The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-06-11

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"Ail right" replied Lawrence; TN
meet you at the hotel later"
AS John passed out Mr. Blank said:
Pete that is good timber. Boys like
that big. grave-eyed fellow are the tools
with which a man can carve out great
ideas. But come into the office; L have
a little time at my disposal. and L would
like TO talk further on the work I've cut
out for you.
Now be seated he said cordially a.
they entered the plainly furnished in
ner sanctum. Lawrence looked with
appreciative interest upon the simple
details of the plainly furnished Office.
Many a briefless lawyer awaiting his
first client, embryo doctor with the
Disguised tones of his hospital anat-
omical demonstration yet ringing in his
ears, was more sumptuously CHARTERED
than this man of millions The neatly
docketed packages or trim files pro-
claimed the presence of methodical
order, while the walls, covered with
blue prints or profiled maps, outlined
the man with wide diversity Of vital
affairs
Now we will have quiet hob-nob. y
as he revolved his heavy chair to a
position facing Lawrence. Il wish you
to understand fully the nature of the
work 1 outlined briefly a few moments
since.
You know, Pete. that 1 have come
up from the ranks, and L attribute a
great measure of the success I've won
to the fact that I've carried all of the
lessons OF accumulated experience with
me. Now when l consolidated half a
dozen cross-country pixies into the pres
ent Inter-Mountain system L acquired
with each a heavy localized measure
of divergent responsibility. With each
road came 20 me the load of other
mems acts, words, and deeds, and l
resolved that each implied promise
Ehould be to me as q certified contract
nave always remembered that this
nne exists by the will of the people
and that 1t is to them-either as en-
proves or patrons-that 7 owe my first
ana strongest allegiance.
" "
I'm our conversation OF 4 few minutes
since L spoke of the weight l placed
upon loyal service. To you it may have
sounded a little overdrawn. but it Is
here that / wish to say, that a body
of men who look upon the Inter-Mountair
ana its management as the only thing
on top Of the earth, are an asset rated
highest upon my books. / wish to be
In personal touch with my men. II
Engineer Jones goes out SICK to avoid
a stock train lying upon one of my
yards; if Conductor Smith, in a biz
card, is the last man TO drop a snow
shovel; il a crew of brakemen stick
to the icy brake wheels and decks of
runaway train; if Fireman Brown, de.
spite d burnt hand or broken knuckle
grinds his jaws together and sticks like
a bulldog TO his scoop; if a trackmar
stands, shivering beneath his tattered
clothes 10 protect the coming expires:
against the yawn of a broken rail- Oh
If a bolermaker goes into the hell of &
planked hreboX, to caulk fues twenty
minutes before the engine is called tc
leave-i want to know It, and quick
Individual and concerted loyalty ar,
the only foundation 10 executive sue
cess, and its firm support is always alb
sent to the Indifferent or non-apprecia
tive superior. | wish, without hysteric.
or gallery play, 10 attach my men to my
IDEAS, and me. / want each and every
man IN my employment who coincide.
with this policy to know that he is ar
appreciated integral of the whole an,
as long as he gives to IL the best h,
has il. the box his future and per
nnanency OF position are assured.
Cheap and narrow men. sometimes
despite the most acute vigilence, creeI
into positions of authority; and. Pete
peeping tree-toads were never surer pre-
cursers of storms. One of these pin
head idiots in charge of a division, a.
superintendent or master mechanic vii
cost me more in year, by inefficient
discouraged service, than dozen head
collisions AS soon as a body OF in
telligent men learn that good work Il
not appreciated, that a managernei.
heartlcssly ignores all personal consii