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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE RAILROAD. By Mr. T. H. Goodnow, President, Western Railway Club, Chicago, Illinois. I esteem it an honor, and I assure you it is a pleasure and a privilege to be with you on this occasion, and it would afford me a very great deal of pleasure to be able to address you in suoh a manner as to be entertaining, as well as instructive, but I am afraid that I may fall far short in my efforts and anxiety to do so. In the limited time alloted to me to address you, I will endeavor to give you briefly my experiences in the Mechanical Department of the Railroad, and to express my gratification at meeting with so large a number of young men, whose faces bear the unmistakable mark of American Citizenship. It is you and your boys who must be the future industrial makers and builders of the railroads and commercial interests of the country through the mechanical pursuits and industries along the lines you may follow. It is especially gratifying to me to know that there is so large a number of American boys who realize the necessity of a technical education, a privilege denied to many of the men who are today the leaders in the important mechanical pursuits of this country, and who have mechanical instincts bred within them. You, who are of a
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