. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of which he afterward be-came president. Three years later, a young man without experi-ence in railroad business applied to him for a position as clerk inthe station at Duncansville. and was, with some hesitation, long after—so runs the story—an influential shipper enteredthe station, and demanded that some transfers should be made ina manner contrary to the rules of the company, 71iis the clerkrefused to do ; and when the influential shipper tried to attend tothe matt
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of which he afterward be-came president. Three years later, a young man without experi-ence in railroad business applied to him for a position as clerk inthe station at Duncansville. and was, with some hesitation, long after—so runs the story—an influential shipper enteredthe station, and demanded that some transfers should be made ina manner contrary to the rules of the company, 71iis the clerkrefused to do ; and when the influential shipper tried to attend tothe matter himself, he was forcibly ejected from the premises. In-dignant at this, he complained to the authorities, demanding thatthe obnoxious employee be removed from his position. He was—and was promoted to a much higher one. This is said to have 350 THE RAILWAY IN ITS BUSINESS RELATIONS. been the beg-innine of the railroad career of Thomas AlexanderScott. Edgar Thomson was a sufficiently able man to appreciateScotts talent at its full worth, and took every opportunity to make. it useful in the service of the company. Both before and after thewar the system was extended in every direction ; and the man whoin 1850 had need of all his nerve to defy a single influential shipperwas a quarter of a century later at the head of 7,000 miles of themost valuable railroad in the country. As an enterprising and active railroad organizer, Scott wasprobably unrivalled—especially when aided by the soberer judg-ment of Thomson ; nor has the operating department of any otherrailroad in the country reached the standard established on thePennsylvania by Scott and Thomson and the men trained upunder their eyes. But in business sagacity and those qualitieswhich pertain to the financial management of property, Scott wassurpassed by Vanderbilt. The work of the two men was so THE RISE OF GREAT SYSTEMS. 351 totally different in character that it is hard to compare was not so distinc
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