cp -

time to chastise you... :-).  While there are some Bessemers in the world,
there wasn't one between Ithaca and Slaterville.  There was, however, a
Besemer.  Note the first would be pronounced "Bes-sa-mer" and the latter
would be pronounced "Bees-mer".  On the plus side, I'll give you an A for
consistency.

- ps
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cuyler Page" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 20:43
Subject: Re: [BP] music in life


> > I've just been
> > reading The Gangly Country Cousin describing Lehigh valley's Auburn
> > division. A large trestle spanned the Brooktondale valley and landed
near
> > the old Follet Mansion in Besemer. I remember my Grandmother Rutherford
> > taking the train form Ithaca to NYC.
>
> My dad used to say the Bessemer line was not the Lehigh Valley RR but a
> small RR company, the "Bessemer & ..?... RR" or something like that.   We
> used to check our clocks each evening when we heard the whistle (steam
> engine era) as it crossed some side road along the Slaterville Road on the
> other side of Snyder hill precisely at 7 pm each evening heading East.

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