When his father resigned the position of General Freight Agent of the St. Lawrence & Ottawa Railway he assumed charge of the passenger interests of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and came to Toronto to represent that company--until his transfer to Pittsburg, creating in 1878 the permanent agency which was withdrawn only last December. A. J. Taylor entered his father’s employ as a clerk at Toronto in the spring of 1879, covered the territory as traveling passenger agent under his direction, succeeded him, became “C.F. & P.A.”, in 1900, and as a respected and trustworthy officer his name remained on that company’s pay roll continuously for thirty-six years. Although his agreeable disposition and the nature of his duties in early manhood, secured him throughout Ontario and Quebec an extensive acquaintance with which he was _persona grata_, Mr. Taylor did not eagerly seek new companionship and he clearly recognized the line of demarkation existing between personal and business friends. However, many men whom he met through the medium of commercial connections, soon became more intimate and it was only a “casual” or extra-sensitive person that misinterpreted a certain aloofness or transient preoccupation which some thought he appeared to sometimes display. Prior to 1885, the year when the Canadian Pacific Railway threw open a new gateway to Winnipeg, Andy Taylor was one of a lively United States railroading coterie who sought a share of that growing and intensely competitive passenger business then moving only via St. Paul to the Dakotas and Canadian Northwest. He proved his worth, building a reputation which sustained him long after, thus gaining for his employers a percentage of traffic based on good-will towards “Andy” which the road would have otherwise been denied.