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Show RAN ON TJLK K0CKET. HERE IS THE WOIILD'S OLD CRT ENGINEER. lie neeently Olrhraled lite I Ifhly reorlh IlltCli.Uj ll.-llrn..- the rlnt Mlntn HortV llttwren I Itrrpool and Manrhetltr-Alan on Hie John Halt. Rdward Kntwhlatle, who haa Just celebrated his efghty-fnurth birthday at tho home of Mrs Thomaa O'Dea.hli granddaughter, In Dea Moines, Iowa, haa aecn the great railroad systems ot the world develop from their very beginning. He waa the first railroad passenger engineer. Desplto hla age he li hale and hearty and looks confidently confi-dently forward to several yeara ot life. Mr. Kntwhlslle as a boy of It held the throttle on the first trip ot the docket. Stevenson's pioneer tnglne. IMwanl i:ntlilatle was born March 21, UIS. at Tllsey'e Ilanke, Laneaahlre, Hnglaml. and while a mere boy was apprenticed to learn the machinists', or, ai It la known In Kngland, tha engineers' trade. The Itocket waa built In the shops In which ho was employed, and the Interest which he look In the machine ma-chine attracted the attention ot Stevenson, Ste-venson, who recommended that be be permitted to ride on the engine on Its Drat trip over the Liverpool and Man- 'yffif IJJI., tat-afJK? HDWAIID ENTWI1I8TLI:. Chester Hie, for which It waa constructed. con-structed. Young Ilntwhlstle made the trip and on the return Journey ho held the throttle. This was tho beginning ot hit career aa n locomotive engineer. He ran the Itocket for two years, making mak-ing two round trips a day between Liverpool and Manchester, a illatanco of thirty-one miles each way. The work wore on him and he waa obliged, because of nervousness, to resign, Stevenson then secured for him a placo ni arcond engineer on one ot the duke of Ilrldgewater'a coasting steamers, steam-ers, lie came to America In 1837, and became engineer on the Troy, a Hudson Hud-son river steamer. Boon after the engineer en-gineer ot the famous John Hull locomotive loco-motive waa Injured, and Kntwhtstle took hla run, In 1811 he went to Chicago Chi-cago and at different tlmea held poal-tlona poal-tlona as stationary engineer, lake steamer engineer and locomotive engineer. en-gineer. He went to Dea Moines In 1850 and became engineer of a flouring mill, n position he held for twenty-two years. When Mr. Kntwhlstla visited the world's fair In Chicago he spent nearly near-ly all hla time for three days standing besldo the Itocket, which was on exhibition, ex-hibition, He la a remarkab'.- modest man, and did not make hla Identity or hla connection with the engine known, He oven pledged too membera of hla family not to "give him away," but he derived great pleasure from gating gat-ing at tho pioneer tocomotlvo and comparing It with the modern machines ma-chines which were on exhibition In the same building. Tho picture which accompanies thla akelch Is from a photograph pho-tograph taken about the time o! Mr. Kntwhlitle's visit to tho world's fair. |