Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-29
KNEEDLER WITH
4. E. HUNTINGTON
PORTRAIT AS A DEPARTMENT
CHIEF is sHJWN WITH THAT
OF MAGNATE
Huntington at the Head of the Great
est lnterurban ~ystem in the World
-centers in Los Angeles and Runs
in All Directions.

The Los Angeles Miner of December
published portrait of Henry E. Hunt
,ington, the electric railway and inter
urban magnate of Los Angeles, Cal.
Grouped about the portrait of Mr.
Huntington are five portraits of "some
Of his department chiefs" Among
these is H. s. Kneedler, formerly Of
Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa. When
here, Mr. Kneedler was managing edi-
tor Of the Courier. In the printed
sketch Of Mr.. Huntington, the Miner
says:
among the captains Of industry who
have sought the inviting field of Los
Angeles and southern California to
carry into effect great promotion prop
ositions, there is one man who stands
pre- eminently in the front rank, and Is
the leader, the magic of whose name
identified with any enterprise is suffi-
cient to start something in any direc-
tion in any line of worthy endeavor.
1t is scarcely necessary to name the
man who has accomplished SO much
for the entire southland-Henry E..
Huntington. His name is a household
word throughout southern California,
and is associated with all that means
progress, development, and prosperity,
andeit was indeed a sorry day for poor
old San Francisco when, in the year
1898, becoming Disguised with the
insults and abuse heaped upon him by
the yellow newspapers. of the city of
the Golden Gate, Henry e. Huntington
disposed of his vast street railway in.
terests there and decided to come to
Los Angeles with the forty million dol
lars he acquired from the estate of his
uncle, Collin P. Huntington. Frisco
woke up too late to the discovery that
she had lost man of immense re-
sources and capabilities, and when Mr..
Huntington came to Los Angeles the
capital Of the southland welcomed a
man of great purpose, energy, force
and capital, who through his electric
railway and other operations has push
ed Los Angeles twenty years ahead
as a city of Importance not only to
the great state of California but to the
entire country, for it has been largely
through his individual efforts and faith
In the future of the city that immense
capital has been drawn to this section
for sale and profitable investment in
city and ranch property and in build
ings and homes.
In the operation Of all these and
other interests Mr.. Huntington gives
permanent and lucrative employment
to seven or eight thousand people and
Is every day adding to the wealth and
Importance of the city and surrounding
country.
THAT Mr.. Huntington is largely in.
terested in valuable real estate hold
ings in Los Angeles and at various
points along the cost is we'll known
The requirement of this property is
for, a purpose-for the further devel
opment of the coast section.
Mr.. Huntington does not make
money just for the sake of boarding
great sums, but for the pleasure OF
making it, and to build UP the country
and give employment to the thousands
of worthy people who come to the
southland to make their homes. He
does not wait for towns to grow up in
favored localities before building rail
way. He first builds the road and then
aids in building up the towns by as
sisting and participating in develop
ment enterprises.
He has developed into the most
brilliant fnancier and is now the
wealthiest man on the Pacific coast