Show ACHIEVEMENTS Of JAMES J UHf What He ii Has Ha A W WAS AS Nothing Compared te I His Hi Dream Prem Pf of f Future A A GENIUS aNIUS T SENATOR GORMAN PICKS HIM HI OUT AS A GREAT MAN I If It I were asked to names name n me three t ree men men menat of at the United States who wh tower above their fellows follows in the things that make mak men nten great in this workaday practical world once remarked the late Senator Arthur Pue Gorman I r should choose James J J Hill as one of the three and it would need less l ss than three minutes to make the nomination He is the greatest genius of ot transportation the world has hag ever seen and in many oth other other er ways wars he le looms an intellectual giant The reaches of ot James J J Hills mind are like the rays of the sun shooting out In every direction with such high highlight highlight highlight light that the tho central centra personality is made difficult of clear discernment He is the concentrated essence of men nten in one o o As occasion requires lrea ho can be James J J Hill am or Jim Hill HUl the tle planner or the plodder tie the designer or orthe orthe orthe the builder He has baa served in the n ble and the higher posts of ot life and in each the tremendous force of the man manh has h s been spent mind and nd felt He was Jim Hill HUI dockhand deckhand at M 73 7 cents a day da he ie is James J 3 J Hill crea creator creator tor and master of ot transportation 55 systems terns at thrice 75 cents a minute He was Jim Hill a barefoot boy who dreamed ambitious dreams and did his tasks well He is James J 3 J Hill who translated the time dreams into realities and patented them He was waa Jim JUn Hill peering beyond his own little sphere Into the problems and the thA possibilities of ot the great world out outside outside outside side he lie is James J J Hill worker of wonders still dreaming still stin planning still achieving The Ultimate Dream of Life What he has done is to what ho he hopes to do as the pigmy is to the giant as the 75 cents a day is to the thrice 75 cents a minute Presiding genius over overs a railroad system that al ah almost almost most thrice spans the western half hall of the American continent and sends out strong arms anus to this side and that he hepas has pas set his mind and his heart on an ultimate achievement that may turn the tide of or the worlds trade the other way Europeans better belter gauge the force of the man and the height of ot his aspirations aspirations aspirations than titan do his own countrymen said a friend who has been close to Mr Hill in a personal and professional way for twenty years jeara ears Commercially they fear ear him hint more than they fear tear any other man or group of men in America Viewing him hint from the other side of ot the sea they seem to have the true per perspective perspective perspective of Mr Hill and of the stu stupendous stupendous stupendous possibilities of ot his program in inthe inthe Inthe the future of the worlds commerce His measure has not been taken here Some day we ve shall better understand the gigantic mold In which the think thinking ing irig acting Jim Hill is cast castAs castS As S a background to make Hill the entity stand out in clearer relief it may be said that the great remaining dream of his life is to drive stakes in he Suez canal figuratively speaking and virtually put it out of the run running running ning as a highway of ot International int trade He would have under his direct control lines li es of steel reaching straight from the Atlantic seaboard to Seattle and the Puget sound He would ex expand expand expand his Great Northern Korth ern Steamship marine equipment until it becomes the most powerful factor on the tIme Pacific Men Have Often Laughed Laugh d at Him With huge vessels and fast through freight trains he would carry the car cargoes cargoes cargoes goes of or the orient from Manila Hong kong and Yokohama to London by way of the Pacific New York and Atlantic route more quickly and ard more cheaply than they can be bc transported today or at any ay time in the future by way of the Suez canal Vice versa he would carry carny the tonnage of London to the far east eastern eastern ern em ports by b the occidental route Toute It seems like the dream of ot an optimist unduly stimulated but Mr Ir Hill has made a profound practical study of ev every ev every every ery angle of the startling proposition Men llen have been laughing at Jim Hill ever ver since ambition and hard work be began began gan gait to lift him from lower into higher places laces He Ho H was sneered at as dockhand deckhand and as clerk because he talked of ot big bigger bigger bigger ger things He was ridiculed when he bought a decrepit unprofitable little line Une in the northwest to make it the nucleus of oC a great railroad to the Pa Pacific Pacific He was called crazy when the tho Great Northern was vas built to the coast and crazier still when the Minnesota end and the Dakota those magnificent twin giants of the sea were ere launched and sent gent on their mission of initiating a stupendous transoceanic traffic be tween the th United States and the orient Jim H ri Hill made good on the boasts boast of his dockhand d and clerkship days He Hc reconstructed the Dutch rail railroad railroad road made It a link in the Great Northern whole property paid dividends from the very start The steamship line Uno is vindicating the th Judg judgment judgment ment of the mind that created It It yet measured Em up to Mr Hills ultimate reckonings but bu he Is biding Ills bIs time like the pioneer of the prat prairies ries rles Mr 11 Hill was once riding at night on ont the t e rear end of his private car when his train passed over oera a long wooden trestle A freight train had gone over a few minutes before and Mr rr Hill he be had given orders that u tit after the passing of all aU trains train over this trestle a track patrolman should go over the structure with wish a bucket of ct water and extinguish any embers that t at might have fallen from the tho locomotive 10 com O Though hoUgh the Hill Hili special was waa going along at forty miles an hour nour the alert eye of the tho president caught sight of ot a ahole ahole ahole hole in the bottom of the bucket as ns the watchman in the moonlight threw w tho the vessel over his bl shoulder Mr Hill or ordered dered the tb train back to the trestle arid and summoned the watchman to him My Iy man you are to the great Northern company Just what that hole is to the bucket you carry a good deal worse than useless You may throw the bucket away and look for another job Human life hlf Is too dear to trust it to one of or your kind Never was was the tho moral mor l courage of a aman antan aman man put to severer test than when James J 3 Hill am engaged powerful Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet raU street interests for control of a lead head leading ing Ipg western line It was as the battle that t culminated in n panic and ani ruined for fortunes fortunes fortunes tunes Dealers in l stock s ock need peed only say May J il and ind nd every everyone one of them knows what it i means It t H in a tragically his historical historical day aay a for speculators speculator and anel Mr Hilt Hill came calpe forth from it emblazoned a hero I Through all aU the th swirl and stress of that storm Mr lIr Hill was absolutely fearless and unruffled u Be lIe was yas not a speculator He was wms wa playing pla a thrilling game for a legitimate stake It was not nota n t ta a life and death struggle but success success for him meant the mastery of interests that were vital to his plans Once his closest friends had given gien up the fight and believed the th Wall street crowd would overwhelm and crush the man who ho came out of ar the west to give bat battle battle battie tle tie to his antagonists on their own ground The Story of a Loyal Friend And Mr Hill HUl would have havo lost ost if it he had not had friends who put loyalty above greed One of these friends was in France at the time Representatives of the Wall street in interests Interests ter went thither at the critical stage of the fight and offered him hint dou double double double ble the actual value of his holdings in inthe inthe Inthe the Hill HUl properties It meant a clear gain of to to this man to sell sen out but the old Scotch sense of honor gratitude and friend friendship friendship friendship ship rose to the surface Gentlemen he said sald you have come to the wrong man I have mil ml millions lions enough I dont need any more Jim Hill HUl helped me rue make those ntH mil millions lions He is my friend and I 1 will wUl not desert him now I decline your offer with thanks This was the curt message which the scouts of Wall Vall street were given to toc carry c rry back h were other r friends Jl as s m d as tin the sturdy old cM and of their loyalty Nr Mr p nm returned r turn d to o i Ute he west the biggest t magnate of or them RH Ho had shown himself him el the Hc cool masterful m general who had ha out and outwitted the enemy in every eV ry maneuver map The genius of Mr Hill in wooing suc sue success success cess from what the average man would call a doubtful field is nowhere better betler Illustrated than In the tho building and operation of the Great Northern road He neither sought nor received govern governmental governmental mental aid ald but blazed the way alone spurred on by an unconquerable cour courage courage courage age and the backing of men who be believed believed that with him nothing was im impossible Impossible Impossible possible William Stoddard an long in inthe Inthe Inthe the service of ot the road went out one onetime onetime onetime time with Mr Hill HUl to look for gravel great quantities of which were needed for ballast Stoddard clambered over overhills overhills overhills hills and through w odland but could not see ce a sign of gravel Mr Ir Hill was busy In another way He suddenly picked up a small weed eed examined it carefully and said William we look any fur further further further ther Wherever you find fine this weed theres grave underneath Siro Suro uro enough sufficient gravel was found to ballast many miles of or road Mr Ir Hill had pot pored over oyer his books or observed natures nature way without pur purpose purpose purpose pose He knew his geology and his chem chemistry chemIstry chemIstry his biology and his mechanics As a potentiality the great northwest was to him hint as an open book It was to be one of tho the earths gigantic gran granaries granaries granaries aries It was to be the source of ot limit limitless limitless less wealth of ot other kinds kind Give me the freight and the low grade said Mr Hill to the skeptics and the dividends will take care of themselves Best Friend the Farmers Have Mr 1 fr Hill wont among ao g his farmer friends and called them Bill and John and Tom Torn Ho lie told them what a great country the northwest was destined to tobe t tobe I be Ho doffed his dignity became Jim I I Hill HIJI attended their monthly institutes taught them how to breed good cattle how bow to coax the maximum yield of wheat wh at out ot of ot their soil how to produce fruit in the now famous Wenatchee valley how to make the forests pay them tribute and where to seek for subterranean treasures He paid for cattle and hogs which he imported from Europe These he sold to farmers hero here and there nOminal at al cost cOt that they might spread the gospel of profitable ngOne ng One day in ln St Paul Mr 1110 Hill HIJI went vent to his office and found an old farmer friend waiting for him Well reil on your mind Jake he asked You ou remember that boar you yet sold fold me Mr lull Hill Ive R took a fancy to him and allowed Id run over o er and ad see aee e if I could dicker with you for the t e st the tho same samo price 35 5 a head Got to have time limo to figure ft re on that Jake Suppose you pome gomo around here at lit 3 this afternoon af and well drive out ut and look 1001 the pigs over o r rJake Jako Jake agreed and the th two went to Mr Hills famous stock farm ten Len miles milos out oot of St Paul SIts its a pretty good bunch of or o pigs pig SI Jake See S e that fellow over ov r there That one cost coat me mc 10 and tho the one just be bt behind behind hind him lm Jet fiet me back Im not raising pigs for a living g but I want you TOU farmers to drive your grain and grass to market marlet in great big piled plIed up on little bits of at legs Im go going g glug lug ing to sell you OU a sow for tor 5 and oan you that bull bun over there free of charge for a year on condition that you yo loan loa him lm to your neighbors Mid And I Wt vai you tb td come back here bere a year from now cw anti and ant tell me how much mu h you arc are ashamed hamed of your our past Of course courSe Jake told the Joke olt oke self melt elf at atthe the country store JUst as Mr Hill surmised he ho would Result Jake 1 and an h his i neighbors e arc are coining money oncy j out of livestock und and nd the Great North Northern Northern ern cm is getting the freight f 1 A but a Fair F r One No tl empties are to be hauled on this line if I can help It was the dictum that went out long ago This Th I battle cry CtT and the low how grade which saves mo motive J tire tive power and operating expenses are the Hill recipe for dividends By J this thi same policy polley of following lie rhe lines Jnes of least resistance and keeping his cars and anti cargoes full tun Mr Ir jIll Hut ex expects X to achieve his oriental trade en enterprise enterprise For a dozen years year he lie has ilas pondered the wonderful possibilities Of aggressive Ve Japan and awakening China with their combined l population of ot 40 Ultimately he reasoned count countless countless less tess millions of ot tons of freight must guist b exchanged between this oriental human mass and the th great nations lying o b t tUe Je west Why Wh should not this traffic go goby goby goby by way of the tho t Pacific the American and the Atlantic instead ot trough through l rough the tIle Suez With this question in mind Mr lull Hill sought out ot statistics of the canal c pul and concluded it had physical ph limitations and always would have them for Tor the passage of big freighters The larger Atlantic liners are obliged oftentimes to squeeze through tho the narrow r pus pass passages ages with only a few Inches to spare spara their bulls drag r g through the sand Six miles an hour is a good rate of speed p d and as a fur further further ther flier handicap It is ts n to tie tle le up tip and pull to the sides as far into the sand as aa possible pos to let other boats go by b I Thence the course of ot reasoning was this Th The big cargo can cap be hauled rel rl relatively much cheaper c caver than the t e small cargo There is ng limit to the he size of the tho boats bonts that an plow through the Pacific The distance from from Now York to Yokohama by the Suez route Is miles From Seattle to t Yoke Yoko Yokohama hama by th Pacific is miles The respective distances from fro n these two places to are miles and miles s It 11 is 1250 miles shorter from Seattle to Yokohama by the Great Northern steamship than from frem San Francisco by b the central Pacific route These were some of the lessons the little globe gloDe in the time private office taught When Mr Hill Hili built his two wonder wonderful ful boats the Minnesota and the La LIl Lakota kota to ply between Seattle and the orient he considered the th earlier limita irnita limitation tion tiomi of trade that he could command Instead of giving the tile boats over entire entirely ly Iy to the carrying of freight he ho made them combination freight and passenger passenger ger crafts For passengers he made his ships as beautiful and luxurious as a athe the best of the Atlantic liners Not one On of the th delights or of modern travel was denied There is a complete telephone 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