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REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



WeHtini^hotiRP Air-]}i'jikt' Coiiipaiiy : 



George Westiiigliouso, jr., president. 

 Wheeling and Lake Erie : 



C. A. Wilson, chief engineer. 



Joseph M. Hall, gen'l passenger ag't. 



A. G. Brown, general freight agent. 



A. H. Thorpe, cashier. 



W. R. Woodford, purchasing .agent. 



Otto Swartz, assistant chief engineer. 



M. D. Woodford, receiver. 



S. H. Ayers, secretary. 

 West Jersey Railroad : 



R. Stretch, general express .agent. 

 Western Maryland Railroad : 



J. M. Hood, iiresidont. 



John S. Harden, secretary. 



13. H. Griswold, gen. fr't and pas. ag't. 

 Wilmington and Northern Railroad: 



H. A. Du Pont, president. 

 West Slioro Railroad : 



J. D. Layng, fljuieral manager. 



C. W. Bradley, general snp't. 



D. B. McCoy, superintendent. 

 J. P. Bradfield, superintendent. 



Western Transit Company : 



S. D. Caldwell, general manager. 



W;i.has!i, St. l^oiiis iindPacilic Railway: 

 Thomas Anderson, general foreman. 

 R. A. Houghton, road-master. 

 George F. Bid well, assistant snp't. 

 A. B. Adams, road-master. 



F. Sullivan, road-master. 



G. W. Stevens, superintendent. 

 W. V. Stuart, attorney. 



J. S. Goodrich, master tr.anspoiTa 

 tion. 

 Zanesville and Ohio Railroad : 



James Buckingham, president. 



Edw. A. Green, chief engineer. 

 Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh R. R.: 



C. B. Taylor, superintendent. 



Leroy Kells, master mechanic. 



William Stewart, gen'l freight ag't. 



Robert Curtis, master mechanic. 



Edw. B. Wall, superintendent. 



Charles B. Street, master mechaiuc. 



William Swanston, master mechanir.. 



W. W. Reynolds, master mechanic. 

 Woodruff Sleep] ng-Car Company : 



John C. Paul, general manager. 

 Pittsburgh Locomotivi» Works : 



F. G. Dickson, president. 



At tlie stated meetiiij? of the Franklin Institute of Philadelpliia, held 

 Wednesday, June IG, 188G, the following preamble and resolution were 

 unanimously adopted, viz: 



Whereas a petition signed by over eleven hundred prominent railway officials of 

 the United States has been presented in the House of Representatives by the Hon. J. 

 B. Everhart, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations, which petition reads 

 as follows : 



" To the Congress of the United States: The undersigned, desirous of perpetuating 

 the history of the birth and development of steam transportation (by steam-boat and 

 railway in America) respectfully petition your honorable body to appropriate such 

 a sum of money as may be deemed necessary to carry out the plan recently adopted 

 for the organization of the section of steam transportation in the U. S. National 

 Museum, said sum to be expended under the supervision of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Director of the U. S. National Museum :" 

 Therefore, 



Resolved, That the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the pro- 

 motion of the Mechanic Arts most heai'tily and cordixilly concurs in the purpose and 

 objects of this petition, and res]>ectfiiHy requests favoraJ)le action thereon. 



Adopted. 



Attest: 



William H. Wahl, 



Secretary. 



During the remainder of the fiscal year I spent such time as could be 

 spared from duties connected with the railway service in installiMg and 

 classifying objects collected while abroad and in correspondence with 

 railro.ad officials and others interested in the development of the sec- 



