The gold leaf., 1897-05-20
Progressive Movement.
THE SEABOARD AIR LINE AND ITS
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
SCHOOL.

The Railroad Combining With Manu-
facturers of Labor Saving lmple-
ments, in Placing Them Be-
fore the Public in a Prac-
tical, Sensible
Way.
The Seaboard Air Liue, trayerslng
the States of Virginia. North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia, is without
question. under the most progressive,
practical and liberal management OF
any railway line in the United States,
if not III the world. 1t gets close to
the people. it knows its patrons, 1t
works for their interest. and in turn
they appreciate what is done for them,
and the truth of this Is shown in the
fact that when the great combination
Of roads have tried to down the Sea-
board, the people have gone to its res
| cue, and given it all increase OF buei-
ness, more than enough to overbalance 9
all the combination could take from IT.;
and the people continue TO patroniZe
the road. The SeabOard Air Line re-
fuses TO enter combinations for holding
| up freight and passenger rates. 1t be-
licves in making its rates direct with
the people giving them all the advan-
tages it can. The roads that 90 into
combinations must pay high salaries
for combination officials, these salaries
must be paid by charging higher rates
of freight, and thereby the people have
to pay it.
The latest move Of the Seaboard Air
Line, to assist those located along its
line, is to naugurate a Travelling 1n-
dustral School, the object ofthe School
being to teach the people how to can.
preserve and pickle how to make fruit
butter, jelies, jams, marmalade, cheese
&C., and to instruct in manufacturing g
of such things as can be made on the
farm without a great deal Of expense.
4 large number Of the latest labor
saving farm Implements will be shown.
Especially will be shown such house
hold convenieuces as tend to improve
the conditions of the home, and make
its surroundings more pleasant, and
lessen the work Of the housewife. EX-
perienced, practical and skilled per-
sons will be employed by the Seaboard
! Air Line to give object lessons; enab-
| ling all those who attend the School to
see, as well as to be told how to do a
| thing.
This is a new enterprise and is GER
| tainly getting down TO something that
is practieal; it is carrying the Industrial
| School to the homes of thousands of
people The School will be fitted up
in Il train Of cars especially prepared
for il, and it will stop at different points
along the one thousand miles of the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad, in the
States of Virginia, North Carolina .,
South Carolina and Georgia.; and the
| good this work will accomplish cannot
! be reckoued i'll dollars and cents. This
movement will not stop at the Seaboard
Air Lines boundary. for other roads
will be compelled to follow the exam
pie set by the progressive Seaboard
Air Line, or they will lose many of
their patrons, for the people will leave
| other lines of road and flock to the Sea-
board Air Line territory. In fact we
are reliably informed through respon-
sibe papers published on the Seaboard
| Air Line that many business men as
well as farmers are already leaving
other sections Of the South, and going
to the Seaboard Air Line. Being at
tracted by the enterprise displayed by
| this road, they are moving to the Sea-
board Air Line territory, so as to share
in the advantages this line is giving TO
the people along its system.
The Seaboard Air Line School Of 1u-
structon is only one of the many plans
bein. put into practical working shape
by this system. All the work is being
planned and inaugurated by Mr.. E. st.
John, Vice President and General
| Manager, of the road. who was for
years connected with the great Rock
Island Road of the Western States, and
who did more than any mau to develop
| that territory. Mr.. St.John is broad
minded, big Drained, progressive rail
road manager. He believes in spend
ing money to make money, and under
his management the Seaboard Air Line
has greatly increased its revenues: and
| made many improvements on its line.
| The owners of the Seaboard Air Line
| are all Southern mer. and i'll looking
around for the most competent, prac-
| teal and energetic railroad man to as
| slst them in the development Of their
property, and the territory through
which their road passes, they selected
Mr.. St.John, and his three years work
has proven that they made wise Sc
lection.
The large majority of the persons
Mr.. St. John has in his employ are
Southern men, The Industrial De-
partment under which all the expert
ments and plans OF improvements are
carried OH is controlled by John 7.
Patrick, North Carolinian, selected
by Mr.. St. John. and athoug. COM
paratiyely a young man he has had a
wide field Of experience in industrial
work. His childhood was spent on a
farm; he was educated as printer; has
doue considerable work as publisher
and editor and Mr.. St. John gives him
credit for doing more work than any
Eastern Yankee. The Traffic Mana
ger Of the line, Mr.. II. W. 3. Glover,
the General Passenger Agent, Mr.. 7.
J. Anderson, General Freight Agent,
Mr.. G. r. Capps. are all young, active,
hustling men with Southern training,
and SO are ninety-five per cent. Of the
Seaboard Air Line workers. Mr.. St.
John says they are good workers and
that he don't want any better; aud in
turn all the men from president to sec
ton master and train hands have learn
ed to admire their great Railroad Gen
eral, and the Seaboard Air Line has Il
strong, determined army Of three or
four thousand men who would any day
gladly work for half pay, if it was nee
cssary to do so, to sustain their leader
in fight against railroad monopoly.
With such united set of workers
the road Will march on to progress and
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