The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-12

got the ibusiness. His administration was a record breaker and he set a pace which is still held out to the young men who go into the traffic ser vice of the l. and G. N.
 President Frank Trumbull of the Colorado Southern wa san express mes senger in Texas in the days when the rest of the magnates were learning their A B C's in the railroad offices. But all the time he was in the express car he was studying transportation. Finaly he went to Denver and secured an interest in the Denver Tramway Company. When the Colorado South ern was a part of the Union Pacihc system, known as the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf, he was building up the tramway system to Denver. The Union Pacific receivership and the sub sequent sale of the properties resulted in the segre gation of the Union Pa- cific, Denver and Gulf and its reorgan- ization under the name of the Colorado Southern Trumbull was called from the tramway to the railway as Presl- dent and he has been at the head Of the system ever since. Not only has he been at the head of the system. but he has been the head of the system and he has developed it and enlarged 1t and extended 1t until. 1t Is one of the factors in tEe working out or the destinies of the Southwest.
 President EdsOn.
 J. A Edson. president of the Kan sas City SoutIt'n, came to Texas twenty years ago IS division superln- terdent of the cotton belt at Ty'er. He was located on a division which con- sietai of two streaks of .usL through ttn red clay nils of East Texas 5ut he tuiIt up the d.viF,on until f earned more revenue than any other division on the s~ct'm oni tten the folks up in New York began to ask who this man was who madel two peaches grow where cn.y one grew before and who could take 2 SroH ,r-1nwn stretch Of track and make 1t the equal of the rrack divisiCns up in Missouri. So Edson went to TeXarhana as general superintendent.
 Out In Colorado he helped to reor- ganize the Southern and his service there was so distinguished that the Kansas City Southern secured n!m to 20 over and develop that property and the country alongside 1t. That Is the work he is doing today, But "Jo' Ed son Is still affectionately remembered by any of the old boys with whom he walked the tracks in the trying times when the Cotton Belt was more of joke than a railroad system.
 A. T. Davidson. President of the Frisco System, came to Texas and went into the division superintende elt's office of the Gulf Colorado and Santa T'c at Cleburne Yoakum was looking around for bright material all the time and he saw Davidson and saw that here WAS a man he would neel ;n ;hc dry when his great plans were materilliz- ing. So when Yoakum was made gen eral manager he made Davidson super intendent. And when YoakIn went to the Frisco Davidson went to the Frisco. and when Yoakum went n New York as executive head of the crr1bnod sytems. Davidson was elected rresl- dent of the Frisco, Stil Davidson, way down in his heart, yearns for the days when he was pumping down along the rough grades in Boslue County In a little sawed-off cahoose which did service for a private car and whi n te- ioioed in the name of ''rrilhy.' There is no part of the Frisco system which receives the care at Davidson's hards tha he gives tho Texas divisions. and any old Texcan. as Col John Henry Brown used to insist the ra- tives should be called. who drons into the Frisco office in St. Louis. finds the latch string on the outside. md business is suspended until 7e goes away.
 Counsel R $. Love
 R $ T,ovett. personal counsel to E. 1T Hartman. the man who has fur ntshed the legal authority for all of the Hartman deals for the last few years. is as well known In Tcxas as Tom Jones or Rsl Smith Ask my body who has been around the I.eri=- lature at Austin any length of time whether they know Rob" Lovrtt ord soc what they will tell you Lovott was for a long time fin tho legal de rartment of tho Texas and Pacific. Then he went to the legal dcpartmont of the Southern Pacific When liar riman got control of the Southern Pa cihc he saw at a glance tho 'aiAnt if