. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . From Office Boy to President. While trying to nispire our youngreaders to believe in the great possibili-ties of advancement in railroad life bythose who work and make themselvesworthy, an example of what energy, in-dustry and perseverance can accomplishcomes to our mind in the success of MR. E. H. HARRIMAN. to the Union Pacific, and eventuallybought the Southern Pacific and madeit one of his allied lines. Mr. Harriman,some years ago, fitted out a scientificexpedition which traveled all overA
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . From Office Boy to President. While trying to nispire our youngreaders to believe in the great possibili-ties of advancement in railroad life bythose who work and make themselvesworthy, an example of what energy, in-dustry and perseverance can accomplishcomes to our mind in the success of MR. E. H. HARRIMAN. to the Union Pacific, and eventuallybought the Southern Pacific and madeit one of his allied lines. Mr. Harriman,some years ago, fitted out a scientificexpedition which traveled all overAlaska. It is a diflficult thing to get aphotograph of this gentleman, and theone we present was reproduced from asnap shot taken as he sits in a trottingsulky, behind a fast PRESIDENT E. T. JEFFERY. Mr. Edward Turner Jeffery, president ofthe Denver & Rio Grande Jeflfery rose through the mechanicaldepartment and rose from the groundfloor, for he began railroad work asoffice boy in the office of the superin-tendent of motive power of the IllinoisCentral Railroad. Then he entered theshops as a machinist apprentice, andwhile going through that course madesuch good use of his spare time that hewas able to enter the drawing office,where he quickly rose to be chief drafts-man. A little later he was assistant su-perintendent of machinery. While hold-ing that position he joined the RailwayMaster Mechanics Association, wherehe proved a very active worker on com-mittees. Higher work however calls himand he is taken away from the mechan-ical department to be general superin-tendent of the road, where he began hisrailroad career. Four years later was made general manager, aposition he relinquished two years laterto become president and gene
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