Fugitives put aboard the cars at Elmira were furnished with money from a fund provided by the anti-slavery society. As a matter of precaution they were sent out of town at four o'clock in the morning, and were always placed by the train officials, who knew their destination, in the baggage-car.[215] The New York Central Railroad from Rochester west was an outlet made use of by Frederick Douglass in passing slaves to Canada. At Syracuse, during several years before the beginning of the War, one of the directors of this road, Mr. Horace White, the father of Dr. Andrew D. White, distributed passes to fugitives. This fact did not come to the knowledge of Dr. White until after his father's demise. He relates: "Some years after ... I met an old 'abolitionist' of Syracuse, who said to me that he had often come to my father's house, rattled at the windows, informed my father of the passes he needed for fugitive slaves, received them through the window, and then departed, nobody else being the wiser. On my asking my mother, who survived my father several years, about it, she said: 'Yes, such things frequently occurred, and your father, if he was satisfied of the genuineness of the request, always wrote off the passes and handed them out, asking no questions."[216] [204] The _Firelands Pioneer_, July, 1888, p. 21. [205] _Ibid._, pp. 23, 57, 79. [206] _Ibid._, p. 74. The "Three C's" is now the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, or "Big Four" Route. [207] Conversation with Thomas Williams, of Pennsville, O.; letter of H. C. Harvey, Manchester, Kan., Jan. 16, 1893. [208] Letter of I. Newton Peirce, Folcroft, Pa., Feb. 1, 1893. [209] Letter of Sidney Speed, Crawfordsville, Ind., March 6, 1896. Mr. Speed and his father were both connected with the Crawfordsville centre. [210] _Life and Poems of John Howard Bryant_, p. 30; letter of William H. Collins, Quincy, Ill., Jan. 13, 1896; _History of Knox County, Illinois_, p. 211. [211] Letter of George L. Burroughes, Cairo, Ill., Jan. 6, 1896. [212] _Ibid._; conversation with the Rev. R. G. Ramsey, Cadiz, O., Aug. 18, 1892. [213] J. B. Grinnell, _Men and Events of Forty Years_, p. 216. [214] Smedley, _Underground Railroad_, pp. 174, 176, 177, 365. The following letter is in point:-- "SCHUYLKILL, 11th Mo., 7th, 1857. WILLIAM STILL, _Respected Friend_:--There are three colored friends at my house now, who will reach the city by the Philadelphia and Reading train this evening. Please meet them. Thine, etc., E. F. PENNYPACKER." [215] Letter of John W. Jones, Elmira, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1897. [216] Letter of the Hon. Andrew D. White, Ithaca, N.Y., April 10, 1897.