Arizona republican., 1921-09-18

voted wife, born Eleanor Taylor of Winchester, Ky, who survives him, sufficient strength returned to war rant acceptance as superintendent of the Tucson division of the Southern Pacific. No executive pronunciamen- to was needed to make him general manager of his division. Whatever his title or wherever his work, Randolph. was ever the idol of the rank and file
 The vanishing frontier welcomed his sublime courage and his peerless leadership. His was charmed life. It was the tenet of his railroad be- lief that speed never causes an acci- dent; it merely exaggerates the con- sequences. If other cars went down bank. his held the rails If bad men or Indians shot up town or camp the cool and smiling Randolph was not hit He bore one scar from a wound received while a young militia | officer repelling mob in Alabama
 Six busy, happy years as superin- tendent rolled by and H. E. Hunting ton, another great developer, took Randolph to Los Angeles to build and operate the Pacific Electric, whose l TOO miles give the Southern Pacific the greatess trolley service feeder in | the world.
 | In two years the sbugs' as Ram dolph called his germs. again got too busy and back to Tucson went Ran dolph to handle the side lines. since become the Arizona Eastern Ran dolph headed off the Santa Fe from the Phoenix & Eastern and kept the canon of the Gila river for low grade line of the Southern Pacific.
 Randolph forestalled the acquisition by the Phelps-Dodge interests of the 35 miles of railway from Naco on the border to the big copper camp at Canaca, Sonora. Without authoriza- ton he bought the road one Saturday afternoon and drew by wire on E. H. Hartman for one million dollars as the initial payment. Hartman, who had succeeded Huntington, found a l lieutenant after his own heart and quickly fell in with Randolph's mon umental undertaking the Southern
 Pacific of Mexico, to be a part of a west coast pan-American line from Canada to Patagonia. Randolph then
 built nearly thousand miles of line in Mexico and added it to the old Sonora railway. Revolutions have left an unconstructed gap of a hundred
 miles south of Topic. When stabil-
 ization comes to Mexico this longest
 branch line in the world will become through route and in earning DOW
 CT a second Atlantic Coast line.
 I Great as are these monuments oi
 engineering and executive achieve
 ment, Epes Randolph will be longes
 remembered as the president of ths
 California Development company. ths
 creator and saviour of the Imperia valley. He f was who built the dan that by AS hours saved the Imperia valley from the great flood of tn, Colorado river. Living in his car ans suffering from occasional hem orrhages. his indomitnable spiri drove the work. One day he foun,
 his men struggling with a deraile,
 car. Throw it in: what better fill ing do you want?" he ordered. "W, cannot stop this work just for cars. years later during a freshet in tn Colorado he directed by wire iron Tucson the felIing of trees to forn mattresses which eddied the curren away from weak spots in the banks a remarkable example of long dis tance engineering.
 Epes Randolph as railwa yexecu tive had a profound and scientifi
 Knowledge of traffic, finance, polite and statesmanship. as well as of op
 eration and engineering. Bred in tn
 Huntington school of political ma : nipufation, he was the first to see an, : to meet the changed order of things
 He was the first to invoke the ref
 erendum against full crew and train
 mems qualification laws. He had tn ! highest trait of the executive, tn
 ability to delegate authority and t
 trust responsible subordinates.
 Courage, brains, integrity, humoi
 eheerfulness, courtliness and consid
 eration are inherent qualities tha Can be cultivated and made an un
 usual and invincible combination
 Happy and inspiring was their rip
 fruition in the knightly Randolph. A Former Staff Officer.