. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eches were made eulo-gizing Mr. Ellis and hiswork and as a token ofesteem he was presentedwith a handsome silverloving-cup, valued at $ whole aflair was acomplete surprise to In fact, it was onlywith great difliculty thathe was persuaded to attendthe meeting. Invitationshad been sent out quietly and a largenumber of employees, particularly those ofthe mechanical department, came in to at-tend the affiair. A special train was runto accommodate those from Spooner, meeti
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eches were made eulo-gizing Mr. Ellis and hiswork and as a token ofesteem he was presentedwith a handsome silverloving-cup, valued at $ whole aflair was acomplete surprise to In fact, it was onlywith great difliculty thathe was persuaded to attendthe meeting. Invitationshad been sent out quietly and a largenumber of employees, particularly those ofthe mechanical department, came in to at-tend the affiair. A special train was runto accommodate those from Spooner, meeting opened at 2 oclock with anaddress by J. H. Hall, an engineer on theroad, who acted as chairman. The pres-entation speech was made by W. , another engineer, and also themayor of Sioux Falls, S. D. Mr. Elliswas much aflfected, but made a very ap-propriate loving cup presented Mr. Ellis July, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 31S is of solid silver and is one of thelargest seen in St. Paul. It standsfully two feet high and has threehandles. It is inscribed: Presented to. JOHN J. ELLIS. John J. Ellis by the employes of the mo-tive and mechanical department of theChicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & OmahaRailway as a token of .our love and re-spect. Accompanying the cup was a setof framed resolutions appropriately ex-pressed. Obituary. Mr. Lloyd Clarke, another veteranlocomotive engineer, and one of the oldestin the service of the Central Railroad ofNew Jersey, died in the Memorial Hos-pital, Long Branch, N. J., on May 7th,1909, of kidney disease. He was nearly 60years of age, having been born on May12, 1849. Mr. Clarke entered railroad work whenvery young, and after two or three yearsspent in and about Meadville, Pa., on theAtlantic & Great Western Railway, he de-cided to go West in response to the callfor railroad men to push the work of con-struction of the Central Pacific Railroadthen building. He worked as a firemanfor a short time on the Central Paci
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