The evening times., 1898-09-20

ter the new Chicago owners would nave
had no Philadelphia division to enter
into the calculations in connection with
lines through to and terminals in New
York. 1t would have long ago been one
of two Pennsylvania routes between this
city and Philadelphia.
However, alls well that ends well,
and ii is decidedly well for the Balti-
more and Ohio. and for Baltimore, both
as center of commerce and port,
that such men of affairs as Messrs Hill,
Ream. Field and Armour have entered
into the management of the company.
Mr.. Hin's Ability.
'Hilrs life is a veritable romance, al
though he is as far removed from the
romantic as it is possible to imagine a
man could be. OF medium or average
height, stocky and sturdy, he is well up
! into the fifties, if not, indeed, the
other side of his threescore, but ii would
not be easy 10 find in Baltimore one of
! half his age with his energy, activity and
determination To him the run across the
Atlantic is but little more than a ferry
! trip. and there are but very few men, in
deed, who visit Berlin commanding the
confidence in monetary circles there that
! he does. His word goes with the all
powerful Deutsche Bank, and to my think
ing much of the success he has met with
/ I'm combating the gigantic monetary in
/ iuence seeking to secure the Baltimore
/ and Ohio has been through his great per-
sonal weight with the leading German
financiers.
II was once with Robert Garrett when
! the special representative of an Amster-
! dam syndicate, coming over here for the
purpose, offered him $500 per share, cash,
/ for the Garrett holdings in the Baltimore
and Ohio. The German bankers have, /
opine, gotten in on the ground floor at a
figure most Insignificant as compared to
I that offered by their Holland confreres.
Not that they are 10 influence the con-
troll, but the ten millions of dollars talked
OF in connection with the deal is a mere
bagatelle in relation 10 the combination
OF capital that had to be behind the reor-
ganization syndicate to insure anything
approaching success with Pierpont Nor
gan co figuring in the matter.
Mr.. Hills management of the Great
Northern has been superb, and his strong
individuality permeates every detail of it.
I Practically he has alone built up one of
the greatest railway systems of the
world, and not only this. but he has be-
come the strongest single factor in his
| principal competing system the North
J ern Pacific, while he undoubtedly con-
| trolls what was originally known as the
| Stickney System, now the Chicago and
| Great Western, between Chicago and St
Paul. II is splendidly- equipped line, its
best passenger trains being composed of
coaches Of hardwood.
Mr.. Hill has long been convinced of
the Importance of the trade of the far
East TO this country and of the vast pos
sibilities of its development. He has, in
deed, been the foremost of our railway
men in the recognition of this, and today
there is not railway president in the
United States with an equal comprehen-
sion of the situation. He has been and
is in position TO appreciate what Van
Horne, the sagacious and exceptionally
brainy American at the head of the Ca
madam Pacific, has done with line un-
der single management extending from
the Pacific TO the Atlantic
The most effectual blow Van Horne
/ has ever received since the consumma-
1 tion of his practical monopoly of the far
Eastern traffic is in the elimination of
/ Hills steadily maintained purpose 10,
like him, have a thorough system under
one domination from ocean TO ocean. Bill
! some time since induced the Nippon Csen
4 Kaisha, the japanese steamship COM
| pany, to put on "A line of ships between
Yokohama and Seattle. and in addition,
he has his own line of steamers from
Seattle 10 Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai,
and aongkong.
templating a line of thoroughly modern
ships between Port Arthur and some port
on our side of the Pacific and 10 this
line will be thrown all the business of
the Siberian Railway when completed
With the great preponderating influence
OF the Russians in China, very much of
the traffic of that empire will also be
directed to the steamship company re-
ferred TO. and the Importance of the
place selected on this side for the termi-
nal can hardly be overestimated.
Hill is a very level-headed and far
seeing man. one to view things progress
sively and not underestimate his rivals
The railway situation, especially as relat-
es TO transcontinental lines, is rapidly as
suming new aspects. In the securing of
the Union Pacific and the cooperation of
Huntington and the Central Pacific. the
Vanderbilt interests constituted, what is
with the Northwestern. Lake Shore Gen.
tral and Hudson River. througl system
from the Pacific to the Atlantic under
one controlling influence. II was the all
actuating ambition of former President
Strong, of the Atchison, Topeka and San
Ia Fe, to extend his system from ocean
TO ocean, ana some years ago, shortly af-
ter the completion of the Santa Fe Chi
cago line, there was talk of such COM
bination with the Baltimore and Ohio as
would insure this. But Strong although
50 farsighted to be the first to see
what is now coming to pass, was unfor-
tunately little too soon and his rapid
strides lost him the confidence of those
who were not as wise as he.
MARSHALL Field.
THAT the Baltimore and Ohio is des-
tined 10 be conspicuous is assured by
the men who il is said, now succeed 10
the control. Marshall Field has had for
a few years back somewhat of personal
| interest in the Baltimore and Ohio
Il do not think l have ever crossed the
Atlantic either way that there has not
been Marshall Field & Co. buyer
| aboard the ship. The combined business
of his wholesale and retail houses in Chi
cago is enormous. Field, with all his
multitudinous interests. his eighty to a
hundred millions of wealth. and affairs
which would weigh down an ordinary
man until life itself would almost be a
burden, appears in public, as in private,
as one to whom the world and its doings
were as of no especial moment A most
unobtrusive, quiet and gentlemanly man.
fastidious in every detail of attire, but
the farthest removed from a fop, most
kindly in instincts, capital listener. de-
ciSive in his judgments. and never going
over the same ground twice, he is as
fine an eXemplification of the wholly self
made man as can be found on the conti-
| nent.
Ream and Armour.
Norman B. Ream at first glance is al
most the last man one would take for the
closest intimate friend of i1e1d, as he
was also of George Pullman, the latter,