Charles and Arthur H. Scribner - Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Sto For Sale

100 Share Stock dated 1915 issued to Charles Scribner and Arthur H. Scribner as Trustees. Both Scribners sign at back. Two rows of obvious hole cancellations otherwise very attractive and Excellent Condition. Extremely Rare. Charles Scribner (1854-1930), New York Publisher, Son of Charles Scribner (1821-1871). Entering the publishing house established by his father, he served it as president, 1879-1928, and was thereafter chairman of the board. He was active also as a banker and as a benefactor of Princeton University and Skidmore College. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) (reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock. At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of track; that year it reported 20,557 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 118 million passenger-miles. (Those totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.) The song \"Rock Island Line\", a spiritual from the late 1920s first recorded in 1934, was inspired by the railway. Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company\', was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Construction began in Chicago on October 1, 1851, and the first train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet. Construction continued on through La Salle, and Rock Island was reached on February 22, 1854, becoming the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River. In Iowa, the C&RI\'s incorporators created (on February 5, 1853) the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company (M&M), to run from Davenport Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.

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