The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-21
Which WILL ASCEND
THE THRONE2
SUCCESSOR TO HARTMAN TO BE
CHOSEN THIS NEEk-ONE
OF THREE MEN.

When the Napoleon of the railroad
world. the towering master of trans
portaiton, whose looming shadow
darkened the continent, turned sud
denly into frail. lettering little man,
who came home to die in his unfin-
ished palace on the mountain top. he
left behind him a most remarkable
and interesting situation. As Napoleon
left no successor. only a group of field
! marshais, SO Harrfmans passing
leaves a great vacancy in which les
ser men, though they be giants to the
general public. must grope and STUN
BILE about, struggling for supremacy.
Hartman had come to be the ac-
knowledged autocrat. Save for Hill
and Morgan. he was above jealousy
and envy. He moved. as the syco-
phantish Cromwell deprecatingiy put
it, ION higher plane, upon which we
cannot enter" His supremacy was
absolute. unquestioned.
The first tier below the apex in the
Hartman pyramid was made up of {,
triumvirate - Lovett kruttschnitt
Stubs. Mark the names we'll They
will all be better known, now that they
move no longer in the gloom about
1.-The base of the throne. They were
the three guardsmen of the great
Hartman romance.
When old Coils p. Huntington died.
and Hartman. bursting out of wall
street obscurity. bore off the South
ern Pacific, the great property which
Huntington had created. from the
jaws Of startled and angry rivals, he
found Loyett. Kruttschnitt and Stubs
all members of the Huntington staff
Up to the day of his death Harri-
man was superhumanIy busy with
railroad plots and struggles, which
covered all the four corners of the
continent. With his weak body torn
by the strain of the grand tactics of
the war, he was forced to lean more
and more on the field marshals of
his army. When as part of the spoils
he had accumulated the Central Pa
cific, the Union Pacific, the Southern
Pacific, the Oregon Short Line. the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation COM
rany and their allied branches no
made himself president of all of them
putting in executive command of each
vice president and general man.
ager. At the same time he brought
kruttschntt and Stubbs to Chicago
kruttschnitt was made director of
maintenance and operation. Stubs tli-
rector of traffic, with authority COW
ering the whole, To them the execu.
tive heads of each great system 10
ported and still report. They. in turn,
were responsible only To Hartman
himself. @.. *
aatI anys
riman had his several boards of d.
rcctors give over their responsibility
to little executive committees. of each
of which he became chairman.
Long ago, too. when in the midst of
the great fight with the government
over the Northern Securities company.
Hartman brought Judge Lovett from
Texas and made him his personal
counsel and adviser Lovett was given
the place as vice chairman Of the all
important executive committee.
So the situation stood when death
wiped out the personal genius of Har-
rtman. Lovett. perhaps little closer
In the throne than the other two but
all three responsible alike to the
master. aione-ail three practically
equal In authority and prestige. Al
ready Judge Lagett has been pro-
NOTED To he chairman of the executive
committee. But the supreme position
nj president is yet to he filled. Under
the surface there Is u stirring of pos
sible war. Win kruttsehnitt aMd
Stuhhs, who yielded unquestioning al
legianee To Hartman. be as ready To
take orders from corporation law
yer from Texas. who wears. ut best.
only second hand ermines WIN there
be division Of authority viii the
great Hartman empire be split up
into warning Kingdoms. as was the
empire Of Napoleon The situation
il full Of explosive possihilities.-chi- +
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