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Show NLUir CLAIM CREDIT Success of American as Manager Man-ager of English Railroad Held Phenomenal, Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, June 6. So popular and respected has H. W. Thornton, the new American manager of the Great Eastern East-ern railway, become that the leading personages connected with the company are actually inventing tarradiddlcs to prove that each was the first to discover dis-cover the great eugiueer. For a long time Lord Claud Hamilton, president-chairman president-chairman of the company, held the distinction dis-tinction of having unearthed him from the wilds of Long Island, Now the "real truth" for the third or fourth time places Speyer & Son, well-known bankers, in the pioneers-' chair aud the i ' inner history ' ' of the whole affair is ''for the first time" revealed. The firm of Speyers have the reputation repu-tation of doing big things in a big way. The bankers proposed to the directors of the Great Western to finance the building and electrify a new tube railway from Liverpool street station sta-tion iu the city to 31 ford, some dis-! dis-! tance from London in the cennty of ! Essex. They made it a point that "they be allowed to nominate the much-wanted general manager for the railway company. This the company agreed to, as it was felt that the local trallic to semi-suburb3 n places such as lltord was somewhat below par and that new blood and enterprise was required to put things on a first-class footing. The Speyer bank then put forward the idea of the American railroad expert ex-pert and mentioned the name of Mr. Thornton. If public opinion and the press be a fair indication of the success suc-cess of tho Speyer proposition and its sequence the Great Eastern railway has made a deal that should prove of i immense im-mense benefit to the company and the general traffic throughout the country. |