Vol. 3, No. 17 SepteDlber15,1976 Amtrak, Auto-Train Sign Agreement, _____---, I Will Operate Midwest-Florida Train
In a press conference ceremony held at Washington's National Press Club, Amtrak President Paul Reis trup and Auto-Train President Eugene Kerik Garfield signed an agreement for Amtrak to haul a daily Auto-Tra,in between Louisville, Kentucky, and Sanford, Florida, for an experimental six-month period. Auto-Train's cars will be attached to Amtrak's Floridian for the thou sand-mile trip beginning October 31. "Auto-Train service will now be available for the first time to Mid westerners traveling to and from Florida on a more convenient daily basis as a result of this agreement," __~---"'--~ J _ said Garfield. "This agreement also A uto-Train's Garfield, left, Amtrak's Reistrup sign agreement. opens the door to similar combined services elsew here in the nation." Auto-Train had operated tri-week Break Ground For Cleveland Station ly service between Louisville and San Groundbreaking ceremonies for Shore Limited began operating last ford some time back. It later cut a new passenger station were held by October. back to one round-trip per week but Amtrak and the City of Cleveland on Said he, "In April of this year, that was suspended last spring be Tuesday, August 31, at the East over 5,000 people' got on and off cause of lack of equipment, aggra Memorial Shoreway site. trains here in Cleveland. This city's vated by two derailments. Participating in the ceremony were ridership has helped to make the Lake Amtrak had at one time considered Al Michaud, Amtrak's vice presi Shore Limited one of the most operating its own auto-ferry service, dent, marketing; Cleveland Mayor heavily traveled long-distance trains named Auto-Track, between the mid Ralph J. Perk; Richard Adler, execu in the Amtrak system." west and Florida but decided against tive vice president of the Greater Mayor Perk praised Amtrak for its it after tests were inconclusive. Cleveland Growth Association; and action in constructing the new Reistrup noted, "The immediate R. E. Sullivan, vice president and facility for the city's passengers. benefit to passengers will be that general manager, Western region, Nearly 100 persons attended the Auto-Train will become a daily Conrail. ceremonies, which were covered by operation on this route. This fre Master of Ceremonies for the event all three Cleveland television stations quency is certain to attract many was Bill Ehrig, Amtrak's state and as well as the print media. A five travelers who want their automo local affairs officer, Washington. piece band played and coffee and biles at their destination but do not Michaud remarked on the en doughnuts were served to guests. want to drive long distances. thusiasm and support for passenger Sandy Cala, supervisor of opera "The public interest will be served service in the city since the Lake (See CLEVELAND, Page 7) as greater numbers of people elect to take the train, stay off the highways and thereby consume less fuel." Although Auto-Train will be at tached to the Floridian, each com Amtrak-Auto-Train Corp. pany will continue to provide its own Route of Floridian- "auto-train" service separate services. There will be no passenger access between the two ------sections. Auto-Train will remain in , ______i" ------~\\ tact, and coach and sleeping accom } Indiana ~ ) Pennsylvania modations, as well as separate dining I I \ ;\ _------11\ and lounge facilities, will be pro \ \ ~ Ohio : \ ... _---:;;...... , Maryland \ " \ Lafayette \ ; 1.---- \,/,' / ...... :-' vided in each section. , , , .. / I ------'1, __ "" Illinois I,:: \ /" ,/" Each company will continue to " ~ (,I West " / have complete jurisdiction over its B loom ington ...,: Virginia / ... I I - ... _ - ' "j'/ : marketing, sales, enroute service and '",,,_, : Kentucky 1\ / Virginia , ' , maintenance personnel. Missouri i ", ~_, ___ /j'~ Louisville /:>, ____ -/ In the six-month agreement, which "\ ...... ' / ------_ ... ------contains a year-to-year contiuation \ ... ___\ Bowlmg Green ...... ::_----,..-)-- ... ~\ ------,' option, Auto-Train agrees to pay all , r North Carolina ;j------' Nashville "... .. /'_.- of Amtrak's incremental costs in ------... ------~i , ,...... -' -"'\ curred in the operation of the ven ---? Tennessee -' _... "' .. ------\------...... , " __ 1------;' __ , ture. ,~ ------,,- --- In addition, Auto-Train guaran , , Decatur -, South Carolina Arkansas ,/ ,: ", ' ..... \ tees a minimum $100,000 of its mid ,/ :, west revenues towards the existing /, :, r : Georgia -'\\ cost of operating the route. As reve { : nues rise , Auto-Train will increase its ------1.\, Mississippi :, payments to Amtrak on an agreed \ : Alabama ,( :, upon sliding scale. / \ , '' Amtrak will also share Aut
2 On-board Crew Quarters - - ______-----, I To Be Upgraded in Chicago
Amtrak on-board service personnel administrative functions including The new on-board women's wash working out of Chicago's Union staff meetings, training and customer and locker room will contain four Station will soon have new crew quar relations. The remodeling should im combination shower-dressing rooms ters and remodeled offices for their prove traffic flow, efficiency and plus 50 lockers. The men's section use. general working conditions. will have six showers, plus 250 Amtrak plans to renovate 6,600 The new crew quarters will be lockers. square feet of the former station serv located one floor below the main Included in the new facility will be ices office and to construct entirely waiting room in the southwest corner two lounges which will be carpeted, new wash, locker and lounge facili of the building in what once were air-conditioned, flourescent lighted, ties for on-board personnel at an public men's and women's wash and outfitted with chairs, tables, estimated cost of approximately rooms. sofas and television. Crew members $200,000. will have an attractive place to go The new offices for the station The entire area will be stripped of manager and crew base supervisory the old equipment and new partitions after arrival on trains or while they are waiting to go to work . personnel will be located on the main and walls erected. Entirely new floor of the station in the northwest plumbing and electrical fixtures will Work on the new facilities should corner of the waiting room. The re be installed and the area completely begin in early October and be com modeled offices will be used for crew repaired and repainted. pleted by mid-J anuary.
Ski Pass Announced; More Agents To Sell Amtrak An Amtrak Ski Pass which will al additional payment. However, they which may be used to purchase Am low eight trips for the price of six may not make advance reservations trak tickets or tour orders at stations through the 1976-77 season was un for such accommodations. or other ticket selling locations. veiled at the 46th World Travel Con Michaud also announced at the gress of the American Society of Congress that Amtrak plans to add Travel Agents meeting in New up to 6,900 "second level" travel Michigan Celebrates Orleans September 12-17. agents to its sales force. The tickets will be good for eight Of the some 12,000 United States Transportation Week one-way coach trips to and from any travel agents approved by the Air Amtrak will celebrate Michigan's one of 30 Amtrak stations serving ski Traffic Conference to sell airline National Transportation Week by areas. They will be valid for travel tickets, 5,100 are "full service giving children under the age of 12 a between November 15 and April 7, agents" authorized to sell Amtrak free ride when accompanied by a inclusive, except for blackout periods rail tickets and tours. parent. during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Fully-authorized agents are granted From September 19 through New Years holiday periods. a 10 per cent commission on all Am October 8, parents will be able to take In announcing the Ski Pass, Al trak sales and write rail tickets on two children along free for every Michaud, Amtrak's vice president, Amtrak-provided stock. They must round-trip adult ticket they buy. The marketing, noted "A unique thing meet minimum sales requirements offer is good between any two points about this pass is that it may be used and pay a $100 certification fee, plus on the Chicago-Detroit and Chicago by any combination of passengers to a $40 ann ual renewal. Port Huron routes. travel a total of eight one-way trips. The new second-level agents will This offer does not, however, ap One passenger can make eight one be paid five per cent commission but ply to the Jackson-Detroit train, the way, or four round-trips. Or he can will not be issued any ticket stock and Michigan Executive; the eastbound take a companion on four one-way, have no minimum sales requirements. Saint Clair on Fridays; or the west or two round-trips. Or a group of They will pay only $32 yearly for bound Wolverine or the Saint Clair, eight can use it for one one-way a subscription to the Official Railway in either direction, on Sundays. trip. " Guide, which contains Amtrak and All Michigan trains, except the Ski pass holders may upgrade, on a other railroad schedules, plus fare Michigan Executive, operate with space available basis, to sleeping or and tour information. The agents will either Turboliner or Amfleet equip parlor cars, or to Metroliner travel by be issued Envelope Exchange Orders ment.
3 Amtrak Takes Over------. I Corridor Operations
Amtrak ass umed the responsibility which remains part of Conrail's the Corridor are Richard J. Duggan, for directing the operations of all Metropolitan Region); New Haven, Boston; Charles S. Lowe, New York; train movements in the Northeast Connecticut, to Springfield, Mas Francis K. West, Philadelphia and Corridor on September 1 with the sachusetts; and from Philadelphia to Robert J. Hunter, Baltimore. takeover of 70 Conrail train dis Harrisburg. The new dispatching Full control of the Corridor is a re patchers. control covers a total of 565 route sult of agreements reached among The transfer of the dispatchers over miles which Amtrak recently pur Amtrak, Conrail and the railroad to Amtrak was another step in the chased from Conrail. labor organizations involved in the gradual assumption of functions takeover of personnel covering Corri With assumption of control of the previously performed by the Penn dor operations. di spatchers, Amtrak will be re Central railroad. Charles E. Ber With this latest infusion of rail sponsible for governing the move trand, vice president and general road employees, Amtrak has nearly ment of all trains on these routes, manager of the Northeast Corridor completed the Corridor takeover. including Conrail freight trains and group, has placed the dispatchers un The company has already assumed commuter trains operated by various der the direction of Robert A . Her control of electrical and communica state agencies. man, regional vice president-opera tions personnel, maintenance of way tions. The dispatchers are all members personnel and equipment mainten The territory covers track from of the American Train Dispatchers ance and station personnel. Amtrak Boston to Washington (except be AssoCiation. Superintendents and the will takeover the police department tween New Haven and New Rochelle divisions they are responsible for in function later this month. Turboliner Inaugural Dates Announced Amtrak will introduce its new Amtrak now has throo- of the high ice is provided on four daily round Rohr-built turbine trains to New performance Turboliners ready for trips between New York and Albany, York State on Saturday and Sunday, service in New York State. A fourth one round trip between New York September 18-19, with public displays train is expected to arrive before the and Syracuse, and one round trip be of the streamlined Turboliners at end of September. During the transi tween New York and Buffalo. A cities along the Empire Service route. tion period, and while awaiting final total of seven trains will be used in Plans are to have one of the trains clearances from Conrail and the the service. leave Buffalo on Saturday morning, Metropolitan Transportation Agency For the time being, eXlstmg spend the night in Syracuse, and then (MT A), over whose tracks the trains schedules will be retained. Eventually proceed to Albany-Rensselaer on will operate, the first turbine trains it is hoped that the new trains, Sunday. In the meantime, another were quietly slipped into service over capable of speeds up to 125 miles per Turboliner will be on public display segments of the route. hour on improved track, will allow in Grand Central Station on Saturday As additional Turbos become significant shortening of schedules afternoon. On Sunday morning it available, they will be phased into on the Buffalo-Albany-New York will leave New York City and travel Empire service until Turboliner serv- run. up the Hudson valley to rendezvous with the first train at Albany-Rens Employee Passes To Be Renewed selaer on Sunday afternoon. Harold Graham, Amtrak's vice Approximately 5,000 Amtrak em address on file . Also, employees who president for service planning and ployees will have their passes renewed have had a change in the number of New York Transportation Commis automatically during October as their dependents should also similarly sioner Raymond T. Schuler are ex present ones expire. notify the personnel records section. pected to be among those on aboard The new passes will be mailed to Forms-Number 59 for address the trains for the gala inaugural trips. the individual employee's home. changes and Number 92 for depen The trains will be open for public Employees who have moved since dent status change-are available inspection at each of the cities served they were first issued their passes from regional personnel directors. on Amtrak's "Empire Service" should make sure that the personnel A wrong address could delay re route. records department has their correct ceipt of an employee's new pass.
4 Keeping Track The Need For Good Will The prosperity of Amtrak and the happiness of its employees depend in a Caltrak San Diegan great degree upon the good will of the public we serve. It, therefore, should be The Caltrak San Diegan, Amtrak's our ambition to make our service as efficient and as courteous as possible. newest train, began operations on Patrons of A mtrak are our guests from the moment they enter our trains, September 1 with an inaugural run our depots, our offices. Amtrak is judged largely by the impression we, as between Los Angeles and San Diego. employees, make upon those with whom we come in contact. It makes little Dedication ceremonies for the train difference whether the employee is an official, a clerk, a train man, an agent, a stenographer or a dining car waiter - that employee, who for the moment were held at Los Angeles Union is dealing with a patron, has t~e opportunity to create a good will that is Station prior to departure. Attending valuable not only to Amtrak but to the employee as well. He is, for the time were Dave Watts, Jr., Amtrak's being, the sole representative of Amtrak through whom the entire operation is vice president and general manager, judged. national operations; Senator James The public recognizes no distinction between departments of a railroad. Mills, San Diego, president of the Amtrak is judged by the acts of its employees, wherever found. California Senate and author of the It is not enough that Amtrak furnish efficient and dependable transporta bill setting up the 403(b) service; tion. It is just as important that the transportation be furnished in a Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles; courteous, pleasant and "human" manner that will meet the criticisms of an Adriana Gianturco, state director of exacting public. Th ere is no greater personal gratification than that which comes f rom the transportation; and Don Burns, feeling of having been helpful to others - of doing just a little more, perhaps, secretary of transportation for Cali than was expected of us. Friendly service ultimately brings its reward. E very fornia. Governor Jerry Brown was Amtrak employee is a salesman of Amtrak service. scheduled to appear but canceled out No person at Amtrak can afford not to be pleasant and friendly with our at the last minute because of other patrons and among ourselves. Patience, toleration and neat personal commitments. appearance are qualities necessary in every efficient employee who comes in Watts, Gianturco and Mills rode contact with our patrons, if Amtrak is to prosper and our employees are to the train to San Diego where another progress. ceremony was held welcoming the A nd our pride in ourselves, our work and our railroad as an institution of train. Brief ceremonies were also held service, should prompt us to keep informed on those things about which the at cities along the route. public asks. A well-informed employee is usually an efficient employee. A group of well-informed and courteous employees makes an efficient Amtrak. The Caltrak San Diegan will operate under Section 403(b) of the (See B ox, Page 6) Rail Passenger Service Act which re quires a state that requests such a nation's first transcontinental rail senting a graphic contrast in equip train must reimburse Amtrak for 50 line. That line joined the westward ment. per cent of its total operating loss. building Union Pacific on May 10, The Santa Fe, Western Pacific The new train, No. 774, leaves Los 1869 at Promontory, Utah. and Southern Pacific railroads will Angeles at 4:10 p.m., arriving in San The station will house a museum each display their bicentennial loco Diego at 6:45 p.m. It returns to Los and also display a historical collec motives. Angeles as No. 777, leaving San tion of rolling stock donated by the Diego at 8:20 p.m., arriving in Los Pacific Coast chapter of the Railway Vacation Discount Angeles at 10:55 p.m. and Locomotive Historical society. Amtrak employees are eligible for a The trains stop at Fullerton, Santa Included will be two ex-Virginia discount at the Vacation Village of Ana, San Juan Capistrano, Ocean and Truckee steam locomotives, one Florida, Clermont, Florida, near side and Del Mar. altered to resemble the CP's "Ju Disney World and Orlando. piter," which was present at the Gold Two types of accommodations are Sacramento Display Set Spike ceremonies at Promontory. available; a Sun Villa, that sleeps up Amtrak will display an Amcoach Also on display will be a vintage to six, or a Sun Loft, a double-decked and a new F40PH locomotive at the freight train of the early 1900s, chalet-styled unit, that can sleep up to dedication ceremonies for the re Lucius Beebe's private car, the "Gold eight. Each unit has a kitchen and a stored Arcade station in Sacramento, Coast," and a group of passenger dining-recreation area. California, on September 25-26. cars that span the period from 1920 The offer does not apply during The station is the original Central to 1950. holiday seasons or the months of Pacific railroad terminal from which Amtrak's Amcoach will be coupled February, March, June, July and construction began eastward for the next to one of the vintage cars pre- August.
5 dinating and implementing all train Amtrak Appoints ing programs within the Corridor as well as for designing, developing and implementing training programs Charles W. Hayward as Director, the University of Illinois. He is a unique to the Corridor group. Programs and Budget, Finance past president of the American Department. Hayward reports to Mel Association of Passenger Traffic Cockley, a native of Wyomissing, Baker, controller, and will be re officers, and a member of the Ameri Pennsylvania, has been with Amtrak sponsible for the formulation, justi can Society of Travel Agents, SKAL, since 1974 and has held similar fication and execution phases of cor the Traffic Club of Chicago and the responsibilities at corporate head porate and departmental budgets. He Chicago Passenger Club. quarters. Prior to his Amtrak service, will also direct status reporting on the David J. Beatty as Regional Di he had been director of education utilization of capital and operating rector, Operations-Central region. for Computer Hardware Consultants budget authorities, and will be re Beatty reports to Regional Vice and Services, Inc., of Newtown, sponsible for budget department sup President C.J. Taylor, and will be Pennsylvania. Prior to that he spent port to development of the corporate responsible for train operations and 18 years in various positions with five-year programs. planning coordination between his six IBM. Prior to this appointment, district superintendants and the Cockley received his bachelors de Hayward was senior program and operating railroads in the region. gree in education from Millersville plans officer within the finance de Prior to this appointment, Beatty State Teachers College. partment, a position he held since was district superintendant, Chicago Gunther K. Settele as District Sales joining Amtrak in December 1975. Metro district. He joined Amtrak in Manager, Los Angeles. Settele reports Hayward spent 25 years with the 1974 as manager of station services to Jerry Sheehan, Western region federal government in various budget for the Central region. sales manager, and will be responsible analysis positions and has a back Beatty's railroad career goes back for Amtrak sales in the Southwest ground in engineering as well as to 1958 and the Chicago and North district which includes Southern Cali budgeting. Western Railroad, where he worked fornia, Arizona, Nevada, New Frank E. Rizzuto as Marketing for 16 years as an operating officer in Mexico and part of Texas. Services Director, Northeast Cor various capacities. He is a graduate of Prior to his new appointment, ridor. He will report to J. Stewart Platville State Teachers College. Settele was manager of the Los Warden, director, transportation Leon W. Borst as Manager of Angeles CRO, a position he has held coordination, Northeast Corridor, Sales, Montreal. Borst will be re since joining Amtrak in 1973. He and will be principal liaison between sponsible for sales activities in the spent eight years with Pan American the Corridor group and corporate largest city of Canada. World Airways in various positions, marketing in Washington, Conrail, He will also maintain liaison with most recently as unit manager for state and local transportation and the Canadian National Railways, reservations. development agencies in all matters with which Amtrak now has an in Settele moved to the United States pertaining to marketing directives, terline sales agreement, as well as in 1962 from his native Germany procedures and policies concerning with CP Rail, Air Canada and other where he spent his youth in a small Northeast Corridor service and Canadian travel organizations. town in Bavaria. His experiences operations. Borst is a quadrilingual former there included three years in the serv Rizzuto had formerly been regional sales specialist with Sabena and KLM ice as national recreation area ski manager sales, in Chicago. He joined airlines and can speak French, patrol commander. the railroad industry in 1945 in the English, Dutch and German. A native passenger department of the Illinois of The Netherlands, he has worked in Vintage Advice Central railroad. He held various Montreal since 1967. The "editorial" on page 5 was positions with that company, in Borst's most recent responsibilities actually printed in the 1920s in the cluding director passenger sales and with Sabena were in developing and employee magazine of a major service from 1968 to 1970, and direc promoting tour packages through American railroad. tor commuter operations and services travel agents and associations, an It is printed in A mtrak News ver from 1970 to 1972. He came to Am activity that will be useful to Amtrak batim, except for the insertion of trak in 1972 as a regional service in the French-Canadian market. "Amtrak" for the railroad's name . manager, serving as such until he was Richard H. Cockley as Manager The sentiments expressed over 50 named regional manager sales in Training, Northeast Corridor, with years ago - during the height of the Chicago. headquarters in Philadelphia. Cock railroad pass enger business - cer Rizzuto was educated at Wright ley will also report to J. Stewart tainly apply just as well today. Junior College, Carlton College and Warden and be responsible for coor-
6 CLEVELAND New York State Fair Display (Continued From Page J) I Viewed By Thousands tions and stations, Cleveland, said, An estimated 150,000 persons the various fares available to the pub "It was a real fine ceremony. Every passed through Amtrak's Turboliner lic, as well as paper engineers' hats, thing went well and when we're done that was on display at the New York post cards and Turboliner buttons the city will have a good, modern State Fair in Syracuse between and fliers. facility for its use." August 31 and Labor Day. That The exhibit schedule began with a The station is being built on land amounts to almost one-third of the wine and cheese party for local travel made available to Amtrak by the city. entire fair attendance. agents, civic officials and other dig Cleveland is also providing addi Herb Fox, Amtrak's manager of nitaries hosted by Ed Murphy, dis tional approaches to the new station. sales for upstate New York, reports trict sales manager, New York; Fox; The access roads will also serve a a high interest in the train because of and Mike Sciandra, senior sales parking lot and the downtown loop advanced publicity about its going representative, Buffalo. bus. into Empire Service. Personnel who represented Amtrak Amtrak has awarded the construc "Hundreds of questions were at the fair included, besi~es Murphy, tion contract, worth $551,950, to the asked about the equipment and about Fox and Sciandra, Bill Harris, senior firm of Jance & Co., Willowick, Amtrak in general," he says. Amtrak sales representative, New York; Greg Ohio. Construction has already be personnel handed out information Conville, Paul Nestor, Marie Todor gun and the new station should be about Amtrak tours, schedules and and Cynthia Le Blanc, sales repre completed by next summer. sentatives, New York; and Amtrak's The station will be able to accom modem ticketing and baggage facili new on-board sales representatives. modate as many as 150 passengers ties and a comfortably furnished Technicians responsible for setting and visitors and will incorporate lounge. up the train and answering technical ./ I questions included Pat Henesey, supervisor, locomotive operating procedures, Albany; Paul Lemoine, field technician, Albany; Bill Kibler, field technician, Chicago; Art Pren tiss, district superintendent, Albany; and Don Kiash, district supervisor of service, Syracuse.
AMTRAK NEWS Published twice a month for employees of the National Rail road Passenger Corporation and those of participating railroads who are engaged in rail passenger service.
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REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS Ron Rhodes, Southeastern Alice Kal, Central Wielding shovels at Cleveland station groundbreaking are, left to right, AI Michaud, Amtrak's vice president, marketing; Conrail's R.E. Sullivan; Cleve Material in Amtrak News is not copyrighted. land Mayor Ralph Perk and Richard Adler, Greater Cleveland Growth A~o Readers may use what they wish with proper attribution to Amtrak News. ciation.
7 Presidential Limericks ------~ I Penned by CRO Agent
Ray Kauders, reservation and in Andrew Jackson Theodore Roosevelt formation agent in the New York " Old Hickory," man of frontier, " Teddy" Roosevelt, for peace exercise, City reservations office, is Amtrak's Bested Injun and Red Coat and peer. Won the sought, first U.S. Nobel Prize. From election turmoils To converse - or canal, "Limerick Laureate," creating Rose his system of spoils He was " roughridi.ng " pal ; short poems about the Presidents of And a hand for the bold pioneer. While he Bul/-Moosed the United States. the trusts their demise. From Washington to Ford, they Zachary Taylor wi ttingly touch upon some of the Fearless soldier was Calvin Coolidge high points and foibles of the leaders " Old Rough and Ready," Calvin Coolidge, the people long pun , of this country. Trouncing redskin and Mexican head'y. Wielded Boston's Exempt from his frolic 'police-famished' gun . A sampling follows, but if A mtrak He died of the colic; Then atoned for disgrace News readers would like to see the And the slavery showdown Lodged in Harding 's high place rest of the Presidents eulogized, they loomed stead 'y. While he simply " did not choose to run ." can drop Kauders a line at the NYP CRO and ask for the entire list. Abraham Lincoln Dwight David Eisenhower Abe Lincoln, most humble of clay, To the fo re , on a second " crusade" George Washington Swore hi s soul to the Blue and the Gray. Rallied " Ike" -un to world accolade. Washington, bred of old English station, He wrestled with Sorrow He made haste with the clock Stayed the spark of a very young nation. That each man 's tomorrow As t he Communist bloc Forged it sound as The Bell, Might ever be God's for today. Grimly called the proverbial spade. Th en bade glory farewell For a peaceful, Potomac plantation. (Stephen) Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland, for worldly relations, Post Script Thomas Jefferson Stressed some duty-free (Ray Ka uder, of New York 's CRO, Jefferson - save a few key amendments, raw importations. Wrote the lines you just read, ho, ho, ho. Was declarer of our independence. Dollar par was his zeal ; His humor is touching, For a tolerant, tame stake, (Also silver's re peal) His manner debauching, Bought Napoleon 's namesake And with Britain Th e man has no reservation s, To embrace all the creole descen dents. reared grave impl ications. you know . .. The Edi tor)
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