Show remarkable RISE OF flan IN RAILROAD WORLD edw n hawley an unknown clerk only few years ago to day he ranks 1 next to harr man and H II 11 as F nanc er new York Within the last few years while edward H haenn an has been occupying the center of the s ae in wall street a little man who has an office in one of the great ekys rap ers of broad street has been doing some remarkable things in tl e rail road quietly and years ago he was a clerk in the E ie railway general office once he was assistant traffic manager of the south ern pacific he has been in wall treet ten years or more but vall never appreciated his power or importance lately now he is I 1 ranked next to and hill he controls more les of railroad than tie vandera its ever ened he could come pretty close to having hia transcontinental line II 11 he coupled up the various systems of which he s the dominant figure and he is only be ginning to fina himself the little man IS edwin hawley wall street admires him it always ad mires the successful man the greater a man s success the more intense the adm ration but wall street haa an additional reason for admiring haw ley he Is a fighter of rare skill and magnificent courage he has had acma lively encounters with the bruisers of the financial world and he never has lost a battle wall street davs nobody ever came out of a fight with hawley without beating kisr of evidence of rough treatment trea trent no one ever wanted another bout aril man took him on once that was enough harriman 1 very respectful when hawley s name is mentioned now any gentleman who exchanges wallops with E H harriman and does not need patching is worthy of financial attention yet wall street rave only perfunctory notice to hawie until the last few weeks then lest the financial world to talking by sell ing the colorado southern to the burlington or rather to james J hill the colorado 4 southern is some thing of a railroad having about 2 miles of track enough almost to make a railroad from here to colorado Co lorido he got a whopping big price for the property too then he turned right around and bought control of the chesapeake ohio the chesapeake ohio represents something like in addition he controls the M polls st louis the iowa central the toledo st louis western bet ter known as the clover leaf and he Is as important a figure in the west wn pacific as gould and in the rock island as probably if be talked a lot and us horn regu barly wall street would have noticed him earlier b it he is reticent to a pronounced degree so retired in tact that he has been called the sphinx of the street he is one of the most i n satisfactory of to interview he does not like it it is said that in the last ten years hp has not been inter viewed three times and these inter views were of the shortest edwin hawley Is nearly 68 years old now but bis smooth him look younger hp says he baft leftow ott his troubles at will and sleep soundly he waa born in chatham columbia county new york and began work for the erie railroad when he was I 1 A year or so later he went with the ohio mississippi railroad as clerk and ticket agent from to 1874 he was churk and later contracting agent tw the rock island vos e As con trading agent he also served a num her of railroads in 1890 he became the assistant ea eral traffic manager of that line etli offices in new york which position he held for 12 years he has been dent ot the polis st louis railroad since 1896 and since 1900 of the iowa central these rail roads and the which he controls he Is interested in a number of otnel enterprises as an officer or director the gamut of his activities runs through banks brokerage houses copper mines coal mines distributing time tables bridge building car coup lers lightning and heating and real estate |