Over the hill via Caledonia and on to the railroading centre St. Thomas, you hear the homeguard recall with satisfaction the various milestones passed by James A. Stewart, the son of a “Grand Trunk” railway man here, in his march from a minor clerkship to the lucrative appointment of General Passenger Agent, Rock Island Lines, Kansas City. In Kansas City is also J. D. Dewan of London, freight agent of the fine new union terminal. Efficiency is vital at this busy southwestern gateway. [Illustration: ALEX. HILTON, Passenger Traffic Manager, Frisco Line, St. Louis. J. WEBSTER, Freight Traffic Manager, N.Y.C. & H.R.R., Chicago. Late DR. STENNETT, Auditor, Expenditures, C. & N.W.R., Chicago. HARRY PARRY, General Passenger Agent, New York Central Lines, Buffalo. JOHN J. BYRNE, Passenger Traffic Manager, Santa Fe, Los Angeles. GEORGE W. VAUX, General Agent, Passenger Department, Union Pacific Railway, Chicago. ] Of such material does the great league of passenger traffic experts consist and their mission has meant an evolution in train growth unprecedented on two hemispheres. To attain high-water mark in comfort, speed and elegance, their eternal vigilance and rivalry has balked at naught that invention could suggest in devices of steel, electricity, rare, imported woods, marquetry and costly draperies to adorn and strengthen the wheeled and floating palaces in which they evince unbounded pride. Youth must have its sway, and because of the wanderlust in their veins, hundreds of these Northern blades, fortified with little but a sound mind in a sound body, elementary knowledge well instilled and an instinctive distrust of luxury’s blandishments, sallied forth to make the mirage, “Green are hills far away” a pulsating actuality. With none of Caesar’s braggadocio and red fire illuminating their advance, a goodly number could well appropriate that old pagan’s slogan, “Veni, Vidi, Vici”. [Illustration: WILLIAM J. JACKSON, President, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway.] The operating department of the railroads seems to have had a special attraction for the capabilities of many Canadians, which is born out by the outstanding examples mentioned in this partial resume. Samuel G. Strickland, General Manager, C. & N.W.R., was reared at Lakefield, Ont., in Kawartha Lakes locality and it takes a good man to please the veteran Marvin Hughitt who always expected a high quality of service. Yet another United States railroader who was cradled in Canada is W. J. Jackson, former Vice-President of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway, and now President and Receiver of this property at Chicago, who has recollections of earlier days when he was “Johnnie” Jackson, working on the “inwards” desk with the “G.T.R.” at Toronto before he went west with the late George B. Reeve when the latter was traffic manager with the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway.