The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-10-08
MEN
TO RULE
LOVETT, KRUTTSCHM1DTT
AND STUBS RUN HAIR
RIMAN LINES.
Will Rule Together to Continue
Hartman Policies To Build
About 1000 Miles OfNew Road
in Northwest and Middle West,
Also Branches in Washington.

in Northwest and Middle West,
Also Branches in Washington.
Portland, Ore, Oct. "A New York
special to the Oregonian says:
Since the death of Edward H. Harri-
man, several conferences have been
held in this city with a view to de-
termining the future course to be
pursued by the lines which constitute
the Hartman system. The conferences
have been attended by the heads OF
the two great departments into which
the Hartman system is divided,
namely, operation and maintenance
(combinedj and traffic.
Although Robert S. Lovett stands
in Harriman's shoes, it is evident that
the two great forces on the lines,
so far as doing things are concerned,
are now julius Kruttschnitt, director
of maintenance and operation, and j.
lC. Stubs, director of traffic. These
two men are of greater authority
than presidents of railroads, and to-
gether with Mr.. Lovett will form a
triumvirate that will be invincible,
even against the directorates of the
companies which will be guided by
them.
Triumvirate Pulls Together.
It can be stated upon official au-
thority that Messrs. Lovett, Stubs
and Kruttschnitt are in the fullest
harmony and sympathy and have a
mutual confidence in one another's
ability and a genuine friendship for
one another, which will make them a
team that is bound to pull together.
It is such feeling that cements and
co-ordinates a working force into a
homogeneous whole and keeps it do
| ing the bidding of master with con-
sistent faithfulness.
The New York conferences have
developed the fact that the Hartman
letter if it lies within the triumvir-
ate to carry them out Even now
Mr.. Kruttschnitt is making tour of
the Western lines with view to
Quieting any fears that may be en-
tertained of "shakeup" or a revolu-
ton. Rumors of radical changes, or
new presidents, of going back to the
| individual form of operation, have
been rife, as a matter of course Mr.
Kruttschnitt is assuring men in his
department that so far as he can
make them, affairs are to move along
in the same old way, without change
of policy or of methods.
E. o. Mccormick, assistant traffic
! director, is also making a complete
tour of the Western lines and is CIV
| ing the same assurance officially to
the men who are in the traffic de-
partment. Such trips are neces sary
to restore the full confidence of the
| staff and to allay all fears and all
unrest.
Carry Out Improvement Plans.
That the Hartman policy with all
its aggressiveness is to be continued
is evidenced by the fact that official
announcement has been made of the
fact that all the vast improvement
plans which Hartman had planned
at the time of his death are to be
carried out to the letter. These i'm
provements in their aggregate, call
for an expenditure of fully $1,000
600, and are to be undertaken with
the view OF entrenching more secure
~ the Hartman lines in their pres
ent strongholds and with a view to
reaching out for new territory.
There is to be no cessation of eff
fort to acquire new fields for future
tonnage. The extensions of the I'm
ion and Southern Pacific systems
which have been determined upon
will necessitate the construction of
fully 1000 miles of railroads. OF this
mileage approximately 600 is in the
territory of the Union Pacific, includ-
ing So miles in Kansas on the Memo
ken line, with 60 miles in Colorado
north of Denver. More than 100
miles of double tracks are now be-
ing laid through Nebraska, between
kearney and North Platte. On the
oregon Short Line 1913 miles of ex-
tensions are nearing completion. In
the territory of the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation Company, 1911 miles of
new line are being graded.
Oregon and Gray's Harbor Lines.
From Centralia, Wash, between
Portland and Tacoma, on the North
ern Pacific, the section now being
double-tracked for accommodation of
traffic OF the Hartman lines, branch
IS being run to Gray's Harbor, a dis
lance of So miles. This will ultimate
~ run northward 100 miles to Puget
Sound through one of the finest Sec
tons OF forest in the world.
Lower Rates Ordered
Salem, Or, Oct. 2. - The railroad
commission today issued an order de.
clarinV rod1ofiop IN %ho 49,.