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PHILIP S. ABBOT, Pres...
PHILIP S. ABBOT...
...reinforced by one or two men from the 'varsity crew who will help them out a good deal. The following are the candidates: first crew-stroke, Chamberlain, 7, Tyson; 6, Richmond; 5, Fessenden; 4, Vaughan; 3, Watts; 2, Crowninshield; bow, Brooks; and Wells (captain) 3. Second crew-Hubbard, Potter, Abbot, Buttimer, Leach, Jenks, Blaney...
...building of the Wisconsin Central road to Lake Superior by eastern capitalists some years ago, their large bonded debt, the attempt of a few of the largest stockholders to depreciate the value of the stock and buy it up at their own price, and their failure. Mr. Abbot thought too that a railroad foreclosure was a barbarous way of settling the difficulties of a road...
...conclusion Mr. Abbot spoke of the Wisconsin Central scheme as a model one and expressed his approbation of a responsible standing committee as the governing power of a railroad corporatlon. With such a governing power, it would be impossible for a few men either rapidly to assume control of a road or to wreck...