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Show Smith of .the New York Central 1 ' Everybody is Interested In watching watch-ing the "come back" of the railroads Rafter their adventures under government govern-ment control and the methods of the men who now manage them. Everyone Every-one has heard of A. H. Smith, the president of the New York Central, who began his career as an office boy In the supply department of a railroad rail-road office In Detroit, where he had a soft and easy berth. His hair was nicely parted and he was dropping Into a well ordered groove which would have brought him IB a week in time If he kept a it. He was deeply Interested In the way a big transportation company should be run, but he did not see how he could possibly find out much about It by sorting index cards and letterheads. letter-heads. This explains why he got a job as section hand and started to work his way up through the various grades which brought him to a commanding com-manding position in the truffle world. - The secret of the success of Mr. Smith is that he knows every detail of the railroad business by experience. When he travels In his special car along the line he senses that a rusty wheel on a freight car on a siding means that there has been undue delay in that locality and that he must find out; why. - |