Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-04-03

year posiiiosi. have bs.u appropriately select
Cd Go respond iur shr Grand Trunk ofkeiAis-
=. !. CuNNuItV. l.a'ii-, and G-urls-
m-u.
wish 4" >ay irW words Ia coun-c~
tiuu with this m--liug. iind that /
could uot DO justice To the toast, - /
have turned u,y work over {" Mr.. Mutt
~. "a no las l-reu ia the service OF the
company about the same i-ugth OF time
~ Mr.. REEVE. au.l srui herr. hy the cou-
lany from Montreal tn handl. the mat
Ter on hrhali uf the company. Nv ac-
quaiutancp With NIr. Reeve goes back TAI
about four wears aud haven't got very
much To say about him. lie always
directed me more than had any Hi
rrcliou to do with him. always ac-
c-rtrd his orders aud went along doing
my work. Il would pay the railway
company indeed il they had many more
men like Mr. Reeve. IL is something
remarkable When representative, such
a, Mr. Reeve, can keep everything in
such delightful accord.
Mr. DALE. The conduct of the business in
terc>ts of a community are dependent upon the
treatment accorded 10y the railway. Aud when
the representative Of the latter can keep the
! conditions IN delightful accord wear after year,
/ 81 that a multitude Of business men look back
over their relationships with him covering a
/ period of cheerful Yesterdays" it is remark
able The representative of the largest indus
Try. and the senior of them all in the village.
IA, been selected to voice the appreciation OF
our Business Men-the treasurer of the Fitz-
gerald Land \ Lumber Co, who has for more
than thirty year, been the representative of that
industry, MI 4. J. Parsons
f.. j. PARSONS. am sorry that your
committee selected me to respond to
this sentiment. As we have with us "A
uumher of gentlemen who can address
Nou much better and more tluenty than
myself. | am glad, however, of having
IN opportunity of expressing to You my
great appreciation of our worthy friend
aud in what I am about to say, am
only voiciug the feelings OF all those who
have had any business transactions with
him and am repeating some things
which | haze heard other men say about
him. For over thirty years have had
in various capacities business relations
, with him. as Il young man in the capac
ity of clerk for my employers, and in re
e. cent years as manager OF the present
lumber corporation. do not thint
. that there is anyone here who has hac
to transact as many different kinds o,
business with him as | have been calico
4 upon to do. As local shipper, re
. ceiving and shipping goods as an i'm
. porter bringing goods from Canada, NJ
ceSSltatimg the transaction of custom,
business through him; AS manufacture
] handling goods in bond, arranging rates
4 aud as he will call to mind, years il
q making satisfactory stop over arrange
ment of lumber to toe manufactured
t la fact, as already stated. al.:ost ever,
= kind of business, except of course tin
3 railroad business, but what We have la,
f more or less to do with one another. Il
p All these years. never finding him an
/ different than what you see him tonight
{ No matter how busy, he was AWAY
+ ready to stop aud take up with you any
! thing you had for him to consider.
always thought that there must hp
, strain of Scotch in him, for as they say
, he was very canuy; although he Away
h did all in his power for you, he neve
lost sight OF the fact that he was in tn
! employ of the railroad, and that thei
r rights were paramount; he saw tina
J. they were always protected; in this h.
= was an example to all young men, an,
Il not only to young men but to us olde
r ones. Your employer should he first al
1 ways. No new enterprise was ever mel
j. tioued that would be beneficial not onl
t to the town, but also to the railroad
Y but what you could depend upon hi
t hearty support. He was always read
!, to carry ii 70 his superiors and not leav
IS it there, but at suitable aud appropriat
r. times call their attention to it. None O
i you will ever forget his genial smil
: and ready sympathy when you entere
= his office. That smile which would dis
/ arm You when YOU were on the verge @
i taking the railroad into your own hand
: and show them how it should be run
$ because you had not received cars. @
n freight that you We're sure was the faul
= OF the railroad, aud many of those othe
;. things which tend to make you feel con
# Portable at times, and You would Away
It leave him feeling that you were not bt
o ing abused quite SO bad as you though
I and also found that you were not tn
). only one that had trouble, but tina
o there We're others. In all our dealing
It he was always the same, and many
# man who has had business with hir
o during all these years of his service hav
d always said that they always found hir
e the same. TO me in these later years
:. is wonderful, how, through all the diff
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