Show SOME HINTS FORI FOR I RAIL OFFICIALS A Few Remarks on the Position of 0 the Reporter j REPRESENTS THE IS AGENT OF OP THE WHO SUPPORT THE 4 i In ra a recent interview Mr A Darlow the enterprising advertising of the Union Pacific gave an Interesting statement of The he means and methods of the great railway systems in Ing their merits known to the public nubile and attracting immigration to develop the resources of the country along their lines says the th Omaha World Herald Mr Darlow mentioned the magazine articles jiow so popular with eastern companies pictorial advertis advertising ins ing on billboards and public buildings display advertising in the country papers educational and Religious papers charitable fetes office chico maps calendars time schedules folders pamphlets and descriptive articles Some of these he considered useful and others useless He Re made one interest interesting tug ing point in ip the following The interests of railroading are so vast that the N railway news of the great daily papers attracts Immediate attention The railroad reporter should be given the fullest Information tion on any matter of Interest quick j runs betterment of rack new equip equipment mont ment etc Entitled fo o Courtesy Coury The concedes Mr i Darlow says as correct and the railroad reporter should be ed as something more than a curi garl curiosity seeker chief railroad of official who hides himself in th privacy of his office and declines to give out outI Information I concerning and its intentions The railroad r official has no business bustness fo consider himself the tycoon of Japan an obsolete of office flee fice and deny himself to any representative of the press who Is seeking legitimate and add necessary information so vital to the th interests of the public Some months ago Hughitt of the Chipa o Northwest Northwestern N ern em took the position in the treatment of the press by the th railroad officials Instead o lending out word to the reporter that he could not be seen or was not t home he lie in invited invited the young nail man to a seat in his private car carin in the mOor sanctum in inthe the holy of holies Mr Hughitt frankly told the reporter that he recognized his responsibility to the public that through his paper the business men were entitled to know what concerned thorn them But there were times when he could not give out wi plans relating to the public because they were incon Incomplete Instead of f freezing out the re rO reporter porter and wrapping himself in an icy reserve M told him that on his next trip he would give him the In Information information formation he desired This satisfied the reporter and the business men of the city he be represented Mr Hughitt was not churlish he was vas In no sense a Nabal And by his courtesy to this representative of the public the popularity popularity larity of his company did not suffer Reporter Represents Public The better Class of high officials now hold the same view as Mr Hughitt When all of these officials realize that the reporter stands for men who have invested millions and who give their companies millions of traffic In money tonnage and travel they will rise to higher consideration In the estimate of the public and their companies will gain by it Another view is that more than one of such officials consider that they run their railroads for the exclusive exclusive sive benefit of th stockholders This Is a mistake railroads are public servants servants ants and derive their support from the public Consequently these men should manage their roads for the benefit of the public Anyone but a novice in railroad management has long since I learned learnd this by heart lirt When Whenn mana manager manager ger says he runs road for the bene benefit benefit fit of the stockholders only he makes himself absurd The quicker he gives way to a more liberal broadminded man the better it will be for his em employers employers and the public Mr Darlow well says The clear crisp brief display advertisement In Inthe inthe the daily papers Is one of the best all round mediums The reason is that an established newspaper reaches thousands of readers every day who never can be reached by any other me medium Among these readers is where I Ithe the railroad finds its largest and rich est eat field This also emphasizes the fact that as a representative of these readers the railroad reporter should be i treated with the utmost courtesy and furnished with every fact and circum circumstance circumstance stance to which the public read readers ers era is entitled S What Mr Darlow says about the railroads being the great factors f in the wealth and development of the wet west wetha has ha long since 5 |