Between the Ocean and the Lakes: The Story of ErieCollins, 1899 - 668 pages |
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Page vii
... Western Railroad Company the Power Behind the Throne - The Erie's Floating Debt $ 5,000,000 , and no Money in the Treasury Barlow Appeals to Bischoffscheim for Aid and Gets It - The Extraordinary Con- tract with the London Bankers to ...
... Western Railroad Company the Power Behind the Throne - The Erie's Floating Debt $ 5,000,000 , and no Money in the Treasury Barlow Appeals to Bischoffscheim for Aid and Gets It - The Extraordinary Con- tract with the London Bankers to ...
Page viii
... Western Entailment - Something Rare in the History of Erie Occurs : The Truth is Told — The Company Utterly Bankrupt , and the Jewett Management Saved by the Lawsuit that Was Begun to Destroy It - President Jewett Made Receiver of the ...
... Western Entailment - Something Rare in the History of Erie Occurs : The Truth is Told — The Company Utterly Bankrupt , and the Jewett Management Saved by the Lawsuit that Was Begun to Destroy It - President Jewett Made Receiver of the ...
Page 17
... Western States is betaad by the Executive authority . If the citirens of Northern Pennsylvania a father New York understand this fact as they ought the will expres their indignation to pur Imreign despat at the next election . For the ...
... Western States is betaad by the Executive authority . If the citirens of Northern Pennsylvania a father New York understand this fact as they ought the will expres their indignation to pur Imreign despat at the next election . For the ...
Page 19
... Western Counties - Philip Church's Protest- Demanding a Survey - State Aid Asked and Engineers Appointed . II . THE LONG - SOUGHT SURVEY : Report of Benjamin Wright , Engineer in Charge of the Survey of the Route for the New York and ...
... Western Counties - Philip Church's Protest- Demanding a Survey - State Aid Asked and Engineers Appointed . II . THE LONG - SOUGHT SURVEY : Report of Benjamin Wright , Engineer in Charge of the Survey of the Route for the New York and ...
Page 30
... western terminus of the road , and his recom- mendation as to the management and economizing of locomotive power in raising other elevations on the Western Division , cannot but be provocative of amusement in these later days of ...
... western terminus of the road , and his recom- mendation as to the management and economizing of locomotive power in raising other elevations on the Western Division , cannot but be provocative of amusement in these later days of ...
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affairs Albany amount appointed April Atlantic Barlow Benjamin Loder bill Binghamton bridge Buffalo Canal capital stock cars cent charge Charles charter coal committee Company's conductor connection construction contract County Daniel Drew debt Delaware Diven dividend Division Dunkirk Eleazar Lord election Elmira engineer Erie management Erie Railroad Company Erie Railway Company Erie stock Erie's expenses feet Fisk freight Goshen Henry Homer Ramsdell Hornellsville Hudson River interest issued James James Fisk James McHenry January Jay Gould Jersey City Jewett John Judge July Lake Erie land lease Legislature loan locomotive Loder March Marsh McHenry ment Middletown miles Nathaniel Marsh Newburgh operation Owego paid pany passed passenger train Pennsylvania Piermont Port Jervis President purchase rails Receiver resigned road route Samuel Samuel Marsh Senate station stockholders Street Superintendent Susquehanna terminus tion track Valley Vanderbilt Vice-President vote Watson West Western Railroad William York and Erie
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Page 292 - ... shall be made by such of the stockholders as shall attend for that purpose, either in person or by proxy.
Page 293 - The said corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes.
Page 292 - ... shall be inspectors of the first election of directors of the said corporation, and shall certify under their hands the names of those duly elected, and deliver over the subscription books...
Page 461 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 293 - ... in such manner as to afford security for life and property: but the corporation shall restore the stream or water- course, road or highway, thus intersected, to its former state, or in a sufficient manner not to unnecessarily impair its usefulness or injure its franchises.
Page 293 - ... forfeit and pay to the said corporation double the amount of damages sustained by means of such offence or injury, to be recovered in the name of the said corporation, with costs of suit by action of debt.
Page 192 - Ward and each of them, their and each of their heirs, executors and administrators of and from all and all manner of action and actions, cause and causes of action, suits, debts...
Page 292 - ... any director, such vacancy or vacancies may be filled for the remainder of the year wherein they may happen, by the board of directors...
Page 292 - Statutes, have power, 1. To cause such examination and surveys for its proposed railroad to be made, as may be necessary to the selection of the most advantageous route...
Page 293 - ... as shall be made to the said corporation, to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of the said...