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1 H AK R I MAN S SUCCESSOR
; Life Story of Robert Scott
( Lovett, Acting Head of the
Late Financier's Great
Railroad Systems.
Texas Plowboy Who Achieved
Success by His Tireless
Energy arid Ability
as an Organizer.
lit
Br JAMES A. EDGERTON.
kOBKRT SCOTT LOVETT. the
successor of Edward H. Harri
' man in the railroad world, has
not been widely known to the
public, although for some years ' be
has been vice president and general
counsel of the Harriman lines. He Is
forty-nine years old. began life as a
Texas plowboy. became clerk in a
store, nest a station agent, then clerk
In a freight office, studied law at night
admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-two.
was a railroad attorney almost
from the beginning and has gone op
step by step until he is now one of the
big figures in the railroad world. "In
appearance he is rather tall and large
of frame, is brusque in manner, smooth
shaven, with, a typical southern face
that is rather austere in its lines, but
can break into a smile on occasion.
His title of "judge", is merely 'one of
courtesy, as lie never occupied the
bench. His main characteristics are
-will power, tireless energy and ability
as an organizer. He It was who han
dled the legal end of the Harriman
consolidations. He has been credited
with a most intimate knowledge of the
dead railroad king's methods and pur
poses and was virtually chosen for the
succession by Mr. Harriman himself. '
It was the running of a railroad
through his father's farm that fired
was rapid. In 1S89 he was made as
sistant attorney of the Texas and Pa
cific and two years later became gen
eral counsel. '
He was soon known as one of the
foremost railroad lawyers in Texas,
Joined the firm of Baker. Botts. Baker
& Lovett and in time attracted the at
tention of Harriman through his con
nection with litigation of the Southern
Pacific and his work in organizing the
Houston and Texas Central. Of this
road Harriman. made Lovett president
and in 1904 chose him general counsel
of the Southern Pacific interests In the
state.
Harriman's Eight Hand.
One of the secrets of E. H. Harri
man's power was his ability In picking
lieutenants. He differed in methods
from James J. Hill, who looks after
every detail of his properties. , The
master of the Pacific lines left details
to subordinates. ' He worked out a
system and carefully picked bis men
to work under the system. From his
first contact with Lovett he reposed
confidence . in the six foot southern
lawyer, took him to New York, made
him general counsel of all the Harri
man roads and chose him as vice pres
ident and acting president. Wall
street soon knew Lovett as Harriman's
right hand. He it was who stood be-
SNAPSHOT OF JUDGE ROBERT SCOTT LOVETT AiL HIS NIECE,
MISS FINCH, ON THE STREET.
FATHERHOOD AS A BUSINESS
Curious Industry' Arising Through
- 5 Queer French Law. : ,
A curiousindustry lias sprung up In
France owing to the law which per
mits any man to declare himself the
legal father of a child. A number of.
men of good family and small means'
have adopted paternity as a profes-.
sion and are willing for a small sum
to declare themselves fathers of boys
or girls who have no names of their;
own. As long as these honest ' men
alone profited by the law there was no j
particular reason to interfere, but the
authorities are taking steps to abro
gate it now, owing to curious circum
stances which have come under their
notice. '
Some time ago a woman proceeded
against a man- for theft and black-
mail. He was sentenced to two years'
imprisonment. The . woman had a son
who had been registered as '"of parent
age unknown." When the blackmail
er came out of prison he in due form
declared himself the young . man's
father, and he is his father still. - Re
cently, in a lawsuit in which an in
heritance was at stake the evidence
proved that the legal father of one of
the parties was two years 1 younger
than his daughter, and this state of
affairs is too Gilbertian to remain pos
sible much longer.
WOULD REVIVE CRINOLINE.
i 3 I--.. - I . . . I - '."
French Designers Trying to Restore
. Old Time Fashion.
There Is talk once more in Paris of
reviving the crinoline. French fashion
designers' are seriously planning to
force the crinoline In the same' sen
sational way which marked the wear
ing of the first sheath gown at the
Longchamps races last year.
If these designers took- history as a
guide they would not touch the crin
oline, for. apart from being an absurd
article, it has a poor record. The Em
press Eugenie first tried seriously to
take a hand in French politics immedi
ately after she bad revived the crin
oline. : , Eugenie uia not realize any
political ambition. Instead she was
forced to step down from the throne,
and, always superstitious, she grew to
dislike the crinolines. '
The only unbecoming gowns Queen
Elizabeth wore were crinolines. Eliz
abeth and Catherine de' Medici had a
weakness for crinolines and wore them
so extreme that the effect was to make
both women seem deformed. ; Cather
ine the Great of Russia also had a
weakness for the crinoline, and the
women of the court, were too much
afraid of. the. imperious amazon .to tell
her that the crinoline gave her a com
ical aspect. ': 1
ROOSEVELT ANSWERS CRITICS
.young Lovett's imagination. When the
first construction train pulled in the
boy saw it from oyer a hill and could
scarcely wait to unhitch his team from
the plow in his baste to examine the
tween his master and the Interstate
commerce commission when : the on
slaught was made on Harriman dur
ing the Roosevelt administration.. He
it was who took charge when the rail-
-engine. The story is told that he then 1 road king went to Europe in search of
neaitn. Ana wnen uarriman returned
to America to die it was Judge Lovett
lad's boast was that he 'made
t was not an easy task, as
cofaection with that particu
ijfM he a teamster, pulling
stblp4 'handling a scraper
and there vowed to be the boss of that
railroad, an ambition that he lived to
realize. - ,
! I suppose similar tales have been
cold of millions of other American
jjboys, but the distinctive thing about
IF DM
5 bla
fkar
5M
'fend drawing ties and dirt not a very
promising start, but the ability to
curat is more important tnan we ma
terial eolfnfrung of the
Studied Law ateMjL
. Young Lovett next we6VL1ttb' a
store, but all his spare hours were
spent about the 6&M3. .station.. .The.
chord started vibxatjng by the toot of
that eonstructionU(fram "was to prove
the master chordQQf gHs .life, . To such
purpose did he study railroading, that
he was made stfwigent.' Nest -be
(decided to read
Ight agent at
Whether i
station a;
the place.
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who was ever closest to him, who was
called to Arden in. consultation and
who was designated to take charge of
the greatest transportation system
probably ever assembled in private
hands.
Judge Lovett is not an operating
man and hence will probably have lit
tle to do with that end of the Harri
man properties. But even though he
is not the technical head in an operat
ing sense he will be the legal and
financial head. This Is assured by his
election as chairman of the executive
committee of the Union ' Pacific and
Southern Pacific. In addition be Is an
official of several transportation lines.
It is probable that Judge Lovett will
be chosen to succeed Mr. Harriman in
Every Animal Shot For Benefit of Sci-
ence or For Food.; " j
Evidently ex-PresidentRoosevelt has
heard something or it may be . much
of the criticism which he has received
at home from those whom his shooting
exploits in Africa have offended .or
grieved,' and evidently he resents this
criticism as unjust, in so far as it. is
based, upon facts, and ignorant when
its foundation has been nothing except
exaggerated or Imagined reports ? of
what he has been doing to the beasts
and birds. ; This is shown by an ex
tract from a private letter received in
the Outlook office. After referring to
"fake stories of my hunting" the ex
president says: .
"As a matter of fact every animal I
have shot, .with the exception of, say
six or eight shot "when we had to have
food, has been carefully preserved for
the National museum. I. can be con
demned only if the existence of the
National museum, the American Mu
seum of Natural History and all simi
lar zoological collections are to be con
demneu." '
John D. Scares Sunday School Scholar.
"We should try to help each other
not only in Sunday school, but in our
daily life," said John D. Rockefeller
at the close of the services at the
Euclid .Sunday school In Cleveland on
a. recent Sunday "We Should not be
like the nagging mother who always
kept saying 'Don't? to her little boy
till, he really did,, not. know what to
do. Nor should we be like the Sun
day school teacher who asked his class,
'Who made the world?' " -
" Mr. Rockefeller descended from the
platform and shook his finger in the
faces of the surprised boys in imita
tion of the teacher he was telling
about. , One youngster, scared at Mr.
' Rockefeller's gesture, cried out, "Please,
sir, I won't do it again!" -
Education In Russia,
The Russische Correspondenz has an
article on the. decline of education in
Russia, in which the writer says: "Our
government is not remarkable, only as
an executioner; It kills , learning also,
J It is now much easier to establish an
tfHiRanagement or directorate of other Y? Rslan dramshop-than a public
shl4esV Whoever Is the nominal-?3 to vf ecres on agriculture
heftier ttese properties, however, the 1 one disflct teU tele at8 wW
TO . . . - . : - there, need be: no comment;. Tjftnimt
spine in control win ne tnat or tiarn-
Houston, demandlngl . 543: 190i 731: 1904. 512: 1905. 249:
543; 490V 731; 1904, 512; 1905,, 249
1906, 356; 1907, 174, and 1908, none."
r rsraa Ana ti hlfl IW- I
T4 wan a tfrtA
xi nan vvu i
rr iTAt- TjTTo.tr nan T
X anT9ife3
men he trained wilt follow bis metb-
kJ&O 3rVf man he cast a
flong sferowtnwart the American
railroad world. "
91ls arrlnAiP8'osnsed lleuten-
;a:ie&ngy'T!ainenaaAchlef fac-
tor lu cunUuuliig me UeaU'HIiaucier's
, The "Snow Baby" Protests.
Miss Marie Peary, who is the only
white child born north of the arctic ch
cle, is now sixteen years old and a stu-
lor ui cuiiuuuiug uie rueau uuautici a i4. traiifom lui, kMi m.,.,
iTttiSimen are similar in origin and
mental characteristics. Both start
4e ,ribya;i4ndJboati won throuUl
ihepr .wJlUDQwer. meat;
and builders, and both
eff of the opportunity that Ai
lea gives to those who work and Ttt
She said .she .hoped that idad
may be home. to celebrate my sixteenth
birthday next Sunday." Then she add
mm&l; "Please dQO t au me. the.. 'snow
baby.' I don't like It"." In a book
itten by, Mrs. i'eary .. tne . "snow
ji." otherwise Miss. Marie,; is the
jr., tne otner cniia, was six years oia
If,
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