The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06

NEW YORK, Sept. 4,-Three
men will rule the great Hartman
railroad province when the wiz
ard himself, now on the decline
of life's activity, gives up the
reins.
Robt. S. Lovett, L. F. Loree and
julius Kruttschnitt are the trium-
virate. All have been in Harri-
mans cabinet; each is master in
his own line. AS the Hartman
railroads span the distance from
ocean to ocean, so must these
men, working miles apart but in
harmony. rule their great bust
ness from New York to San
Francisco.
All the three, working together
will be satisfied of success if they
succeed in doing what iONE MAN
has done before them>
~ know one man who is an ex.
ception to every rule" Loree said
once. That man is Hartman
he never has had a failure"
In New York Lovett, from his
Wall st. offices, will control the
huge financial and legal ends OF
the greatest railroad system in
the world.
At his desk in the Railway Elk.
change building in Chicago. L. F
Loree will WELD power over the
executive end of the Hartman
lines, and in San Francisco will
be Kruttschnitt, 1.-The master
builder" who made great trunk
lines out of scrap piles that
Hartman bought.
Each will have an assistant
little less noted than the lead.
ers themselves. Lovett will be
aided by Alex. Miller, Hartmann
confidential man. Loree will
have John G. Stubs, traffic ex
pert, at his right hand; and in
California, which Hartman vir,
tually has ruled, e. E. Calvin will
help Kruttschnitt control a net.
work of tracks.
/ Lovett's career is the most ro
mantle of any great lawyers. He
was blowing on his fathers farm
near Shepard, Tex, 35 years ago
He saw narrow gauge railroad
and from that time on was inter.
ested in railroads. His education
was like Abraham Lincoln's-
snatched at random on the farm
until he showed that he was fiji
for a fight with any earnest
young man in the state.
"Some day." Lovett told his
boy friends, 'I'll own that road
He studied law at night and
curried horses by day. Then he
got work in the railroads offices
and was admitted to practice. Just
four years later Lovett was presi-
dent of the Houston & Texas Gen.
trail.
Within a few years he came to
New York as Harriman's general
counsel. Wall st. laughed at the
tall Texan. well have to take
of his sharp corners" they said.
They never have. They never
will. 1t is Lovett who has done
the side-swiping when any finan-
cial clash has occurred in the
house of Hartman. The scoffers
were "stung." He is six-footer
and a sphinx, especially at pres
ent.
Leonor Fresnell Loree is rail-
road mana railroad aristocrat.
His life has been marked by a few
failures, but they were the kind
that lifted him higher and made
his foes sorry. He started with a
surveyors chain on the Pennsyl-
vania. Finally he became presi-
dent of the Baltimore & Ohio.
That bluff old man, Judge VIM.
H. Moore, wanted Loree to head
the Rock Island.
What salary do you thinks
right?" asked Moore.
Half a million year." was
Loree's reply.
Done" said the judge, and he
wrote out contract that Loree
was to get that salary for a term
of years, whether he made good
or not. The railroad insured
Loree's life for fabulous sum.
Loree wanted the Rock Island
to be gorged with freight--he
wanted tonnage. Moore wanted
the road built up. Loree quit.
but got his big salary Just the
same. Loree thought he was
right. for there was Hartman do
ing the same thing-going after
traffic first. building up his roads
later.
Hartman and Loree became
friends and got together. Now
Loree heads the Delaware & Hud-
son. one of the most profitable
roads In the country.
julius Kruttschnitt was boy
with an ambition. He. like Lo-
rec. held surveyors chain
along railroad right OF way. He
rose and rose. but always boast
ed he could drive a spike or saw
rail with the best of section men
Ever since Hartman iinkes