The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-01

is the president and executive officer OF
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Company. which operates one Of the larg-
est systems of railways I'm America. Dur
ing years Of toll. with energy ana ability,
the boy and man passed through many OF
the practical stages Of railroad work.
consCieutiously familiarizinE himself
with The labors, hardships. duties and
responsibilities OF nearly all classes OF
railway employees
Twouty-eight years ago the president Of
the AtchiusOn. Topeka and Santa Re
system, Of nearly 10000 miles, was the
store keeper at the principal locomotive
shops of western railway. Thirty
years ago the president of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad
company was division engineer upon the
northern division of the Illinois Central
railroad and prior to that time carried n
rod and chain. Thirty-three years ago
the vice president and general manager
of the Southern Pacific company was a
passenger conductor upon the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad. Thirty
eight years ago the president of the Chi
cago and Alton railroad was an assistant
engineer in the construction OF the Illinois
Central railroad and served his appreut-
iceship with the rod and chain, and his
vice president, thirty years ago was a
station agent at Springfield, Illinois My
earliest recollections of the president of the
Michigan Central railroad is in cOnnec-
ton with a subordinate position held by
him on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy in Chicago The President of the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis Railroad Company, was an
obscure young lawyer about twenty
usual ability has concentrated in
to a successful and comprehensive system
a number of lines of railway most of
which were previously unrenumerative.
The president of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, ripe in ex-
perienCe from nearly forty years service,
sprang from the ranks. The chief execu-
tive Office of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad Company was fifteen
years ago struggling in Cairo, ILL.,, with
the varying fortunes or rather misfOr-
tunes of the Cairo and Vincennes road,
about 100 miles long. The
president of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad Company, formerly
president of the Illinois Central, drove
team on the tow-path of canal, then
worked as a track hand, then fred and
subsequently ran a locomotive engine
The Pennsylvania system furnishes many
examples of executive and department
officers growing up nearly from boyhood
transferred from the ranks of the work
ers to the sphere of larger responsibilities
where their experience and training
might be Of mutual benefit to the COM
pany and its men The New York Cen
trail and Hudson River Railroad has been
controlled and directed by substantially
one interest for long term of years and
in many instances it is ot1icered by those
who have virtually grown up with it and
its vast army Of workers. | might multi
ply these illustrations and show that the
practical operation of the greater portion
of our railway mileage are directed by
men who have risen from the ranks and
who are familiar with the details of roll
road life and railroad work.
1t is because l know so much about and
am so intimate with the miseries that
come from unemployment to the family
of the man who is unfortunate enough to
be hurled out into the cold, that l take
the greatest care and have given rigid
orders that no man shall be discharged
unless there is good and sufficient cause
for it. 1T may be that unfortunate CON
ditions arise where business falls off and