Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-31

"A triumvirate composed of j. p.
Morgan Ceft), banker; Myron G.
Taylor upper right, attorney
and corporation executive, and
James A. Farrell dover right,
steel specialist, now direct the
destiines Of the United States
Steel Corporation.
NEW YORK, Jan. G-tR-What-.
yer critics may say Of the United
States Steel Corporations line. they
must admire its new backfield.
Three ~200-Poand ~six-footers, with
chests like barrels and shoulders
that tax a Pullman corridor, pro-
vide the corporation with executive
beef, brains and Drawn.
j. p. Morgan, the international
banker is the rew chairman Of the
board and nominal head Of the
$1,000, 000, 900 corporation. James Far
rell, who has made steel and has in
turn been made by steel, is presi-
dent, continuing in a job he loves in
direct charge OF plant operation, per-
sonnet and his hobby, foreign and
domestic sales. The third Is Myron
G. Taylor, who, successful In law, in
dustrial organization, textiles, rail-
reading and banking, now looms on
the horizon as a coming great fig
ure in the steel industry as chair
man of the corporations executive
committee.
The chairman Of the board no
longer is an executive office. The
president Of the corporation will be
occupied with the multitudinous de-
tails Of manufacturing operations
and sales under direction and SUI
pervision Of the board and the fl
nance committee. TIE finance COM
mittee thus il left as the link be-
tween the executive personnel and
the directors, with its chairman the
intermediary and therefore actively
in control of the policies Of the
worlds greatest steel corporation.
Strange fellows. alike in some re-
spects, widely dissimilar in others,
are met in this triumvirate. All are
big men physically. Morgan is o OF
athletic build. developed undoubtedly
BY his devotion to grouse hunting
abroad and a passion for yachting.
Farrell, one-time wire puller and mill
worker, is steel ~personified, with
clear eye and skin, a ruddy complex
ion, a hand that grasps and holds
and d mind keen and ruling. Taylor
has the features and figures Of a
born fighter. with square, heavy jaw,
wide shoulders, deep chest. narrow
hips and small hands and feet.
All are yachtmen, although pres
sure of business has kept Taylor
from the sport Of late. and all de-
light to sail their own craft. All
are married. have city and country
homes, and are members of clubs.
Still in another way are the three
alike-they disdain talking for pub
licatioh." Morgan is shy and notice
ably uneasy upon those rare occa.
sions when newspaper men are able
to question him by dint OF blocking
his path. Farrell usually is "toc
busy" ever TO be seen. Taylor il
gracious. but reserved.
The dissimilarity of their back.
grounds is marked. Morgan, son OF
wealth, has followed the trail Of in
ternational finance blazed by his
father ard now is leader of the steeI
corporation as well as the banking
house the father founded. Farrell
was the boy wage-earrer for a fam.
lily whose father was lost az sea
Taylor is the descendant of Ameri
can colonists. still making his homt
upon his ancestral lands.
Morgan is a Harvard graduate
Taylor cheered the big Red" teams
of Cornell. Farrell, educated in tn
university Of hard knocks. now Il
n loyal supporter of Georgetown
University's school Of foreign ser
vice. Morgan II a Protestant E1isco
palian. Farrell a Catholic and Taylo.
a Quaker.