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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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HOW CAN THE TECHNICAL SCHOOL HELP IN THE SOLUTION OP RAILWAY PROBLEMS. By Mr. Robert Quayle, General Superintendent Motive Power, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co., Chicago, 111. Mr. Henderson referred to the old man, or his old friend. Now, if he were to stand up here before you and you should Judge by the hair on the top of the head, I think you would think he was the older man. n How can the Technical School Help in the SoluThe Problems of the railways tion of Railway Problems?" are numerous, and I think that legislation is one of the worst problems we have to contend with today. I think thatyall railroad men understand that, and also that the employes are back of that very legislation. The railroad companies have just two things to sell, freight and passenger transportation, and the rates of both passenger and freight are fixed by people outside of the railway. If I were to build a house for you, young man, or any one of you young men today, if I were the contractor, and the house was to oost $4,000, or rather, if I built one for you last year, and another young man would come to me now and say, "Mr. Quayle, I want you to build a house like Charley So-and-So had laat year; I am going to be married, I have got to have a home to put my bride in, and I want a house just like his". "All right, all right.
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