Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-01-22


Il was counting the money brought
in by conductors one day while on that
frs job Sir Alder went on. when
suddenly one of the car horses ran
amuck and dashed up to the window
where | sat counting the cash. The
first | knew the two big front hoofs
of the horse crashed through the glass
and We're planted on the cash table.
My first impulse was self preservation
and so | beat a hasty retreat until
the frightened animal was brought
under control. But that didn't satisfy
the superintendent of the line. He
said | never should have quit the cash
even with a runaway horse after me.
The superintendent was very positive
and rather excited, and it looked as
though | was going to be discharged
there and then. If I'd been discharged
it might have brought by American
experience to rather sudden end.
But | wasn't discharged, and that
night the superintendents wife came
and explained to me that her hus-
bands strong language was due to
excitement over the runaway.
Later on. Tom johnson took hold
of the street railway situation. There
was at that time a well known local
agitator named Jim Grant who had
great influence in stirring up the con-
ductors and drivers. So Tom Johnson
devised the plan of hiring Grant, Civ
ing him q good position. and thus
keeping him under control. Grant
| was made superintendent of one of
| the main lines, and it fell to my lot
| to get up the time schedule for that
| line. | made up the schedule ard, pre-
| scented it to Grant as superintendent,
| to go into effect next morning. He
glanced at it and there was an eX-
! plosion.
| mot on your life he said, The
men wouldn't stand for such hours
| Then the men, hearing the noise,
came in the room. OF course, they
| sided with Grant There was an angry
uproar all directed against me. Grad
ually the men crowded up to me. men
acing and threatening, and l backed
away slowly until | was crowded out
of the room That was the end of
my schedule, and the next day Jim
! Grant went home. sick
! And as the schedule didn't go into
| effect, the chief superintendent sent
! for me. Now it began to look like
another discharge. But when l told of
the exciting scene with Grant egging
! on the men, the superintendent said
he was sorry had gone through such
| an experience. That was my chance.
II.
why not give me chance to run
| TIL branch line | suggested
What you. a mere boy, as superin-
tendcnt'
"Give me CHARGE; 1 can do it., ]
urged.
He thought it over and finally sent
me to look after the line temporarily
And there | stayed and Grant never
came back"
Ja
| steady rise until he was handling the
'Fhole railway system of Detroit and
for twent' miles around and across
the river in Canada. Then came the
| big New Jersey consolidation. which
appealed to him FOR the vastness of its
physical and financial purposes. and
nc became the directing head of it
J alter on. a financial company in
Boston thought he would be a good
man to come over to London and lool
after the underground and Traction
affairs in which it was interested
He came To London, becoming finally
mead of its huge TRANSPORTATION sys-
tenn.
Sir Albert was asked if he liket
heinz an American blue-jacket wear.
, ing the American uniform and eatint
he rations Of Uncle Sam.
Yes. and | had prize money beside.
ne SAID. We escorted the troop.
ships carrying the first American
amy that landed in Cuba, and afte,
, | that VIC were attached to Admira
Samrson's sqIadron at Santiago Our
! shin, the Yosemite. was an old merch-
J ant steamer hastily transformed int
an auXilia--, cruiser She wasn't yer,
r steady and the first time we fired ;
broadsjde she nearly tipped over. ]
/, was while we were with the Sampson
. SQUADRON that a Spanish ship cam,
t elon~ and we captured her gettin.
he prize money. It's a rema rkabl
| fact. which has occurred to me durin,
t Tho present war that while We wer
| there in Cuban waters we though
4 nothing of picking up floating mine
and freeing them from the ship
[ tackle none of them ever exploding
. Comparing conditions in the Unite,
2 States and England in industry, rail
q WHvs public Utilities. etc. Sir AIber
q takes the view that the old world ha
: learned much and is profiting great
2 from the methods of America, unit
| today public service on this side /
J., quito abreast of that in America. I
{ ono respect he says. conditions ar
t better over here, as the British publ
I IS sinGularly sympathetic and appreci
), alive of ANYTHING done for their vel
= rare end comfort, whereas it was hi
experience in America that the mike
: population made people far less ap
r preciative Of what the public servic
Y concerns were trying to do for them.
I" On the whole. however. the new cab
{ met minister is an admirer of Ameri
can methods, American energy nm
J. American characteristics in genera
t And N the estimate of that new an
s vital force in British affairs. the ne,
{ prime minister, Llovd George, it wa
|. the Americanism of Sir Albert and tn
Il everlasting push he showed to "ge
d on top that brought him into tn
It British cabinet
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