The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-02

HoMAs NJ. scHUMAcHER.

HOMAS NJ. SCHUMACHER
the new traffic manager of
4 the Oregon Short Line. has
! nad experience in nearly every branch
OF railroad work like majority of the
nigh executive officials of the railroads.
he las served in both the operating
and the traffic departments in all man
ner Of capacities. but ne prizes most
hishly mis- experience gained while a
station agent.
Il don't believe there is any position
on railroad where a man learns more
than ne does as agent in a town of
ABOUT 5,OOe inhabitants when it is a di-
vision terminal" he says. "Being at the
end of a division. he comes into contact
with the train crews ana gets a Urge
amount OF practical knowledge from
shem. As agent everybody is mis- boss.
be does work for each Of the heads Of
departments and he gains an intimate
knowledge Of the details of each branch
tDat would be impossible in any o.her
position. For example, a clerk at head
quarters learns On.y what comes 20 his
desk. and he is ignorant of the multi
pIclty Of details in other departments
unless ne is shifted. was st4tlon
agent al a division terminal in Ohio
Ior some time, and L wouldn't trade the
experience L had there FOR what L have
learned in any two other positions on
railroad"
Major s. x. Hooper general
Grande lines, comes by his Tue
honestly If ever a man did. The major
enlisted in the federal army during the
civil war when a mere boy, and he
fought from the beginning of the war
to the end. When only % years u age
re commanded his regIment-the Ia
Houe Twenty third Indiana-id tie.
This Hoosie regiment had record
o. service unexcehed. 1t was at the
capture of Forts Henry and Donelson.
II fuded Grant in his victory al Shiloh,
and later was with him al through the
NicKsbuTg campaign It went with
Sherman on the march TO the sea and
vas present at the surrender of John
ston. In all the regiment participated
and with 1t all the time was oung
Hooper. He went in as an enl S ed N n,
but rose rapid y until he became act
ing major. commanding the regiment
in several of its important battles. An
other remarkable fsa ture of Major
Hooper's career is that with the excep-
ton of about two years after he en-
tered railroad service after the close of
the war he has been a general passenger
agent. 1t IS doubtful il any other man
in the country leaped to such a high
position so promptly and held it so con-
tinuously.
Judge Walter Q. Gresham. Cleveland's
secretary of state, and Major Hooper
were warm friends. They had agreed
to accept appointments together to the
regular army. but Gresham was made
a judge instead of a colonel, and his old
friend declined to re-enter the army
without him. So Major Hooper remained
a passenger agent.
Special Agent G. w. Shores of the
Rio GTande Western was a Colorado
sheriff for many years before he entered
the employ of railroad and express
companies. As sheriff of Gunnison
county, Colorado, Mr.. Shores had to
deal with the laWless element of the
mining camps. with cattle Tustlers and
outlaws. and many other varieties of
criminals. While sheriff he handled
number of forgery and anonymous let
ter cases, and thus became a student