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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Third American Road Congress: Under Auspices of American Highway Association, American Automobile Association; September 22-October 4, 1913
This abrupt injection of me into these proceedings reminds me somewhat of the story of an Irishman by the name of o'brien. It seems that o'brien, as a contractor, had prospered exceedingly, and in due course of time he moved from a ward down on the river front up into the avenue of the town, and thought that he wasgo to comfortably settle down. But his two daughters had meg years in a boarding school, and When they came back they ?atly refused to let o'brien continue to smoke his pipe in the parlor as he had done in the little house down by the river. So he was rele gated to the rear steps. Finally one day o'brien died, and he was laid out in the parlor. Mrs. Murphy came up from the river dis trict, and standing beside the remains of o'brien tearfully com mented: o'brien, you beat them at last; you got into the parlor. Now, Mr. Enos is not dead; he simply could not be here to-day. I am one that the A. A. A. Sends into the country to talk roads. Many of you Who are here present have had to listen to me out in the West and In North Carolina and in other States, and so I am going to be very brief this morning.
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