Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-11-05

quarters building at Fourteenth and
Dodge. This office is in the southwest corner of
the twelfth floor, where the cooling south west
breezes head in very readily in the sultry sum-
mer time
Mr.. Mohler brought to the new office his old
desk, which he refused to have replaced by new
one, and he felt Immediately at home, except for
the decorations of the said desk. These consisted
of several large and fragrant bouquets of and
chrysanthemums, sent in by Omaha friends. 1t
plain to be the man behind the plain
working desk q trifle distract about the
flowers; but it was equally plain he was ticked to
get settled down in the magnificent new headquar-
ters building. He smile that caught the
visitor infeetiously, and entered into details about
the equipment of the new building with happy en-
thusasm. While he probably did not give the
matter much attention he had other cause for deep
satisfaction 1t is something out of the ordinary,
in these days, for the handy man in a country
station to work Cup the line to the position of boss
of one of the greatest railroad systems in the world
In an ordinary lifetime And Mr. Mohler did not
begin railroading at Gait, ILL.,, until he was stout
and we'll grown lad; nor is he anywhere near the
retiring age yet. Hard work and incessant applica
ton to duty has agreed with him, physically and
mentally, to that extent that he is today about
typical and "fit" an example can be found of
the railroad major general who camps on the job"
and enjoys the wrestle with new problems every
day in the year.
In the hour after lunch Monday troop Of the
leading men of the Omaha Commercial club In
vaded the new building for a social call on Presi-
dent Mohler and his staff Headed by President
Cole, the Commercial club men paid their compli-
ments friends and admirers of the president and
his assistants and patrons Of the road congratu-
lated its officials the new epoch marked by re-
cent promotions and the occupation OF the head
quarters building in the business center.
Earlier in the day President Mohler had laugh
ngly refused to have his picture taken at his desk
in the new office; but when The Bee caught the
whole bunch together and demanded surrender he
very readily gave in to the inevitable. He had
started to escort the visitors through the building
explaining it's features as they went but returned
10 the office to make the photographer happy.
tom" Orr, assistant to the president, has his
office next to that of his chief. Naturally, the
eternal fitness of things about Union Pacific head
quarters would not wear the proper look without
the presence of Mr.. Orr. He was graciousness per-
sonified on moving day. and found little time to sit
at HIS desk in the pursuit Of business. He assisted
everybody as we'll as the president to make the
occasion one OF pleasant remembrance which isn't
usually the case when anybody "a moving. Mr.. Orr
had called to his aid all the genii OF Joy and had
banished to the retigeratng plant in the basement
all the COLLINS of gloom and had the freezing fluid
turned on them. 1t may sound undignified to speak
Of Mr. Orr as 'Tom," but that Is the term famiarly