| Show PRESIDENT OF ur 5 1 I 1 0 C QUITS fm abt james jamea T harahan once a freight clerk engineer and passenger conductor then president of the illinois central railroad celebrated his seventieth birthday anniversary by formally resigning the retiring railroad chief will be awarded a pension of about he has received an average salary of for the last ten years he la Is said to be the owner of plantations in memphis tenn and to possess much other property mr harahan however will not retire from railroad activities he remains all a director of the illinois central and other railroads and his counsel frequently will be sought by the officials of these transportation systems tho the retiring president of the illinois central Is expected to be in close touch with the affairs of the 0 road mr Ha harahan his fellow railroad men say s ay is the trued true type of the old fashioned railroad man now passing iway away ho he did things in an old fashioned way but he never lacked thoroughness said one of his associates he is a man gruff on the surface but so genial kindly and noble when you get to know him that knowing him is oving loving him |
