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That was the initial intention in this case, just to make the President physically fit, and to keep him so." Richard M. Winans says: "The Admiral told me that when he first took charge of the President, Mr. Wilson was not a little averse to taking any sort of exercise. However, Doctor Grayson early succeeded in impressing upon Mr.
The Messrs. Winans, of Baltimore, had built some nondescript machines, which had received the name of "crabs," and had tried to make them work upon the Western road. But after many attempts they were given up as unfit for such service. These "crabs" were eight wheeled engines, weighing about 20 tons, with a vertical boiler.
Personal interviews with "Parson" Rezin Williams, on Thursday afternoon, September 18 and 24, 1937, at his home, 2610 Pierpont Street, Mount Winans, Baltimore, Md. Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol 1 , p. 56. Buchholz: Governors of Maryland pp. 57-63, 192-167. "Parson" Williams Oldest living Negro Civil War veteran; now 116 years old.
Don't let any of the girls of this company talk you into the belief that they have any claim on me. "You must not think it strange that I took an interest in you, little Jessie, from the first moment I saw you," continued Winans, pressing the girl's hand softly, as they pushed on bravely through the terrible snow-drifts.
Much diplomacy was needed to procure the large money advances for this part of the work, the whole Winans contract amounting to nearly five millions of dollars; but the assurance of Major Whistler was a sufficient guarantee against disappointment or failure.
Winans, whose deer-forest is said to cover two hundred square miles. While evictions are much less common than they were two or three generations ago, there has all along been a disposition on the part of the proprietors to enclose in their sheep-farms and deer-forests lands that were formerly tilled or used as commons by the crofters and cottars.
The citizens present, were more numerous than the Indians, but were unarmed; some of them procured clubs and brick-bats, and also stood on the defensive. The Rev. Mr. Winans, of the Methodist church, ran to the governor's house, got a gun, and posted himself at the door to defend the family.
"There was something about you very different from the rest of the girls whom I have met." "I trust you will not talk so to me, Mr. Winans," said Jessie. "But I must," he insisted. "I must tell you all that is in my heart. Surely you can not blame a fellow so very much for being unfortunate enough to fall desperately in love with you!"
"Chair recognizes the gentleman from Mississippi," said the presiding officer, as he leaned back to speak to Senator Winans of Kansas, who had approached to the side of the rostrum. The Langdon speech on "The New South and the South of the Future" proved more than a document suited only to a reverent burial in the Congressional Record.
"Don't be frightened, Miss Bain," he exclaimed. "I have been waiting for you almost an hour, to see you home." Jessie started back in dismay. At that instant he half turned, and the flickering light from the gas-lamp fell full upon his face, and she recognized him as one of the members of the company Walter Winans, whom Mally Marsh had said was her beau.
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