The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-14
THE RAILROAD BOSS.
A SAMPLE DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE
PRESIDENT OF A ROAD.


with the General Manager.
After being for a few hours with a
railroad president one has a better con-
ception Of the magnitude of the Chinese
treatise on all things. The president
perhaps has just returned from a trip to
New York, where he has attended a con-
ference of presidents Of allied lines. He
has been on the road all night; but
thanks to that businesslike institution,
the private car, often enormously consid-
cred "A luxury, he appears in his office
fresher for work than the suburbanite
| who has just come in on the commuters
train. While the president is looking
over his personal mail word spreads
about the big building that 1.-THE old man
| is back" Gradually the private secre-
! tares Of the different chiefs drop into
the outer Office to learn from the presi-
! dents private secretary what business is
most likely TO come up first and what
chance there is for action on some pet
measure. The bell rings, and for a few
minutes the private secretary is closeted
| with the president. Daily telegraphic re-
ports have kept the president informed
of events on the line. but in n surpris-
| ingly brief time he learns OF smaller hap
| penngs, of messages left 10y prominent
callers and of the general behavior Of
his child. the railroad.
Then the president sends for his chief
assistant, the general manager, and learns
| officially some of the things the private
secretary has told him as gossip and
many others of greater moment. but per-
| haps of less real interest The half hour
with the general manager may mean de-
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the Cost OIL transportation on a ia.
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10 DC aVanapie, "nether OF no. rs poii-
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