[204] The _Firelands Pioneer_, July, 1888, p. 21.
[206] _Ibid._, p. 74. The "Three C's" is now the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, or "Big Four" Route.
[207] Conversation with Thomas Williams, of Pennsville, O.; letter of H. C. Harvey, Manchester, Kan., Jan. 16, 1893.
[208] Letter of I. Newton Peirce, Folcroft, Pa., Feb. 1, 1893.
[209] Letter of Sidney Speed, Crawfordsville, Ind., March 6, 1896. Mr. Speed and his father were both connected with the Crawfordsville centre.
[210] _Life and Poems of John Howard Bryant_, p. 30; letter of William H. Collins, Quincy, Ill., Jan. 13, 1896; _History of Knox County, Illinois_, p. 211.
[211] Letter of George L. Burroughes, Cairo, Ill., Jan. 6, 1896.
[212] _Ibid._; conversation with the Rev. R. G. Ramsey, Cadiz, O., Aug. 18, 1892.
[213] J. B. Grinnell, _Men and Events of Forty Years_, p. 216.
[214] Smedley, _Underground Railroad_, pp. 174, 176, 177, 365. The following letter is in point:--
WILLIAM STILL, _Respected Friend_:--There are three colored friends at my house now, who will reach the city by the Philadelphia and Reading train this evening. Please meet them.
[215] Letter of John W. Jones, Elmira, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1897.
[216] Letter of the Hon. Andrew D. White, Ithaca, N.Y., April 10, 1897.
In the New England states fugitives travelled, under the instruction of friends, by way of the Providence and Worcester Railroad from Valley Falls, Rhode Island, to Worcester, Massachusetts, where by arrangement they were transferred to the Vermont Road.[217] The Boston and Worcester Railroad between Newton and Worcester, Massachusetts, as also between Boston and Worcester, seems to have been used to some extent in this way.[218] The Grand Trunk, extending from Portland, Maine, through the northern parts of New Hampshire and Vermont into Canada, occasionally gave passes to fugitives, and would always take reduced fares for this class of passengers.[219]
[217] Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace, _Anti-Slavery Reminiscences_, pp. 28, 38.
[218] Letter of William I. Bowditch, Boston, April 5, 1893. Mr. Bowditch says: "Generally I passed them (the fugitives) on to William Jackson, at Newton. His house being on the Worcester Railroad, he could easily forward any one." Captain Austin Bearse, _Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston_, p. 37.