De Witt Clinton Prescott
Autor de Early day railroading from Chicago: A narration with some observations
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Several chapters are devoted to the employees of the C&NW during 1861-1865 and their service in the Union Army. One very curious chapter is titled “Many Kinds of Money” which discusses the problems surrounding the question of paying the workforce with nothing but script due to the hoarding of gold and silver coin at the outbreak of hostilities. The Civil War chapters are followed by several describing people and events in the post-Civil War period. These, in turn, are followed with chapters describing the first C&NW depot, a discussion of stocks, bonds, and railroad finances…and “Something Completely Different” - Chapter 26 titled “A Chapter on Swearing” which is a discussion of swearing as a fact of railroad life. After discussing the issue and providing examples of when and where such behavior might occur the chapter ends with “This chapter is not to be construed as an endorsement by the author of the practice of swearing, for really it is a very wicked and ungentlemanly habit.”
I found Prescott’s book to be a slightly dry but still interesting read. See Common Knowledge for an example of the writing style. (Text length - 265 pages, Total length - 267 pages)… (más)