Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-20
RAlLRoADING AS A BUSINESS.

HAflKOADlNG AS A BUSINESS. Hustle Once, Last and All the Time Says
 channeey 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, viz 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 he 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. Tn these days of thorough train ing it is almost impossible for young man of ordinary education to get on in competition with the graduates of tho 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 tho instruc- tion given in many other of the schools and colleges of the United States.
 If he selects indoor work, he must make up his mind that much moro will be required of him at first than ill con- mercial lines If he is in the treasurer's department and shows special efficiency and intelligence, when a vacancy occurs in the freight department, ip any dis cussion that should happen between the heads of these departments, he is almost certain to be drafted for a better posi- tion by the traffic manager, and vice versa
 Railroading differs from no other business or profession i'll it's beginnings. The salary is small. The work is hard. It is only the few who by cheerful readiness at all times to perform their own tasks and to stay several hours and if necessary all night--to meet the requirements of the office or to do tho 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 q generous ap- r<eciation 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- comes careless of his duties, inattentive and out of reach when wanted his chances for promotion are over, and the accident of a discharge or displacement it imminent.
 There is but one rule of success in railway service, and that is. no matter how high you get, once hustler always hustler and a hustler until you die or resign.