Show RAILROAD MANS UPWARD CAR fER Julius lulius Once Coun County County County ty School Teacher Makes Steady St ady Rise From a country school teacher to one of the two or three most important men in the Harriman system Is the gap Ju Juilus Julius ilus lius has spanned in his years of life but he had intel intellectual Intellectual forbears one of whom was the famous Judah P Benjamin United States senator from Louisiana after afterwards afterwards afterwards wards a member of ot Jefferson Davis cabinet and still sUll later queens counsel In London Being a British subject born In the West Vest Indies he soon became one of the best beat known figures at the Eng English English lish Ush bar Julius is the only living nephew of Benjamin from whom he Inherits his strain of Jewish blood When Benjamin left Jamaica to reside In New Orleans he at once became In Interested Interested interested in politics During his cam campaign campaign campaign for federal senator Benjamin vis visited visited visited one of the famous wool hat sections sec sections sections of southern Louisiana where his opponent In the course of ot debate re referred referred referred to Benjamin as a Jew When his accuser had finished Ben Benjamin Benjamin jamin lamin said The honorable gentleman has las denounced me as a Jew In truth and ard fact tact I am one and I am proud of oft it t And when my ancestors were wor worshipping worshipping worshipping shipping the true God and fighting un under under under der th the white banners of the Macca Marra Lees bees his forebears were feeding swine on the Scandinavian hills and history tells us were little better than the hogs they fed Benjamin received an ovation and carried the district which he had re regarded regarded regarded as being almost hopelessly against him Julius JUl Is was WI graduated as asa asa asa a mining engineer from Washington and Lee university in 1873 From then thenon on he taught school until 1878 when he entered the service of the Louisiana Texts railroad Since that time his rise has been less rapid but much more steady than some others until today he occupies one of the biggest positions in inthe inthe inthe the railroad world |