Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1912 — Would Not Consider Dishes. [ARTICLE]

Would Not Consider Dishes.

J. C. Stubbs, the Southern Pacific official, hasn’t a great deal of patience with amateurs and those uninformed in the railroad game, and he is said to have told this story to illustrate the “wisdom” of an incipient railroad magnate. When the stock holders of the Valley railroad were meeting in 189$ to plan the construction of the new Una matters of detail were taken up among them, for even the smallest stock holder wanted a finger In the construction pie. At one meeting a director who had to do with the engineering problems of construction asked, “How heavy shall the fish plates be?” A stock holder growled, “What are we bothering with the dining ear features for now? Let’s go ahead ant build the road first.”