The New Student's Reference Work/Hays, Charles M.

Hays, Charles M.,
CHARLES M. HAYS was born at Rock Island, Illinois, 1856. He entered railway service in 1873 as a clerk in the passenger department of the Atlantic and Pacific Railway. He was general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway from 1896 to 1901, and became vice-president. He is president of the Central Vermont Railway, the Canadian Express Company, the St. Clair Tunnel Company and the International Bridge Company. He is now associated in the work of constructing another transcontinental railway, the Grand Trunk Pacific (q. v.).