Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-06-28

.Iels uhae two rivers and the city, a
great station covering blocks, a con
nectlng railway, which will give the
Pennsylvania an all rail route to New
nglan via Long Island and Randalrs
and Wards Islands. and mammo
freight yards and terminals In Long
Island City and at Greenville on the
New Jersey side OF New York bay.
mayer. who Is no longer indignant
~ denying that his road never took a
single rebate after rebating became
illegal. Is u%ndeniably the hulnorist OF
me crowd Perhaps he mean his
denials to be taken by the public az
humorous emanations. He Is also the
youngest. being In his 4%th year. Cas-
satt lacks three years OF being three
score and ten: so does Green. Pugh is
SO. Rea 81. n Patton six years his
senior.
Patton Handles Politics.
Fatton's career has been bound UP in
n large measure with that OF Cassatt's,
thanks to his learning stenography in
odd moments when he was an office
boy. When MIR. Cassatt was general
superintendent he was his trusted
clerk, and shortly after Cassatt was
made general manager of the lines east
OF Pittsburg-that was in December of
1S71-Patton became his chief clerk.
From then on till Mr.. Cassatt resigned
49, 'A>S piCSiuCIll, VI IdtlOH WAS AL
his elbow. and when his old chief once
more entered active railroad life Mr..
ration became his assistant.
One of Mr.. Patton's multifarious du-
ties is to look after the political inter-
ests of the pennsylvania crowd" The
conlding of this delicate work to his
hands speaks volumes of the conf
dence reposed in him by his chief, who
would resent n suggestion that Pat
ton Is a favorite n would u%ndoubted-
ly reply that he was got up" because
he has been able to do things. just as
he was able to take dictation in an
emergency a good many years ago. The
loyalty of each MAJ to the other is
marked. II those who look to Mr..
Cassatt to Dust MIR. Patton without a
hearing because of the disclosures be-
fore the Interstate Commerce commits
sion would do we'll to think again.
Cassatt's Famous p, w. and B. Coup.
The most spectacular thing hat Mr..
CaSSatt has ever done was the purchase
of the Philadelphia. Wilmington and
Baltimore over night for his road, and
after Robert Garrett. of the Baltimore
and Ohio, a boastingly
n morning that the road in question
had passed under his control. In the
wee sIna' hours of the next morning
Mr.. Cassatt. having informed the Penn
s%ylvania directors, called in hurried
meeting in New York. that he had Sc
cured a block OF stock giving them con-
troll of the Pennsylvania, Wilmington
and Baltimore, a check for $l4, 949, O52. 20
changed hands. This remained for a
number of years the largest check ever
drawn in Il single transaction. Its
writing was made possible becaus Mr..
Cassatt speedily learned that a certain
pivotal block of stock had been over
by Mr.. Garrett, and knew just
how to go about acquiring if
AS first vice president Mr.. Cassatt
got for his road many smaller prop
critics that rivals We're keen to possess.
1t was while he held this post that he
fought the Standard Oil but
finally had to grant 1t rebates. AS gem
eral manager he gave to the roads en-
ployes the discipline n the p%oliteness
that have worked to make the road ia
nous the world over. He equipped the
track with the block signal system, and
introduced the track tank. He seized
on the air brake when it had very few
friends among railroad men, and the
tests he made with it were largely in
strumental in bringing about its subse-
quent wide adoption. Also largely be-
cause of him it is now possible for a
traveller to go between various centers
of population i'll a through car, even
though two or more railroad systems
have to be used. This convenience has
pNVii POI'NIci! IiEilt rom tile start.
He Built Good Roads.
AT the age of 70. and after twenty
n years spent in active r~ailroading,
he entered on his play period. He be-
came n of the country's leading
breeders of horses. With the Bard, inn
ported from England. mo his descend
ants, Mr.. Cassatt won numerous VIC
tories on the turf, md was for many
years among the Leading e%xponents of
horse RACINE in America He was ~,
of the builders of the famous Mon
mouth park tract: he abandoned racing
only when 1t came under a general
clold by reason of the owner of out
law tracks in New Jersey. Then he
took up hackneys; he promoted the
Philadelphia horse show. and many a
blue ribbon has he won at horse shows
throughout the country.
When he went in for horses MIR. Cas-
satt vas led to accept the nomination
for supervisor of roads Of Merton town
ship. Montgomery county. He was re-
elected time and again, and only when
he found the duties of railroad presi-
dent too pressing did he refuse longer
to make the race. He had to make a
race. there were those who held thai
Mr.. Cassatt built too expensive roads,
and they did not fail to put up an oppo-
sition ticket from time to time. 1t is a
fact that the roads of Merton township
are the fines about Philadelphia and
serve as models for the whole country
A few days less than a year after he
retired he was elected director of the
railroad. He was then travelling in gu
rope. where he was literally educated,
principally at the University of Darn
stadt. He was still a 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 a decided power in
it's affairs.
President TO Please Mrs. Cassatt.
1t may be an ungallant thing to say,
but in the last analysis It Is a woman
that Mr.. Cassatt has to thank for the
ugly muss that he now has on his
hands That woman fS-Mra Coocatt