Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-03-11
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RAiLRoAolNo AS A BUSINESS.
Hustle Once. Last and All the Time, Says
Chauuccy DepeW.

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Hustle Once, Last and All the Time. Says
Chaunccy Depew.
The railway profession presents more
attractions for a young man than any
other line Of business, says Chauncey M.
Depew in RAILROAD Men," It has
greater opportunities for advancement,
and its employment is more permanent.
To succeed in it in any department. re-
quires health, brains, honesty and equip
ment. The young man must make up
his mind that if he would rise in the
profession he must never question the
kind of work that is put upon him, the
hours which are required Of him or the
places, agreeable or disagreeable, to
which he is assigned.
Railway organization is essentially
military, because upon the ability, vi
tality and integrity of the vast number
OF men in the various positions working
%harmoniously together depend most of
the internal commerce of the country,
the prosperity of business, the activities
of communities, great and small, the
funds of investors and the safety of
hundreds of millions of passengers.
The young man who proposes to enter
railway service should first decide
! whether be will take his chances for a
career in outdoor or indoor work. If
outdoor work. which is in the operating
department., he will be immensely as
sisted if he has had the opportunities
which are offered in the technical
schools. In these daysof thorough train
ing it is almost impossible for a young
man of ordinary education to get on in
competition with the graduates of the
Sheffield Scientific school at Yale, the
scientific schools of Columbia, the spe-
cial education of Cornell. the big ad-
vantages of the Troy Polytechnic and
the Stevens institute, and the instruc-
ton given i'll many other of the schools
and colleges of the United States.
If he selects indoor work, he must
make up his mind that much more will
be required of him at first than in COM
mercial lines. If he is in the tr~easurer's
department and shows special efficiency
and intelligence, when a vacancy occurs
i'll the freight department., in any dis
cussion that should happen between the
heads of these departments, he is almost
certain to be drafted for a better posi-
ton by the traffic manager, and vice
versa.
Railroading differs from no other
business or profession in it's beginnings.
The salary is small. The work is hard.
1t is only the few who by cheerful
readiness at all times to perform thei-
own tasks and to stay several hours
and ii necessary all night-to meet the
requirements of the Office or to do the
work OF the lame, lazy and incompetent
attract the attention of their superiors
and are marked for promotion.
In the service every one's eye is on
every one else. There is a generous ap.
probation of comradeship. at the same
time there is severe criticism of the con.
duct and character of fellow employees
and officers. The moment an officer be
MT careless of his duties, inattentive
and out of reach when wanted, his
chances for promotion are over, and the
accident Of u discharge or displacement
it imminent.
There is but one rule of success il
railway service, and that is, no matte,
how high you get, ice q hustler alwayl
q hustler and q hustler until you die O
resign.