Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-25

THUMBNAtL SKETCH
A thumbnan sketch OF Robert s..
loNctt is BIS folloWs.
Born ln san Jaciuto. Texas. June o.
1850 Education obtained loo high school
followed boy private instruction and
seif-clucatiou. Married in Huntsville.
Texas oct 90 1890. taviua Abcrcr1m-
Bile Admitted to the bar in Houston.
Texas Dec 22 1852 Attorney for the
Houston East aud West Texas railway
from 1854 to 1SSa Assistant genera,
attorney of the Texas a Pacific Rail-
way company go Dallas from 1889 to
1891 General attorney for the Texas a.
Pacinc Railway company from 1891 %
1882. Member of The law firm of Baker.
Bolts. Baker a. LoVett BOO Houston and
general attorney and counsel for AN
the southern Pacific lines DOB Texas
since Jan. !. 1904 Member OF the Bar
Association OF New York the Lawyers
club and the ITALIAN club OF Houston.
Lives boz The Hotel Majestic. this city
Mr. totet now draws a salary be
side which the compensation OF his
former Texas practise shunks into iu-
significance n is understood that he
is one of the highest priced attorneys
In New York city
INTERESTS HE REPRESENTS
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may Doe pointed ont that hc is Identified
with the following properties
Director Of the Central Railway Of
Georgia
Director OF the Guaranty Trust COM
pany Of New York
President and director of the Houston
and Shreveport Railroad company
President and director OF the Hous-
ton East & West Texas Railway COM
pany
President and director of the Houston
a Texas Central Railroad company.
Director of the I,eavenworth, Kansas
q Western Railroad company
Director of the Louisiana Western
Railroad company
Director Of the oregon Railroad q
Navigation company
Director of the oregon Short Line.
Director of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company
Director OF the Portland & Asiatic
Steamship company.
Director OF the Railroad Securities
company.
Vice president and director of the
southern Pacific company
Vice president Of the Union Pacific
Railroad company
Director OF the Erie Railroad COM
pRny
Director Of the Susquehanna & West
orn Railway company.
As acting president Mr.. Lovett is
now mana ging the great Union Pacific
system and all It's ramifcations until a
special meeting is called 10 provide a
permanent head for the railroad prop
critics The next regular meeting OF
the board will not he held until OCto-
Der However. as Mr Harrman's as
sociates are accustomed to say, NO
body can succeed Mr. Hartman. No
known person can measure up 10 his
genius as a developer OF railroad prop
critics"
HARRIMAN's ADVISER.
It is naturally a bold statement. but
il must hold good until "a new light
rises ON the horizon of the railroad
world, for the simple reason that Mr..
Hartman was the supreme authority in
providing for the finances Of his prop
critics, In operating them, IN planning
and executing new construction and in
his mastery tactics IN acquiring the
stock control Of other railroads.
while Mr.. Lovett Is not essentially an
operating man. he has been 80 long ia
milar with All the details Of the Har-
riman properties that no man IS better
posted than he as TO their status. He
personal conidant OF Mr.. Hartman
and the latters associates, and has
shown himself TO be so gifted as an ad-
wiser IN great crises and emergencies,
that he has the hearty support of
the National city bank and the STAN
dard OH groups Of financiers.
Since the death of Messrs Edward
n Hartman and "A. n Rogers the
leading and predominant interests In
Henry Clay Frick. Nj Frank A. Van
derlip head of the National city bank,
Mr. James Stnlmau. MI Lovett and
Mr. william Rockefeller Equal in inn
portance are the members Of the bank
ing house Of Kuhn. Loeb q CO., JACOB
n Schin and Otto II. Kahn. who with
signal success financed the require
ments Of the Hartman Pacific roads
during the railroad wars waged by Mr..
Hartman.
Iu matters appcrtaining 10 the realm
Of finance aud 10 the stock market Mr..
otto Il. Kahn was undeniably as close
TO Mr. Hartman as was Mr. Lovett on
questions of policy and law.
These financial groups which have
been enriched through the genius Of
Mr Hartman naturally maintain 20
strong regard for the men who were
the chief loutenants of the railroad
hnanoier during his lifetime.
SUPPORT FOR MIR. LOvETT
Mr. Schin and MT Kahn were al
ways loud IN their praises of the abili-
q OF Mr. Hartman They believed In
his genius and Boo his ability Co select
tho right men 10 manage hts proper
ties This backing is one 81 the
sources Of strength IN the position OF
Mr. Ioyett as e. successor of the rail-
roud King Ana n their respective
lines the futures OF Mcssrs Julius
Krutt-shnitt as director of maiutc-
nance and operation ana j. G Stubbs,
as the traffic expert of the Hartman
lines. are equally assured For 10 ls
admitted that the successes of Mr. Har-
rimlu were due as much 10 DTS gift OF
selecting tho right men 90 accomplish
his plans Bs they were duo Ca the
audaoity of the plans themselves
Although he had displayed remark
able genius as "a developer of his prop
critics. Mr Hartman was primarily %
railroad Gnancler as distinguished
from Nr James j. Hiu admittedly
tH. couurys greatest railroad builder
For tuis reason, when ne took his re-
cont "trip to Noyico and california. and
sought relief from "a portion Of his
railroad management hc FIRST Wrrou-
icred thr matter of operation to his
uouteututs retaining tho task Of dnau-
cling the requirements 0f mis- roads Al
thar time the Office work that ho SUR
rendered fen Immediately upon the
shoulders of Mr. LoyCtt
MASTER MIND