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PROPER AIMS IN TRAINING FOR RAILWAY SERVICE. By Mr. H. G. Hetzler, President, Chicago & Western Indiana Railway Company, Chicago, Illinois.

When Dean Goss asked me to present "The Proper Aims in Training for Railway 3ervioe", the thought occurred to me that it would be comparatively easy to point out a few particular aims that a young man should have in entering this service. But after considering the subject, and I have been in railway service a number of years, the particular aims above others that one should have are not easily discerned. To be successful in any line of work requiring a technical education demands the same sort of diligent work, and the application of sound business principles. Therefore, I think it would "be well to define in a general way, what goes to make up railway service. Owing to the territory covered, the volume and variety of business handled, and the various conditions met with in building and operating a railroad, it is necessary to divide the service into a number of departments, such as Operating, Engineering, Accounting, etc., which are in turn divided into sub-departments. From this, it will be seen that in entering the service of a railroad, one must of necessity, become thoroughly acquainted with some one of these departments in order to be prepared to go forward satisfactorily with the work.