclusive OF the SO COZ. 900 loan
recently taken by French bankers: Il and
! then there is the recent report Of an
Issue OIL $foiUU,UU SOO1l& 70 &Ue Illuo6. seven
years ago the authorized capital stock
Of the road was $751; 900, 600. OF which only
500. OO0, 900 had been issued. To-day its
outstanding stock is in excess OF s3o5.-
E00O. 900.
BID Capt. Green has succeeded in floating
new big loan after loan in rapid suc-
Icession and augmentin9 the stock with
out disturbing the public conf dence II
the railroad as great property.
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hobby Is athletics. lie has done Of great
deal to further the athletic spirit at the
University Of Pennsylv ania. N In his day
( he was an expert cricket player, and he
still delights to prance around a. tennis
court. 4 III t;
a. Despite the fact that he is within three
years OF the retirement age for all Penn.
5sylvania employees, from President down.
| he Is still as straight as the proverblal
arrow. and few. men can keeps up the
pace that hc sets when he walks.
many years" said a friend who fought
with him, and not till the other day.
Z had ever seen him walk slowly. Then
: he was with quite an old mana halt
ing Director Of the road, believe. 3
Pugh, lately playing the role OF apollo!
gist for "the crowd showed what he
had learned about transportation N
seventeen years, when. as General Agent
( for Philadelphia, he handled over three
million passengers to the Centennial Elk
position without a single accident at the
stations. So gigantic problem In pas
senger transportation had not previously
confronted an American railroad. This
piece OF railroading won Mr.. Pugh the
General superlntendencyS OF the road
three years later; In 1882 he became
General Manager. in 1898 Third Vice
President, and in y 1897. Second Vice
President He will be seventy in 1911,
when he will have to- retire. willy-nilly.
REA. THE ENGINEER.
Res Is perhaps closer to Cassatt than
any Of the other VICE presidents. Both
bond between them. Cassatt dearly loves
hustler and this Rea is, He also loves
a bold planner and executor, and this
Rea Is also. 4
1t was Rea who, as chief engineer OF
the Baltimore Belt Railway located
and put under construction for the Ball
timore & Ohio Its subsidiary company's
comprehensive surface and underground
line through Baltimore. On the day three
years later that he returned to the
Pennsylvania as assistant to the presi-
dent no was sent to London to study
and report on the new electric UNDER
ground railways then constructed and
proposed. This investigation led Rea to
believe that the heart Of New York could
be reached by his road by SUSTAIN Of
sunder-river tunnels. When Cassatt be-
came president. Rea in his vigorous way.
took up the project with his chief, and
to-day Rea Is in charge Of the vast !m-
proyement, embracing the building OF
tunnels under two riyers and the city;
great station covering blocks, a con.
Meeting railway, which Will give the
Pennsylvania an all-rail route to New
England via Logg Island and Randall's
and Wards Islands, and mammoth
freight yards and terminals in Long
Island City and at Greenlille. on the
New Jersey side of New York bay.
Unlike Cassatt. Green and Thayer, Rea.
as boy, got very little schooling. He
Is self-mada man in every sense Of the
word. He enjoys the distinction |, being
the or,ly author among the head men OF
the Pennsylvania 4 he wrote IT he Railways
Terminating In london memoratiye
of his Investigations there. r.
Thayer. who Is no longer, Indignantly