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Aldrich found corporate plans to be minimal and inadequate, but neither union plans nor private insurance covered much of the gap.

Pinkerton, Personal Record, 104, 246-57

G. L. Lansing to CPH, Dec. 8, 28, 1883, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 34.

Mark Aldrich, Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006), 164.