MOSES OF A NEW EXODUS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 14

MOSES OF A NEW EXODUS.

• Mr. George McL. Brown, who has been appointed European manager of the Canadian Pacific Kailway, ; is a genial giant of-6ft. iin. His advance has been rapid! He now, at the age of forty-four, holds the most important post, outside Montreal, that his company has to confer. "It is a bigger job than Moses had," remarked one ,of his associates, "for we send 100,000 people to Canada every year." It is' not tor nothing that throughout Canada Mr. Brown is known as "George." Personal intercourse , between the management . staff and the customers of' the line is strongly encouraged- On its five days' journey from. St. John's to Van-; couver the C-PJI. train is regularly followed by instructions to local officials, telling them to look after the requirements of this passenger and that. Air. Brown sees everybody who wants to see him, however busy he may be. That is one of the ways of the C-P.fi. Born at HamUton, Ontario, in 1866, Mr. Brown was, educated at Shrewsbury, England. :. He entered the service of the CJ.'JI. in XBS6. Ho organised the passenger service on the Pacific Coast, and was appointed agent-general for the executive in British Columbia. He managed the hotels, restaurants, sleeping-cars, and dining-cars ■of thp company. He • went m .Montreal as general passenger agent lor the Atlantic service. In 1903. he came to London as general traffic agent. ' He is-now. European manager, and has, therefore, obtained one of the prizes of the service.