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been Rensselaer Polytech. Anyhow, he had a good engineering degree. He'd had some experience because the Boston & Maine, and the Maine Central, railroads had taken him on as an engineer to reorganize some of their transportation and equipment problems. He had led them through a pattern of purchase of new equipment, and so on.

So he had a good background. He was quite young. He was very unworldly, though about thirty-seven or ‘eight. He was a poor boy, whose family had had enough to get him through the technical school. But he hadn't rolled around in idleness. He had been associated with other young men who had had to earn their living. He had gone to work in Maine for his first job. That was all simple. Then he had been sent to do this difficult job in Cuba and had done it respectably.

I saw him and I liked him. I liked him because he was so quiet. He didn't talk too much. He was what the State of Maine appreciates - a man of few words. I remember that during my first interview I kept wondering whether he heard me, and whether he understood me, because he didn't answer back and develop a conversation the way most people you're interviewing do. I wasn't sure that he was getting it. Finally I said, “Now, Mr. Andrews, have you got any idea, as we talk now, of what it is the problem is and what I want done?”