The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
RAILROAD NEWS.
Union Pacific's General Mana
ger Leads Strenuous Life.
A. L. MOhler Works Hard anu
Rests Just as Hard.
WORKED IN STATION.
Has Won Success by Thinking
Big All His Life.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

Omaha, Neb., April 13.-Most men
work hard. then rest easy. Albert l..
Mohler, vice president and major
general of the Union Pacific railroad,
has the reputation of resting just
about as hard as he works-and
that's going along some.
who's that big man slashing along
over there?" asks one man of an
other, frequently on the streets of
Omaha.
'Why, that's Mohler. the boss of
the Union Pacific
Boss is not the word that Mr..
Mohler or his intimates would use;
but in the west the strong word is
the readiest when folks desire to hit
the bulls-eye. And "slashing along
fits the case exactly when you want
to describe this human dynamo. He
walks as hard as he works, but with
a springiness and reserve strength
that is always in evidence in his
handling of the very great respon-
sibility that he shoulders as a com
manding captain of a tremendous en-
terprise.
- Vice President Mohler has few
or no fads, but he does know when
the wearing grind of strenuous duty
and the recuperating hour that is
good because it ignores routine.
Mohler is a giant hunter being a
very large man. He is not a giant
killer or a wanton killer, however;
but unless his hunting companions be
fairly welt trained physically, he
comes mighty near to being man
killer in the field.
Thinking big all his life. from the
Christmas day when he began railroad
life as assistant to the station agent
at Gait. ILL.,, a fair span of years
back, this man does everything from
a large point of view. When he goes
hunting. therefore-and hunting is
about his only real relaxation-he
tackles the job with the idea that
healthy physical fatigue is the very
best antidote for mental fatigue; that
outdoor freshness carries away the
staleness that settles on one who is
compelled to be indoors a great deal,
and always working under full head
OF steam.
Hunts With Vim.
Hunting is a serious business with
this athlete from natures own mold.
He wants results, and he knows that
to get results the one desideratum is
to push ahead. SO Mohler hunts with
vim when out after game, and the
man who sticks with him during a
DAY IN the HelQ mas d CONSCIOUSLY SS
at nightfall that he was blessed
man indeed who invented sleep.
Perhaps it is because he also
cherishes a similar belief. that the
Union Pacific leader travels along
through mud and brush with an
abandon apparently calculated to test
TO their full even his strong thews.
Forced Repression.
For mammoth physical frame
such as Mohler boasts a sound night s
sleep after a long day of work and
pleasure-that's the genesis of real
hunting-must be something to be
most highly priced; because his think
ing machinery must necessarily be
pumped almost to a fragile some
times Think of the repression a man
in his position must practice, for in
stance: and then of the many things
that shoot to him as a mark. daily
and hourly. more or less calculated
TO create annoyance, if not anger
What a man splits out is not always
the relieving thing; what he would
like to utter, but must not when