I do not know Mr.Stevenson, nor do I know Mr.
Jones, but one or the other must be made captain and he alone must report to you." [Footnote 34: The steel-rail mills were ready and rails were rolled in 1874.] The decision fell upon Mr.Jones and in this way we obtained "The Captain," who afterward made his name famous wherever the manufacture of Bessemer steel is known.
The Captain was then quite young, spare and active, bearing traces of his Welsh descent even in his stature, for he was quite short.

He came to us as a two-dollar-a-day mechanic from the neighboring works at Johnstown.

We soon saw that he was a character.

Every movement told it.

He had volunteered as a private during the Civil War and carried himself so finely that he became captain of a company which was never known to flinch.