The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-23
JUDGED BY HEAD
UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY TO HAVE
 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SHAKEUP.
Bump Reading Begins NOw-When Finished Employees Are to Bc Shifted According to
 Showing,
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
 Employees of the Union Pacific Rau-
 road are about to have the bumps or their heads interpreted by a phrenoto- | gist. It is not because any of the en- glneers, firemen, conductors, brakemen | or clerks want to have a "professor'
 finger their bumps, but somewhere | among the executive officers of the road 1 is a man who wants to know 1T every
 man Is suited to his job; hence the
 phren ologist
 Although notice of the impending ex-
 animation was given to the employees
 several days ago, at the main offices In | Omaha, the significance of the an- nouncement has just begun to dawn 1 on their minds. Now every enc IS l guessing whether or not he will keep his job.
 The idea of having this examination | made is that if a man Is found selling | tickets, for instance. with cra1ial de- | velopment which denotes that he would
 make a better engineer than clerk his
 position will be changed. If, for ih- l stance, J. H. Fitzgerald, who will
 make the examinations, discovers large bump of philanthropy hpon the cranium of General Passenger Agent E L.. Lomax it will of course be sug- gested that he Is not fitted for his po- sition, because every one knows that philanthropy has no place in the
 makeup of a passenger official.
 Similarly, if it should be discovered
 that the bumps on E. H. Woods head indicate a man of generous nature, whose right hand knows not what lis left hand gives, he may not keep his job as general freight agent, for fear he might be inclined to give rebates to
 deserving shippers There is ho tell ,f Dtnf
 aid will hit for the inspection of heads
 is to include high officials as well as fremen, brakemen and clerks.
 No one seems to know who Is respon- sible for making this order, and who | ever 1t Is Is keeping quiet. It IS not impossible that the order came from E. H. Hartman himself But there
 Is one man in the Omaha offices of the Union Pacific who takes the credit for
 originating the idea, and that is T. C. Davidson, chief clerk-only he isn't | bragging about 1t, for fear of the con- | sequences when the report Is 1n. He
 Is pretty sure of his job, however, be- cause it was through having his head | read that he got into the railroad busi- ness. Prior to the time when She hands
 of the phrenologist roamed among the bumps of MT. Davidson's cranium. he | had an idea that he was destined to l become a great novelist or a noted in- ventor. The phrenologist took ;tll that out of him, and MT. Davidson has been
 earning a good living ever since. It Is not the intention of the union
 Pacific to discharge any employees who are found to be lacking In the railroad | bumps. The suggestion may be con- veyed to them by Mir. Fitzgerald that they are more likely to achieve fame . and fortune in other fields. but If they | choose to disregard this advi0e they
 will remain undisturbed. The Union | Pacific already has established the civil
 service. But there is no reason why | the man whose cranial development in dicates that he will be more successful
 in another department of the road | should not be transferred to the work 1 to which he is best suited to the beneft of himself as well as the railroad. Mir. Fitzgerald is a Chicago man, having had considerable eXperienc in telling young men what fields to enter. He will leave for Omaha today to take up his work with the Union Pacific. 1 His at&ntioD will be turned first to the passenger department.
 q don't know yet the full extent of my work with the Union Pacific, said Mir. Fitzgerald. "I have been core
 spending with the officials of the com | pany for some time. and the result Is | that am going out to Omaha tcmor- | row to begin. There Is no doubt that
 many young men who start in busi
 ness begin at something entirely for | eign to their natural bent, because | they don't know what thing they are
 suited for. From the conformation of the skull I can ascertain how the brain
 is developed in it's different proportions
 and I can tell what pursuit d man
 should enter in order to do the best work.
 T do not doubt for moment that NR the great railroads there are many
 who have started in the wrong depart
 ment. There perhaps are men work | ing in the offices as underpaid clerks
 who would make excellent mechanics,
 or foremen, or section bosses, or who
 perhaps in other departments could be- | come distinguished."