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Lincoln's family and. Most of his suite left Harrisburg by the Northern Central Railroad, at 9 o'clock on the morning of February 23, as originally planned.
Never hitherto in the world's his tory, had there been preparations so elaborate for running a train in safe ty as had been made for the train by John S. Gittings, the president, and J. C. Clark, the superintendent of the road. Mr. Clark had' stationed a dag man every half mile of the entire route between Harrisburg and Bal timore. Before starting out the en gine that was used for this train, the officials had it taken apart, whilst every piece was minutely examined and tested. In addition there were company workmen onboard the train with duplicates of' every important portion of the engine's machinery.
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Lincoln's family and. Most of his suite left Harrisburg by the Northern Central Railroad, at 9 o'clock on the morning of February 23, as originally planned.
Never hitherto in the world's his tory, had there been preparations so elaborate for running a train in safe ty as had been made for the train by John S. Gittings, the president, and J. C. Clark, the superintendent of the road. Mr. Clark had' stationed a dag man every half mile of the entire route between Harrisburg and Bal timore. Before starting out the en gine that was used for this train, the officials had it taken apart, whilst every piece was minutely examined and tested. In addition there were company workmen onboard the train with duplicates of' every important portion of the engine's machinery.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- ISBN 13 9780282885489
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