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MEN OF ERIE A Story of Human Effort EDWARD HUNGERFORD Hard Cover
MEN OF ERIE A Story of Human Effort By EDWARD HUNGERFORD
Hard Cover with dust jacket (covered in plastic) Back of the dust jacket has damage
Copyright 1946. 346 pages. Indexed.
he book is illustrated with 32 pages of half-tone pictures, which include reproductions of many old prints of historical interest, and maps.
"Icicles froze in hell that June day of 1942," according to the Wall Street witticism, when, after 69 years, Erie paid a dividend. So says Edward Hungerford in his introduction to this story of the Eric Railroad. It is a breezy, anecdotal history of the now great transportation system, from its conception by William C. Redfield in 1829, the first application for a charter in 1831, the clashes with the interests back of the Eric Canal, the building of its first line from Piermont, N.Y., up to the present.
Here, too, is the story of the men who made the Erie: Redfield, who sketched the route, Eleazar Lord, its first president and builder, Ben Loder, who guided its destiny for so many years and completed the line from Piermont to Dunkirk in 1851, and many of its early engineers and financiers. Later came the era of exploitation and plunder in the regimes of Daniel Drew, Jim Fiske and Jay Gould, all fully and frankly set forth in its fabulous detail. No less interesting is the story of the regeneration of the road, the administrations of its later presidents, its part in the late war and its present place in the economic life of the nation.
About the author of this book
In a biographical sketch of Edward Hunger-ford in a charming little booklet entitled Covered Bridges - Proud Symbols of Colonial Transportation which he wrote for The Newcomen Society of England in North America, appears the following:
"Once, Lord Macauley wrote: Of all Inventions, those which abridge Distance have done most for Civilization.' Of Transportation, whether in olden days of highroad and stagecoach and canal boat, or in days of rail and ocean liner and air transport, an authority and a devotee is Edward Hungerford, author, critic, editor, historian and playwright. As early as 1911 his Modern Railroad. published at Chicago, went into 17 editions. His two-volume History of The Baltimore & Ohio is recognized as a classic."
Mr. Hungerford has spent most of his bus-iness life working for and writing about rail-roads. lie started the first railroad magazine ever published in 1905 for the Erie. Later he headed the public-relations department of the New York Central for many years and while he was in this position he wrote and produced the pageant Railroads on Parade for the New York World's Fair, A Century of Progress. Between times he has written a formidable list of books, listed within, and has plans for many more.
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
1 A NEW APPIAN WAY
2 ENTER ELEAZAR LORI)
3 CHOOSING THE ERIE'S PATHWAY
4 JAMES GORE KING, PRESIDENT
5 GROUND IS BROKEN
6 CONSTRUCTION OF THE ERIE BEGINS
7 REGULAR OPERATION AT LAST
8 BENJAMIN LOITER ARRIVES
9 TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHED
10 THE EXCURSION TO DUNKIRK
11 STRUGGLES OF A NEW RAILROAD
12 THE FIRST RAILROAD STRIKE
13 DANIEL DREW MAKES HIS DEBUT
14 THE REGIME OF JAY GOULD
15 GRAY DAYS FOR ERIE
16 THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
17 HUGH JEWETT AND JOHN KING ,
18 FRED UNDERWOOD TARNS HOLD
19 PHYSICAL REGENERATION OF ERIE
20 JOHN J. BERNET AND THE "VANS"
21 FINANCIAL REORGANIZATION OF ERIE
22 THE ERIE RAILROAD OF TODAY
23 MODERN RAILROAD OPERATION
24 ERIE 98 RIDES EAST
25 NEW YORK: GATEWAY OF A CONTINENT
26 FOOD FOR A HUNGRY CITY
27 SO ROLLS THE ERIE
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