Show FORMER R RAILROAD I CONTRACTOR DIES Built Tracks Across Part of Mojave Desert MEMPHIS Tenn Dec 13 C. JP-C. C. C D. D Smith mith capitalist and formerly one of the he country's best known railroad contractors con con- tractors died early today at a hospital hos- hos pital Ital here Smith retired from the contracting business about 30 years ago after being being be be- ing associated win the development ot of the transportation system for greater New York He and associates constructed a section of the subway from rom Flatbush avenue Brooklyn to the he Manhattan bridge Ninety eight miles of tracks across the ic Majove desert from Parker Ariz was as another feat o of the C. C D. D Smith Co He was a former president o of the Wiggly corporation and a former former former for for- mer director o of the Memphis Commer Commer- dat cial al Appeal |