The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-01-17
BUSINESS OF RAILROADING.
One Field In Which Right Young Man Is Ger.
tain TO Advance.

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| tain TO Advance.
STEADY young men with brains
enough to master the details Of rail-
roading," said a railway superintend-
ent." are in demand every day in the
week in our business. No young man
| in this business need get discouraged
If he has ability and industry enough
to get next to the good things.
"The trouble with most Of our appli-
cants is that they have tried a half
dozen other callings before they at
tempt to break into railorading. Fail
ure is bad thing for young man; it
destroys his nerve. and II 1t Is encoun-
tered three or four times in succession
it is pretty near ruinous. We get plen-
ty of these fellows without nerve and
they don't last long. This leafs to
constant changes in the personnel of
the operating department. but nowhere
else is the shifting so rapid and so GER
tain.
Engineers and firemen are recruited
from below, but our higher class engi-
neers, our high salaried clerks who
have something more to do than be
mere recorders. our future superin-
tendents. must come from the educated
young men. Western railroads con-
stantly absorb the supply Of high-class
mechanics turned out by the practical
departments of the big universities
out that way. but the supply isn't
equal to the demand.
Nine out Of every ten young men
who attend college delve into the clas-
sizes or take the academic course and
pass up electrical engineering. civil en-
gineering and kindred practical sub
jects. The professional life of the doc
tor and lawyer seem to offer an ease
that attracts much more strongly than
those professions which require the
wearing, for part of the time. Of over
alls and the exercise of the muscles
about bench.
Outside of the college youths with
practical educations there Is room In
plenty in the railroad business for hon.
est, bright and active young men who
can absorb the myriad matters con-
nected with the railroad. so that we
may recruit from their ranks the
agents. the trainmasters. the aids to
the chief of departments, and similar
places that nav larger salaries than
two thirds OF the lawyers, doctors and
educators can hope to get. Every rail-
| road manager is on the lookout fol
men who can acceptably fill the higher
places in the service. and the supply is
so much less than the demand that the
roads are constantly bidding against
one another for the services of men
| who have distinguished themselves in
some one branch of the business. II
you desire proof Of 1t, look at the num-
| ber of young men who hold responsible
places in the various roads. There is
need for more of them. and when you
find one you must keep boosting his
salary along nicely or some other road
will be coaxing him away.
II know of one instance where a
young man of thirty, who begain in
the supply department of Western
road six years ago. has changed en-
ployers four times in the last four
years. each time with big slice Of ad-
ditional salary. and is now chief con-
tracting agent for one of the biggest
roads that does business out of Chi
cago. He had business head on him.
and industry in addition. Every road
could furnish you a dozen such in
stances New York Sun.