The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
TOURING FROM
OCEAN TO OCEAN,
Jaunt of General Passenger
Agent George H.
Daniels.
HE INDUCES IN A FAD.
His Movements for the Entire
Trip Cover ned by a Printed
Schedule.
WROTE a NOTABLE TREATISE.
Points Given to Aspir ants for Success
in the Passenger Depart.
ment.
WROTE a NOTABLE TREATISE.

George II. Daniels, who left here for
Portland in his special car on Tuesday
evening, is not only the liking pin" in the
United States among general passenger
agents, but the model official of that rank
in the eyes OF the railroad men connected
with the passenger department. Heis the
general passenger agent of the great New
York Central Railroad, of which the
Vanderbilts are the principal owners and
Chauncey NJ. Depewithe president.
At the present time he is engaged in
what he calls a "tour from ocean to
ocean," purely on pleasure bent, and with
him are his wife and daughter, Mrs. L. P.
Will Der, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. B. Hamlin, Miss
Maud Hamlin, Miss Helen Nj. Tompkins
and Ralph s. Tompkins.
Mr.. Daniels is great stickler for details
and promptness, and sets good example
20 all his subordinates, even when away
on trip of the present character. So
thoroughly has every detail of the circuit
he is to cover been prearranged that he
can be communicated with from his New
York Office any day with the absolute
certainty of being reached.
He left New York with his private car
attached to train No. Is of the New York
Central on Friday, May 8, at l P. NJ, and
will arrive home on the 9TH prox. at S:45
P. N. Before departing he had four
page cardboard folder printed and dis
Iributed among those who might have &C.
casion to communicate with him. This
set ont the roads and trains by which he
would move and the date and hour that
he would be at not less than 100 i'm
portant points during his thirty days
jaunt.
He came West via the New York Gen.
troll NJ ichiOaO Central Chipo nd Mort H.
western, Union Pacific, Denver and Rio
Grande, Rio Grande Western and Central
Pacific. From San Francisco he depar ted
on the Southern Pacific line for Portland.
| Thence he will make the trip up the Co.
lumbia by boat to The Dalles, and return
via the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company's line. he will proceed to the
Sound via the Northern Pacific and then
East vid the latter road, the Chicago, Mil.
waukee add st. Paul, Michigan Central
and New York Central, and will cover in
all something over 10000 miles.
Recently Mr.. Daniels contributed an
article to the Railway Age and North
western Railroader, which attracted wide
attention from the clientage OF that jour
nal, the article treating of THE Success
full Passenger Man." In this the author
says;
of any man who wishes to be an efficient
of a great railroad.
knowledge of the line, its facilities and
its connections.
Tndustry.
Availability and courtesy.
"Promptness.
Honesty"
Under the head of Industry Mr.. Dan
iels has this aphorism:
IAN indolent person would never sue
coed as passenger man; passengers move,
and he who would be successful in this
calling must move first"
In writing of Availability and Courtesy"
he incidentally cracks a mt for General
Hubbard, who, when here, expressed de-
sire for knowledge as TO why the Southern
Pacific was so unpopular with the public.
On this point Mr.. Daniels says, though
evidently without malice prepense toward
Coils P. Huntington, "the opinion of the
public regarding transportation lines is
generally formed according to the dealings
with the representatives. of such lines"
In concluding his article a somewhat
rude shock is given to the conceptions of
the average passenger agent. He writes:
lit pays to be honest in connection with
railroad WORK. as in any other, and an
agent who is con scientious and honest in
his statements, energetic, polite and affa-
BILE, and who thoroughly understands his
duties, will make an ideal representative