Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929. AMUEL REA DEAD Retired President of Per;nsyl- vania Railway, 73, Rose From Chainman. [Br the Associated Press. ea, who rose from chainman [Pennsylvafia Railroad enginesr corps to the presidency of the great railway | vstem, is dead. | With his wife and daughter at his edside, he died yesterday at his home | in Ardmore, a suburb, of heart disease He was 73 years old and had been ill jseveral weeks. Funeral services will be [held tomorrow at 4 pm. at the Bryn| Mawr Preshyterian Church. Mr. Rea retired from the presidency | f the Pennsylvania in 1925, [vears of almost continuous service and nine days after he had celcbrated his | >ventieth birthday. { ars old, as a clerk in a native town of Hollida vears later he entered the | panic of 1873 halted all construction | ervice of the Penn hainman on a bi ylvania Railroad a: h line. His ad: OF HEART DISEASE: PHILADELPHIA, March 25.—Samuel | in af A son of a Colonial Pennsylvania|the future president ramily, he started work in 1867, when |employ of the Peny ] Succumbs at 73 | | after 54 | tail of the operation of the Pennsylvania | was at his fingertip: Born of Scotch-Irish parentage Sep- | tember 21, 1855, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. st entered the vivania Railroad as a rodman on the Western Penns vania branch of the road. When (h ork young Rea entered the employ of n iron company and during the nights IEDUCATORS PLAN PARLEY IN APRIL Lot 22 Death of the grC® nilitary com-) mander of modern times has thrown | | the Occidental world into something like Association of Deans and Ad- | universal mourning. s | M al Foch, commander-in-chief of visers to Be Addressed by the allied armies that finally achieved Secretary Wilbur. ceive a last tribute of a mational fu eral from France. His is the sixth 1 ticnal funeral the French republic I | granted to one of her servan! _ | statesman, a poet, a scientist, two pres The National Association of Deans| g5 who died in office, and now the and Advisers of Men will meet at the | soldicr, Foch. Mayflower Hotel April 11, 12 and 13,| National and international tributes, | and will be attended by deans and ad- |To¥al and republican condolences, flags ; at half-mast, 21 gun salutes, are an im- | visers of men from colleges and univer- | \omage to Foch, but a definite | sities throughout the country. | reminder that the great war has passed | The outstanding event on the progr: . ory on the Western front, is to re- am | into history. ‘ Revolution in Mexico, rattling of | of the three-day session will be an_ad- | s\ords and (roop movements in China, | P | dress by Secretary of the Interior Wil- | JiGE bur, and former President of Leland | jons how far the new order of things | Stanford Unive | obscures the old. | | . Other speakers on the program are| “.pe (hird week of rebellion in Mexico | Dean Thomas Arkle Clark of the Uni- | ol4eq with an army of 31,000 federals | versity of Illinois, Dr. George B. CUlver. | face {9 face with the main rebel army { dean of men at Leland Stanford; DI.|,pjy of Torreon. For the moment at| { David Allan Robertson of the American {yy,,qijan "jt was statemate in the im- | | Couneil on Education, Dr. Ben D. Wood I,U“ ant west coast campaign. The fed- | |"I Columbia University. Dean James W. | ] garrison has apparently beaten off | Armstrong of Northwestern University. | yope1” attacks, and 6,000 federal rein-| { Dean S. H. Goodnight of the University [ go.ements were on the way | | of Wisconsin, Chanceflor E. H. Lindley | *qIv S S T8 0 W ent china | e | of the University of Kansas, Dr. J. A.| gre tugging at the leash again and the | Park of Ohio State University, Dean R. | firoy“SE0E I 1000 held only by the | | Rienow of the University of Towa and | o0 SPRETS o0 60 T Bt Chiina's | | Dean Stanley Coulter, formerly of Pur- | J8S of B B i | due. | New arrests among Communists in in India, all serve as indi g OUTSTANDING WORLD EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD banking world. A figure of 1,750,000,000 | marks (approximate;y $420,000,000) for the first annuity has been proposed by the s to the German delegation, vhich went to Berlin to discuss the oier, This is a decrease of approxi- maiely 800,600,000 marks in payments under the Dawes plan, but the Ger- we expecied W make a countcr 500,000,000 marks. gains in British | elections put the n botting terms with the Cons rvalives before the general elections May 30. Out of five by-elec- tlons the Conseivatives lost three, two to the Liberals and one to Labor. Con- rvative strength declined everywhere. Quecn Marie of Rumania and truant Prince Carol were reported finally to have met and been reconciled near ! France. Reconcillation will probably have small eflect on the RKumanian crown, now worn by Carol's )ld son, Mib * he first at Oslo un Parliam: v Labor party on ev i ding in 340 years gning houses of | Scandinavia, w own Prince Olaf | of Norway and Princess Martha of Sweden were married. | “1f you want clean sugar of ‘th‘e hicfhcst and in 1912 he | studied to fit himself for a career with | the railroad. When he resomed his railroad job in the employ of the ancement was wa> elected pres system. One of his outstanding ac ments | as the construction of the Pennsylva- | he rose steadily tunnels under the Hudson and East | Pennsylvania until 1889, when he re- JRivers at New York. Fer this work the | signed to become vice president of the Iniversity of Pennsylvania, Princeton |Maryland Central Railway. Returning pnd Lafayette Colleges gave his hon- | to the Pennsylvania, he went to London rary degrees. |in 1892 to make a complete study of After his retirement as president of | the underground railways of that city. he railroad he continued as a director | The experience gained in London later { the Pennsylvania and served other|was put to advantage by Mr. Rea ompanies, and became active in|yhen the great New York tunnel projeet egional planning work as it affects thi: undertaken, ~When the United ¢ and vicinity. In 1926 he received | States entered the World War private Franklin Medal from the Franklin | control of railroads ended abruptly. Mr, nstitute, considered oné of the highest | Rea and Daniel Willard of the Balti- ’\;;i;m'hn'- can be confered upon an | more & Ohio Railroad were summoned Tears of study and planning reached | Wilon lethod. o prociamation aesmn: ruition when Mr. Rea took entire|ing governmental control of the rail- harge of the gigantic engineering prob- | roads of the country. William G. Me- em represented by the tubes whieh | Adoo was named administrator for the ventually eliminated the vexatious | oads and he informed the two exacu- engers on the Pennsylvania Railroads. oads failed to join the Pennsylvania ° The great task was accomplished inder the personal supervision of Mr. | Method [University of Penn vania decided to he honors that belonged to him. A road and 250,000 employes. Every de- n earlier project to bridge the Hudson | the Government in its handling of the n financing the plan, and the decision Rea. The bulk of the credit for the of Inhalation and Application onor the man responsible by conferring hort time later he was elected to head W. B. Moses & Sons erry trips from New Jersey to New | tives that he purposed taking direct rom Hoboken to New York was aban- | great transportation problem. o tunnel beneath the river was then hecomplishment had been accorded to The new, safe way of treating head and chest upon him the degree of doctor of science e great railroad system and_given Public Confidence Since 1861 ork city that had to be taken by pas- | control. Honed when the other interested ra BT, Res Was & great reader. ade. lexander J. Cassatt, but when the Ids. row away your “dope” g v 'dop it was then that Mr. Rea came into leontrol of more than 12,000 mMes of F Street at Eleventh 9 AM. to 6 P.M. “New Apparel Always” Many smart coats have deep fur cuffs, such as this one, trimmed with monkey fur. $69.50. 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