The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-03

highest passenger Office In tho country,
receives the largest salary. and II you
that he earns every dollar Dir. Hartman
pays him And TO think that about
thirty years ago Mr. Mccormick was a
newsboy in La Fayette, Ind, the place
or his birth working for man who
subsequently worked for him,
Mccormick Is Many Sided.
Like his superior j. c. Stubbs. McCor-
mick Is many sided. He has a working
knowledge OF politics. society, newspa-
pers and other important lines, and he
railroad work. But 1T is the mans per
sonality that appeals to one. First, he
is not an actor and real men are much
needed nowadays. he IS the same Nc
Cormick he was yesterday. Notwith-
standing his whrlwind duties, he always
has time to see friend, and he never
moro 10 one and more out of one In
fve-minute walk down one Of Chicago's
busy streets than most men could In an
hours confab In quiet office.
Should Know the Business.
Mr Mccormick declined to write an
article on-how to succeed in the passen-
ger department because he says he does
not believe in departments His Idea is
that a young man should know almost as
much about running train as he does
about making rate, and that IN enter
Ing the service he should keep that In
mind. And he practices what he breaches,
for though nominally in charge OF pas
senger ahairs, he attends as many freight
meetings as he does conferences dealing
with tickets and coaches.
With Lake Erie and Western.
Mr. Mccormick was graduated from
soon after became a clerk for the Lake
Erie &, Western road Going over to the
Monon, he worked up to the general pas
senger agency, then was general passen-
ger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton 81
Dayton, the Big Four, the Southern Pa
oiflc and then to Chicago assistant
traffic director OF the Hartman lines.
Father of General Passenger Agents.
Tho father OF general passenger
agents rs a term often applied to Mr..
now general passenger agents have
served under him than under anybody
else in the business Here are only
few Of those he has schooled:
Who He Has Sohooled.
Warren ]. Lynch. passenger traflc
manager Of the New York Central lines.
was formerly Mr.. McCormicks stenog-
rapher on the Big Four And now. when
Mr. Lynch wants advice. he usually drifts
over to see Mac"
II. j. Rhein, general passenger agent
of the Big Four, worked for Mccormick
as general Eastern agent OF the Cincin-
natl Hamilton &c Dayton and Big Four.
of the Hooking Valley worked for Nc
Cormlck as general agent for the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton In Indian
apolis.
c. L. Stone general passenger agent of
the Louisville & Nashville, was McCor-
mlck's chief clerk when the latter was
general passenger agent of the CincIn-
natl Hamilton & Dayton I'm Cincinnati
w b. Galloway, general passenger
agent OF the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ton, wac a clerk for Mccormick on the
Big Four,
r J. Reed general passenger agent of
the Monon, before he went to rairodding
owned several newspaper routes in La
Fayette. Ind, and Mccormick carried pa
pers on one OF these routes. Reed after
ward worked for Mccormick on the Mo
F. h. BatturS. general passenger agent
OF the Southern Pacific In. Now Orleans.
has been schooled by Mccormick.