Show m t til miln Sir ir William C Van Home Horne Might Wight Have Succeeded in More Than One Calling He Can Paint Pictures Plan Plana a House or oi Business Busness Block lock Survey a Railroad or Write An Article Geologist Botanist and a Student of History They say of Sir William C Van Horne Home of the Canadian Pacific rail rall railway railway way that had he not decided to be bC a aking aking aking king of transportation he pe e might have won fame and fortune through his artistic abilities and they base pase the say ing on the fact that he not only sketches cleverly but is also an ex export expOrt port with the brush both in oils and water colors It might also be truthfully said that he could win his way to the front as asan asan asan an architect or a 3 civil engineer or a writer for he has proved his ability in all these lines others His knowledge of the geology of the th queens dominions in America is profound and his collection of Canadian rocks and Y I fossils foss is not surpassed bj b any any private le collection In all Canada He is a recognized recognized authority on botany He is ls fond of historical research and has gathered a vast amount of information concern concerning concerning ing the early settlements of British North America In short he is un undoubtedly Undoubtedly the most versatile railroad magnate in America the only one who rivals him in any appreciable degree being James J Hill of the Great North Northern ern em which like the Canadian Pacific unites the populous east with the Pa Pacific i Ichic chic coast Curiously enough Van V n Home Horne was born in the United States while Hill was born in Canada Van Horne Home Is a big man physically and he Impresses es you as a man of im immense immense mense vitality His color is ruddy his skin is clear and his eyes e are penetrating ing He is a tremendous worker or he heI I would never have found time to perfect himself in the accomplishments which give him so well founded a reputation for versatility and his capacity to ac accomplish accomplish accomplish things is almost doubled by bythe bythe bythe the fact that he requires not more than four or five hours of sleep in each Plays As Well As Works But he is quite as fond of play as he heis heIs heIs is of work In the privacy of his home he is as lighthearted and sportive as a school boy In his own house he once startled a guest by shuffling rapidly across the carpet after which he hast hastily hastily ily fly slapped a piece of blotting paper against the wall to see if enough elec dee electricity electricity had been generated to hold it there He is fond of games of all aU sorts and plays pla s everything well His sense of humor is well ell developed and he sometimes perpetrates practical jokes though never of the coarser sort sortI Years ago he was prone to a I lar form of practical joke which he hesed used sed to play on the Montreal reporters who wh called upon him in search of rail railroad railroad railroad road news On one of his trips in the Hudson Bay district he had picked up upa a lot of cigars made of native tobacco which were almost too rank to think about Whenever a newspaper man called to ask about something which Van Horne Horr did not nol wish to discuss he would hand out one of those cigars Nine times in ten the third puff at the vile weed would drive dr ve the out of the th office and Van Horse Horne would get out of being interviewed without having to refuse to talk That pretty little scheme s heme worked only a little while however hw h wever vcr The reporters compared notes and being satisfied A 9 c 4 fI 4 4 4 L 4 Y 1 5 4 f r 4 4 I II i I I S 4 a I 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 r 4 4 S 4 a 4 4 4 j 4 M 4 44 4 I i 4 5 5 I t 4 t I i i 5 54 4 jS S 4 4 5 t I 4 i 4 4 I 5 4 4 A 4 I 4 I 4 1 4 4 4 I 4 F 4 1 I I 4 4 i I 4 1 4 I 4 j i 4 4 4 4 I 4 t t T T r I V t y T t I t fT that thai t Van Vau Home Borne e guying them each promised noer to venture Into I the presence P res e nce again without a freshly lighted cigar in his mouth One of at the practical jokes Joltes which he years ago when a train dis dispatcher dispatcher on the th Chicago Alton is still retailed d by the of f that rail railroad railroad railroad road Somehow or other othar he lie learned that on a certain night run some of l I the trainmen trai en were in the habit of tak taking takI ing ling I cushions from the coaches to make maker maket r t themselves comfortable in inthe the baggage i car Late one night at about the time I he thought the men m would have taken the cushions he wired tired the head train trainman trainman trainman I man of the th crew crew a message which was delivered by the agent at a small way station It contained only O these I four words Put back those cush cushions cushI cushions I ions but it filled the hearts of the themen I 1 men with consternation not to say awe for how bow unless uI ess he was blessed I with the gift of second s cond sight could the dispatcher know they had meddled with the cushions c It is hardly necessary necessary I sary nary to say that they never molested them again An Adventure in the Mountains Sir Williams job as executive head of the Canadian Pacific has never been beena I a sinecure when he e began service s with I the road his task was almost superhuman man manin inasmuch as it combined the I financing of the company and the over overcoming overcoming coming c of the physical problems inci mci incident incident I dent to the operation of a line through I a mountainous region where snow and andice andI andice ice were common much of the year I I Like ever every other othe successful pioneer I railroad president he determined to study these problems at short range and a nd work out their solution himself I He went here there and everywhere seeing things with his own eyes and dealing with the situation spot Naturally in the circumstances he has had his share ef af hardship and adventure adventure adventure ture S SOn On one occasion he was out with a surveying party in the Canadian north northwest northwest northwest west They were to meet reet another par party party party ty which was to bring stores and sup supplies supplies supplies plies at a given point But there was some miscalculation and the other par party party party ty failed to appear Van Horne Horn and his men were far removed from any center of civilization and they waited for a day or two hoping for relief none came At last it seemed that only way out of the trouble was to push on to the nearest settlement sev several several several eral days travel away Fatigued as they were and with scant supplies that was no easy task Still sun as is they had guns uns and plenty pl of ammunition and were in territory abounding with game they concluded to try it Crossing Cro a stream however their pack mule stumbled and fell their little food supply was as swept away by the th swift current and their ammunition was soaked in the waters of the stream Their matches too were wet so that th t they th y could not light lighta I a fire even if they had food to cook It was with rueful countenances that they scrambled out of the stream and took account of stock All that was left in the way of provisions was some loose flour which had spilled In the bottom of a saddlebag It was not very clean either and nothing but the most dire necessity would force them to eat it But necessity waits not noton noton noton on squeamishness and they made a kind of dough dou h and baked it t and seat Beat seating Beating seating ing themselves on logs began bean to atom stomach stomach ach the unsavory compound It is safe sate to say that Sir William never partook of a worse meal than that unleavened dough and to add to the trials of the situation he remembered as he ate that I his life insurance premiums were due dueI that day while he was entirely cut off of I from communication with the Insurance insurance Insurance ance company Soon after the meal had been finished fini hed however the members of the forlorn group heard shots and divined that th t a Sa relief party was In search of them I They could not fire in return of course J but they shouted at the top of their c lungs and were soon Boon overtaken by their friends A few hours later they were comfortably ensconced in a private car carRis caris His Ris is Sketch and His Ris Memory Like many another man of affairs who possesses posses es a deft eft pencil Sir Wil William liam often sketches at his while talking business sketching indeed seems to be one of his favorite meth ineth methods methods of concentrating thought The clerk cleric the Canadian Pacific offices like her ther up p the scraps of paper p per i as ornamented for souvenirs HK Hia Hi memory is one of the th most remarkable things about this re remarkable remarkable man He seems absolutely nb to tp forget nothing and his pis power of f re retaining taming facts and an l has of course be fi of enormous en benefit to I him all aU through life But aut his memory is not wholly a gift it is largely ac acquired acquired acquired His father died leaving scant means when the lad was about 13 and he began the battle of life for himself by getting a job in the railroad yards If he was late In returning from his work his good mother to use her own graphic expression would w uld flatten her he nose against the window looking for him thinking he might be skylarking with boys of his own age But he rare rarely rarely rarely ly did anything of the sort After hours he used to linger about the sta eta station station tion and yards finding out all he could about railroading He trained his mem memory memory memory ory by fixing In his mind the inscriptions inscriptions on Oh the cars so that he could tell teU their the roads ro s they belonged to and their destination without refer reference reference reference ence to any record He had lad already formed the ambition to reach the top of ot othis his chosen vocation Sir Williams memory occasionally plays queer tricks with his friends and acquaintances You may sometimes make a re remark remark remark mark in his pres presence nce or ask him a question says a lifelong friend to which he will past pa not the lightest at attention attention attention Naturally you will 8 that he has failed to hear you but nine times I in ten you will be wrong wro S g His Hig I failure to respond may mean that he has not consciously heard you ozit oit oitI I may mean that he was not then ready to reply But two or three days after afterward afterward afterward ward he is far more than likely to re remind remind remind mind you suddenly that you yo have said so and so or this and that and then proceed to discuss the question exhaustively exhaustively In this way he is often a source I of surprise to his IUs associates WILLIAM WILIAM H P WALKER |