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...Developed by T. H. Kruttschnitt, son of the late able Railroader Julius Kruttschnitt. ∙Later records: a Plant System train at 120 m.p.h. for 5 mi. between Fleming and Jacksonville, Fla. in 1901; a Philadelphia & Reading train at 115.2 m.p.h. for 4.8 mi. between Egg Harbor and Brigantine Junction...
There Sproule was closely associated with Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the line, except for a brief period when the Government controlled the railways and he was a District Director. Now, again President, he carries on in the shoes of Huntington and Harriman. When Huntington, founder of the road, died, Harriman bought control by way of uniting the Southern Pacific with his Union Pacific. Later this union was undone when the Union Pacific sold its Southern Pacific holdings...
...railways rise to hiss at all of these. " Out upon you," they cry, " the geese are just recovering their robust physique. Cook 'them, starve them, pen them up and they will never lay again! Yours for golden eggs." This last was the attitude vigorously expressed last week by Julius Kruttschnitt, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern Pacific Railroad...
These opinions are fairly representative of the attitude of most railway executives. In their robustness the opinions are especially Kruttsehnittian. For Kruttschnitt is a man of the self-made type. He was the son of a New Orleans merchant ruined by the Civil War. Nevertheless he had a college education, at Washington and Lee University. His first railroad job was as an engineer building part of the line which is now the eastern end of the Southern Pacific. Today he is Chairman of the Road with a salary of $100,000 a year, ranking with Alfred H. Smith...
...five railroad presidents who formed the Railroads' War Board, and who had almost complete control of, the administration of all of the railroads in the country during the nine months preceding Federal control, four were college men--Harrison of Yale, Elliott of Harvard, Holden of Williams and Kruttschnitt of Washington and Lee. On the whole, however, college men form a very small percentage of the 20,000 who are classified as general or divisional railroad officers. The purposes of this article are (1) to point out the reasons which influence the college man to avoid the railroads; (2) to show...