Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20sHam, George H. (George Henry)
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Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
Ham, George H. (George Henry)
Canada; Ham, George H. (George Henry), 1847-1926; Journalists -- Canada -- Biography
In the publicity department in the early days were such men as Ed.
Sandys, Roy Somerville, Molyneaux St. John, Harry Charlton, Wilfred
Crighton, and now the presiding genius is John Murray Gibbon, who is
also an author of considerable note, and he has surrounded himself with
a capable staff. During all the years some of the best descriptive
writers in the world have written up the C.P.R. until, with its
newspaper advertising, and handsomely printed booklets, its name is
known everywhere.
Chief Chamberlain was with the company years ago, and after being chief
of police in Vancouver returned. Men in his department include Col.
MacLeod, of Winnipeg; J. P. Burns, J. Cadieux and Inspectors Spragge and
McGorman, of Vancouver; Neliher, at Calgary; Ashman, at Winnipeg;
Chesser, at Moose Jaw; MacFarlane, at North Bay; Morse, at Toronto;
Catlow, at St. John, N.B.; and Logan, at Montreal—all veterans.
The Ocean Service.
Notable among the officers of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services are
Wm. T. Payne, manager for Japan and China, who has resided for many
years in Yokohama, and has received high honors from the Imperial
Japanese Government. Charlie Benjamin joined the traffic department in
St. Louis, Mo., and rose to be passenger traffic manager of the C.P.O.S.
Weldy Annable, who started in the Ottawa ticket office, transferred to
Montreal, and after a term as general baggage agent was promoted to his
present position as general passenger agent. Percy Sutherland is general
passenger agent in Hongkong, a son of J. N. Sutherland, general freight
agent at St. John, N.B., and Toronto for many years. Billy Ballantyne is
the capable and popular assistant general passenger agent at Montreal,
and Willie Webber, who welcomes the coming and speeds the parting
traveller at the gangway of the Atlantic steamers, smooths away their
troubles and spreads that gospel of service which is the motto of the
C.P.R. W. T. Marlow, now at the head of the Ocean Services freight
department, and Dick Clancy is another popular old-timer among the
veterans. The former started in Toronto in the early days and served for
many years in the Far East before reaching his present position.
The baggage department, over which Joe Apps, a veteran of the veterans,
presides, with assistants like W. E. Allison and T. W. McGuire, of
Montreal, and Joe Sparks, of Winnipeg, and amongst other workers Mrs.
Tracey, who has been in the department for years, is an important one.
Last year the total pieces of baggage handled numbered 6,353,308;
bicycles, 13,317; dogs, 21,494; baby carriages, 27,905—all sensible
babies travel by the C.P.R.;—coupes, 3,475; and cans of milk,
2,831,858. Space forbids mention of the number of cases of hard liquor
carried into the arid districts lying between the Ottawa River and the
summit of the Rocky Mountains, but—.
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