The Washington herald., 1916-12-18
Big BUSINESS CHIEFS
"CROWDING "a HOURS
Wall Streets Diligent Masnates Viewed
by Albert W. Atwood.


full at the pinnacle of eminence and re-
sponsibility-has fallen a multiplicity of
duties and opportunities calculated to
speed UP their pace beyond all seeming
limits Of endurance" writes Albert w.
Atwood in the Saturday Evening Post.
Most of the very busy inanciers try
to see all callers who really have any
business with them" continues Mr.. At
wood. "Aloofness In big business is
thing of the past. 1t does not pay. The
sancturn sanctorum is going out. Many
of the biggest bankers have offices right
out in the open. Perhaps the busiest OF
all such men, at the head of the largest
concern of its kind in the world. does
not sit in a private office at all, but mas
a desk at one side of the main banking
floor, up to which any person may walk
provided only he does not excite tne
suspicion of the uniformed attendants
How they Do Ii.
1.-THE keenest analysis came from man
who had acted in a close advisory ana
confidential capacity for haf ooLeh
OF the richest and most poWerful lhu'-
yiduals and corporations in this country;
First, they push everything down; ana
keep on pushing them down as fast as
a new niece OF business shows up. Sec
ond these big fellows never delay de-
cision, No man can permanently sue
ceed as the head Of a vast undertaking
unless he disposes Of every business item
as II comes along The railroad or banK
president who is handed an unlmportant
newspaper clipping by his secretary when
he enters his Office in the morning. and
nuts II aside to read when he Is less
busy, is lost He never will have more
leisure than ne has ut this moment, for
the accumulation will soon get the bet
ter of him.
THE most efficient man I know is '"
W. Atterbury. vice president Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and president or
the American Railway Association. He
disposes at once OF each piece OF ousi-
ness presented to him. II you see he Is
busy and ask him for an appointment
later on, he turns to you and says: Tell
me how That's almost his motto; he
says 1t so often
vanderlip Accomplishes Much.
Few men accomplish more work than
Frank A. Vanderlip. He Is president OF
the country's largest bank. presiding gem
Ius Of the most ambitious single enter
prise having to do with foreign invest
ments, and a director and moving spirit
in many other giant corporations. Per-
haps more than any other man Wander
lip has developed to its highest point the
employment of subordinates, and espe-
cially OF secretaries.
I'm his own office Mr.. Vanderlip has a
secretary, one and sometimes two assist
ant secretaries, three confidential stem
ographers, and a boy to handle the two
batteries of four telephones each that
run into the anteroom. Outside, in the
main banking room, there are thirteen
vice presidents, a cashier, and twenty as
sistant cashiers. Each of these thirty
four officials has a secretary, and nearly
all OF them have one or more young men
to assist the secretary in answering tele-
phone calls. Organization can hardly be
carried further.
''The older eeneration-men like J. p.
Morgan the elder, James ]. Hill. Henry
C. Frick and Theodore n. Vail-found or
find much recreation In cards; but the
younger men have little time for such d.
versions. They are out OF doors. exer
cising or merely enjoying the country
about their homes or at home with their
families, often reading
TT must not be supposed that such men
never take their work home They do II
only when they must; but that is often.
Some of the Busiest.
But who is the busiest man in Wall
Street?' Is the question ! asked a dozen |
experts in an effort to find out who really |
works the hardest and gets the most into |
twenty-four hours The answers were
various. AS in any other symposium. |
some candidates were voted for many |
times. Others received only one vote. |
And. like other symposiums based sup |
posedly on expert opinion. many worthy |
candidates were not included. But, read |
er. you may be dead sure that every man
included in the following list is busy to
an extent that would seem absolutely su-
perhuman and abhorrent to most of us:
William II. Porter. Edward r. Stet-
tinius. Dwight W. Morrow. Thomas
W. Lamont, and Henry P. Dawson,
of ]. P. Morgan & Co.
Charles Fl. Sabin, president of the
Guaranty Trust Company.
Max May, vice president Of the
Guaranty Trust Company.
Albert II. Wiggin. president of the
Chase National Bank.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president: SAM
uel McRoberts, vice president; Will
lam S. Kies. vice president and
Charles v Rich. vice president, Ma
tlonal City Bank.
Seward Prosser. president of the
Bankers Trust Company.
Gates w. McGarrah. president of the
Mechanics and Metals National Bank.
Thomas Cochran. president of the
Liberty National Bank.
William Woodward president Of the
Hanover National Bank.
James N. Wallace. president of the
Central Trust Company
Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone &
Co.
Frederick Strauss, of ]. & W. selig-
man & Co.
Henry Goldman, of Goldman, Sachs
& Co.
Jerome J. Hanauer, Of Kuhn, Loeb
& Co.
Sol. Wexler, of J. S. Bache & Co.
Presidents Thomas, Underwood, and
Willard. of the Lehigh Valley, Erie,
and Baltimore and Ohio railroads.
BY common consent the busiest man,
from the sheer physical point of view, is
Max May, in charge of the foreign ex-
change department Of one of the large
Institutions. Nearly six and
half billion dollars of business has to go
through his department In one year. He
uses from six to ten telephone
Instruments. and 1t looks as IL he answer
ed them all at once. At any rate, he !
answers one after another so rapidly that !
it gives the impression OF answering all |
at once.
:" I don't see how he keeps his mindv |
one bewildered reporter"
MT. PLEASANT PLAYERS !