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J *Engineer John Ahern for whom ; naoUthe surprise was given on Monday i C ■ evening, lias a service record with j r: ] the Milwaukee company which isja jan enviable one. - iiij- Mr. Ahern started lib. railroad: t; : career when be was IS years of age. j I I His first work was on the Central} I. |of Vermont, when he started work ii as a brakeman in 1S01. He didn't hanker for that branch of the service however and after having resigned to enlist in the civil war hei j decided to quit the train servire. He t j volounteered his service in the army land hung around headquarters sev-ieral days but always the quota was | full and no new recruits were being jc j taken so be decided to come west ] L land see the country. Coming west s’ las far as Chicago he entered the ser- j il | vice of the* C.. and X. W. as a fire- ^ man in 1S62 when the only'engines »iS:Atij were wood burners. He threw wooa a ■into the fire box for twenty-two! j months when he was promoted to ; the right hand side of the cab andEuii1lt;cdh«s:4tii continued to work for the Xortn-| western. .as an engineer for several j years: .He had as- yet; not seen I enough of the great west so accom-jpanicd by his good wife whom he j S j had married in Clinton, he started j for ,the real west, securing employ-j merit in advance however through the influence of a friend who was located in California. He went into the engine service on the Central | c; Pacific and it was while in the em;jslt; ploy of that line that lie had most tlt; of his real exciting railroad experiences. During the year of the Centennial he was chosen to handle many of the special passenger trains ■but the real big exciting service was tlie part he took in the'famous Palmer tour.. Palmer, who was then one of the leading theatrical managers had a i a troupe of about forty actors. £ur-i ing an engagement in the east '.a wager was made between eastern Capitalists and some London Capitalists who Were in New York at t the time that Palmer could show intiB\*oGat;O;ct!nO'
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Perry Daily Chief
Perry, Iowa, US
Sat, Jan 10, 1920
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