Show P X X Gossip of cf R RiI il o JL S A T HE rise rl e of J M SL Herbert toe the new THE T I manger manager roa r of the Rio Grande syn system I tern tem has been one of the most rapid in hi the history of I said MId a railroad man who has baa been watching Mr lIr Herberts career Sand hand his rise started with his hl being canned It was only on four years ago that be lie was a train dispatcher in I Ills ms on the Wabash He was a rat ratling rattling ling good dispatcher too He J like ke the way some of the things were ere I going on the division and aDd so one day he sat down and wrote a long lone letter lettero to o the president Joseph Ramsey cat call cating callIng ing ng attention to some of the things he e thought should be changed He marked the letter personal and con confidential conj but Ramsey do a ahing athing athing thing hing but turn down one ole corner corn of the he letter and endorse W A G for your our information and sent it to the division superintendent W A Gar Oar Garett Garrett rett ett who Is now a division superintendent dent ent on the Philadelphia It Reading Garrett like the idea of having havinga a man under him hint with too many ideas and a desire to express them at head headquarters headquarters quarters and it long before Mr Herbert Kerbert was was looking for a job Charles Chades CharlesM M lL Hays had been general manager of he the Grand Trunk about a year liar hav bavIng lug Ing ng left the Wabash and he offered Herbert a position as assistant super superIntendent I of the middle division of ot the Grand Trunk Herbert showed marked ability in that position and when the superintendent of the division went to the he Vermont Central Hays promoted Herbert lerbert to the vacant position While Herbert was division super superintendent superintendent Russell Harding then gen genral general general eral ral manager of the Cotton Belt road ro d dand and now general manager of ot the Mis Misouri ouri Pacific and Rio Grande systems traveled raveled over the Grand Trunk on his private car He was on his way east easto to o Portland Me Mc to visit his mother erbert Herbert rode with Harding a great part of ot the distance and Harding took tooka a great fancy to the division superintendent superintendent Herbert wanted to get gat out ont of that cold climate and It was not long before Harding got him a super on the Iron Mountain road Only a short time after Herbert took hold told a man under him put up a 8 job on him and there was trouble that th t looked as If it might become serious Herbert went at the situation vIgorous vIgorously ly y and he was accused by some of be beng beIng beIng Ing ng a little raw in his methods There was some feeling against him on the part of ot the employees employee but it came out after awhile that he had been jobbed and was in the right and the feeling turned in his favor He became very popular with the men and made a splendid record When Hays took hold of ot the South Southern Southern ern em Pacific he wanted a crackerjack operating man on whom he could de depend depend pend jend to handle the entire system It Its Is s recent history how he be took Her bert jert over and made him hint manager of ot the he Southern Pacific When Hays quit Herbert lerbert quit with him and Gould and Harding snapped Herbert up mighty m ty quick to make m ke him manager of the Rio Grande system Herbert although quick to decide when it comes to making m changes and to act is a conservative man Harding is much the same way I ecu ven en ture the prediction that there will be no noI radical changes on the Rio Grande SS tem tern as far as policy polley in handling the themen themen themen I men and the business are concerned but I that gradually as occasions artees reforms will be Introduced to bring brine things around nearer the ideas of the new management I ah also predict that Mr Herbert will win become popular with I the men oa OH o the road rod He Is a broad broadman broadman map man man ready to listen to any auy employee of the road who has business with Mm hIm and actuated in his decisions by bya a spirit of justice ju and fair dealing The Tha day of or the terrier on the sec section lion tion has gone mused a knight of the rail whose name s smacks of Erin It was not so many years ago that practically every man Man on the section spoke with a it rich brogue smoked a short abort clay pipe and was ready to lick an Englishman Jew or Dutchman on en the slightest provocation But you dont see any more of them as 8 sec eec tion lion hands hantis There are plenty of Irish I bosses bones on the section but they the have under ler un them Greeks Italians I Japs Jall or orAu I Austrians Au And these foreigners grate on 00 a true ns soul It Is a trial indeed to think that a man cant swear a voluble original picturesque que blue streak and have it thoroughly under ander understood understood stood This Idea of swearing through an Interpreter its well I cant ex cx express press pre what it is Language is too week weak When a mans sitting silting in an engine cab looking up the track with a eon con constant stant slant watch for tor danger dangel a burden on his mind said an engineer eD things sometimes look different from what they really are This is especially true if after long service his eyes eys begin to be a little affected I used u d to know one old engineer who was one of the most careful men menon menon menon on the road In fact tact he was always I worried and fear of ot an accident got to be almost a mania manta with him One day he was pulling a long freight down downa a pretty fair grade when he suddenly clapped on the air and gave the high ball with the whistle sending the brakemen out o t over the train setting the hand brakes as fast as they could Finally they brought the train to a astop astop astop stop and everybody ran up to s see e what was the matter Among the men who came up was a r section man When the fellow got close Jack the engineer began to rip out the biggest string of cusses cu I ever eer heard He damned up and down any man who would wear a red shirt while working on the section for Jack Jaak had seen that shirt and thought It was a red flag and stopped his train I I had hadan an experience myself not long ago spoke up another engineer uIt It was since the new electric headlights were ere put In You Tou know how they look coming up the track so bright you ou cant see anything else and its hard to tell whether they are moving or not notI notI I was running a freight and had a pretty heavy train We were coming around a curve just before making a siding to pass another train when one of or those electric headlights flashed on me I thought It was all over oer with me but I stopped stepped to put on the brakes and reverse and hung on just a min rain ute in I the hope of getting the train stopped before I jumped The grade very heavy beavy and I got the train stopped all right Before I started to jump I J looked again I discovered then that the light seem to be any nearer I Investigated and found that the other train was at a standstill waiting for me at the switch |