From Switchman to President December 1 1906 TIMES MAGAZINE
From Switchman to President
TIMES MAGAZINE
This is the storv of James Harahan, who has succeeded Stuyvesant Fish as head of the Illinois Central. He began his oar er in 1861 in the yard at Alexandria, Va., and steadily climbed upward, through the grades of switchman section boss, clerk, roadmaster, superintendent and general ma ager. His is an inspiring story.
BITTER conflict between two powerful men powerful in the sense in which the world of finance understands the word has resulted in the replacing by a man named James T. Harahan of a man named Stuyvesant Fish as head of one of the big railroads of this country the Illinois Central. The struggle which brought about this change aroused and held for weeks the interest of the whole country, and its ultimate outcome in the conduct and control of railway traffic, east, west, south, and north, is still a subject of general specul