The herald., 1895-09-08

100000 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

proved examples in America and Europe.
Duty OF general manager. The economi-
cal handling OF traffic from the operative
standpoint. The telegraph as used on
railways.
seventh-The traffic department. The
principles governing traffic, especially in
relation to various kinds of commodities.
State and other railway commissioners;
their history and necessity and duties.
American and foreign commits sioners.
How they may be of great assistance TO
the public, or disastrous to tne interests
of both.
Standardization of the railway under
the common and statute law. What
railway may and may not do. Leases
and ownership of other lines from a legal
standpoint. Receivers. their duties and
responsibilities. Liabilities to the state
and to individuals.
Ninth-The railway as social factor
showing the conditions of harm onious
relations with the people and with the
authority of the state; the government
control or regulation of railways at home
and abroad. Interstate com merce COM
missioh; its history and accom- piish-
ments.
Tenth-Labor. The relation of labor to
railways. Labor organizations, beneficial
and harmful. Examples of protit-sharing.
Future relations as viewed today.
acknowledgements on the geography
of leading American systems, noting the
difference in the conditions affecting
traffic, such as difference between eastern
systems of dense traffic with those sys-
TENS which have been built IN advance
of actual need in the west, and the diff
culties attending operation OF light traffic
over long distances.
Some of the instruction | have indi-
Gated is always given in several American
universities, but it is scattered through
various departments and the student
himself must properly combine the in
struction to profit by it. But the larger
portion l have outlined is not now given,
nor is the knowledge attainable In any
Institution known to me. A very oonsid-
| cradle part is of an emjnently practical
kind, and the work of instruction at the
beginning will have to be done by intelli-
gent men VINO have been successful in
their various departments of work. No
doubt the services of such men can be OBJ
tanned. The headings given are simply
the broad outlines of a proper course,
which might, and probably would, en-
brace seevral Lectures under each head
| ing. 1t would seem that there Is need
| for the instruction l have endeavored to
outline, and that it is entirely praotica
BILE. 1t would necessitate com paratively
| little outlay or expenditure on the part
of any large educational institution. We
have had schools of civil and mechanical
engineering for years, yet in what one
OF them can young man learn the de-
velopment OF the relations of the rail.
ways to the people. the principles of
| operation, or the principles of rail-
way law? Not impro badly young men
| desiring to tit themselves for mercantile
| or financial pursuits would be glad to
avail themselves of parts of such course.
| Considerable assistance can be bad from
| some excellent books on railways, such
as Hadley's on Traffic, Acworths on
English railways and traffic, Dreuge's
Pennsylvania Railroad, Forney's Cate
chism of the Locomotive. A good work.
| ing library could be made with a COM
paratively small number of volumes. The
literature of the railway is far more ex-
tensise than is generally supposed. But
| it is largely diffused through the reports
OF scientific associations. technical jour-
nals-French, German and English. In
its present form II. isjinaccessible and ILL
| arranged for mesnodical study in any OF
its many departm ents.
l need say little more. We have rail
ways, possibly more than we need, for
the good OF the state, the railways and
the public. We must have trained officials
to manage them, in order that senseless
rate wars and ot-headed traffic managers
may be incidents of the past. believe
to lay that many of the brightest young
| men of Our land would be glad to avail
+ themselves of the opportunity for such a
| training. An efficient officer earns a
| higher salary in the railway than in al
most any other profession. May we
hope that one or more of our universities
| may establish a course looking to the
higher education of such young men as
desire to fit themselves broadly as rail
way men that however humble a place
they may fill at first. they can work intel
| ligently and well? Our experience GER
tainly shows that in many instances
managers have been grossly inefficient,
and the public grossly ignorant Of rail-
way affairs. The world is full of exam
| Piles in medicine and law, in the army,
and in com nercial life Of men, who, with
little or no methodical training, by sheer
force of genius have reached positions of
decidedly commanding influence and
power. but it is still true, and will al
ways continue to be true, that the trained
| man is the best man, and that, other
| things being equal, he will be more
| effective and successful in any work he
may undertake. No genius can be indif
| ferent to what has been already gathered
| from experience, and this accumulated
and adjusted knowledge is the only Sc
cure stepping stone to new methods, new
developments, new. progress.
Chimmie Fadden's Creator