The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-27

pioneers, to conquer the remote wilder
ness. The building of the drst long rail-
road In the United States was started
In 1854 at Charleston, 8. C. Its other
terminus was tp be the Pacific Coast.
but It never got any further than
Augusta, in Georgia. Such was the idea
of our first days-the linking together
Of widely separated points. It was q
logical and q civiixing idea. But when
the separated points had been actually
toined, the thought Of our railroad men
continued to be conferred on Through
business passenger and freight. Long
hauls were appealing to them. They
failed to realize that short hauls Will
make or break an ordinary railroad
break 1t II there are not enough OF
them.
There never was a time when was
interested in loading a train with home
seekers and sending them to Kansas or
Nebraskas My object Is to deal directly
with the individual and to get him to
buy a farm, build a factory or open a
store along the railroad by which ! am
employed. The Baltimore and Ohio had
no land to sell and that helped me to
develop my plan. When Mr. Spencer
became president Of the newly organized
Southern Railroad system. / met him liz
]. p. Morgan's Office and agreed to
change my field Of operations. That was
nineteen years ago. For it's kind, have
the greatest organization In the world. -
Are railroad agents working up i'm
migration to this country from Europe?'
1 inquired.
"Oh, no. That sort of activity il
played out. Changes in our laws have
made such work impossible. Railroad
passenger men are no longer permitted
to run all over Europe soliciting laborers
%, 70 IN he
an agent In London who travels Con-
tinental Europe looking for farmers who
are thinking about coming to this coun-
try. Farmers are not laborers, and all
of them have some means Railroads
can advertise in the newspapers of some
foreign countries, but not In Switzer-
land or Italy. The authorities in Ger
many must be convinced that the adj
vertisements are within the truth and
that the company printing them is re-
sponsible The old railroad practice of
gathering I'D cargoes of human beings
and bringing them here has been aban-
doned."
How Railroads Help Immigrants.
IF a German farmer desired to come
to America. what help would you give
him.
Call the man scotch FARMER ana L
shall relate the particulars OF case
that comes into my mind by your ques-
ton. He lived near Glasgow and wrote
me in answer to one of our advertise
ments I sent his letter to our London
representative Nothing came OF II. I
saw the man the following year In Scot
land. He wrote me later that he was
coming and asked my advice about bring
ing his family and his furniture. Well,
one Of our men met him, his wife, ard
six children at the wharf In New York
and put them on a train for Washington
I was at the station when the family
arrived. His six children made me feel
rather serious. didn't know he had SO
many.
I'VE placed the family in a boarding
house. Then We located the Scotchman,
getting him a $1,000 dairy farm. near
a public school. an agricultural school.
an academy. and a Presbyterian church.
I was also thinking OF the six children,
you understand. When the family was
settled. / wrote to the Presbyterian min
ster and asked him and the women Of
ais church to call on the strangers. The
man has succeeded. and his wife and