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LOUIS REPRESENTATIVE TREAS.-GENL. MGR. WE SPECIALIZE IN RAILROAD AND CAR MATERIAL The Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co. Just completed, r---*--- Ne. Repa r r Shop, 500' x 150'. i -7 Capacity Fully equipped uith , 10,000 Freight Cars; I Cranes, Electric l50,OOO Wheels; Heaters, etc., enabl- 20,000 tons Forgings. I inn us to work in all 1 kinds of weather. b i BUILDERS OF FREIGHT CARS I MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS Shepard Smith a Veteran D ran$ Fred Harvey's Fr rst LoJJee 3 1 r ears A go and I 004 r r rst r rtsm Train From Kansas City, Mo., Union Station KE BY ONE they are passing from active had already seen years of service, was Fred Harvey, service-these old timers who lived through founder of the greatest railroad eating house system 0 the pioneering, short-pants days of railroad- in the world. It was his first venture in the business ing. and it was so recent that he had not had a customer. On June 30, the Frisco placed on the retired list But the coffee urn that was the "grand-daddy" of the one of its best thousands of Harvey coffee urns, was steaming hot, known and loved and Harvey called to the hurrying fireman. engineers, M r . "Have some coffee, 'Shep,' " he said. "It's the first Shepard B. Smith, I've made. Tell me if it's good." senior man in point Shepard stopped long enough to sample the Harvey of road service be- coffee, declared it excellent and resumed his home- tween Kansas City ward journey, but not before he delivered the dis- and Fort Scott. couraging opinion that he didn't believe Harvey would For forty -two do much business in that location. y e a r s "Shep" "Your coffee's good, Harvey," he said. "But your Smith has handled place is too small. Three men would crowd it." a throttle on the "Righto,".said Harvey. "But I'm going to make the Frisco, and before coffee and food so good that the boys will come, no that he was a fire-' matterc how fa+ they Rave to walk!' . man on the Santa During the years between 1875 and 1883 "Shep" Fe, and the Fort returned many times to sample Harvey's coffee, and Scott & Gulf. so did the growing hundreds of other railroad and There are few traveling customers. That Iittle lunch room in the things in the rail- corner of the old Santa Fe freight depot corner at SHEPARD B. SMITH roading world of Topeka proved to be the beginning of an eating house operation not an service that has become famous the world over. open book to this veteran of shining steel and roar- By the time Fred Harvey's "Place" had grown to ing engine. tremendous dimension on the Santa Fe and other He is the man who handled the throttle of the first roads, and the new Harvey House in the union pas- reguhr passenger train ta leave the new Kansas City senger station at Kansas City was to be opened in union station in 1914; via Frisco Lines. He was the November of 1914, "Shep" had traveled far in the first man to "sample" a cup of coffee made by the railroad world and was a Frisco Lines engineer. hands of Fred Harvey, pioneer in railroad restau- When Ford Harvey, son of the founder of the rants and dining car service. And he was at the famous system, heard that "Shep" Smith was to be throttte of the first Santa Fe train ever to enter Kansas honored by driving the first Frisco passenger train out City, Mo. of the new union station, he pondered on it a moment. Fifty-one years ago, in 1875, to be correct, "Shep" "Tell 'Shep' to come here with his family ahead of was in his swaddling clothes as a railroad man, but the opening tomorrow," he instructed his assistant. he was firing nevertheless on the Santa Fe and living "He drank the first cup of coffee my father ever made at Topeka, Kansas. for sale, and he shall drink the first cup ever served One evening he was swinging along home and pass- in the new Kansas City union station." ing the old freight depot, he noticed that one corner That is how Smith and his family were served a had been fitted up for a lunch room. course dinner in the Harvey House before its doors Behind the counter, polishing an old coffee urn that (Now turn to Page 22, please) St. Louis Traffic Club Members Break Attenda~- - Record for "Frisco Dayw Luncheon Event Honoring Frisco and Ozark Strawber y Draws 641 Members and Guests, May 24-President Kurn Speaks N attendance of 641 members and guests which have had in the past in the activities of your club. broke all records of the St. Louis Traffic Club "It is needless for me to say that today is a pleas- A since its inception 20 years ago; greeted urable event, and the honor which you do the Frisco President James M. Kum, Vice-president J. R. is accepted by me as an honor to our organization Koontz and the Frisco Lines at the "Frisco-Strawberry rather than to any particular individual or group Day" luncheon of the Traffic Club at the St. Louis thereof. Chamber of Commerce May 24. "It has always been recognized as a comparatively The meeting was the last of the year and its dedica- easy undertaking for a man to address himself to a tion to Frisco Lines, included also the Prisco's famous subject which has been so graciously assigned him by crop, the "Ozark Strawberry!' others, But if I had spent weeks I probably could Strawberries were on the menu card, with the ap- not have selected a subject which would be more fit- papriate slogan-"Nature might have made a better ting for the occasion than the one which has been as- berry than the Ozark strawberry-but didn't" and the signed to me-"Our Duty As We See It." To me guests were served with strawberry cocktail, straw- this covers a sufficiency of territory, and, considering berry sherbet and strawberry short cake as a part tha't I sliodd not attempt to take up a great deal oi af the Iuncheon. your time, it might be well at the outset to emphasize Vice-president Koontz acted as toastmaster and in- that we have an exceptionally important duty to per- troduced other Prisco officials attending, including form ivhen each and every one of us tries to render Vice-presidents F: H. Hamilton, J. I?,. Hutchison, B. 100 per cent efficiency in our services to the public. T. Wood ; E. T. Miller, general solicitor ; F. G. Jonah, That not only means the proper operation of our traig chief engineer; S. S. Butler, freight traffic manager; service, but it means that every officer or employe J. N. Cornatzar, passenger traffic manager, and H. L. connected with the conduct of transportation has a Worman, superintendent of motive power; and called relation with those who make possible our existence, upon all members of the Frisco's freight department which relationship unless properEy understood and present to rise for their introduction. They were maintained will involve the entire operation of the given a generous applause by the members of the transportation machine. In the last analysis, what you club. expect from the hands of transportation is a prompt President Kurn delivered the address of the meet- and proper delivery of that which you pay for-service. ing, on "Our Duty As'We See It." In order to accomplisl~this, it may be fitting for me The address follows: to remark that an organization has to be properly "Mr.