Evening journal., 1923-01-09
OUR SLOGAN:
The Evening JournaI-the First
Paper of the First City of the First
State.
THEY WORKED UP TO TT.

ccoRDNyG TO reports recently filed with the In
N terstste Commerce Commission, there are nine
railroad executives the United States who receive
compensation at the rate of s75OOO per year
The reports show that all these men have attained
their present salaries through advancement in the
railroad service.
Changes in employment from road to another
indicate that railroads have engaged in competitive
bidding for successful managers just baseball clubs
bid for pitchers When railroad man has demonstra-
ted unusual ability road tries to get him by
paying bigger salary and get him unless the
road for which he working meets the offer. II Is
interesting the records OF few Of the high
salaried men.
The. list Is headed by julius Kruttschntt chairman
Of the Southern Pacific who receives 100000 year.
started his teaching school Baltimore
in 1873 but having studied civil engineering took a
Job in railroad construction work smah road in
the Southwest in 1879 and spent the succeeding
forty-four years working up his present salary
A. II. Smith, Of the New York Central. comes next
with a salary Of ss25sO. He began railroading as a
messenger boy on the Lake Shore 1879 worked into
the construction department passed from road
another until so2 when he entered the service Of
the New Central in minor position from which
he climbed TO the head Office He had been climbing
the railroad for forty-three yesrs.
The next man on the salary list Is Carl b. Gray, OF
the Union Pacific who started telegraph operator
IN the ST. Louis and San Francisco 1888 which
ime he has worked for half dozen different railroad
systems. His climb thus far has taken thrty-nne
Tears.
Next comes c. H. Markham. OF the Illinois Central
who, like Gray is in the $4,000 class Markham be-
gan a section sborer in 1881. the Santa Fe, and
has helped build up a number OF roads Since. It has
been forty-one years by pulling rot
ties and putting in good
E. Pennington OF the Minneapolis St Paul and
saut ste. Marie is also in the $4,000 class He be-
gan as a warehouseman with the c. NJ. and St. P. in
1869 has been in the employ OF two other roads in
the hfty-three years since that time.
william sproule president of the Southern Pacific.
another railroader the SIS 600 list freight
clerk in 1882 and has been with Southern Pacific
SINCE except for four years when he had charge
Of trahhc for a smelling company.
Hale Holden, OF the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy,
entered the railroad service through the legal depart
1907 and spent his fifteen years Of rail-
roading with the company associated lines.
Daniel willard of the Baltimore and Ohio also in
the $4,000 class. began railroad work in 1879 In
capacity which Who's Who" does disclose. Is
stated that he employed on a number Of roads in
various capacities for twenty years when went to
. the E. and o.
Robert s. Lovett chairman Of the Union Pacific also
in the $4,000 class, began his lawyer and
the railroad service in 1884 with the Houston
East and West Texas which time he has been at
the head of the legal department OF several roads
gradually working up to his present position
It will be noted by interested wilmingonians that
Of these nine railroad men drawing $4,000 or
more, worked their way up through the operat-
ing department and two through legal department
The legal end raroading evidently offered oppor-
unity for quicker rise the operating department
brought the greater number to the hgh-saIa-ed
positions.