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A CONSIDERATE AND GENEROUS BOARD
OF DIRECTORS.
One day early in August, 1856, a girl named McGraff, through
her own carelessness, was injured by a locomotive near Sloatsburg,
Rockland, N. Y. Her parents being poor, the attention of President
Ramsdell was called to her case by a citizen of Goshen. President
Ramsdell, at the next meeting of the Board of Directors, mentioned
the incident, and a number of the Directors made up a purse of
$45 out of their own pockets and forwarded it to the McGraff family,
with a letter expressing their regrets for the mishap. If a board
of railroad directors of to-day should be moved to such an act
as that, people could go to bed assured that the millennium had
dawned.
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