. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. f many of the leading societies. Inthe betterment of the condition of thecolored people he spent much time andmoney. Charles A. Swan. Mr. Charles A. Swan, assistant gen-eral foreman of the Illinois Central atCentralia, 111., died suddenly last monthin his rooms at the Van Noy Hotel, Cen-tralia. Mr. Swan was in his fifty-ninthyear, and was a prominent railway man,holding many responsible positions in theleading western railroads. He was fora number of years general foreman ofthe Big Four at Springfield, Mo., and lat-terly master mechanic for the South Da-ko
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. f many of the leading societies. Inthe betterment of the condition of thecolored people he spent much time andmoney. Charles A. Swan. Mr. Charles A. Swan, assistant gen-eral foreman of the Illinois Central atCentralia, 111., died suddenly last monthin his rooms at the Van Noy Hotel, Cen-tralia. Mr. Swan was in his fifty-ninthyear, and was a prominent railway man,holding many responsible positions in theleading western railroads. He was fora number of years general foreman ofthe Big Four at Springfield, Mo., and lat-terly master mechanic for the South Da-kota Central at Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Hewas an accomplished mechanic and agenial and courteous gentleman, and hisdeath is very much regretted. His work was much appreciatedamong railway men, a faculty for in-vention being a marked feature of hisfine character. It should be added that he was aworthy member of an engineering family,several of whom were and are still ac-tively engaged in mechanical railroadwork in the West and Middle COL. JOHN JACOB .\STOR. A Wrecked Locomotive. It lies upon the rocks, a shattered where the valley flood ripped up the rails,No more the hound that on these modern at the whipping steams fire-furied stingAnd scented toward the cities as on , unchecked, with weird, half-human some cliff-driven beast of ancient talesIt plunged to ruin past all reckoning;And on the heap, his face unfrowned by as a man of marble and as white,Gripping the throttle, lies the fell to sleep on his last, frantic flight;While overhead the solemn stars appearAnd this thin gloaming thickens into night. Mav, 1912. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERIXG. 187
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