The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-14
TOUR OF GREAT IMPORT
DECLARES COAL FAMINE WILL
NOT BE SEVERE THIS YEAR.
HARTMAN ON
COAL AND CARS.

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Harriman-the man of millions, rail-
roads and fedeTal-judiciary stomach
pumps" he of the sandy moustache
and famed blue eyes, of the mailed fist
in the kid glove-will some time this
morning wind up a twenty-four hour
visit in Salt Lake.
He has been here since 1 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. Last night he was
taken out to Saltair in his special
train, and left there to sleep with the
cool breezes of the lake blowing
through his car. Some time before
noon today the special will leave Salt
Lake for Ogden, and thence out over
the Southern Pacific for California
points.
With Harrimans departure today
there closes a conference of railroad
men here that is probably remarkable
in the history of any western city.
Grouped around a long table in the
private office of Vice President and
General Manager Bancroft of the Ore
gon Short Line yesterday afternoon for
five hours sat Hartman, J. c. Stubs,
j. p. OBrien, Julius Kruttschnitt. E.
E. Calvin, a. MOhler, J. r. Farrell and
half a dozen lesser railroad lights
Stubs is traffic director of the Harri-
man system, and acknowledged as one
of the greatest railrOaders of his kind
this country has ever known. Krutt-
schnitt is director of maintenance and
operation Of the Hartman lines one
of the finest executive positions in the
railroad world: O'Brien is general
manager of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation; Calvin is vice president
and general manager of the Southern
Pacific; MohIer is vice president and
general manager of the Union Pacific.
and Farrell is president of the Oregon
& Washington railroad Not in wears
has Hartman brought his captains and
lieutenants together in such formida-
BILE array, and that Salt Lake should
have been chosen for the place of
meeting between these powerful rail-
readers and their chief is significant.
Today they separate, and Hartman
goes on to the coast, accompanied bv
the officials of his Pacific coast lines.
Wouldn't Talk Much.
What will result from the conference
held in Vice President Bancroft's Of
flee yesterday afternoon is only to be
surmised. 1t was a meeting full of
hard work, for piled high on the table
about which the men were seated were
stacks of formidable looking blue
prints and pages upon pages of esti-
mates and specifications
What they were Is not known. Uar-
riman, under the cloak of Don't know
much about it." refused to discuss his
plans after the conference.
Have you purchased or are YOU ne
gotiating for the purchase of the Salt
air pavilion and the Los Angeles &,
salt Lake railroad?" he was asked.
Really, now, / couldn't say. I don't
know much about it. l can't say
whether anything has been done along
that line or not" was the answer
Rate legislation. labor troubles. court
actions against corporations. govern
ment control or ownership of railroads
factors governing future railroad de.
Velopment in the west and stomach
pump" topics went the same route
ana with the last refusal to answer
leading questions the railroad owner
bid his interviewer sociable but Gig |