The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-29

hama. If that is too much, I will carry it for the axle grease used on the locomotives and freight cars; and if you can't stand that, I will carry your freight for nothing.''
 At the $8 rate named the Ameri- can manufacturer was enabled to se cure the Japanese contract.
 The same tactics were adopted in getting American wheat and flour into Japan anud China, where rice was the staple food.
 His faith in the Far West was re- warded as 1iberally as that in the Northwest. It is estimated that the Pacific fleet tNnow carries nearly $5O.- 0OO,000 worth of products to the Orient every year.
 While MT. Hill built up for himself and his associates an immense for tune, he also helped to create for the settlers along his lines a wealth of over five billion dollars in real prop erty, which is represented by the value of the 100000 farms and their 65,0OO,000 acres of improved land.
 Upon his retirement at 69, the streak of rust he had bought 30 years befores had expanded to more than 5000 miles and it was earning gross profits of more than $66, 100000 a year, and carrying 5,0OO,O0O tons of freight annually. He still retain ed a. hand in the Great Northern's policy as chairman of the board of directors, while his son Louis who had worked up from the humbIest position of his fathers railroad be- came president.
 The secret of the Hill success was no secret at all, according to MT. Hill, and he had new recipes to offer. ''The man with the big opportunity today he said, ''is the man in the ranks But the secret of failure he frequently declared to be, extrava- gance. He Regarded this as a na- tional tendency, against which he strongly set himself, {particularly as concerned the natural resources.
 During his active supervision of the Great Northern system, MT. Hill over saw almost every detail, to the won der of all employees with whom he came in contact. A fugitive instance of his recognition in his own country is the story of tourist who declares that there are af1oat in the Swedish section of the Northwest upwards of 10000 different stories in Swedish dia- lect with tfYem Help as the center piece Patrons of his lines have liked and disliked him in rapid alternation, for it was his point to have his way, not only where his road should run, but where his patrons should settle. This was part of his economic policy. He carried out a singular regularity in the location of branch lines, giving a minimum of short lines on which light trains were unavoidable. The princi- pal text of his railway gospel was low grades, heavy power, large capacity cars. and big train loads on his main lines, and he began to preach this at a time when these things were held visionary by most railway men.
 In contact with the late E. H. .Harri- man, who outdid him in the extent of railway ownership, MT. Hill was not only the financial head, but the prac-' tical head, of his great railway sys- tenn He was the chief promoter and president of the Northern Securities conluany, organized with a purpose to bring the Northern Pacific and Great Norhern under one ownership, to which no opposition developed that a suit was brought in the United States Circuit Court, which decided that the acquisition was an illegal 'combinatio "a afHrmed in March, 1op4, by the Unit ed States Supreme Court. &