The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-07
yes. I, know it's got to be done

Yes, Isknow it's got to be done
And 50 Galloway stayed with the
Va, xand aS and is now president Of
Finally, Hays of the Wabash was
chosen general. manager of the Grand
Trunk, and on the first day of Janu-
airy, 1896, he went to Montreal to
quicken the dead.
Mr. Hays, l have been told, enlisted
for five years, at $4,000 a year.
When he went to Canada. he found
AGO miles of road running, or rather
making time, from Chicago-the rail-
road center of the earth-to Portland
on the Atlantic, with many branch
lines and feeders, in the most fertile
and prosperous corners of Canada. IN
Michigan. and in Maine. He had been
selected against the protests of many
II the shareholders, and not all the di-
rectors had faith in his ability to earn
$500 in a week.
The employee who still showed signs
OF life. he encouraged. These appreci-
ated the encoura cement They had
welcomed. in a quiet, undemonstrative
way, the new manager. for they knew
the possibilities of the road, properly
managed. With that fine sense of 10y
ATTY which is second nature to rail-
road man, they would have been hap
pier leaving the road, If their absence
were necessary to its success, than
remaining to see it ever at the tail of
the procession.
Among other valuable assets Mr.
Hays found a we'll manned and abIy
managed traffic department, and knew
1t at glance. The head of that de-
partment IS to succeed Mr.. Hays.
Scores of other officials remained. but
an VINO were ''sot in their ways"
who failed to catch the time and
served all comment and criticism of
/ the new management, were first to
note and comment on the improved
| train service One of them remarked:
People who wish to travel by the
Grand Trunk viii do well to be at the
station when the train leaves"
The new manager had imported a
general superintendent, who was a
walking wonder as a track man. As
soon as this expert could go over a
division, lifting the joints and lower
ing the centers, the trainmaster on
that section would tighten up the
time-card.
All the time the great brain of the
manager was at work on the weak
places. The passenger agent said he
could not compete with other roads for
the theatrical business, because there
were no cars long enough TO hold
| siXty-fOOt drop. Hays had them built
sixty feet long in the clear, no plat
| forms, but all car; and before the var
/
partment had use for them. From
month to month, as the track i'm
proved. he shortened the time, gave
the public better cars. built new ones,
| and renovated the old ones, and bust
! ness came to Justify the outlay.
! For the freight department he ran
| fast stock trains through from Chi
| cago TO Portland; and when the traffic
/ department could show a Jime-card,
| they got all the freight the operating
| department could handle. Soon they
! had to have more cars and new and
| heavier locomotives.
They needed more conductors, which
/ meant promotion for men who had
and the employment of new men as
| brakemen.
The prospects of early promotion
made every employee on the payrOlls
quicken his step. 1t put new life into
! the service.
But all these improvements cost
money and cut deeply into the reve-
nue. of the road. At the first annual
a hot time in old London-hot for
everyone save the new manager. For
Mr.. Hays it was a frost.
To the amaZement of the directors
and shareholders, it ruffied the Yankee
not the least bit. Their comments and
/ criticisms had no more effect on him
| than had the editorials in the country
papers that he had never seen.
For the second year the improve
ments in the property were still more
marked, but by that time the earnings
had begun to SoOthe the shareholders.
There was a noticeable thaw at the
next meeting. By that time, too, the
old and the new officials had become
acquainted, had learned to appreciate
one another, and the result was a staff
that could not be eXcelled on the con-
tinent.
At the end of the third year the
IL. h
ginning to bulge, opened their arms to
the Yankee manager, One big man
among them had always stood for
Hays-Sir Charles Rfvers-Wilson, pres
ident of the road
Later, when the Vermont Central
came under the control of the Grand
Trunk, they persuaded Mr.. Hays to
take the receiverShip of that line The
reader will observe that this wholly
self-made man, at the age of A, was
commanding a salary of $4,000 a year.
And now, five years later he is going
away to be president Of the Southern
Pacific, to succeed the great, but now
dead, Coils p. Huntington, at a sal
airy, we are told, of $4,000 a year-Over
$1,000 a week. Well. he can earn it
all, with two evenings and Sunday af-
ternoOnS off
George b Reeve, the new general
manager, is a Canadian. made in this
mill, as are all the officials of the
traffic department, the men who have
helped Mr.. Hays to make the road one
of the best on the continent.
There is no visible difference between
a Canadian and a Yankee. The
mighty Jim Hill and the great Gallo
way are both Canadians.
The president told the shareholders
the other day, in London, that it would
be impossible to find a second Hays
Mr.. Reeve said he, lis the best man
whose services can be secured And
no one doubts it. But Mr.. Reeve would
not have been the best man five years
ago, for. like Galloway, he hadn't the
nerve"
GREATER THAN HELEN KELLER