Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — First Train Message in Bronze. [ARTICLE]

First Train Message in Bronze.

A bronze tablet was recently unveiled at Harriman, N. Y., by the association of Old Time Telegraphers to commemorate the sending of the first telegraphic train order in 1851. The tablet is six feet high and three feet wide and cost $4,000. The $2,000 base upon which the tablet will rest was quarried from the Harriman estate and was given by Mrs. E. H. Harriman. The next largest contributor was Andrew Carnegie, who became a telegraph operator when he was 14 years old and sent the first telegraphic train order at Pittsburgh in 1852.