. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The greatPennsylvania Railroad Company is safewith Mr. Cassatt at its head. Frank Thomson. Frank Thomson, who became presidentof the Pennsylvania Railroad two yearsago, died last month. Mr. Tliomson wasfifty-eight years old, and all his workinglife was spent with the great company ofwhich he became president, except a fewyears during the war of the rebellion,when he was in the transportation de-partment of the United States Govern-ment. He began his railroad career byentering the Altoona shops as an appr
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. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The greatPennsylvania Railroad Company is safewith Mr. Cassatt at its head. Frank Thomson. Frank Thomson, who became presidentof the Pennsylvania Railroad two yearsago, died last month. Mr. Tliomson wasfifty-eight years old, and all his workinglife was spent with the great company ofwhich he became president, except a fewyears during the war of the rebellion, when he was in the transportation de-partment of the United States Govern-ment. He began his railroad career byentering the Altoona shops as an appren-tice, where he remained four years. Justas his apprenticeship was finished, thewar broke out, and Colonel Scott, thenjiresident of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was made Assistant Secretary of War.Colonel Scott assigned to Mr. Thomsonthe work of transferring locomotives bywater from Washington to Alexandria, which was performed so promptly andsatisfactorily that he was kept for three ates the Pennsylvania Railroad, and hun-dreds will miss him for more substantialkindness than good words.. THE L.TE FKANK THOMSON. years supervising military railways. Thenhe returned to the Pennsylvania and wasappointed division superintendent. Nineyears later he was promoted to be super-intendent of motive power. He held thatposition little more than a year, when hewas advanced to be general manager ofthe lines east of Pittsburgh. Through thesteps of vice-president he then rose to thetop. Mr. Thomson was an ideal railroadmanager. He could do any kind of workthat men are employed upon in the oper-ating of a great railroad, and consequentlyhe could always tell when a division or adepartment was properly operated. Hewas of a highly sympathetic nature, andhis subordinates became his friends. Hehad a kind word and friendly smile forevery entity in the great crowd that oper- Conflicting Verdicts. There were two curiously conflictingverdicts rendered by two differentcoroners juries that investigated the