By Dahnte Cegers
Leland Stanford was an owner of the Transcontinental Rail Road. He was a deliberate thinker and was characterized by a plodding nature that repeatedly insulted his railroad partners. Stanford characteristic silence and reticent pace was trying his other patience. He was very cruel and that made all his workers not want to work for him anymore. On January 8, 1863, Governor Staford
broke ground to inaugurate the Central Pacific's construction.
Leland had trouble motivating himself, leaving the exhausting tasks to his compatriots. When he made decisions on their behalf, the results often sent the Associates scrambling. In 1866, he signed million-dollar draft without their consultation , making the company captive to the bank of California.
The owners were cruel, mean and hard to work with. Leland Staford was the worst off all and in the end he ensured that he would be the most famous rail road owner of all time. He has a legacy that would outlast his associates.
Source:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/tcrr-stanford/
Good job! Its sort of funny to see how such an important event in our country (the rail road being built) had not that great of leaders/owners.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I'm surprised that the owners treated their workers like that and still finished the rail road.
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