Evening star., 1926-09-27

previously shown In the real estate
| held. Less than 10 years after, they
are the dominant factors in the Nickel
! Plate. the Pere Marquette. the Erie,
the Chesapeake and Ohio and the
Hooking Valley. and will soon submit
for the approval of the Interstate
| Commerce Commission a second plan
for unifying the five roads. The Van
Sweringens are builders who thus far
have had high average of success in
whatever they have sponsored.
| j. J. Bernet. president of the Nickel
| Plate. is the chief technical adviser
of the Van Sweringens. AS operating
, vice president of the New York Cen
trail, he grew up with the late A. H.
| Smith. former president of the Cen
| trail, and is closer to Mr.. Smiths type
than any other railroad executive i'll
the country--an amaZinly aggressive
producer of new business. He is also
a shrewd and capable operating man
and unquestionably will head the pro-
posed new unified system if the Inter
1.-The revised plans.
r. y. Brown Exceptional Man.
! Of the Nickel Plate group. +. \.
! Brown. chairman Of the Pere Mar
!
! Frisco. is likewise a man of excep-
tional capacity and judgment.
| Apart from mergers, the most strik-
! ing development in the railroad field
has been the renaissance Of prosperity
/ in the South. A man little known out
| side of his district, W. r. Cole, new
president of the Louisville and Nash
! Vile, has been described by men on
the inside haad nd shoulders a hove
| all other Southern executives. The
| manner in which Fairfax Harrison.
! president of the Southern, lifted that
| hitherto weak system into the class
| OF the strong and prosperous also
| stamps him as man Of marked
| achievement. The newest squirt in the
! South has been the attempt of the
Seabuard. under S. Davies Warfield,
! 10 win its way back to unqueStioned
Solvency.
From the standpoint OF public
esteem. Daniel Willard, president of
| the Baltimore and Ohio. ranks with
Messrs. Rea and Elliott. Many con-
slider Mr.. Willard the first citizen of
Baltimore. He is a liberal, an inno-
Tator and a public spirited citizen.
| Under his leadership since the war
| the comeback of the Baltimore and
Ohio has been one of the three or
four outstanding railroad develop
ments. Mr.. Wizards progressivism
/! was illustrated by his pioneering in
new labor relationships in the shops.
For an all-around executive. who
has built up perhaps the smoothest
running railroad machine in the
, country, G.. II. Markham, president of
Illinois Central is pre-eminent. r. E.
Loomis, president of the Lehigh Val
ley. has demonstrated similar organiz-
ing qualities on the Lehigh Valley.
Incidentally. Mr.. Loomis IS a close
friend of George F. Baker. and an ad-
wiser to him on all railroad matters.
Baldwin Is Markham's Student
l.. W. Baldwin. new president of
the Missouri Pacific, is student of
the Markham school, having formerly
been operating vice president of the
Illinois Central Incidentally. the Illi-
nois Central has been a training
school for railroad men all over the
country. j. NJ. kurn. president of
the Frisco. is another successful eX-
ample of this group. Mr.. Baldwin in
less than three years has made the
formerly emaciated Missouri Pacific.
which the Gould family fumbled with.
the nucleus of a great new system in
the Central West and South.
Other big names in railroading are
Carl Gray of the Union Pacific, VIII
liam Sproule Of the Southern Pacific.
Fred Sargent, new president of the
Chicago and Northwestern. and Pat
rick E. Crowley, new president Of the
New York Central. w. B. Storey, lead
er of the railroad presidents who were
engineers. shows a high degree of
technical skill as president of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. f.
J. Pearson, head of the New Haven,
should be mentioned for skill In the
natienf and intelligent lob in re-