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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH RAILROAD WORK. By Mr. W. L. Park, Vice-President, Illinois Central Railroad Company, Chicago, Illinois. The dedication of a great temple to learning is no uncommon event, yet no human mind can fathom its possibilities, or the effect upon millions yet to be. To railroad men, as well as others, the contemplation of this magnificent edifice can only open to their minds a vague conception of the influence to be thrown out from here. The results to be achieved by those who will pass through the portals of this modern Transportation Building, equipped with that special knowledge which whets the appetite for the accomplishment of new things yet to be created, cannot be estimated. New methods that will herein be created will bestow upon mankind blessings that ever continue to burst from the fruits of progressive civilization. The practice of a decade ago whioh oonfused our minds with its ingenuity, sinks today without comment into the common-place or is rejooted as primitive. We have come to expect great things as a matter of course, and perhaps we have a right to do so, when we make the path of knowledge so attractive by our great institutions of investigation, research and accomplishment. We, as railroad men can, without any great prophetic vision, discern something of that whioh will be the
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