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

convenience has been popular right from
1.-THE start. s& n a. 5}5 An a.; ii RI
3cAssATTl ATT
Like Captain Green, u Mr. Cassatt was
trained under the eye OF Colonel Scott
with the passing OF these two men when
they reach seventy, within about four
months OF each other. Will so the last
5of SCOTS railroad children: Robert PITT
scairn, the canny Scotch assistant to the
president In Pittsburg. having retired only
"a few days ago. III was In September
1882 about q year a fter the death OF Coll
Eonel Scott. who had been ili%retirementI
I a8tWelveni0nt tn, that Mr. Cnssatt Srcsigned5
as first Vice presi dent. One report has IT.
t that lie was led to take this ste ~ because
of serious difficulty with hisSS chief, Mr.
Roberts. In his letter of esignntion he
sta ted that my only obi ect In king this
step Is ITO have moro time a t my dis
yposal than any one occupying sos espon-
sible q position in railroad management
can command. ~ a, 3lS s5. # Isl
At the age of fortyetwo, and after
twenty-one years spent in active rail-
roading, he entered $onf his play period
He became one Of the country's leading
breeders Of horses. With the Bard, Inn
ported from q England, and his descen-
dants, Mr.. Casa tt won numerous Vic
tories 4 on the turf and was for many
yCAI q tt4llOu6
horse racing in Amer He was one
OF the butt ers OF the. famous; Ionmouth
Park track he aband oned racing only
when 1t came under a general cloud by
reason Of the owners 3 of the K" outlaw
tracks" in New Jersey. 8 Then he took
up hackneys; he promoted the Philadel-
phiaS Horse Show, and many al blue rib
bon has he won at horse shows through
out the country, XII
s,s When he went In for horses. Mr.. Cas-
satt was led to accept the nomination for
supervisor OF road al OF Merton ownship.
ontgomery count He was re elected
time and again, and only hen he found
the duties of railroad president too press
Ing did y he refuse longer to make the
race. He had to make q race; Z here were
those who held that Mr.. Co ssatt built
too expensive roads, and they did not
fall to put up an opposition ticket from
time to time. u II lis d fact that the roads
OF Merton Township are the finest about
Philadelphia, and serve as mo dels for the
whole country. Y 5fs III u 5S:y Ss .j44
{ "A few days less than a year after he
retired he was elected director OF the
where he was literally educated. prin-.
tcipally at the University OF ,Darmstadt.
He was still q director when he became
president, Thus Mr., Cassatt has been
with the Pennsylvania for forty-four
Years, the greater part Of which he has
been decided power In Its affairs. Said
the late Frank Thomson of Mr.. Cassatt:
When Alex. comes in he'll point out
the solution ~
Said birmingham Morris, one Of the
roads directors, and a member Of Its
MISUNDERSTANDING committee:
He's fearless In all his undertakings.
quick to decide, and has the intuition
of O woman M 81 I'll
To those who know him these two SEN
5timents sum up the mans chief charac-
teristics.
PRESIDENT TO PLEASE MRS, CAS-.
SATT. Ri
It may be an Sungallnnt thing to say
but in the last analysis It is a woman
ugly muss that he now has on his hands.
That woman is--Alrs. Cassatt.
y When a committee Of the board of d.
kectors first offered Mr.. Cnssatt the
presidency Clement A.. Griscom had taken
away the boards breath by proposing
his name-he unhesitatingly and unequi-
vocally refused the honor. He had had
enough Of active railroad management
tho life OF q gentleman farmer pleased
him we'll; he was content TO let his fame
rest on what he had done.
rs INlloWlI6 ~ WA well WHY Ho Iiu suo'ict
and therefore all the more anxious to
secure him for president, the committee
of directors shrewdly went to Mrs. Cas-
satt and as shrewdy painted to her the
social honors that would fall to the lot
of the wife OF the head Of so important
and famous a corporation as the Penn
sylyania. Not that the cassatt family
was In need OF social distinctions but-
Some days later, when, at 10 in the inorn-
ms. Mr.. Cassatt. in attendance at this
board meeting, was once more offered tho
presidency. lie asked to he given until
g of the afternoon to make UP his mind,
A few minutes after that hour, the news
was being dashed TO waiting railroad and
financial worlds that he was the new
head of the system.
However his name comes out Of tho
present ugly situation. II Will still ro-
main true that he has given % Ameri-
can railroading some or It's ooiaest, most
S most imDOvtaut dayelOn-