Identifier : historyofpennsyl00wils ( find matches )
Title : History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia
Year : 1911 ( 1910s )
Authors : Wilson, William Bender, 1839-1919
Subjects : Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.). Pennsylvania Railroad Dept Pennsylvania Railroad Railroads
Publisher : Philadelphia ( Pa.) : Stephen Greene Co., Printers
Contributing Library : Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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s, the welder of many ties. These ties have now beensevered, through no fault of ours, through no fault of his. Butwhen the call to duty comes as clearly as it came to Mr. Towson totake up a broader and a more important work, covering a widerscope and a larger field, extending over the entire continent, to aman of Mr. Towsons high honor I would say that there was nothingelse for him to do but to answer, Here am I, Lord; send me. Mr. W. C. Stoever, President of the Board of Management of theYoung Mens Christian Association of Philadelphia, and Mr. H.O. Williams, International Railroad Secretary, followed in words ofcommendation of Mr. Towson and his work. Mr. Jefferson Justicepresented the resolution of the Committee of Management to Mr.Towson, and in doing so made a plea for a broad view of the workof the whole Association, and suggested the reflected glory thatmust surely come to this Department when men would begin toinquire whence came this new prodigy of industrialism, and the 216
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ALEXANDER J. CASSATT,President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1899-1906. reply which inevitably must be made, Why, those PennsylvaniaRailroad Department people had Mr. Towson in training for nineyears. Mr. Charles C. Kinney presented to Mr. Towson on behalf ofthe Committeemen of the Department a watch as a souvenir of themany happy occasions and close friendships they had shared withthe recipient, and as an expression of the lasting regard which hadgrown up between the Secretary and the volunteer workers duringthe period of his administration. Mr. Towson in his reply surpassedhis own fame as an orator in simplicity of utterance, emotionalpower and crowning climax. From his opening reference to theever-solicitous mother who urged him not to pay any attention tothe numberless flattering things that might be said to him, becausehe was not responsible for them, and to the devoted wife who didthe unseen half of the things making the total of his success, to theclose of his speech wa

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