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Show I RAILWAY MAN WHO I RETIRES ON JAN. 1 1 JAMES M'CREA. li HIS fESHTII President of Pennsylvania to Retire After 50 Years of Service. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. III. Without any previous public Intimation, .lames McCrca, president of ihe Pennsylvania railroad system, today handed his resis-nation resis-nation to the directors of thu company trT tafcn1" effoct 6rf January 1. At the same time It was announced that Samuel Uea, a vice president of tho company, who was the right-hand man of President A. J. Cay.--ii.tt, whom Mr. McCrcu. Hiicccedcd six years ago, had been chosen to succeed Mr. McCrca. President McCrea's reason for rcsifrn-Ing: rcsifrn-Ing: Is that ho felt he needed a rest after spending nearly fifty years in the service of the Pennsylvania system. ' One close to thu management said that not only did Mr. McC'roa desire to rest, but that his physicians had told him he must retire. Samuel licit, the president-elect, is ."iT years old and has been with tho company com-pany since 1871 when ho besnn as a chainman In tho enslneoilnpr department. He worked with former President Caa-natt Caa-natt on the great constructive programme pro-gramme of that official and won fame through the part lie took In the build-In? build-In? of tho Pennsylvania's New York tunnels tun-nels and station. ire continued through the MeCrca administration ad-ministration to be one of tho principal figures in tho operating and engineering departments of the company. |