| Show LEADERS AMONG THOSE WHO CONTROL AMERICAS COAL COAL SUPPLY I I 1 1 t t Ami s i JI 10 1 r f 1 F has been and GEORGE still remains th the prime mover In all action proceeding from the operators side of the coal mining con President of ef the Philadelphia and Reading ho is 15 the accredited of the five anthracite roads m which control that branch of the fuel industry Nothing important Is under undertaken undertaken taken until Mr Baer has been consult consulted ed On account of hit hi hostility toward I organized labor and his hi firm belief in InI I property rights ho has received the I nickname from the miners mIner of ef Divine Divino Right Baer BOler At Reading where ho he lives he Is III known as a deeply religious i man a liberal giver to charities and a i promoter of local improvement He has been the architect of hla hili fortune D UNDERWOOD FREDERICK president of tho Erie one of the five great anthracite roads is a atypical atypical typical railroad man He began as a brakeman In 1868 and has risen pro progressively progressively to his hi present position Mr Underwood is a native of Wisconsin born at Wauwatosa In 1852 He has long had the reputation of ef being the best beit transportation man in the country Personally he Is very vory popular es especially among the employees of his system Although he represents inter interests ests which are aro antagonistic to organ organIzed organIzed labor the th miners do not regard him as a personal enemy Mr Under Underwood Underwood wood has frequently dissented from the radical views of his colleagues and is opposed to extreme measures B THOMAS chairman of EBEN the board of directors of the Erie system since 1901 Is a veteran railroad man Ho Is connected Influentially with a score of transportation and coal mining milling enterprises ent and nd has been active in the great Industrial feud Mr Thomas is a native of Cleveland 0 and when ho he was a boy of fifteen he was in the employ of the American Telegraph company He came to New NewYork NewYork York city in 1888 to take charge of the Erie lines and In 1894 he was made president of the tho Lehigh Valley road He is reputed to be several times a millionaire Mr Thomas is a II firm be believer believer liever In the theories enunciated by George F Baer and is an advocate of strenuous measures to control strikes H TRUESDALE the WILLIAM president is Ohio man born at Youngstown Dec 1 1851 He has been in tho railroad business since 1869 and has held many responsible positions notably on western roads Mr Trues Truesdale Truesdale dale has been at the head of the Lacka Lackawanna lackawanna wanna since 1899 coming to that road from the Rock Island Like President Underwood he is not an extremist but butis is In favor of temporizing in every possible pos ible way During the strike of 1902 he exerted himself early and late to expedite the work of the commis commission sion and was wu always ready to counsel moderation Mr Truesdale resides at Greenwich Conn but appears every weekday morning In New York P FOWLER president THOMAS of the New York Ontario and Western since 1836 1886 Is a graduate ate of Columbia Law school and a practitioner of many years standing He first became interested in the rail railroad railroad road business as receiver for fer several leveral small lines and displayed so much abil ability abilIty ity that he was retained by a commit committee tee of foreign stockholders of the On Ontario Ontario tario and Western to look after their interests in this country Mr Fowler had the sagacity ty to extend the road Into the Pennsylvania anthracite re region roo gion glon anil the project proved so suc successful successful that he was put at the tha head of ef the system Ho Is outspoken in his criticism of the methods employed by bythe bythe the labor leaders Y V WINDER INDER W is another coal coalman coalman JOHN man who has come into recent prominence He is the president of the Ohio Coal Operators association and has headquarters at Columbus When the operators most concerned in inthe Inthe the mining of bituminous coal revolted from the leadership of Francis L Rob Robbins Robbins bins who had been the spokesman of that branch of the business for some sometime time Mr Winder succeeded to the po position position His first act was to write to President Roosevelt suggesting executive executive tive interference Mr Robbins Is I an advocate of pacific measures and has advised compliance with certain de demands demands mands made by the miners His liberal views were distasteful to many of the themore themore more radically Inclined operators AVID WILLCOX WI president of the DAVID D Del and Me Hudson company ono one of the tho coal cOill carrying roads most Interested in the settlement of the differences between tho operators and the miners has been very prominent prominent nent in coal matters for several years He represented his road before the tho coal strike commission in 1902 and made a masterly statement of tho operators contention He is equally active in the present struggle and is regarded by the tha miners as ono one of their ablest opponents Mr Willcox is a native of Long Island a graduate graduato of Yale Valo and of the Columbia Law school sch ol and has been beon eminent in his profession for l r many years THo late lato of the Treasury Bri tow was his is law partner until ho died |
