Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-06-16
ANOTHER JAY GOULD.
SOME STORIES OF JAMES ]. HILL, A
 SELF MADE MAN.

Pi"Sees-hoW He Once Caught Tartar.
 Human Dynamo.
 The newspapers have 1ately had good deal to say about James ]. Hill of the Great Northern railroad, who has lately gained control of the Northern Pacific system.
 He used to he coal dealer in St. Paul and began his prosperous career as superintendent Of q baby road called the St. Paul and Pacific This grew into the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, covering the wheat country, and now, re- named the Great Northern, tho Hill sys- tenn extends through Montana and into tho Canadian northwest The road through Montana was constructed com plete at the rate of 1 1 miles day
 The Great Northern Is rich, and Mir Hill controls it absolutely. He Is man of marvellous energy and has no use for a subordinate who cannot keep up with his high pressure gait. He has the dis agreeable trait of cutting of official heads without mercy, and the proverbial salutation i'll the St. Paul general offices is, "WhO is missing this morning?a In the midst of his ghastly guillotining there is an occasional gleam of humor. In Allen Manyel, now president of the Santa F'e, who was formerly general manager of the Great Northern, Mir Hill caught Tartar.
 Manyel found handsome young man in his office one morning and pleasantly ! asked him his business. I'm MT. Ives, was the reply, your new assistant.
 ''Why, certainly" said Manvel 'I didn't expect you quite so soon. Your quarters will be arranged at once "
 Ives soon became devoted to Marvel and ManveI to Ives.
 Things went on this way several years, when ono day Ives informed his chief that MT. Hill had asked for his resigna tlon.
 1T guess not, , replied Marvel Mi Hill hired you without my knowing it. but ho can't discharge you unless say so, and t. You keep on working " And he did
 Mir. Hill crossed the Atlantic with Mark Twain, whom he had not met for many years. Thirty years ago Mark was a Mississippi river pilot and Jim was the agent of steamboat company. Mark ran on the lower Mississippi and Hill on the upper Mississippi When asked what the great railway magnate of the north west and he had talked about during the voyage, Twain said:
 Mostly about the pilots of the Mis- sissippi. Most q fhem have gone to - and q few to heaven, but only few of us are left, you know.
 President Hill is said to know per sonally every important man on his road, and he is liable to be found at any point along the line Ut any moment He has a thorough civil service organization, pro motion goes by merit. and the man who disobeys orders is discharged instanter An instance of this is told by his son-in law, Samuel Hill, president of the Mon tana Central
 We were sitting one day, " said he, Gin MT. Hills house i'll St Paul, when he asked me if didn { want to go west for little trip replied that didn t object and asked whom he wanted to go He said Right away. l thereupon telephoned to have my bag sent over from Minneapolis, and ill the course of an hour we were on his speeiAl train and going ont to the far west. We stop ped at a point in the mountains in Mon tana, got off and rode 10 miles by stage with relays of horses. We then slept and rode 40 miles farther and stopped at q tavern Mir Hill trampd around all that day over the country and came back ill the evening and had supper. After supper he eaid, l think we could reach the car if we took the horses to- night. And we had them harneased up and cut across to the track 1t was q long ride and a dark night, and we came to the road at station above. the ono which we had expected to strike. Just as we got there d freight train from Butte City was pulled i'll with flames bursting out of it's side. As 1t pulled up at the station Mr Hill saw it, and his voice rang out in the darkness:
 Where's the conductor of this train?'
 |" Here, was the reply i'll gruff voice
 |" What rate are you running?'
 2" About IS miles an hour, said the man, rather resenting the question
 '''You are not telling the truth, re- piled MT Hill Ton have been running over 80 miles an hour, and your orders are not to run more than 12, You are discharged this instant, and will have another conductor to take your place. When that conductor left Butte City, Mir. Hill was sitting in his office in St Paul, and it must have scared tho man almost to death to find him away out in the heart of Montana. ,