Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, retired last week, at 70. He will remain as a director. Mr. Rea, who rose from rodman in a chain gang, through every department of the railroad to election to the Presidency in 1913, is an industrialist of a school that is rapidly passing into legend- a school whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every...
...will be succeeded by W. W. Atterbury, another member of the thinning company of self-made captains of industry. W. W. Atterbury, however, is no captain, but a general, that title having been formally conferred upon him on the occasion of services which he rendered as chief railroad man for the Amerlean Expeditionary Force in France. Mr. Atterbury's biography, if drawn up by the late Alger, might be entitled, From Apprentice to President. Although he began his formal career as a shop apprentice in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, he is a graduate of Yale (1886), wears a rakish...
...instance there is the question of granting a 5% increase in freight rates to the western railroads. At Chicago, where the Edgewater Beach Hotel rears its creamy buttresses above Lake Michigan, Clyde B. Aitchison, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, last week opened hearings on this question. Before him came Fred W. Sargent, President of the Chicago and Northwestern, L. E. Wettling, Manager of the Statistical Bureau of the western railways, Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific, and many another. They came to present the railways' side of the case and were questioned by Mr. Aitchison, by shippers...
...judgment. He was able to keep his self-control on realizing that New York Postoffice guards carry revolvers: "What a dreadful idea that we can get a bullet in the throat, not in a furious insurrection, but simply for the safe transporation of money. Unmoved, he looked upon "railroad terminals . . . monuments to the capitalistic mammon . . . far less artistic than at Berlin...
...play opens on a barren near a railroad grade. Into the assembly of tramps awaiting the evening freight come the girl and a stubby red-headed youth, who has elected to assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...