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Show GREAT CAPTAI N 'OF INDUSTRY. James J. Hill a Unique and Striking Personality. Of the captains of industry whose names are household words to-day, J. J. Hill easily leads as the subject of sensational anecdotes. Mr. Hill made his initial appearance On the planet in Guelph, Ont.; in 1S38, and is therefore about 64 years of age at present writing. writ-ing. A recent picture of him shows that while time has whitened his hair and beard and much extended the area of his forehead, it has not diminished dimin-ished the vigor of pose and feature, that in his appearance is so marked a quantity. It is said of him that he has a passion for giving explicit orders or-ders governing the details of the enterprises en-terprises in which he is engaged. Ha loves the sensation of direct responsibility responsi-bility and to be obeyed explicitly. Ho holds the record for suddenness in decapitating chiefs of department, and he performs the operation with even more cheerful alacrity than he would cut off a fllesman in the ranks of hia employes. Yet in spite of this he is said to be a very kindly man, sympathetic sympa-thetic and generous, and it is alleged ' that many a man has been fired sum-kmarily sum-kmarily from a position to find himself just as summarily ordered to report to fill another. ( |