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Re: I SNOWBLEWED [with pics] (Was: Re: No Poll: When to Snowblow?) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Feb 10 01:45:13 2015, in response to Re: I SNOWBLEWED [with pics] (Was: Re: No Poll: When to Snowblow?), posted by SMAZ on Tue Feb 10 01:35:56 2015. A man following after our beloved NYCTA Chaplain, Father Cosgrove.He kept keys and handles for driving subways in his room, but how often he actually drove trains remains the stuff of motormen's debates. Two years after his death at 83, Jesuit Father Francis Cosgrove, a former pastor on Manhattan's upper East Side, was recalled in a Times article as a Spencer Tracy-like priest who spoke or read a dozen languages and was self-taught on old methods of sea navigation. Father Cosgrove served as a chaplain for New York City Transit for more than 30 years. Joe Cunningham, a subway historian and author who knew Father Cosgrove, said the priest received motorman training and was legally qualified to drive the subway trains. But Joseph Hofmann, senior vice president for subways, who also knew the priest, said his visits to the motorman's cab were not officially authorized, though tolerated. The New York daily reported that Father Cosgrove once visited a token-booth clerk and relieved him when the clerk had to go to the bathroom. A parishioner who came by was too confused to ask why his pastor was selling tokens and simply said, “Oh, hello Father.” Later in the day, Father Cosgrove ran into a motorman he knew and persuaded him to let him drive the train. The same parishioner happened to be in a subway station when the train pulled in, and he saw Father Cosgrove beaming as he sailed by. The priest waved, and the man waved back, his mouth open. “Oh, hello Father,” he said again. Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/9531#ixzz3RK1ca03z |
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