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Title: The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Cooley, Thomas McIntyre, 1824-1898 Clarke, Thomas Curtis, 1827-1901
Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nation and insisted on itsacceptance. Parted from the Post-Office, President Grant, know-ing his worth and wishing to recognize his services, appointed himAssistant Treasurer of the United States at Chicaofo. He lived toperform the duties of this ofiice only a few months, as death over-took him suddenly, while on a visit to Washington on official busi-ness, December, 1876. His work, however, was not permitted todrop. He had left in the service three assistants, Theodore N. Vail,William B. Thompson—afterward Second Assistant Postmaster-General—and John Jameson, who were fully imbued with the ideasof their late chief and were fully loyal to them. They, in the ordernamed, became his successors, and never permitted opportunitiesto escape wherein there was a possible benefit to the service to besecured. Although the fast mail service was suspended for lack ofsupport from Congress, its usefulness and practicability had beenso thoroughly demonstrated that an appropriation of $150,000 was
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At a Way-station—The Postmasters Assistant. STATISTICS OF A YEARS WORK. 323 made in March, 1877, for its resumption on the trunk lines. Thisvictory was not reached without untiring efforts on the part of Mr.Vail, and by generous support in both houses of Congress; in theSenate by the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin and James G. Blaine, ofMaine, and in the House of Representatives by such broad andliberal statesmen as Mr. Waddell, of North Carolina, Mr. Randall,of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Cox, of New York. Since then, Messrs. Thompson and Jameson have watched theprogress of the work with jealous eyes, and have succeeded in ex-tending it practically to the whole country. The present serviceis due not alone to the liberality of Congress, because the appro-priations have been parsimonious, but to the generosity of the rail-ways, which have performed a valuable work for a price which inmany cases does not pay the expense of the necessary additionallabor involved. The Railway Mail Service at the close

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