Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-10

covers, but he could tell you where theee
cars are. His associates sometimes laugh
lngly declare that he seems to have e sort
Of hypnotic vision which makes Il
possible for him to follow the movement
OF every freight and Of every passenger
car anywhere on the Union Pacific lines.
Mr.. Hartman never had to ask Mr.. Stubs
twice to get needed information.
All that Mr.. Stubbs knows Of railway
operation and traffic -snsscme he has
taught himself. He drifted west from his
native place in Ohio and got a iob as
freight clerk at Oakland, Cal. where the
Central Pacific, now the western link OF
the Union Pacific. terminated. Tha was
only four or five years after c. P. Hunt
ington. Mark Hopkins, Croker and Leland
Stanford had finished the Central Pacific
railroad making connection with the Union
Pacific thereby giving to the United states
the first tra-nscontinental lire. So Mr..
Stubs, beginning railrOading when q, has
actually grown up with the Union Pacific
Ahead Of His Time.
Even az a clerk at oaklan Mr.. Stubs
was away ahead OF his time. He knew
what was coming in the way Of Pacific
railway development What he predicted
was realized. and so pleased was Mr.. Hunt
ingtOn that he made him assistant general
freight agent. This was In ISL
In that office Mr.. Stubs was not salts
fled simply to move cars. He went all over
the state Of California to see what the
farmers were doing, how much business
the miners were TO offer and he was able
to predict in the spring Of every year the
actual amount Of the crops that were har-
vested One man recently said TO him:
Stubs knows Just how many peaches are
on the trees in California and how many
tons Of ore will be shipped out Of Arizona"
And this man might have added that long
before other railway men thought OF doing
such things Stubs also knew how many
orange groves there were in southern Cali
fornia, and where each grove was, and
where were the best prune orchards, and
how many tons Of prunes would be Offered
each year for shipment to the east.
Meanwhile Mr.. Stubs was working on,
the problem Of how best to haul traffic for
long distances without breaking the freight
and with the highest economy Mr.. Harri-
man early learned TO accept Mr.. Stubs
statements without any question and he
knew that, more than any other one man.
Mr.. Stubs showed how 1t was possible to
increase and expedite and operate at low
cost long-haul traffic. Today he is vice
president and traffic director of the entire
Hartman system. He works in perfect
sympathy and in cordial cooperation as
well with Julius Kruttschnitt, Robert Low
EFT, A. ]. Moler and the other lieutenants
And OF the great quartet he is the Oldest
he is 2-while Judge Lovett is the young
est being S. Mr.. Kruttschnitt is IS; Mr.
Mohler goes him four years better-,
worse, according to the way you view thc
accretion OF years
Manager MOhler's Rise.
Some years ago one OF the big men in &
trunk line system which has its termina
in New York was asked by a friend IL h,
could tell him anything about A. l. Mohler
who had something to do with Jim HIM.
railway out in St Paul" The New Yorl
railway man had never heard the name be
fore. Thereupon he was Informed that tn,
I time was sure to come when he woulC
hear Of Mohler, for he is certain to b,
one Of the big guns in railway manage
ment" Such he most certainly became
when Mr.. Hartman took him away from
Mr.. Hill.
As his name indicates, Mr.. Mohler IL
OF Pennsylvania Dutch origin. Born al
Ephrata, Pa. he yet began his railway
career with the Chicago 4 Northwestern
when it was a comparatively small road,
and long before Marvin Hughitt and
James D.. Laying had taken Il Loo miles
across the u~ninhabited prairie MohIer
remained an humble clerk only a little
while and then. like the present president
OF the Boston q Maine Lucius TuttIe, be
became a station agent.
While thus occupied at Erie III. hi,
supertors found that he had q native-borr
gift for figures and accounts, and in that
way he became travelling auditor for 4
railroad west Of the Mississippi. Such h,
was when he fell under the eye OF jaime.
J. Hill, then keen In his search for younl
men to help him convert the old st. Paul
7. Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad into tn.
Great Northern system. and Mr.. MohIeI
became that roads general freight agent
This was In ISa.
There followed promotion after promo
q ton. Until, at the end Of seven years, Mr.
d Mohler found himself vested with the It'll
: and authority OF general manager of tn
Great Northern AS such he worked GU
: many OF the problems whose proper 90
5 %lutiOns have helped spell SUCCESS for tn,
Hill properties. Eight years later Nj
( Hartman annexed him. and so he has tn
. honor of being the first OF the big four
u TO secure Mr.. Harriman's confidence.
h That he has had Mr.. Harriman's ful
Il confidence from the start is shown b
. the fact that the latter at once made hir
president and general manager OF the Ore
gon Railroad and Navigation company.
/. particular Hartman pet. Today Mr.. Mob
Ter is also a vice president and the gen
eral manages Of the Union Pacific sys
tenn. It Is because OF his peculiar man
agerial qualities that he Is held by Nj
Hartman in such high business esteem
n These four men-Lovett, Rruttschitt
s Stubs and MohIer-make the quartet. IN
big four, who. were Har1man's orranizs
d ton an army OF which he was the com
e manding general, would each be a majo
II general in command OF a corps.
Crop Injured.
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