On completion of the “Nickel Plate” in 1883 he organized the Traders’ Dispatch and as manager was the youngest in his class, with a pronounced penchant for ensnaring traffic netting good revenues. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company had been scrutinizing the trek of the tall, rangy and genial bachelor, Tom Jarvis--with a host of ‘pay streak’ friends from Frisco to Fundy Bay--and they soon made it “worth his while.” In ’98, as their General Eastern Agent at New York, his traveling men garnered cheese, coal, milk, live stock and passenger traffic _ad libitum_. Circularized again and again, he subsequently made his bow as Assistant General Traffic Manager, Freight Traffic Manager, and in March, 1906, Vice-President. He modestly attributes it all to hard work and the aim to become familiar with the duties of “the men higher up.” Boys, note that. Cosmopolitan habitues of the Lotus Club, for instance, and friends in Ontario watch his progress with pride and await news of further honors. Now and then they have opportunity to inspect him at close range as guests in his private car. While the methods of Mr. Jarvis in business are incisive, crisp and convincing, and devoid of much flowery phraseology, he possesses the most approachable and kindly personality, which unconsciously wins the homage of porter and President’s esteem. “Honor and shame from no condition rise: Act well your part--there all the honor lies.” GEO. J. CHARLTON Passenger Traffic Expert [Illustration: GEO. J. CHARLTON, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago & Alton Railroad and allied systems.] “A pale faced fanatic” Geo. J. Charlton never was and never will be--so his friends declare. The metamorphosis would too grievously trouble him in spirit and torture his avoirdupois. Glance again at the features and physical contour of the Passenger Traffic Manager of “Chicago & Alton,” the cap sheaf to a cluster of four sister transportation corporations, and contradict me, ye phrenological bump feelers, if the X rays do not locate there a large, sympathetic heart, optimism profound, great capacity for work and the ability to enjoy and “Spend money like a sailor.” Ever since the time his education began in the private and public schools of his birthplace, Hamilton, Canada, where in boyhood he “Snapped the whip” and operated in the moonlit melon patch, George Charlton has been in the centre of the doings. His must have been the hypnotic eye, or he carried one of those heavily charged horse shoe magnets, for the boys and girls all liked him and gravitated in his direction without know-why. How many of his classmates have since made the same good use of their time, think you. His father was a railroader of international repute, and nurtured in an atmosphere of “ticket affairs,” it was not unnatural the boy’s name should first appear on a railway pay roll in 1875 as messenger in the general passenger department of Chicago & Alton Road.