Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-15
SKETCH OF JAS. J1H|LL
Controls Vast Transportation
Interests at Sixty-Eight.
GREATER THINGS PLANNED
Unique Methods in Management Of
Railroads.
SOME CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS
Three Sons, who Are Being Trained
to Follow Career Of Their Father :
Pc, Hills Love for Art.
SOME CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS
Copyright, 1906, by. FrankaG. carpenter)


.t...-. NEW YORK
When James ]. Hin. wakes up Sunday.
morning September g. he will be just sixty
eight years old. He will proba bly, jump from
MS bed as fresh as any one of his ten thou
sand employees OF half his age, and the
chances are that he will do more work dur
Ing the coming week than any of them Mr.
Hill has all the energy OF a man in his for
Ties, and his voice is as strong and his step
as firm as when he rode over the Red River
valley In an OK cart generation ago and
decided that 1t was rich enough to nav div,
fdends on railroad for all time In the fu-
ture. Mr.. Hill started Hfe as farmers
boy In Ontario. Canada, and he earned Soma
or his first money elerking in a steambost
office In the then village of St. Paul ua
was working there at dollar or so a dav
at the time L was born, just fifty years ago
ana ne mas since worked to such purpose
that he has at least two million dollars for
every year of my age.
The Railroad King.
1t Is big thing TO be worth n hundred
millions. but 1t is more to be the chief rail.
road man of the United States and tho cbief
OF the railroad kings OF the world. That ia
the position James j. Hill holds TODAY. He
mas greater transportation interests than
any other one man on the continent He
controls the Great Northern system which
ne created. and also the Burlington and the
Northern Pacific, the two buxom maidens
whom he has enticed into the Great North
ern harem. AS head of the Great Northern
he has more than seven thousand miles OF
red-hot railE2ad tracks. the Burlington gives
MN eight Thousand miles more and the
Northern Pacific something Ike five thou-
sand. so that altogether these three systems
alone lack only five thousand miles of
reaching around the world. If you started
them at Seattle and extended them east
ward across our continent the Atlantic
Europe and Asia, they would reach the
eastern shores of China and there Won
might step on Hilis big boats and complete
the circuit TO Seattle. HIPS steamers on
the Pacific are the largest that float that
I mighty ocean, and he has another line from
Buffalo to Duluth which is the largest
ard best upon the Great Lakes. Starting at
Buffalo one can go from there across the
continent. across the Pacific to Japan, and
on to Shanghai and Hongkong, or more
than halfway around the world without
taking his foot OFF the property owned
or managed by this railroad king.
In addition to this, Hill is supposed
to have a controlling interest in the
Erie. and in other roads, which give his
traffic an outlet TO the Atlantic: and, /
venture, II one could have look at
Pterpont Morgans private account books
he would find that James J. Hill owns
something of the Atlantic lines as we'll
Jim Hill's New Roads.
understand that Mr.. Hills plans for
the future comprehend an enormous adj
diton to his present principally He is
building feeders all along the Great
Northern and is steadily adding new lines
20 each system. He recently bought. It
Is said. the controlling interest in the
Kansas Missouri and Texas to give his
+ Burlington traffic an outlet 70 the Gulf
OF Mexico. and the Great Northarn ia
reaching out toward Canada to grab the
new wheat belt at dozen different
points. This octopus of the northwest
already has one claw on Winnepeg and
/ ish Columbia. while a half dozen others
| cultural regions. He sneers at the idea
seying~, that 1t would last thousand
years. for the road would soon be coy-
cred with ice. At the same time we'll
posted Canadians tell me that he has q
charter for such a road by way OF Bran
don and that II the other lines start
toward that great inland sea he will be
or the ground as soon as they.
| Mr.. Hill Is also building a number of
roads IN the northwest He has lines
to tho mines OF British Columbia. and
/ j understand win make extensions on
to Vancouver. He expects to run
branch down to Portland, which will
shorten the route from Chicago to that
city by over 200 miles and. II is said.
that he will build a road from Portland
C. San Francisco between the Cascade
mountains and the Pacific ocean with