The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16
HILBERT H. CARY.
Real Head of the BiIlion-Dolar Steel
 Trust.

From the February Broadway Magazine
 Two hundred feet above Broadway. at the head of Wall street, there is a sky scraper office which has become the brain center of the greatest. of all cor pora tions. It is a commonplace room. The woodwork is of the plainest oak. It's cream -colored walls are dismal with the framed faces of big fnanciers There are no oil paintings-no Persian rugs no decorative panels.
 In itself this office Is nothing; but it has become one of the throne-rooms of the industrial world. It is the head quarters of Ebert Henry Gary. the off, cial head of the United States Steel cor poration, says a writer in the February issue of the New Broadway Magazine. For the last seven years Judge Gary has been the chief master and the chief servant in the iron and steel industry. Above him are 100000 stockholders, who demand dividends; and beneath him are 900 workmen. who demand wages. He is the obedient Caesar of an empire which owns more land than the states of Mas sachusetts, New Hampshire and Ver- mont: supports more people than there are in Nebras ska: employs more men than fought at Gettysburg; sails a larger navy than that of Italy; makes more steel than Germany; gathers in larger reve- nue than the United States; and repre- sents more capital than all the banks in the city of New York.
 Judge Gary is not railroad man. vet the six railway systems of his com pany, operating 3500O cars, would reach from New York to Mexico, if they were put end to end. He is not a practical manufacturer yet he is the over-lord of 100 industrial communities. He is not miner, yet his company is tearing iron rtl xxytfT army of 40,000 men. He is not an expert steel maker. nor world beating spe- cialist in any line Yet he holds his place by universal consent. Why? Be- cause he is one of those rare twentieth century men who are comprehensive enough to survey the whole field of bus mess and to see each individual object in its right relation to all the rest
 Personally, Judge Gary does not look as though he were over-taxed by the burden of a bllion-dollar trust and the responsibility of earning 5000 a week He is a man of more than ordinary height and of fine physique. His face in repose is kindly and reiective-not at all like the ordinary business face'
 In fact. what with his high forehead. his wide nostrils, sensitive full-lipped mouth and absence of hard lines, it would be much easier to imagine him a man of philanthropy rather than one of finance
 As though 1t were not glory enough. and trouble enough, to be the chairman of the Steel Trust, Judge Gary is the president of an Illinois bank and direc- tor of five others. He was one of the charter members of the International Harvester company, and has done more than any other man to organize the con- tentious harvester kings. He is a direc- tor of the Allis-Chalmers company, which makes machinery in Milwaukee, and of three of the lesser railroads Incidental ly, he is on the boards of % subsidiary steel companies. and takes a hand in managing the Northwestern university.
 A few days in his shoes would send most men to the boneyard; but Gary thrives on responsibility for the sim pie reason that he is precisely fitted. by nature and experience, for his position
 This is the main fact about Ebert H. Gary-that he is rightly placed