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Title: Panama; a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Robinson, Tracy, 1833-1915
Subjects: Panama railroad. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and Panama, The Star and herald company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A S before stated, at the annual election in** April, 1874, Russell Sage made himselfpresident of the Panama Railroad Company,and turned the management over to RufusHatch, assisted by J. B. Houston. Colonel Cen-ter was rudely retired from the position of su-perintendent on the Isthmus, and a Mr. Corwineput in his place. At the same time a raid wasmade upon the fiscal agency, of which I hadcharge, in the expectation of finding somethingcrooked. How can it be possible, reasonedRufus Hatch, that a man in charge of millions of dollars, during a series of years, in an out-of-the-way place like Colon, without ever havingbeen required to give security, has conducted him-self with entire integrity? From his point ofview the supposition was absurd. After a sharplegal struggle, in which it appeared that RufusHatch had made a serious mistake, Mr. TrenorW. Park, when he obtained control at the nextannual election, gave orders that the matter shouldat once be settled. Accordingly, on August 25, 130
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§ V I 02 Chapter XIII) 1875, the directors of the Panama Railroad Com-pany passed and placed on record a resolution,by which I was exonerated from all charges,and the affair was ended. The removal of Colonel Center in a manner soabrupt was without justification. No man inany position connected with the road was everheld in more genuine respect. He was born at Hudson, N. Y., on August8, 1808. At ten he was sent to Paris, to a mili-tary school, and in 1822 entered the UnitedStates Academy at West Point, from which hegraduated in 1827. He served in the UnitedStates Army until 1837, and held the rank offirst lieutenant when he resigned and took upthe profession of civil engineer. Later he joinedthe service of the Panama Railroad Company onthe Isthmus. He was a member of the CenturyClub of New York. He died at Tarrytown,N. Y., November 2, 1879, at the age of seventy-one. The marriage of one of his daughters, inColon, at the end of 1872, to Mr. Middleton, ofHongkong, was a brilliant social

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