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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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but it will cost you #5,000". "Fi V0 thousand dollars, why, "Yes, but labor has you built Charley's house for •4,000." gone up, material has gone up, every man expects a little more profit this year than last year, therefore I have got to add 25 per cent to it." That is all right. He can take oare of his work, and he oomes out all right in the end. But the poor railroad fellow, he cannot do that. Rates are getting less rather than more, so you see we have got to do something to cut down the operating expenses to make a better showing, to keep the higher officers, board of directors, and everybody else satisfied. How can we help? Coal is a large factor in exOn the railroad penses with the railroads of the country. with which I am connected it amounts to something over eight million dollars a year. Eight million dollars of coal seems a great deal, and yet if we can save 10 per cent of that, we will save $800,000, and it is possible, absolutely possible, if every man were simply to say, "I can do my duty, I can do my part, and I will do my part". Then the result is already attained. The snow flake oomes floating down, and we look at him and say, "What do you amount to?" But he keeps constantly falling and falling, until these great giant locomotives are stopped, the trains are stopped. So if every individual of the 40,000 men on the railroad with which I am connected will do his part, do it well, do as Lord Nelson said: "England this day
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