Show e U m mU FOR U S AD M Neville Priestly of the Indian Government Railways R Sub Submits mits Ills His Report AMERICAN ICET THERE POLICY Says Red Tape floes Does Not Bother and I That Results Is the Goal Aimed At hl London April Priestly under secretary to the government of oC Indic India railways department who was sent to tho the United States last summer to study stud and report on American rail railways railways ways has hils submitted his report It Is li lian Isun isan an un exhaustive review of or tho subject amt In conclusion pays n II high tribute to American railway enterprise and management Tho railways of America toys Hays n s Mr Priestley arc ure commercial undertakings undertakings ings on a gigantic scale oper operated operated u t d under conditions which are aro to bo IJo found nowhere else eUe In tho the world since they the receive no protection from front tho time and have had to fight fiRM their way WilY to tho the front by sheer ability of man roan management If It I have appeared enthusiastic at tit times It It Is III because I was wa great greatly ly Iy Impressed with which the railway have havo shown and amid the pluck they tile the have worked It His Is Impossible to asso 1880 associate elate clate with the great men who have havo haveran made ran ie their mark on American railways I may mn say American national history without being Infected with some of the tho enthusiasm m they for their busi busl business ness nose mud and no man moan can con travel over their railways without s becoming possessed of n a great deal more snore knowledge l than ho Iw previously h Md had d or without getting runny many valuable le hints Many rany of or their methods art are different from those one ono has been brought up UtI to believe hellove the only correct method mind and It II If Is not until onen one ono realizes that the one Idea Idell In the n mind ri of at American railway men Is la to get tot there and they Ih do get Iel there by the tho shortest shortcut and quickest ways mad do du not allow s themselves to be turned aside either by y red tape tapa old ohl time prejudices tradition or army other o the tho bogeys by which older oMel countries are arc assailed that ono ammo understands hoW hoV the results havo ho h O been obtained d which w on as sMa is s there American railway men rile are quick ginek to woe see seea Heon a n new lIew Idea Idell j they the Ire are quicker still to try it 11 they take a great pride In their I profession M lon and are all striving to get Ret at n I tho the of It That their meth melh methods I rids are not always perfect Is but what might hl have been expected but they havu have managed to do what no other country In the world has done clone amid ond that thatIs Is Carry Corr their th lr good profitably nt tit extraordinarily low how rates notwithstanding not with Ith standing the fact that they pay 1 moro more for their labor than any n other country It Is II In tho time study of how ho ho they do this thin that nuch ouch benefit can rail be he derived from other countries and nn 1 If I 1 have In tn some eons degree 11 rec succeeded In throwing light lIht on Ott their methods I 1 shrill feel that thaI I have benefited others ns nil well wel no as myself by my visit to 10 the great rent country whore where the courtesy of ot tho the people Is III only ex exceeded by hy their hospitality 1 I |