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When he became president of the Southern Railway System 14 years ago, Ernest Eden Norris set a goal for himself: humanize the railroad. A longtime railroader who got his start as a telegrapher, Norris had a brash air about him, a funny story for every occasion and a firm belief...
He set up a traveling office in two private railroad cars, with dining room and living quarters, spent most of his time riding the Southern's 7,571 miles of rails in 13 states. Only once was he temporarily sidetracked; his private cars were in a train wreck near...
Norris' tactics paid off. In his regime, the Southern's freight volume doubled, its net jumped to $22 million. Norris also managed to cut the Southern's debt by $120 million, including $32 million owed to the RFC which he had vowed he would pay off "dollar...
Making his first trip in the road's two-car presidential office was Harry Ashby DeButts, 56, a topflight operating man who has spent all his business life with the Southern. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute (1916), DeButts went straight to work with a pick & shovel on the...
Snobs & Farm Girls. Stephen Crane struck the first modern note with tight-lipped stories that anticipated Hemingway and all the little Hemingways. Out West, Frank Norris and Jack London spoke up bluntly. Norris, remarks Critic Brooks, "had Zola's nose for the odor cf stale bedding and of creosote...