Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-16
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cured ana maintained q n1Sn pOSltlOn
in the operating department of any
railroad because his father was presi-
dent or his uncle was a director. or
his mother a stakeholder, or that he
had any other pull, political or other
wise. A person to be high official
Of any railroad must commence at
the bottom and work up. My obser-
walton as an immigration agent leads
me to believe there is no other way.
In 1898 l did considerable business
through one of the largest stations on
the Chicago and Northwestern rail
road between Chicago and Omaha
This station was a junction point of
an unfriendly road and it required tact
to transfer the passengers from this
road to the Northwestern. | called
on the agent at this depot, but he was
not interested in immigration; he did
not have time to bother with an i'm
migration agent; he was too busy
smoking ten cent cigars and enter
tanning the swell people of the town
who sauntered up to the depot |
thought | would have to give up that
station, for without the hearty COOP
Grafton of the station agent an immi-
grafton agent can do but little. One
evening | went to the depot and saw
the night agent, big, good natured
man. l told him who | was and what
| was trying to do. He invited me into
the Office the day man forgot that,
looked over my papers and was i'm
mediately interested, for he saw that
my scheme would bring business to
the road that employed him. He
learned all he could about Bear River
valley, got time table and followed
the train my people would take from
his station to Ogden, Utah: learned
where they would stop for meals or
get hot tea or coffee. Although in the
passenger office he knew the farmers
would come to him for freight rates
on their household goods. implements
etc. He looked up an old freight clas-
sification list, found that the rate on
car of immigrant moveables would
pc $ll5 from his station to Corrinne
Utah, for ten tons, which would in.
ciude ten head of live stock and one
man to look after them, etc. After
that evening he did not have to fun
pie over lot of papers to tell my
farmers what they wanted to know.
he was cheerful, kind and obliging
ana always ready to answer cues
tons. notified my local agents and
all the farmers who were Interested
that II they wanted to know about
Bear River valley and how to get
there, to be sure and call on the night
man at the depot, and through this
young mans influence we were able
10 sell over thirty homeseekers' tick
cts to Bear River Valley that fall
The next spring this night man was
given station on branch line and a
little later a larger station on the
main line, an, len a larger station
on the main me, and in less than
lour years from the time he was night
agent ne was promoted to district
passenger and freight agent while
the agent who smoked ten cent cigare
ana entertained the people is out of
the railroad business.
At a division and junction point
one or the largest stations on tbe
Union Pacific between Omaha and
cheyenne, did considerable business
IN the year 1900. This station had
general agent with a day and a nipht
ticket agent and a baggage man and
an assistant. The general agent had
Just been promoted to this station
from smaller one. He was one of
the best railroad men | ever met. He
was at all hours of the day or night
ready TO hustle business for the Union