Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

SpSCtdi or The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC, Mexico.
April 2, 1906.
Although the Tehuantepec railroad is
owned by the government of Mexico, and Is
operated by s. Pearson & Son, a firm of
British contractors, its active managers are
nearly all citizens of the United States
Dir Weetman Pearson takes especial inter-
est In the road, and gives it much personal
attention He has other great enterprises
In other parts of the world but this is his
pet project, and he comes here two or three
times year to look things over and keep
In toucn with the improvements and devel-
opments.
The local management OF all OF the Pear
son interests In America-and they are
nunerous-are in the hands of Mr. J. B.
Body, the resident director with headquar-
tiers at the City of Mexico. He has i'm
mediate charge of the relations Of the firm
with the government, the harbor improve
ments at Vera Cruz, Coatzacoalcos and
Salina Cruz, the Tehuantepec railway. the
Alvarado railway, the tute mill at Orizaba,
the petroleum fields on the isthmus, the
street railway at Vera Cruz and various
other enterprises in which the Pearson
Company Is interested.
The interests OF the TehCantepec rail-
way at the City of Mexico re in the i'm
ICuldte SHdTSS Oh General L ratffC MANAGER
Ryan, native of Vermont, who was edu-
Gated on the Boston and Maine railway, and
was connected with the National Lines of
Mexico as traffic manager for many years.
The general manager on the isthmus
with headquarters at Rincon Antonio Is
Mr.. ]. n. Galbrath, a native of Mauch
Chunk, Ia, who got his training on the
Lehigh Valley road and came to Mexico
about twenty years ago. AS assistant gem
eral manager of the National Lines he
changed the grade of that system three
years ago without interrupting the traffic
in such manner as to win for himself an
enviable reputation. He took charge of the
Tehuantepec road in 1904. Mr. H. w. Nor
ris, formerly from Grand Rapids who was
educated on the Grand Rapids and In
diana, Is Mr.. Galbraith's assistant He
occupied the same relation on the Mexican
National for several years. Superintendent
Green also came over from the Mexican
merly from Illinois. Mr.. II. B. Durham.
superintendent of motive power, is from
Colorado.
The chief engineer, David Coe is an
Engllshman and Auditor O'Conner Is a
Canadian. the only two English subjects on
the staff.
Headquarters of the Road
The headquarters of the Tehuantepec road
are at new town called Rincon Antonio,
in honor of a famous general who came
from the state of Oaxaca. 1t Is purely a
railroad town, and the site was selected
with especial reference to pure air and
pure water and other essentials for health
and happiness. The population is now about
1900, the growth of four years. Nearly
1000 are officials and employees of the rail-
road, the majority being mechanics and
shop men. The repair shops are here and
the source of supplies. The mechanics are
mostly MeXcans. The trainmen are nearly
all Americans, drawn from railways in the
states. The common labor is all native In
o1ans, excepting a gang of sixty-five Jap
anese at Coatzacoalcos and smaller gang
OF Chinese on the road.
Rincon Antonio has the reputation of be-
ing the coolest and healthiest spot on the
isthmus. The officers houses stand on an