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Show STUDENTS IN . RAjLROADMG- i Technical students of the Southern Pacific and 'Oregon Short Lino Railroad Rail-road companies who have been in attendance at-tendance at the first convention held in San Francisco from June 20 to 23, inclusive, returned to their posts yesterday. yes-terday. The convention was .called byF. G. Athearn, manager of the bureau of economics of the Southern Pacific, who In the future will have supervision super-vision of the body of technical students stu-dents of the -Harriman lines Heretofore, Here-tofore, the superintendents of eacn railroad division has directed the courses of practical study of the railroad rail-road students, but a change In this plan was recently decided upon and announced by Mr. Athearn during the convention. Another change, which it Js contemplated will enlarge the scope "of thj'etechnlcal course through which J.he students are required to paBs from one"' division to another "every few months. Technical students have formerly bcena'ssigned to a 'certain division un dor the direction of tho superintend; 'Siit, who Bees to it that the student works jn every department until ,he becomes" proficient In all. Mr. Athearn Ath-earn and other officials have coijclud-'ed coijclud-'ed that by svrftctilng tho students from one division to another a greater great-er experience will be afforded than if the student was confined to the work on one division. There were twenty students attending attend-ing the first convention. The second t day of the convention was devoted to a written examination of each student stu-dent on the course already covered. The other days of the convention were taken up with sightseeing and entertainments enter-tainments provided for the railroad students During the convention Assistant General Manager W TL Scott and General Manager J. M. Davis of the Southern Pacific company ad-diessed ad-diessed tho student body. Mr. Scott, among other things, said that there are now five graduate railroad students stu-dents holding important positions with the Harriman lines, and that the practical prac-tical courso offered to railroad students stu-dents has ceased to be an experiment but has become tho training school from which the higher officials of the Harriman linos will be selected In the future The students attending the convention conven-tion from the Salt Lake division nf tho Southern Pacific and Utah division divi-sion of the Oregon Short Line wero Fred Hansen, Ogden; J. Chausse, M. A. Whitney and R Thompson of Poca-tello. Poca-tello. Ida.; Carl Rauch, Reno, and Tom Williamson of Salt Lake. All returned to Ogden today, with the excqptlon of Mr. Rauoh, who decided fo'give up railroad work while In San Francisco and accepted another position posi-tion offered him fn ,the California metropolis. me-tropolis. no ' |