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Show Object Lesson in Assistant Tratfic Director of Great Railway System. SOMETHING ABOUT CAREER OF "SMILIE M'CORMICK" Rises From Newsboy to Present High Position With the Harriman Lines. Probably the most prominent figure In the rnllroud passenger world today Is E. O. McCormlck, assistant trafilc director di-rector of the great Harriman system-Union system-Union and Southern Pacific and Oregon Railway & Navigation roads. A study of this man's career Is certainly an object ob-ject lesson for the youth of the country. Ijlko a well-oiled human dynamo, his capacity ca-pacity for work is marvelous without sponsors or "pull," he has conquered field after field until there arc no more fioldK to conquer Ho ha3 'reached the I IIHIIII II IIIIMB M II M li t I Ml" n "SMILIE" M'CORMICK, Father of General Passenger Agents. highest passenger ollice In tho country, receives the largest salary, and If you spend an hour with him you will agree that he earns every dollar Mr. Harriman pays him And to think that about thirty years ago Mr. McCormlck was a newsboy in I-a Fayette. Ind., tho place of hlo birth, working for a man who subsequently worked for him. McCormick Is Many-Sided. Like his superior, J. C. Stubbs, McCormlck McCor-mlck Is many sided. He has a working-knowledge working-knowledge of politics, society, newspapers newspa-pers and other Important lines, and ho has served In nearly every department of railroad work. But It la tho man's personality per-sonality that appeals to one. First, he Is not nn actor, and real men are much needed nowadays; he is the same McCormlck Mc-Cormlck he was yesterday. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing his whirlwind duties, he always has time to see a friend, and ho never forgets one. Ho has a faculty of getting more to one and more out of one In a five-minute walk down one of Chicago's busy streets than most men could In an hour's confab In a quiet office. Should Know the Business. Mr. McCormlck declined to write an article on how to succeed in the passenger passen-ger department bocause he says ho does not believe In departments. His Idea Is that a young man should know almost as much about running a train an he does about making a rate, and that in entering enter-ing the service he should keep thnt in mind. And ho practices what ho preaches, for though nominally In charge of passenger pas-senger affaire, he attonds as many freight meetings as he does conferences dealing with tickets and coaches. With Lake Erie and Western. Mr. McCormlck was graduated from high school about thirty years ago, and soon after became a clerk for the Lake Erie Si Western road. Going over to the Monon, ho worked up to tho general passenger pas-senger agency, then was general passenger passen-ger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, tho Big Four, the Southern Pacific Pa-cific and then to Chicago as assistant trafilc director of the Harriman lines. Father of General Pnssenger Agents. "Tho father of general passenger agents'' is a term often applied to Mr. McCormlck, for It Is said that more men now general passenger agents have served under him than under anybody olse In the business. Here are only a few of those ho has schooled: Who He Has Schooled. Warren J. Lynch, passenger traffic manager of the New York Central lines, was formerly Mr. McCormlck's stenographer stenog-rapher on the Big Four. And now. when Mr, Lynch wants advice, ho usually drifts over to sco "Mac." H. J. Rhcln, general passenger agent of the Big Four, worked for McCormlck as general Eastern agent of the Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, Hamilton & Dayton and Big Four. W. H Fisher, general passenger agent of the Hocking Valley, -worked for McCormlck Mc-Cormlck as general asent for the Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton In Indianapolis. Indian-apolis. ' C. L. Stone, general passenger agent of the Louisville & Nashville, was McCormlck's McCor-mlck's chief clerk when the latter was general passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, Hamilton & Dayton In Cincinnati. W. B. Calloway, general passenger agent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, Day-ton, wao a clerk for McCbrmlck on tho Big Four. F. J. Reed, general passenger agent of the Monon, bofore he went to railroading, owned several newspaper routes In La Fayette, Ind,, and McCormlck carried papers pa-pers on one, of these routes. Reed afterward after-ward worked for McCormlck on tho Monon. Mo-non. , F. 13. Batturs.. .general, passenger agent of tho Southern Pacific In. Now. Orloans, has been 'schooled by McCormick, |