ADDRESS.



thorized, constructed its railroad from Richmond to Clifton
Forge. The road-bed used was largely the tow-path.
  In 1888, the Chesapeake  Ohio Railway Company ac-
quired the Richmond  Alleghany Railroad Company, and,
in due time, merged that Company into the corporate System
of the Chesapeake  Ohio. So ended the Canal as a Public
Carrier.
                            VII
  Note, I pray you, that Washington dreamt, not for himself,
but for the good of his Country, of his fellow-citizens. Even
so do great dreamers sow that others may reap, plant that
others may eat fruit. It is not what we do, but what we pur-
pose with lofty design to do, that exalts us.
   "All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist."
   I have named to you tonight some of those who not only
took part in the great work that brought into being the System
spread before you, but also sowed the seeds of Liberty whose
harvesting is ours, if we are faithful, even as were those Fathers
of our Nation, and if we do not suffer ourselves to be content
with our boasted progress. Are we not in this progress des-
troying, often times, rather than planting
  Are we seized with the purpose, even as were those Fathers,
that for those who come after us the Future shall not, because
of fault of ours, be barren
  Are we trying to squeeze the lemon dry
     "No man liveth to himself. No man dieth to himself."
  The men whose dreams I have told tonight still live, and
their works do follow them. Surely to be the heirs of their
labor is a splendid heritage. But merely to be their heirs is
not to be worthy of the heritage. What will we do with it
Let us hope, yes, let us trust, let us know, even as I believe,
that those who today are directing the present, and are planning
for the future of this great, historic System, are imbued with
the inspiration that comes to them from those who have gone
before them, and that of each of these shall be said, even as it
is said of the mighty dead,-' The workman not ashamed of
his work.'"
     "Lo! what a cloud of witnesses encompass us around."



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