The Girls in the Boat

 

This is the companion piece to yesterday's offering- two young ladies thought by me to be the sisters of the man in the boat, "Dixie."  With both postcards addressed to a Miss Carrie Hoffman in Fairchild, and "Little Carrie" admitting to having attended the "Soo" picnic, I theorized that a relative of these women was an employee of the Soo Line. And indeed, a simple Google search DID turn up a T. Hoffman who was documented as a conductor on the Soo Line.  Was he the man in the boat yesterday?  Or was he, like the girls, a relative of the employee?  Or is this all just a coincidence?  Sometimes history just provides clues with few definitive answers.