. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ation. At theage of 14 he left school to take a job at $18a month as messenger boy for the LakeShore and Michigan Southern Railroad, theheadquarters of which were in road was then closely affiliated withthe New York Central and has sinfe beenamalgamated with that system. The boy was so bright and eager tliat hewas soon promoted to a clerkship, then wasput in charge of the stationery bureau ofthe Purchasing Department. By the timehe was 19 years old he was drawing a salaryof $50 a month. He was then old enoughto understand the desirabilit
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ation. At theage of 14 he left school to take a job at $18a month as messenger boy for the LakeShore and Michigan Southern Railroad, theheadquarters of which were in road was then closely affiliated withthe New York Central and has sinfe beenamalgamated with that system. The boy was so bright and eager tliat hewas soon promoted to a clerkship, then wasput in charge of the stationery bureau ofthe Purchasing Department. By the timehe was 19 years old he was drawing a salaryof $50 a month. He was then old enoughto understand the desirability of getting out into the actual physicnl work of the rail-road. So, although he was light in weight forhis age and sott muscled, he gave up his clerk-ship for a job as laborer in the bridge studying nights in the boarding campand helping the foreman to make out hisreports, he supplemented the developmentof a fine physique and an exceptional capacityfor manual labor by understanding andwillingness to do more than his dailv ALFRED HOLLAND SMITH Late President of the New York Central Lines He was made foreman by the time he wasold enough to vote, then general 1890, at the age of 27, he was appointedsuperintendent of the Kalamazoo conspicuous success won assignmentsto various divisions in Michigan, Ohio, andPennsylvania until in .\pril, 1901, he wasappointed assistant general superintendentwith headquarters at Cleveland. Threemonths later he was made general super-intendent. In less than a year he was called to NewYork as general superintendent of the NewYork Central Railroad. Seventeen monthslater he was made general manager; then,in 1906 vice-president and general manager;in 1912 vice-president of the New YorkCentral Lines, east and west; in 1913senior vice-president of the New YorkCentral Lines in charge of operation, con- struction and maintenance. Finally, onJanuary i, 1914, he became president ofthe great system which he had served sow
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