The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-11

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the house OF Stuart.
The Dunbar family had left the old
country because OF troubles with Cath
Ollie neighbors. yet to-day on a high
blum OF Grant avenue. in ST. Paul. over
looking the Mississippi. is the Seminary
OF St Thomas. founded by a gift OF
nearly a million dollars by James J.
Hill for the education of Catholic
priests.
The simple explanation Is that in 1867
Mr.. Hill married Mary T. Michigan. a
member Of the Catholic faith. and the
seminary Is really the gift of the
mother of his nine children. not the
personal Offering OF Mr.. Hill himself.
But to get back to that stony bit Of a
farm In upper anada Young Jim was
not lazy. but he was decidedly opposed
20 taking up a life OF drudgery on that
farm. and as he liked books. his father
picked out for him the life of a Pres
byterian dominic. and at Z years OF age
he began his school career of 10 years.
He then decided that he would not be
a minister. and. borrowing the price OF
a railroad ticket. started out on his
wonderful career. He clerked in a local
grocery store for a year then pushed
over into the states. and from that time
on has been an American to the core.
He reached st. Paul to find IL a hus-
thing town of 5000 inhabitants at the
head of the Mississippi river. IL was a
steamboat center. and down on the
levee the wiry young Canuck u II
easy to get a job. IL was not much of
a job either. so cents "A day was the
pay. and for this he turned to and as
sisted in shoveling cargo in the
steamers of the Dubuque q st. Paul
Packet company.
He did just enough OF this TO show
his employers that he was worthy of
something better. and he put in eight
years of hard labor acting as clerk and
levee agent for severa of the river
transport firms.
Then came tho war, and with Captain
Shelley he organized a troop of Mime
sofa rough riders and offered his serv-
ices and his men to the state OF Mime
sofa. There was delay In the accept
ance. and Captain Shelley look the COM
pany yer to Iowa and entered the
service from that state. Mr.. Hin re-
NAMED at home. but did a great deal
in sending forward men and food to
the fighting line. During these years he
saw the limitations OF water transport.
With the acceptance of the agency of
the st. Paul a Pacific railway began his
wonderful career as n railroad genius.
The roads of the region were in a
wretched financial shape and strug-
Cling against bad management and
debt. II required some patient waiting
10 ana a chance IN nick nm ono ~ ,he
ba nkrunt nronertiesI
He interes,ed Sir DonaId Smith ~
Ansus q smith Lord Mann, Stanben
another Canadian banker. along with
Commodore Norman w. Kittson. 1t
was an easy thing To take of the n
of a lot OF Disguised Amsterdam n
ar,inv,a, i, urhen thsir assnts ranorted
The rad az tive straaks ~ rusi nm
ming throneb the grass"
Trhe road Was pecbr,stenad tho CT
Paul nolis a Manitoba and no.
ean an agyressive march into the FOR
,;Ia wheat ras;on With The Pacisn coast
as the uItipoate terminal Every foot 81
thu, line 10 known 10 Mr. nm from ner-
sonal observation He has walked over |
a. ridden horsehack over n and whitfield
over ~ In tine naiace cars Tn Ises came
the formal oneninr ~ the Great Nortb~
ern line from Duluth 70 the ocean and
a. e. doub,v characteristic Of the man
and the citv that when an a-pnroprIa-
ton was made Tor a iub,,ea naroda NJ
mn offored 10 do,hle the annronriation
n they would spend n on a library
building
The parade marty won and there vere
great ioats and sneacbes ali In honor
Of the ouiet man who had MANNED and
nushed. When the Northern Pacific
cot into ita last entanpIement a. como
naturaIlv into the hands OF Mr. nm
II looked like turning n over Ia the
mercy OF a riyaL. but there was no
when Mr.. Hin said he would
handle he property and Thought N
could he done successfully. He has al
ready started this great property on
what anpears 10 he n career az nros-
naritv
From the start Mr. Hin introduced
m novelty in American railroad meth |
DDS. He was simply honest. When no
bad n stretch OF road IN buiId he added
the cost of labor 10 the cost az mate |
rial and the total was the cost Of the
road He did not organize n long lis,
intermediary companies for his own
profit and hid the of a
dime on the road behind n dollar I'm
bond issue.
EVERY dollar made nv or through The
Great Nortbsru reaches the s~tockholder
ovner in the shane OF dividends The
hin lines al not find one director get