Nowadays, discriminating tourists, individually or in parties, the banker speculator, merchant prince in his own car, and commercial man having business in Europe, at the Pacific Coast or in Manitoba, more and more frequently requests that the New York or Chicago gateway should figure in their itinerary to permit enjoyment of the unsurpassed service and scenic environment of those routes which justly deserve the public’s endorsement. Trade relations between United States and Canadian railroads systems constantly grow more intimate and wield an unmistakable influence in the strengthening of those bonds, commercial and sentimental, which make for the good of all concerned. This interchange broadens our knowledge of each other and tends to more completely harmonize the aims and aspirations of the two nations. [Illustration: 1. B. H. BENNETT, General Agent, C. & N.W.R., Toronto, Ont. 2. E. T. BOLAND, Manager, Robert Reford Co., Toronto. 3. R. CREELMAN, General Passenger Agent, Canadian Northern Railway, Winnipeg, Man. 4. GEO. COLLINS, Superintendent, C.N.R., Trenton, Ont. Ex-General Manager, Central Ont. R’y. 5. A. D. HUFF, Traffic Manager, Canadian Export Paper Co., Montreal, former D.F.A., G.T.R., Ottawa. 6. L. MACDONALD, Division Freight Agent, Grand Trunk Railway, Toronto, Ont. 7. M. MCGREGOR, General Canadian Freight Agent, Erie Railroad, Toronto, Canada. 8. C. E. MCPHERSON, Ass’t Pass’r Traffic Manager, Canadian Pacific Railway, Winnipeg, Man. 9. P. G. MOONEY, Assistant General Freight Agent, Canadian Northern Railway, Toronto. 10. H. P. SHARPE, General Agent, Dominion Express Company, Toronto. 11. H. G. THORLEY, Passenger Agent for Ontario, White Star--Dominion Line, Toronto. ] A WIZARD WHEN IN BUD THOMAS A. EDISON [Illustration: JOSEPH S. DRAPER, The G.T.R.--G.W.R. Conductor, on whose trains “Tommy” Edison was newsboy and juvenile publisher. Conductor Draper ran through London for 44 years.] Napoleon Bonaparte on isolated St. Helena, when rebelliously pacing beside his titled and devoted aide one gloomy day exclaimed “Montholon! Montholon! the world has produced but three great generals--Alexander the Great, Julius Cæsar and myself.” What monumental self esteem. Strategist and tacticial genius though he proved himself, such plannings and ambition at that period meant the circumvention and bloody ruin of his fellow men and their household gods. Introducing here the Little Corporal’s egoism, the chaotic condition of the times and his campaigns of destruction serve to emphasize the wonderfully constructive and scientific achievements so quietly evolved for man’s benefit by the brain of another but unwarlike genius, Thomas Alva Edison. Until Armageddon, his has been a peaceful era with ploughshares replacing swords and commerce expanding unmolested.