Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-06-28
From the Kansas City Star.

10 IuncHeOn WIN nlIn-a gray, Iuli-
bearded, slight, wiry man. in every act
plainly v Utmost to the point of
petulance; a man strik ingly like Sen
ator Foraker, of Ohio, in facial Inca
ments. and apparently about his years;
a bristling man. the hair OF his head
on end. mustache and eyebrows pretty
much so; a round faced man. from
high forehead to broad chin unmistak-
ably the youngest OF the little group.
and a man with q large nose and star
ing eyes, hair plastered down on both
sides OF a median part, and thin
'sideburns."
BY name these men are John p.
Green. Charles +. Pugh, Samuel Rea.
John b. Thayer. jr. and William A.
Patton. BY position they are: First
vice president. second vice president,
third vice president. fourth vice pres
respectively. of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. Together with their chief they
are the head men of the "Pennsylva-
MIA crowd" o being done to a turn
on the public griddle by u young law
yer with a quiZzical face and only a
few years removed from a country
practice and circuit riding. He is Will
liam A. Glasgow, jr.
In all major respects the half dozen
men who are at the head of 1t are rep
resentative of the Pennsylvania
crowd"-a very famous railroad crowd
ltIS ~ ONSIs III AZ" VII A"AN
notorious on two hemisphere.
Every one of these six men has been
compelled to work his way up from
the ranks.
A Crowd That Works Hard.
They are hard workers, every one.
MI. Cassatt has his chief lieutenants
to luncheon thai they may pursue us
mess even while the dainties of the
cas- are being served in the presi-
dents dining room. When he is mo-
off on his yearly vacation, Mr.. Cas-
satt reaches the Office promptly at 9
o'clock OF a morning. Within the
hour" said a man who is close to him.,
'he gives his staff more work han it
can clean up in a day" Although the
hour for closing the Broad street Of
flee to new business is 3 O'Clock. Mr..
Cassatt is frequently to be found at
his desk until much later in the day.
Rea has broken down several times
from overwork; he has recently re-
turned from a vacation mad necessary
by his physical state. a stock re-
mark of the friends of the younger
men among the heads is. Yes, So-and-
So stands a good chance of being pres
ident some day. if he does not work
himself to death in the meantime 1t
was too much work that killed Presi-
den George b. Roberts and Frank
Thompson, the Immediate predecessors
of CaSsatt.
Y ~ llio illtiS VIZ nv
FOR the heads of the crowd" Cassatt
has the entry to the most exclusive cir
Giles of Quaker city society. Members
of his family delight in playing the
social am he himself looks upon it
as a mild diversion, to be INDUCED in
when there is no better method of
recreation at n He could doubt
less open the social gates to all his
associates. but apparently it has never
occurred to him to do so, OF to them
to ask it.
Each of these men has his work
clearly marked out for him. Green
looks after the financing of the roads
projects. Pugh has all things pertain
ing to the operation of the road under
his eye: Thayer is the head traffic
man.; Rea is chief of all the engineers
and their work: Patton looks after the
presidents correspondence and assists
his chief in any way that he may be
ordered.
Push Handled Crowds.
Some idea of the work that falls to
the lot of Captain Green may be gained
from the following statements: In five
years the Pennsylvania has issued
1892, 000. 900 worth of new securities.
1t has retired $107. 100000 of old curl
ties, leaving IL net gain of S325. 000, 900.
These figures are exclusive of the 500
000, 900 loan recently taken by French
bankers; and then there is the recent
report of an issue of $4,000 900 soon
to be a d Seven years ago the au-
thoriZed capital stock of the road was
s151.o 600, 900. of which only 500. ooo.o 900
had been issued. Today its outstand-
ing stock is in excess of $305, 0O0. 900.
Captain Green has succeeded in float
ing new big loan after loan in rapid
succession and augmenting the stock
without disturbing the public conf
dence in the railroad as a great prop
erty.
Pugh, lately playing the role Of apol-
ogist for the crowd" showed what he
had learned about transportation in
seventeen years when, as general agent
for Philadelphia, ne handled over g.
00O, 900 passengers to the Centennial
exposition without a single accident at
the stations. So gigantic a problem in
passenger transportation had not pre-
viously confronted an American rail-
road. This piece OF railroading won
Mr.. Pugh the general superintendency
OF the road three years later; in 1882
he became general manager. in 1893
third vice president, and in 1897 sec
ond vice president. He will be 20 in
1911, when he will have to retire. willy
nilly.
Rea, tho Engineer.
Rea is perhaps closer to Cassatt than
any Of the other vice presidents. Both
are practical engineers. which is n
bond between them. Cassatt dearly
loves a hustler. n this Rea Is. He also
loves a bold planner n executor. n
this Rea is also.
1t was Rea who. as chief engineer OF
the Baltimore Belt railway, located and
put under construction for the Balti-
more and Ohio its subsidiary COM
pany's comprehensive surface and UNI
foreground line through Baltimore. On
the day three years later that he re-
turned to the Pennsylvania as assist
ant to the president. he was sent to
London to study n report on the new
electric underground railways then
constructed and proposed. This inves-
tigation led Rea to believe that the