I would like to thank Richard Orsi for bringing the Mahl material to my attention.
Mahl Memoir, Southern Pacific Co., F 18, Colonel Samuel Gill, SG-23, J. Kruttschnitt to W. Mahl, Dec. 31, 1895, box 2E460, all in Mahl Papers.
If Mahl were a novelist, the technique would be what Viktor Shklovsky, father of Russian formalism, named skaz, where the narrator describes a scene and delivers a judgment, which utterly misread the scene. Skaz creates a reader who knows more than the narrator, but Mahl is not a novelist.
Mahl Memoir, CPH 27, B-15, Mahl Papers.
Mahl, Memoirs, Southern Pacific C., F-7, Mahl Papers.
United Syndicate, New York Tribune, "William Mahl: Vice-President and Comptroller of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific Systems," UT, box 2E465; Mahl Memoir, Albert Fink, AF-11, AF-12, both in Mahl Papers.
Mahl Memoir, Colonel Samuel Gill, SG-5, SG-7, Mahl Papers.
Poor, Manual, 1872-73, 82.