TO MY BROTHER, WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND CONFIDENCE MADE LIGHTER THE TASK OF WRITING THESE MANUSCRIPTS AND PREPARING THE ILLUSTRATIONS HEREIN. CONTENTS PAGE Navigators of the Blue 6 A Deceased Canadian Railroad 7 Ontario’s Twin Sister--Grand Trunk Railway 12 William H. Biggar 16 Sir Thomas Dakin’s Locomotive 19 Toronto and Nipissing Railway 20 An Old Campaigner’s Career 21 Knights of the Swinging Lanterns 25 Credit Valley Railway--Milton Celebration 26 Crusade of “U.S.A.” Railway Interests in Canada 28 Thomas A. Edison 47 A Gigantic Human Hive--C.P.R. 52 William B. Lanigan 54 James Charlton 56 Uncle Sam’s Adopted Sons 61 Samuel R. Callaway 74 Thomas N. Jarvis 77 Geo. J. Charlton 79 A Reveler’s Dream 83 Andrew J. Taylor 87 Business Getter’s Competition 90 Lines to Queen Quinte 94 The Canadian Northern Railway System 95 A Tenderfoot in Temiskaming 99 William P. Duperow 106 Those Undignified Box Cars 112 Frederic P. Nelson 123 A Pilfered Pot Pourri 126 The Trail of the Serpent 129 A Haphazard Chronology 136 Ballad to the Brotherhood 145 [Illustration] NAVIGATORS OF THE BLUE Carrier pigeons--pioneers in aerial transportation Decoration by ALBERTA L. TORY Aloft in the frigid lanes they soar, High over dormant farm and city’s roar: Their tireless pinions wrestle with the breeze That wails athwart the solemn, leafless trees. Above the brooks asleep ’neath crystal shrouds, And o’er white winter’s mantle from the clouds, Swift pigeons wheel and spiral t’wards the sun, Exultant in new triumphs daily won. Atoms these--of pulsating life on wing, Each flouts the sordid earth and ether’s sting: Unconsciously, they realize a Plan Which mortals match with faulty ships of Man. A DECEASED CANADIAN RAILWAY The Sheriff Runs Away From His Spoils [Illustration: S. E. MACKECHNIE Mayor of Cobourg, 1853.]