rs would be all too short to see our
country. America, I love thee, Sweet land of Liberty, home of the brave
and the free.

CHAPTER XXI.

A FEW OF THE RAILROAD MEN UNDER WHOM I HAVE SERVED. GEORGE M. PULLMAN.
THE TOWN OF PULLMAN, ILL. AMERICAN RAILROADS LEAD THE WORLD. A FEW
FIGURES.

Among the large number of railroad men I have served under and worked
with during the fifteen years I have been on the road it gives me
pleasure to recall the names of a few with whom I was more intimately
acquainted and to whom I am indebted for many favors given and
courtesies extended, and the pleasant duty devolves on me to mention the
always courteous, obliging and most competent head of the Pullman
department in Denver, Mr. Runnells, and his assistant, Mr. Wright, who
sent me out on my first run in 1890. Next comes the well known name of
District Superintendent J. M. Smith, who one year later sent me out on
the run that marked the beginning of my Pullman service. To Mr. Smith
more than to any other railroad man I am indebted for advice, counsel
and countless favors shown me while I was in the service in the
department over which he presided so long. I always found him courteous
and obliging and never too busy to listen or to give a kind word of
advice or counsel to all who approached him on company business or on
the private affairs of the employees of the road. I had charge of a car
for several years in his territory and many a time I have had him for a
passenger and at such times he seemed more like an old friend than he
did like the superintendent of the Pullman service.

I next transferred to the Ogden division. Here I met and came to know
very well Superintendent Baker and his assistant, Johnnie Searce, and to
these two gentlemen I am also indebted for many favors shown me, as they
tried in every way possible to make my employment pleasant and
profitable while I was in their territory. I was sent out on runs that
covered the greater portions of the United States, and while on some of
my longer runs I often started from and returned to stations in
different districts under different superintendents, but I always looked
on Ogden as my home station and Superintendent Baker as my chief until
another superintendent was given charge of the district and I
transferred to Salt Lake and started to run on Senator Clark's new road,
the S. P., L. A. & S. L. road, between Salt Lake and Los Angeles, under
the superintendency of Mr