Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-05

iogIst Tie cannot be said to be strrk.
lnsIy handsome, but at the came time
every line ON hi3 clean s..to1 face
sptHs business Ills eye, ar. never
sun hehini o pair OF old fashioned
glasses, not even for q moment and
Nhlle be talks In quick ana tersa sou-
fences he seems % be taking I'm all tbers
is 20 DE seen For the highest uald
railroad Official IN the United states
NIatr salary ls said 10 ba
equal tp that az President MeKirlrv
A-t HnNos do not appear % gpani
any A't't amount OF time In ATTENDING
10 Hs lrtslnN attire. Clad To- gllt of
ltt. ls thli have seen faithful service
NIli ah 'n0 emf 'faW hat perched m
me ndck of his grey locks Tobo
60 S'lbbs his morning smiled benigDlv
on all corners
John G.. Stubbs who was recertl,, an.
pointed traffic director for H. II. Harri-
man oig system iR "a wears Of age
ana is considered the o.ar or any rain
road man IN Che country when II come,
I'd me manipulation ~ traffic affairs.
Nhile he Is, cOmparatively speaking
young yet to guide the destinles of four
futh great SYSTEMS as the Union Pa
enc. oregon short Line. Oregon Rain
road a Navigation company and lhe
southern Pacific, there is not another
man 10 the United States who Is better
qualified TO an the bill
MI Stubhs was born nc Ashland O
May 81, 1917 He started TO 20 TO school
Just before the war broke out bpt HIS
studies We're somewhat int.rfera1 WITH
by nus accompanying his father 10 tho
front owing 10 his youth, however.
he ana not see any active service but
was gwen clerk3hip IN the quarter
masters department. In the spring OF
lSO9 he commenced his railroad career
as clerk In the general freight office
OF the Plttsburg Cincinnati & 81. Louis
road OF which his uncle. u. S. GRAY
was general manager In October $50
ne entered the employ ~ the Central
Pacinc as chief clerk in the general
freight Office az Sacramento. Here he
showed Of what stun he was made and
rapidly rose until he filed the position
Of freight traffic manager In 1884 he
was offered good position BY the
Santa Fe which company recognized
his CAPABILITIES but he refused 10 make
the transfer; shortly after this he was
made general traffic manager, which
position placed him In charge Of the
freight and passenger business handled
hv the Central Pacific. I'm 1851 Mr.
Stubs severed his connection with tho
road and accented the second vice presl-
dency of the Chicago Milwaukee & 81.
| Paul This position he held for one
| month when he WAS recalled and asked
IN tpke the fourth vice presidency of
the Southern Pacific successor 10 the
! Central Paoifc Shortly afterwards.
! December 1859 ne wac made the third
vice president NJ the Southern Pacific.
/ From his intimate acquaintance with
western railroad affairs Mr. Stubs Is
| the right man IN the right place when
! Il comes 10 handing the Hartman in
! terests. and u Is oetinated that his
enormous salary nj $50 900 a wear viii be
hut 1.-THE ~ the amount he win save
! the four comnanies nv superintending
their traffic affairs AMI working so that
| tha bic systems win pull together play
into one another's hands and generally
SCOOP IN mn In SIGHT
There Is a well defined rumor to the
eject that T. NJ Schumacher Of .he
Union Pacific. Is slated FOR n good
position under Mr. Stubs az an early
! late.