Show People Talked About bout SIR sIn III WORTH Henry Worth Thornton Thoron the American American who solved many of or England's transportation transportation transportation trans trans- problems di tho the war has b been beon on knighted 1 by King George He lie has taken talon up his permanent residence In England and Am America probably will krow know him as a n clUe citi- 4 zea a no more fJ f 1 hornton h 0 r n ton was fri l r i l born bori In Indiana the I IN U pO I ier er s state t a t e for for- or- or J C t- t ty ty-pino ino years ears ago t t s f school In Concern l' l N. N H. H 4 i c One of ot tho the youngsters young young- stars ho lie met t there 1 tere 1 y was James A A. Mci Mc- Mc I rea Crea son of the rail rail- Pennsylvania anla i d r 0 o a president The They became fast friends and It was no more moro than natural natural natural nat nat- ural when Thorn Thorn- tori ton graduated from the University of or H. H W. W anla I j n 1894 1594 that he immediately entered the Pennsy railroad offices as a draughts draughts- man Inan In la 1901 he became came general g superintendent I of oC tho the Cleveland Akron Columbus Cot Cole umbus railroad and held heM that berth I two years Ho was general i nt nf or th Lon Island railroad when j England reached across the thes s seas n and asked aske him to become become- general manager of or the Great Eastern railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road of or England That was In 1914 Tho The appointment aroused discussion Inthe in inI inthe I the house of ot commons J. J Many attacked I the selection b because Thornton was an anI j I all alien en But when Lord Kitchener at the outbreak outbreak out out- I break of at the war summoned English railroad heads together ether and ordered I them to their railroads for forI I movement of ot troops In sixty hours Thornton proved his worth Ho He re reported reported ree re- port ported d to Kitchener In forty eight hours hour that the roads were ere set to bandie handle han ban die dle all troops to bo be moved I |