Middle Schoolman. Between the old school of Hill and Harriman and the new school of the Van Sweringens, railroading had its middle school of able, hardheaded, now somewhat old-fashioned gentlemen. Last week when William Benson Storey, 75, resigned his job as president of Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe. one of the biggest members of the Middle School retired from railroading. Born in San Francisco eight years after the gold rush, initiated in transportation by loading gold on a stage coach of which his father was freight agent. Mr. Storey—six feet tall, broad-shouldered, mustached...
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