Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
In compiling the miscellaneous array of facts embodied in the pen sketches arranged within the covers of this book, the principal object striven for has been to seek out, set down and thereby rescue from forgetfulness and the danger of extinction, a grist of information pertai...
When they found the old gentleman towards sundown, he had wandered to the yard limits and was seated in a free reclining chair car waiting for a hair cut. On hearing the doctor’...
12. Part 12The _bete noir_ of all railroad men is the shifty, unprincipled person who deceives you with a misleading yarn and means to do something else. A sample of this method of operati...
6. Part 6The fruitfulness of the mission of a transportation company with $1,038,074,983.26 of assets, with a property investment of $538,510,563.24 and annual gross earnings of $152,389...
10. Part 10Green are the hills when far away, And Youth in leash craves Manhood’s sway: Placid the waters that wash the sands, The sky is blue o’er distant lands. Yet phantom castles--spri...
7. Part 7What a deal of strenuous argument would have sufficed to coax James J. Hill, wizard of finance and foresight, from his art, enriched castle, St. Paul, to the farm near the villa...
4. Part 4R. G. MCGRAW, Soo Line; H. E. WATKINS, G.N.R.; W. HOOD, C.N.R.; F. A. NANCEKIVELL, Soo Line; DAVID FORRESTER, Gentleman-Farmer; G. BARNES, W.C.R.; A. J. TAYLOR, C.M. & St. P. R....
5. Part 5The substantial growth of Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, Brandon, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and Pacific Coast cities, and the mushroom proclivities of many a lesser burg, has giv...
8. Part 8Energy unsparingly applied was James A. Holden’s key to the door of advancement, which once open disclosed the road to preferment growing smoother and wider. Always in the atmos...
14. Part 14O ye hooting witches of the midnight orgy and screeching jagaurs squirming in the fatal coils of Columbian pythons, never was there such a scream and succession of fearful cries...
2. Part 2“As a pioneer road the Grand Trunk is entitled to--even if it has not always received--the fullest measure of sympathy and encouragement from the Canadian people. It is impossib...
1. Part 1In compiling the miscellaneous array of facts embodied in the pen sketches arranged within the covers of this book, the principal object striven for has been to seek out, set do...
9. Part 9Aye Reuben lad, ye missed a treat Last Friday when you failed to meet One hundred transportation men Convened from city, burg and glen, For the second yearly dinnerfest Of fish...
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11. Part 11The legacy of this untrodden expanse is unlimited productiveness of soil, waterways and forest. The solitary explorer with pack horse and canoe spyed out a winding trail which t...
15. Part 15Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of...