The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
ROSE FROM THE RANKS.
Railroad MaGnates Who Started as Brake
 men, Operators or Kod-Men

Railroad haEnateS Who started dS Brake
 men, Opera tors or Kod-hen.
 Among the officers of nearly every railroad in the country are to be found men who have risen from the very low est round A. M Tucker who is division superintendent on the Erie under Murphy, started in as track laborcr, and his first promotion was to the position of rod-man in the engineer corps. John N. Abbott of the Western States Passenger Association, used to be freight clerk on the Erie. C. w. Bradley, general superintendent of the West Shore, used to be a brakeman and conductor on the same road Gen. eral Superintendent Bancroft of the Denver X Rio Grandc learned the Morse alphabet in one Of the small stations on the Erie, and counted himself lucky when he obtained position as tcle- graph operator on the West Shore President Caldwell of the Nickel-PIatc was once a clerk on the Penn sylvania. F. K. Hain, general manager of tho New York elevated roads. began his career in his seventeenth year as machinists apprentice on the Philadel- phia & Reading road at Pottsvillc The officers of the great Pennsyl- 1 vania system, from tho president down, have all come up from the bot tom. President Roberts entered the service of the road in 1852 as rod man in the engineer corps, Later he had charge of the construction of small branch lines, and finally was made as- si5tant to the president in 1862 He has been president of the road for eight years. A. j. Cassatt. formerly vice-president of the company, also be- gan as rodman. Second Nice-Presi- dent Thomson used to be a machinist in the shops at Altoona. He invented the blOck-signal interlocking switch General Manager Pugh commenced as brakeman, and General Passenger Agent Carpenter was once messenger boy in the Philadelphia office of the company. General Agent Geer used to be receiving clerk in the freight de- 1 partmcnt
 James McCrea, general manager of i the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts burgb like President Roberts, began as rod-man at $40 month. He now draws salary of $15, GOO a year, and Is still under forty. Robert Pitcairn. i superintendent of the Pittsburgh di- vision of the Pennsylvania and gen. eral agent for the company, was once a messenger boy in the old Atlantic tS 1 Ohio telegraph office in Pittsburgh. Among the other messengerse T em- l plOyed at that time was Anson Starer. afterward general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Com | pany; w. 0. Hugart, now presidens of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail- road Company; Andrew Carnegie, who a few years later laid the foundations of his wonderfully successful career as private secretary to Colonel Tom Scott. and David McCargo, now general superintendent of the Allegheny Val ley railroad. Philadelphia News
 Drop Crackers: Beat up the whites ot three eggs and the yelks of five with a spoonful of rose water, and then add
 five ounces of sifted sugar (such as confectioners use); whisk them well for twenty minutes or half an hour, and then add half an ounce of caraw8y seeds and three ounces of fine four Mix the whole together, drop them on oil papers. and bake in moderately heated oyep.