Show KAS HAD AO MUCH EXPERIENCE IN IM WORK FOR RAILROADS New ew Traffic Director of Union Pacific Has Shown Ability i j jS S Special clil to The bC n. n Denver Colo Cob July 5 At At 65 years o of age t Benjamin I Ii I. who ho wan vas toda today oday appointed director of or traffic of ot tho ho Union Pacific is in hl his prime as aa aaa railroad man and can look back to tu a L years of or service In his thirty nine of or business Ho lie was born bornat bornt chos n lino lipe at t Palmyra Mo and ani his first Job ua was boy In n the shops o of th hanIbal Hannbal Han- Han handy FiB Ibal 5 B St St. Joseph road at Hannibal l From ron that l place ho was promoted to ton In tho the au auditing lUne- lUne department n and tILl f then thon inn he transferred his allegiance Nebraska l n railroad to n 0 tho Atei Atchison son In s appointed a clerk In Inho wh where lero ro ho w was transportation de- de of at tho tho ho offis t. t After serving t tn that capacity for tor n a made mada chief clerk to the ho he was oar of ot the Kansas passenger apont ity Mexico it Gulf it ul K Kansas n as City assistant general and nd later became agent t. t ho was general In agent gent agent o of the F Frisco lines lines lines' and It U was from that place th that t ho lie was waa as taken by rom the vice vico president president become Trumbull to Mr Ir r. r In dent out of the tho Colorado South Southern rn 1300 1900 he ho signed d to become president if or f iV the leans Kansas City Fort Scott Mem- Mem n a part of the Frisco Irisco and anda his now no became general manager later a n year company compan with ith tho the title of ot t the th latter of t vIce president elected third vice rice he waS 03 In 1 1903 the tho the tho Rock Island Inland and of resident s a was made president a n place next ext year which he filled for fOL five years year resign resign- rc sn- sn president of the I Frisco risco and ami Inc ing ud to lo later become b becoming President a n. post post- poston position position tion which lie he resigned Thursday on Denver club member of the He Is s a n. Country club Kansas alt City and ami nd of tho Louis 2nd and nd similar or in St. St Now New Orleans Ho lie was and Helm ried in 1880 to Mi Miss s Jeanette Jeanott ma of f Hannibal and ho has haa ono one son B. B L. L Jr director 1 Spence was formerly traffic of ot tho the Union South Pacific of ot t dissolution Pacific systems but tho the ern rn necessitated his reigning re- re tion on proceedings nga roads and ho of the tho from rom one turned the position for tor the Southern assumed Pacific This loft lort the Union Pa- Pa Pacific only which now fills tills vacancy headquarters will bo In Winchell's Chicago a |