The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-02

August H. 1897, said: '"The new presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific is rail-
road man of wide experience" The
Hartford Post, August Is, 1897, said:
&C. S. Mellen will fill the office of presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific railroad
acceptably, being a railroad man Of
great ability and wide experience. The
CONSOLIDATED will miss his services,
which have contributed materially to
the improvements made in the Connect
lieut. railroad during the past few
years"
Mr.. E. B. Thomas, president of the
Erie, also a director of the Northern
Pacific, said: While sincerely regret
Mr.. Winters retirement,t can hearth
ly indorse the selection of Mr.. Mellen
as his successor. He is strong, capa-
BILE man of long experience in every
way, and thoroughly qualified for the
position" On the occasion of his be-
looming second vice-president of the
New Haven road, the Boston Globe,
September g. 1892, said: 'Mr. Mellen
is one of the ablest traffic men in the
country" The Boston Post, September
2S, 1892, said: Mr.. Mellen is one of the
most capable railroad men in the coun-
try, and were he going to any other
Incorporation it would be a serious loss to
New England. As it is, it may not be
$50 detrimental after ALL" One of Bos-
toms leading business men, in the Bos-
ton Herald, said: 'I consider Mr.. Mel
len the ablest forty-year-old traffic rail-
Iroad men i'm the country. Mr.. Mellen is
an all-round railroad, as well as an ex-
. ceptionally good traffic, man. His first
connection with Boston was as auditor
of the accounting between the Lowell
and the Concord and the Northern
roads, and the union which was half
consummated at that time between
these properties ought to. have been
concluded. Mr.. Mellen, while managing
the Lowell for the Boston and Maine,
D worked out a plan for abolishing the
grade crossings on the north of Boston
and consolidating the terminals of all
the northern railroads by locating the
Fitchburg tracks in the westerly side of
. the Boston and Lowell station, extend
/. ing the Lowell station over the Eastern
depot, and moving the Boston and
Maine traffic back into it. and making
all the Fitchburg terminals over to the
freight departments
The Hartford Courant, August 49,,
1897, said: "Mr. Mellen is a practical
railroad man, who has made a high
reputation for himself" The New York
Times, August IS, 1897, said: MIR.
! Mellen is one Of the best equipped and
most experienced railroad men in the
United States" The New York World,
August IS, 1897. said: "Mr. Mellen has
, had a very wide experience in railroad
management" The Waterbury Repub-
: lican, August IA, 1897, said: MIR. Mel
len has advanced steadily and is con-
sidered as occupying a position in the
) front rank of railroad men, The New
: Haven Register, August %, 1897, said:
1T is due reward to a man who has
/ worked his way up from the bottom of
: the ladder, and has met with success by
. hard and conscientious work. Z The
Boston Herald, Friday, August 49, 1897,
, in commenting upon the election of Mr..
: G.. S. Mellen as president of the North
ern Pacific, said: THE selection of Mr..
Mellen is pleasing to the people of New
: England, where he has been long and
favorably known. Mr.. Mellen has not
/ the easiest task to manage a property
: with history like that of the Northern
: Pacific road, but his disintereste dness
: may harmonic all factions" The New
J York World, Sunday, August %, 1897,
J said: THE retirement of G. S. MelIen
from the second presidency of the
t Consolidated railroad company to take
) the Northern Pacific presidency is a
: telling loss to our great railroad corpo-
ration and may almost be described as
an official calamity, 3
: ''Mr. Mellen has had a long and all
round railroad training, and an all
, round railroad man he is in the most
! ample sense of the term grasping all
branches with a quick and firm hand
finance, operation and organization
But the point where his faculty touches
positive genius is the freight traffic In
: all its ramified details, large and small
| 1.-THE Chicago Railway Age under
date Of August 20, 1897, lin sketch Of
? the Northern Pacific with portrait Of
Mr.. Mellen) said of him: The selec.
ton of C. S. Mellen for the presidency
, of the Northern Pacific was in the ma
ture Of surprise. 1t was not that he
y lldu IlUl 5UCCll ldlhCd ny &lUI Gilt pldCS
because he had been, although the tall
did not succeed in reaching the daily
z press. 1t was not that he is not an ex.
! cellent man for the place, because his
7 ability is recognized and he has had the
!, necessary trans-continenta experience
t with the Union Pacific, The surprise
: was occasioned more by the fact thai
e Mr.. Mellen is generally regarded as ex.
clusively a traffic man. while there
: was every evidence that the man who
E was being looked for was an operating
: man. $3.50 * - So A man Of Mr.
) Mellen's scaliber, however, is not 'exclu
:. sively anything, and, as a matter o.
e fact, he has had a peculiarly varied ant
: all round experience Of railway work
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