“If feasting, rise”, saith Opportunity: “Cities and fields I walk, I knock unbidden once at every gate.” Forsooth, the elusive sprite does and sometimes peers into secluded corners. Besides being awake at the psychological moment, a clever quartette who found “Hustle while you wait” their staunchest prop in reaching the plums were Herbert A. Jackson, W. R. Callaway, J. A. Holden and Geo. O. Somers. Mr. Somers started in life with none of the helps designated as luck. No doubt, he thought of ease but worked on through each consecutive group of wearying exactions. As the architect of his own fortune the progress of this village boy may be gauged by his former title, traffic manager of United Fruit Company’s fleet of eighty craft, to which William Mullins, of London and Toronto, promptly succeeded and to-day directs his corporation’s developments in Cuba. [Illustration: E. F. L. STURDEE, General Agent, Passenger Department, Canadian Pacific Railway, Boston, Mass. A Maritime Province Product from St. John, N.B.] Energy unsparingly applied was James A. Holden’s key to the door of advancement, which once open disclosed the road to preferment growing smoother and wider. Always in the atmosphere of moguls and shunts when a stripling, nurtured in routine as biller, telegrapher, superintendent’s clerk, agent, &c., he found it easy after getting in motion, to push on to St. Louis and the Frisco Railway, to an executive place with “C.O. & G.R.”, thence Chicago and the freight traffic managership of Rock Island Lines. Mr. Holden, who is Vice-President of Kansas City Southern Railroad, but just now busy with the Director General of Railroads at Washington, intimates that he reached this goal without cause to complain of the way he has been dealt with. He was a railroader’s son from Whitby, Canada, and office boy in ’77 on the now almost forgotten Whitby, Port Perry & Lindsay Railway.