Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-25
CANT. In Winnipeg, for instance, real
estate Is higher than in Montreal"
That Canadian Pacific Land Sale.

Il see 1t said, Sir Thomas, that an AmerI-
can syndicate has offered to buy all of the
lands granted to your railroad company
for s70.OOO. Ooo?"
We have had an offer for our lands, but
we have refused it. / will not say what
1t was. but it was not seventy millions II
Is against the policy of the railroad to sell
It's lands that way. We don't want them to
go out of our hands in great blocks What
we want Is settlers, for the traffic of the
railroad will come from the development
of the country. and that is worth far more
10 us than our lands"
But your traffic must be increasing enor-
mously through these new Developments"
1T is, and we are rebuilding our road
as fast as possible TO take care of 1t. We
are reducing our gradients, building
branch lines, laying heavy rails everywhere
and improving our locomotives and rolling
stock. Take the road which goes from
Winnipeg TO Port Arthur. Our traffic over
1t this year is double what 1t was seven
years ago. That has been made possible
by better road bed and rolling stock"
Electricity on the Canadian Pacific.
What do you think. Sir Thomas of the
idea that electricity will some day be the
motive power of our great railroads."
1T is a possibility. Indeed. may say II
is a probability. We are already adopting
electricity for some of our shorter branch
lines. and the day may come when that
power will send our engines from coast to
coast. The Canadian Pacific has extraordi-
nary advantages in its water power for the
development of electricity. Here in me
east, in Ontario. we have Niagara. Farther
west we have great falls all along the line
to the prairies. We have falls in the mouu-
tains, and altogether great part of our
power could be so generated"
Railroading a Desirable Profession.
How do you like working upon such
subjects, Sir Thomas?" said l. Railroad
ing must be an interesting profession
at is one of the most engrossing, most
interesting and most important of the age
was the reply. at absorbs one and de-
mands the best that Is in him. 1t is q
profession in which one does things and
creates things. The Canadian Pacific has
done more than any other one thing for
the development of Canada. 1t has made
this western settlement possible by bring
Ing IN settlers and by showing the world
sionary and a great civilzer. 1t is the adj
vance guard in the march of modern
progress
did you appreciate that when you first
began your work in a railroad officer
mo l was only fifteen years OF age
when I left school and entered the pur-
chasing department of the Chicago, NIL
waukee and st. Paul railroad asa clerk
then hoped to become a lawyer. For three
or four years read law at night and was
fit for admission to the bar before got
through. In the meantime was rising In
the railroad office. My salary kept increas-
ing. and my responsibilities as well. saw
that there was plenty to do and much to
gain in sticking where was and the re-
suit was became q railroad man
what are the chances today for young
meff In rallrcading. Sir Thomas?" ! asked.
.aThey are better than ever. The rail-
roads are growing and the demand for good
brains was never so great as now. The
trouble is to get good men to I'LL the places.
We are always on the lookout for bright,
Industrious and able employees Such men
are sure of advancement
.sYou speak of railroadlng as profes-
sion. Is that a proper classification Of the
business?"
yes: 1t has become as much a profession
as the law. medicine or the pulpit 1t re-
ouires education and training, and the man
who succeeds at 1t is he who goes In at the
start of life and grows up to his possibli-
Ties. consider it one of the greatest of
professions.
Our Trade With the Orient.
The conversation here turned again to