New Britain herald., 1930-08-12

lt interested in the campaign of his friend, CordelI Hull, who last Thurs day was given the democratic non nation for |. S. senator.
 Started on Railroad
 The reputation of Edward Bush rod Stahlman as a fighting journal tst was rivalled by his fame as transportation builder.
 Before he purchased the Nash vile (Tenn) Banner in 1885 and threw it into business aand political battles in which threats failed to make it Waver, he had developed himself from railroad laborer 10 one of the best known authorities in the country on transportation.
 His long career, however, was marked by milestones of hard Work. When he retired at the age Of 86 he had never had a vacation, even though he went to work as a boy Soon after his family came from Germany. where he was born Sep tember 2, 1S43. his father died, leav- ing his mother and seven children dependent upon this son.
 Although he had been crippled when school bench fell on his leg, the boy became member of g rail- road construction gang during the Civil war. When the general manag CT of the road Chanced to see the frail youth, he remarked that he was s'too light for that heavy work"
 The boy replied;
 'I vas hired to do mans work and I'm going to do it"
 Promoted Rapidly
 The general manager was i'm pressed by his determination, and promoted him 10 a clerkship. Sub sequently he went 10 Bristol, Nir- ginia Tennessee. on a railroad lum- bcr job and while there became con- nected with the Southern Express company as travelling auditor, and moved in 1886 to Nashville. Five years later Mir, Stahlman-who was known as Major - became con tracing freight agent for the Louis vile z Nashville railroad from which position he rose to general freight agent, general traffic manager and q vice presidency, and later to vice president of the Louisville New Al bany & Chicago railway, the "Monon Route" He also served as Commis. sioner of the Southern Steamship and Railway Lines.
 While he was with the Louisville, New Albany &3 Chicago, that line built a road between Chicago and Indianapolis and established through lines for passengers and freight; the Southern Steamship and Railway Lines was reorganiZed after he join ed it, taking into it's membership all the railroads south of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi to Wash ington. besides five coastwise lines.
 Major Stahlman was equally sue cessful as a newspaper publisher, When he purchased the Nashville Banner. it had a circllation of only . few thousand, but terminating his railroad affiliations, he devoted him self entirely to the duties of editor and publisher and developed the pa per to position of influence in the south.
 He.pei Enfortunates
 Wt,se Major <.tahlman threw an armature Of grunfness about himself. his intimates found him kind-heart- ed and ever ready to assist the un- fortunates, regardless of other de- mands made upon his time as rail- road officer. civic leader and news paper publisher.
 His newspaper was independent in policy, and whichever side Major Stahlman supported he supported whole e-heartedly. Among his best known journalistic fights was a cam paign against a proposal that Nash vile subscribe $1,000,000 to the Tennessee Midland, a Failroad then being built from Memphis to Nash vile in competition with the Louis vile & Nashville and another rail- way.
 It was his habit through his years