Christian herald and signs of our times . , as the outlook became serious, the gov-ernment felt justified in sending troops to takethe places of the new drivers, and soldiers ranthe stages for a time. About one hundred andthirty strikers were arrested. The drivers se-cured a reduction of hours and the reinstate-ment of employees who had been discharged. An American Railroad King of Two Decadesago died in London last week. This was JamesMcHenry, who was chief promoter of the At-lantic & Great Western, and other railroads,andthe leading spirit in several large syndicates,which fu
Christian herald and signs of our times . , as the outlook became serious, the gov-ernment felt justified in sending troops to takethe places of the new drivers, and soldiers ranthe stages for a time. About one hundred andthirty strikers were arrested. The drivers se-cured a reduction of hours and the reinstate-ment of employees who had been discharged. An American Railroad King of Two Decadesago died in London last week. This was JamesMcHenry, who was chief promoter of the At-lantic & Great Western, and other railroads,andthe leading spirit in several large syndicates,which furnished the capital to develop Ameri-can railroad facilities. At different times inhis career, Mr. McHenry had financial struggleswith Gould, Drew, Vandcrbilt and others. Hismore recent ventures were undertaken with thebacking of such powerful European capitalistsas the Bischoffscheims and other famous bank-ers of London and Paris. He was an intimatefriend of more than one European monarch,and was deeply involved in a movement to re-.
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