Show a Railroad Methods of Railroad Kings The Way the Wa Bill SWay the Ways of Other Magnates The year just has been the input In the history o American rahi in the difference In meth methods in the various parts of the country There was one disastrous experiment the transplanting of Pennsylvania methods to a western railroad There have been half a resignations of prominent railroad on account of differences of over methods Two great systems have been running millions of dollars behind their earning capacity on account of mixed moth Otis OtisA A railroad must not be disturbed by sudden changes Tb introduce the western methods on an eastern trunk line is as disastrous to the administration and to tile avenues as It would be to intro introduce duce into a department store In New NewYork York the system of the country store Conversely It has been proved by the Rock meat with Mr L F Lorec that to In Introduce the methods of the vania on a western road means time throwing away of millions in revenue and the thorough of the line There are teim or twelve vitally dlf ferent methods of running a great rail railroad road Tile Pennsylvania stands first because it is the most highly developed on the continent The Pennsylvania is isan an old railroad Mr A J Cassatt the president has always beOn a vania man He has wn with the road He belongs to it and it is lila He made it and the method of ls run The method from lila point of view is simple it follows the old adage A place for everything and in Its place The system of Is perfect Pennsylvania rail railroad road officers came as close to being perfect machines as it Is possible for formen men to become There are than 6 of them Every one has his specific If lie foils in that he is or discharged If he does more than he Is listed for he is again There must be neither nor interference The work of every officer every senior clerk even of every minor clerk is specifically laid down and outlined Every man manon on the system has his place knows It to the last letter and dare not go either behind or beyond It The Pennsylvania school is the strict strictest est railroad school on the continent It automatic railroad men They may be successfully transplanted from one division to another but history has failed to that theY can be moved to any other system The train trainIng Ing of Peters may have quaIl lied him to become the president of a aLong Long Island railroad for the Long is to be a division of the sylvania system but even a change so slight as that has yet to be beneficial or successful Mr Peters Is Isa a typical Pennsylvania man trained exact and exacting full of discipline a hewer to laid down The results when applied on a per feet railroad come the closest possible to takes the form of ofa a fine machine correct in every operated and administered by one man who handles all the levers is bIe for all tImIngs and relies on no other even for the carrying out of The routine of the Pennsylvania ma machine chine Is the most perfect in America Every Pennsylvania railroad officer knows that some day he may rise but only by becoming the most perfect t automatic railroad man of his rank on ont t th Because the Pennsylvania method has a glorious railroad to wore with anti a traffic that comes because It must even as the sun rises the thet t Pennsylvania method Is successful Ap Applied plied on the Reading it made the New passenger schedule as regular as tile ticking of the clock Applied in the Jersey CIty freight yards ana the freight houses it permitted the Pennsylvania to surpass all the other railroads In the world in the handling of a volume of out of a given point within a given time it is a triumph perfect system The Pennsylvania has made of the Baltimore OhIo a great trunk line Of time Norfolk Western iLlias made the strongest o tile roads Of the two derelict anthracite Jersey Central the has made giants In ban dung freight and In assen ger traffic There remain for It two time urban Into and out of New York City rehabilitating the Long Island railroad When F L Loree was president of the Ohio one of tile sub lines of tile Pennsylvania it young man in search of a position wan sent to hIm from the Reading railroad The youth recommended by a vice president of the Mi Loree asked him a multitude of questions about he could do The applicant cant who was seeking a peal at tile head omee had been an as comptroller for a electric line had worked In the freight depart mont of tile Lehigh Valley and hail helped the comptroller of the Reading to keep accounts He knew the routine of practically every At Atthe the end of the Interview Mr Loree said Young yOU know too much and too little Tue rule on tile Ohio Is Know a little but know It por We want specialists on these We do hot want our men figuring on the methods of gathering traffic nor do we want our men figuring on the operating Specialize and you will suc coed uzi the Baltimore Ohio In sharp contrast to this method is the method on time New York Central anti Its allied lines There are imore than mon in positIons on this line Not one of theta kOw who in running the road They know vaguely that W H New Newman man or W IC Vanderbilt Is doing it but no one knows for sure Neither does Mr Newman nor Mr Vanderbilt Mr Newman knows that lIe has no po altion in Instituting aimy policy in build lag any extension even in holding or letting officers of the road very recently the whole Vanderbilt system was run through six months of the yeam Paris or wherever Mr Yap happened to be There wore half a dozen presidents each reporting to W K Vanderbilt In recent months M E Ingalls president of the Big Four and H B Ledyard president of the Michigan Central have resigned their commands to Mr Newman and the Nickel Plate the Canaan Southern and the Lake Shore have also conic more directly under his hand This is the beginning of wisdom Vanderbilt is still in the saddle but at least lie has allowed the centralization of the administration Until there Is a amore more shape up the Now York Central iii certain to lag still farther behind time Pennsylvania There is more red tape anti less real on the New York Central lines than on any other great system in the Union Even the comptroller time treasurer and the secretary are tied hand amid foot Not a statement of earnings not nn account not a word of commend can past that on street when Mr Vender but hits attempted to Introduce a tern OR time road He has succeeded Ip melting clerks of his of ills Gradually New York took the railroad manIn ou of rm T three years bin office tins In New York He now runs no or twice a year he runs Into Texas to look ata new railroad but his heart is In the east 1 Instead the spirit and the method rule the great Rook Island in the erson of H L pupil and the in the person of A 3 DavIdson another of ilis boys in Mexico the have another was The run themselves gel agents a the depots cannOt make change TOLL buy year ticket on time train The conductor knocks down half the faye and gives other half to time statton agent who could not the change Freight move when whenever ever the Inspector comes around and finds much of it stored in the freight The president of the Mexican Central tIme Mexican National and the Mexican International are in New York tile price of exchanges So are the executive tive committees directors amid officers New York Is a long way from Mexico No ode in Mexico worries about New NewYork York or anything else A conductor who got into the habit of his would got himself disliked by all the other conductors The are complaisant and obliging nile tomorrow Is the watchword in railroads as In everything else Not by any means can all the methods of railroad operation be In this brief outline The riols Central the Burlington the Santa SantaFe Fe have methods of own Each railroad has an individuality has details of Its own general detailed Instructions sya tern entirely different from other system The loading of cars for instance on the Union is entirely different from the loading on tile Rock island Every mechanical department strikes out wrinkles of its own Every operating officer has imi OWn of doing certain things The most striking general difference Is that In time ivest time new thing Is adopted amid time inventor promoted In Inthe the eist the inventor Is fired and the neW thing adopted a year or two later The New York Central should be the greatest railroad In tile country It has the only line from New NewYork York to Chicago It should command time freight traffic out of and into New NewYork York The Pennsylvania has to carry freight over the Tile New Central takes it by level stages along the water courses The Pennsyl hardly touches a city worth while between anti Pittsburg antI none beyond on the main line un until til Is reached The New York takes tile business of Albany Rochester Detroit and Clevo on its way Yet the Pennsylvania has in the last five years made dous strides in every department In every detail of Its business The New is Its 5 per cent centon on the stock with more and macro The fault Is iii the No one time of w H Newman tV C Brown W G George Ii mid time hundreds of others who run rail but the fact remains that with tile niost glorious of railways touch lug the richest traffic points in time States they fail to get the re suits Is only one reason The Theman man vho is in actual control is not on tIle lines His men do not know him himA A Pennsylvania man Is a Cassatt man manA A man Is a man An Erie man has conic to be an Underwood man Presidents Truesdale of time Lackawanna and Underwood of the Erie head their railways But a Vanderbilt man Is for himself It will willbe be so until there arises a Vanderbilt strong enough to Impress his personal personality ity upon the system able enough to ad administer minister It active enough to participate in It 5 Time Harriman method Is far Mr Harriman is a man with a doni personality Time system of the Union Pacific and all its allied lines is the system of Mr Harriman The liar are handled by a group I of officers second to none in the rail railI I iny world for J C Stubbs Julius A L Wil WilHam Ham Maid E E Calvin and W Hood are wonderfully able in their depart to none that is but Mr Harriman Time system is run from Broadway by Mr Harriman Orders are Issued from his desk in time inside There are m other orders Mr Julius Krutt Is officially named director of amId operation He is an executive official that Is to say ho spends on of way for in tanco whatever Mr Harriman tells him to spend Practically Mr says We shall relay with rails year mIles of track on the main mainline line of New Orleans We shall spend itt a tunnel in the Sier Sierras ras We build a bridge across Salt lake From Mr Hood I want en specifications on the tunnel and time bridge From Mr and Mr Calvin and Mr I want I shall supply time plans thyself Mr Harriman decided that It would be to standardize equipment on the system Eru itt Scott Small and Thorne wile are the executive adopted the standard and are seeing that It Is lived up to Mr Harriman decided to cut across Salt lake Mm Hood and all his staff of performed time Impossible task of the Lucia cutoff Mr Harriman undertook to break a strike at by bringing up the Southern Pacific boilermakers from Texas Thereafter for six Mr Horace Burt and all the Union Pacific officers fought the union until Mr Harrl man recognized his mistake He handles more detail than any oth othor or in time United States He cx from lila officers full of all at all If they do donot not conic lie asks for thom by tele telegraph graph experience shows that lie needs to ask once Ho in chair president general manager su superintendent of construction chief on and traffic director of every road in his system The regular in positIons are his understudies Time results measured in dollars and cents are good operation has Its the chief one of Is it kills initiative rue spirit Is not admired in other western railways There Is a railroad In the west who did pot hail wIth tIme clash between Mr Harriman and C M on the Southern Pacific or the other clash be Mr Harriman amid PresIdent Burt on tile Pacific Time only wonder was Mr Burt stood it so long And there is hardly a Harriman officer In the west who would not like hi se one steal time Union Pacific froth Mr Harriman S 5 Beside Mr J old strong by the themen men lie has Daddy of the Northern There could hardly be greater It Is true that Mr known ill details the of his and their traffic It is true that he watches hike a eat every let on time road and writes down its earnings in a little red book But he leaves tile methods to his He imas made his men and he trusts them Farrell Ward anti Hoge on the Northern are not clerks They are live railroad nien tind are allowed to The sm assistant eli may propose the feat of the year feels that lie mam new thing appear In general orders IS routine work of in lUll is as great a as Mr Harriman or Mr Cassatt the Great spirit is not of routine It is isa a spirit of almost daring initiative No Hill below standard If he does he ceases imme immediately to be a HUh inca There Is no pull on the There are hIgh tilled by Hill re retainers except OIl tue basis of merit meritI I one operatIng Ing men that if I am a better vice president of the Great Northern In five years than Mr Louis Hill time old man manwill will give me the job There an officer lui that feel the same way is heating to ee in the basket the man wimp is delivering time goods knows lie is going to get hits pay That is the spirit that has the railroad The net result bt that in no other mIles of railroad in tIme country is there such concentrated ef effort fort such daring initIative such virile aggression track man on the system talks day and night of Jinx Hill Every man on the system Is a aHill Hill I His men learned that there is no trIfling the old man In 1003 Mr Hill was from New York to St Paul to some of his men who threatened to go On unless their wages were Just at time time western railroads were be behind hind In reVenues Mi was angry with the world in general He had lied lieda a bad six With strikes lawsuits and other troubles lie went to St StPaul Paul with fire in his eye He listened for half hour to the He then explained that revenues were shrinking and payrolls were growing too fast The mem were insistent Time said flatly that the must be granted or the men would strike Mr Hlll emes flashed Ill give you the raise ho blurted out Ill give you your 10 per cent raise Tomorrow morning w cut down the In your department We shall let go twenty five out of of you This rail railroad road Is being run by me not by you That is all I have to say The wage anIle 01 the Great North Northera era was severely let alone by the unions lot time rest of that year That 10 the Hill method as applied In George J Gould has yet way There is some parallel between tile Gould and the Harriman od it In the fact that MiS Gould would hike to his railroads as Mr Harriman does his He has the spirit without the harriman ability He inherited hits railways Mr Harriman bought lila Hill built his There is a differ once Mr is an amateur railroad nina Primarily lie Is a financier He that from Jay Gould He has never been an operating on ills merits About twice a year lie looks at the Missouri Pacific from tile back of an observation train If time track is whIte rails cleaned the fences in good order and the mileage per hour what he asked for asks no further questions The semiannual jolly whereby the superintendents Oh the Pacific persuade Mr that the read is in good shapo Is more regular than time semiannual dividends After Mr Gould has In Inspected the Missouri miles of track at time rate of niiles a day or about forty miles an hour of daylight he is prepared to overrule Warner Clarke amid others who spend their lives omi the Missouri Pacific as executive operating officers Mr Russell Harding ran time Missouri Pacific Mr |