. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .Mr. Johnson described the whole trans-continental line from Montreal to Van-couver. Many of his hearers who hadworked for years on one division of theroad and only knew that one. were great-ly interested in the lime-light views of dis-tant parts of the Ime, which were views were shown of thetrip from Yokohama in Japan, wherethe C. P. R. steamships land passengersfrom Vancouver to Hong Kong, theBritish Island on the coast of China. William Warren Card. When the Westingh
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .Mr. Johnson described the whole trans-continental line from Montreal to Van-couver. Many of his hearers who hadworked for years on one division of theroad and only knew that one. were great-ly interested in the lime-light views of dis-tant parts of the Ime, which were views were shown of thetrip from Yokohama in Japan, wherethe C. P. R. steamships land passengersfrom Vancouver to Hong Kong, theBritish Island on the coast of China. William Warren Card. When the Westinghouse Air-BrakeCompany were pushing their great in-vention into popularity, one of the most,active workers belonging to the com-pany was General Sales Agent W. His genial personality won forMr. Card friends wherever he wentpushing the interests of the air brake, andhis capacity for making friends proved apowerful factor in overcoming the ob-jections railroad men nearly always offe:to the introduction of a new of railroad men who met himin those days still remember l\Ir. Card. WILLI.^M w. C.\KD. with affectionate regard. The numerousfriends he has all over this continent willbe grieved to learn that his life wastaken away on the 4th of last month,close to his own home, by a street caraccident. William Warren Card was born in Nel-son, N. Y., in 1831. His father was acivil engineer, and the son elected to fol-low his fathers profession and was edu-cated with that end in view. When only19 years old, young Card went West andproceeded to make his way amidst theactivities that were rapidly convertingOhio into a populous State. He engagedin whatever engineering work was most readily obtained, and like all earnest■workers rapidly puslied to the front. Hisfirst regular railroad employment was onwhat was then called the TuscarawasValley & Wheeling Railway, where herose to be superintendent and chief en-gineer. From there he went to the Pan-handle as superintendent
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