The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-09-18
By LANES B. MoRROw.


phrase also lacks in expressive quality.
Superlatives seem feeble when applied
TO q man who Is obtaining business for
1900 miles OF railroad and for water
lines that are 1900 miles IN length Prae-
tieally he is responsible for interest on
a mountain OF bonds and for dividends
on an ocean OF shares. not TO mention
the wages OF many thousands of men at
work IN round numbers, the freight !
Re procures pays his watchful and mathe- |
NAUTICAL employers the immense sum Of
s200O00.0O0 a year for carriage.
Business, big Observation-Disclosures |
ii and giving il the faculties of judgment |
and speech-has declared that Edward H. |
Hartman was as consplcuously eminent |
and potential In transportation as Grant |
was in battle or as Rockefeller is in coal |
oil and gasoline. or as Morgan is in |
iron. steel. agricultural implements. life /!
insurance. and banks. Eliminating him |
self from the case. Stubs said: And |
he had a women's intuition in choosing |
his assistants. ,
MnrShnIs to "A Napoleon.
Then Stubs mentioned Robert Scott
Lovett. now president of all the Harri- |
man lines. and julius Kruttschnitt, d. |
rector of maintenance and operation. |
both of whom, along with himself were
marshals to the Napoleon who captured
the West by brilliant hand-to-hand fight |
ing. and was besieging the East when
he died.
A long. slender man, of the John James
ingalls, type. but not SO thin, and of the
Frank S. Black type. but not quite so
tall; gray-eyed, nervous, shrewd, incisive.
Intense and cyclonic. Stubs is logical
philosophical, and thoroughly Informed.
Facts I'LL his magazines He always has
the figures for his big and little guns.
When other traffic men generalize. he
specifics and mows them down. Mean
while he can recite the railroad laws
OF Congress backward and forward and
point 10 court decisions by paragraphs
and pages. He smiles at his own success. /
II know" he says. how to select my
associates. Besides. I have worked right
along for important companies"
When Coils p. Huntington established
his celebrated Sunset Route-ran from
San Francisco to Nev Orleans and water
thence 10 New York, Stubs was sent
10 TIC lAbiil dlANi lAdlilN. nc ltAiAeAAliSu
in California and hired Edwin Hawley,
now president of several railways, as
Eastern agent Stubs and Hawley were
probably the greatest team of freight
getters the world has ever known. a
dfferential OF 10 cents a hundred pounds
was given shippers because OF the ocean
haul between New York and New Or
leans Theoretically freight would be
slow. but Stubs put 1t through from East
10 West In eighteen days and from West
10 East in twenty-one days. once, a
trainload OF high-priced dry-goods went
into a Texas ditch. Ten acres of broken
boxes Uttered the right OF way.
Road Paid the Bills.
Duplicate your ORDERS" Stubs told
the San Francisco merchants, 'and the
Southern Pacific will pay the bills. We
shall sell the wreekage for what il will
bring"
Thus Stubs and Hawley obtained the
freight and kept the freight. although
the al-rail lines compelled them 10
abolish the slight difference IN rates.
Running along with his other work.
Stubs is said TO have counted all the
orchards on the Pacific Coast and 10
nave measured the ore In the mines OF
half a dozen States. Likewise. he dis
covered that shippers have inhrmities
like the rest OF mankind. Consequently.
the study OF human nature has engaged
a considerable part OF his time.
The greedy eye and the devious eye
are read by the signs OF their shifts and
blinks. With lawyers, he talks like
Law Will lIra
agriculture, and with a professional In
terviewer, most candidly and courteously
in all respects. One feels that John c.
Stubs is normal human being with
a mighty good head. Nothing further
need be said He spoke of Huntington
and Hartman and the national charac-
ters he has met, but. without realizing IL,
he was infinitely more interesting. on be-
ing urged for details, when he referred
10 himself. I told him I heard he was
born In Ashland. Ohio. in 1877.
yes" he answered, and / lived at
Ashland until I was fourteen years old.
1 have never lived there since, but am
20 be buried there when I die. The ba-
bies knew are now old men and women,
but they remember me and 1 remember
them, and Ashland is the spot for me
when am dead
Never Lived on a Farm.
did you wear eowhide boots and a
hickory shirt and live on farm?'
NO, sir: am not an aspirant for pub
lie Office. and have no hesitancy, there
fore. in saying that my father was
cabinet maker, having his own shop and
selling his own furniture. Several men,
bers OF the family were well to do and
Stubs made steel in Pennsylvania long
ago. In some way my father fell heir to
A.000. Being a rich man, as he and his
neighbors thought, he engaged in boots
and shoes with a partner. who broke the
firm by the extravaganza OF his personal
habits. The failure so far as l can
learn. did not bring on general panic.
with the coming OF the civil war, my
father went into the army as quarter
master OF Col James A Garfield's Forty
second Regiment of Infantry He sent
home. from Camp Chase. at Columbus,
the State capital for our horse. We We're
sixteen miles from railroad. 1 rode the
horse 10 Columbus. 100 miles distant
After that I lived no more at Ashland
went TO the front with my father. My
first work for pay. except hoeing corn in
Ohio, was on the levee at Nashville,
where I checked freight for the govern
ment. So began my experience in the
transportation business.
Becomes "a Railroad Clerk.
Il was not an enlisted man. but I car
ried a revolver and sometimes a musket
Twice I was under fire; once as a spec
tator Of a fight. and again while / was
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