Show I WITH TIlE THE l 1 I Up From tile tIe Ranks I ri The rho railroads of lit United States employ men What chanco chance has any wy of them ten to work up upi 1 Thoro are few professions if an any that tho the same careful attention to the business as S 10 do tho the railroads of this I country with tho the tens of thousands s of lives which thy they have O in their care are 01 0 dRY day to say SY nothing of the prop property proper 1 ty tJ value Many of tho greatest t railroad railroad rail rail- road men in the are am fast nearing near near- ing tr the old olti ago t o point Who will take their thir places 1 From tin daj- tinto n- n to tiny day THE PIlE E TELEGRAM will give e brief accounts of railroad men Tho iho ho have hac worked up from rota tho the ranks James J J. Hill U Jim Hill tI th the farmers farm farm- ers throughout the northern part pait of tin the United States s from the tho great rat lakes lains ikc to I Ithe the Pacific coast 1111 him th the man nuin who can cm go out and ami talk to a gathering of farmers just lust as IS well as as he hs can to a meeting or of tho the board of directors of which ho is chairman the wizard of he lie i is kno known railroad builders as If n nalon alon along the thc lie Great Northern th the road which he has made mad what it is today started his TI railroad life as HI a lo local n nn n agent ent for the St. St Paul Panl Pacific in 18 1865 5 at a salary lary of off of about 20 per month When the Kansas Pac Pacific railroad was being constructed in 1877 a 1 young yount man applied for a job as a section on J laborer borer Within a t tow few months month he was promoted to the position of section foreman H He did 1111 not remain long Inns in that position there was a t something about th the young onn man nian that that- showed the officials of th the road rOHl that ho could do something belt bet bet- t ter r. r He lie was advanced Next another road wanted him It had hAfl been hen watching watch watch- jag ing his work and hi his hiS' progress tep by step be lie advanced a until today A. A C. C n ay tho the section tion laborer r of 18 1877 is if general manager of ot the Denver t tRio Rio Grande Granile 0 From rom water boy to vice president of one of th the great grent railroads of the country COlin coun t try y tells the tho story of HenI Henry U. U Mudge vice of the Chicago o Rock Island bland Pacific Tn In 1872 Mr l started AS ns a water boy hoy on the lie Santa Fe Fc A dean among railroad men is William Wil Wil- liam hauL II H. Bancroft vice president and general t manager of the tho Oregon Short I Line in It was t away back in iu 18 1836 6 that Mr Ir Bancroft BS started a as ji a 1 railroad station station sta sta- tion clerk on th the Michigan l Southern Today he is a power in tho first and only ocean ocean to lo ocean line and mil one of oC th tin the best known and aud most respected ted railroad in iu tho the country men Beginning ginning May Ii 1 s second class rates on all passenger cr trains will willbo bo ho abolished where the faro fare is iA less les than 40 This will mean an m advance of from II 3 tl ti to 10 riO lO according to tho the distance traveled The rue decision to abolish the second cla class rate rato was decided on at nt a 1 i recent mr meeting of the Western Ja Passenger sell ger ger R association 8 Second cond cla class s rates will wilI ho bo abolished on eastbound trains at a later Intel lute date ate 3 I 0 IE E. E 0 O. McCormick and P. P C C. assistant assistant as as- traffic ie directors tors of tho Harriman linen with headquarters in Chicago J. J r. r A. A I Monroe freight traffic manager of the Union Pacific and In J. J G. G Love tove traveling freight ht 3 agent of tin tho Uni Union n Pacific arrived in UI S Salt lt Lako Lake City City- yes yesterday Cs ay and will leave for the west this aft afternoon They 0 report business g as J 3 being heing be he- being ing on the thc improve e especially in in tho the west Ono One hundred and twenty five men are areen en engaged in iii in the work of J laying yin the concrete concrete con eon crete foundation for the nc new Oregon Short l Line ine passenger er station 1 L T. T Burns Burn Jr Tr tra clin traveling passenger agent for the Canadian Pacific is in Salt all Lake City it on a a business trip |