Show I NEW WIZARD OF FINANCE I Otto Herman Kahn is Wall streets latest wizard of finance Born in Germany not quite 10 years ago Mr Kahn worked In London and in New York A few years ago ho became a member mem-ber of Kuhn Loeb Co Mr Kahn more widely Known in Europe than in America was brought before tho public in the recent examination of E H Harriman by tho interstate commerce commission commis-sion His ready answers to questions involving j1 j1I financial technicalities amazed members of the commission Not only did he discuss hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of shares of stock with absolute Indifference but ho showed that although declaring himself to bo merely a hanker and In no sense a rallioad man he has a wonderful knowledge of railroad rail-road conditions and values He described with a wealth of detail illustrating a remarkable memory all the Intricacies of the reorganization of tho Union Pacific Railway company in 1898onl two years after ho had entered the firm of Kuhn Loeb Co and when he was but 29 years 01l1and talked familiarly of the Northern roads and tho big systems that cross the country from north to south To the lawyers and those who were healing Mr Kahn for the first time this was all very amazing but to those who have been asso elated with him it caused no surprise Testimony taken at the Inquiry showed that It was he to whom Mr Hal rlman went when ho wanted to buy control of a big railroad system that it was Mr Kahn who was sought when tho called railroad wizard wanted to sell a few hundred thousand shares of railroad stocks Mr Kahn Is a director In a number of the Harrlman railroads land and other corporations Always a student of opera he Is one of the directors of tho Metropolitan Opera company and is one of the active founders of tho New theater New York as well as secretary of the Theater Lyrlque of Paris Ho spends al least one evening a week at the Metropolitan opera house and occasional goes to a theater |