In business circles among prominent men who still survive, Thomas M.Howe, James Park, C.G.Hussey, Benjamin F.
Jones, William Thaw, John Chalfant, Colonel Herron were great men to whom the messenger boys looked as models, and not bad models either, as their lives proved.

[Alas! all dead as I revise this paragraph in 1906, so steadily moves the solemn procession.] My life as a telegraph messenger was in every respect a happy one, and it was while in this position that I laid the foundation of my closest friendships.

The senior messenger boy being promoted, a new boy was needed, and he came in the person of David McCargo, afterwards the well-known superintendent of the Allegheny Valley Railway.

He was made my companion and we had to deliver all the messages from the Eastern line, while two other boys delivered the messages from the West.

The Eastern and Western Telegraph Companies were then separate, although occupying the same building.