. Book of the Royal blue . HEDSTKAI) OF DRESSER ANIi IHAIHS (IF THK UASlUN(.iTON HOMKSTEAli SAW THE FIRST RAILWAY MAN WHO WAS PRESENT WHEN B. & FIRST SPADEFUL WAS DUG. DKNVKR nKWS. B^^ ORN November 1-, 1818. Just thinkwhat that means ! To have lived ina time when men wore ruffled sliirts ^ and laces, with breeches and pumps. This is what William G. Clark of St. Louis can go back to, and his recollections of iiis childhood and boyhood read like an old tale of the Revolutionary days. it was only July 4, IS28, said lie,that I saw Charles Carroll of CarrolItondig the first
. Book of the Royal blue . HEDSTKAI) OF DRESSER ANIi IHAIHS (IF THK UASlUN(.iTON HOMKSTEAli SAW THE FIRST RAILWAY MAN WHO WAS PRESENT WHEN B. & FIRST SPADEFUL WAS DUG. DKNVKR nKWS. B^^ ORN November 1-, 1818. Just thinkwhat that means ! To have lived ina time when men wore ruffled sliirts ^ and laces, with breeches and pumps. This is what William G. Clark of St. Louis can go back to, and his recollections of iiis childhood and boyhood read like an old tale of the Revolutionary days. it was only July 4, IS28, said lie,that I saw Charles Carroll of CarrolItondig the first spadeful of earth for thelaying of the Baltimore .S: Ohio was the first railway built in thiscountry, and Mr. Carroll took up the earthwith a small silver spade. I see this spade,with the first locomotives run on this road,at all the expositions that I visit. It took them eight years to build toFrederick City, which is fifty miles out fromBaltimore. They sent to North Carolinafor the wood to make the ties, and thesewere inlaid or
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