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Show Part Two VOL l NO. OGDEN CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1905 10 PRICE FIVE CENTS g&-33352- 330 I OSSSS5SM6MSMasgMK5g,x65KSgSMS3eK6gK3SSS2:l tonight The Seniors Daofhter ing engagement beer at the Grand on morning, it la Daphne whom you first April 2S. remember. Bhe haa the best instincts of Lillian Russell and May Irwin comPOLLARD'S LILLIPUTIANS. bined. and If her guiding star escapes collision with a comet she will aume flaxcn-halr-eThat precocious crowd of (lay be a real queen of comic opera. wonder sailing in the iheairlcal Her chic and piquancy were not driven sea as the Pollard .Lilliputian Opera inio that tiny body, for they are not company, began an engagement of two of the clumsy, cultivated calibre. week at the Marquain Grand theater These qualities just In g rowed" last night in "The Belle of New York, Daphne, as did her childish beauty. and transformed an auditorium full of Olive Moore distinguished herself as Her songs were sponpeople Into a literal whirlpool of ad- the dalniy miration and delight. For the same taneously encored, especially When amount of money nnlmdy ever obtain- We Are Married, which alia sang with ed greater amusement. l.clchner, who played the youngThe Belle" la the bent of all musical er Bronson. The Salvation Army girl la comedies the most tuneful, most en- prettily rendered by Eva Moore. Among the boys. Jack Pollard led off gaging and most comical. Every number in lta score is of that quality which with a good presentation of Irhabod you tire of only after a thing has been Bronson. His Imitation of Dan Italy's played into alaleneen on your own makeup for the role is a credit. Teddy piano, The piece calls for more come- McNamara aa ihe pugilist, Willie dians than any other three tvjtjatlc Thomas aa the lunatic, anil the Hcluta hooka combined, and the vocal de- brothers aa the Portuguese twins were mands are almost, as heavy. Jn view joyously received, white Kred Polof this It was almost unprecedented lard's interpolated song, KIkkcs, and daring for the children to atienipt it, Hoy Smith's The Meaning of V. S. A. but they seemed to have scored a dis- were among the numbers most heartily tinct triumph, see considered, from recalled. The Belle will be repeated tonight the Tory beginning. Jn fact, The Belle of New York" haa been sung by and tomorrow night. Portland with letjs than half the talgrown-up- s ent. and Intelligence displayed by the JOHN L. SULLIVAN. babies last night. The chances are more than even Daphne Pollard, the tiny member of the tamlly, and the alar of the com- that John U Sullivan, who la now tourpany, If atar It haa, appeared aa Cora ing the northwest, will visit this secAngellque, the queen of comic oiiera. tion before returning east. A local as manager la In receipt of the following; This waa somewhat surprising, 8t. Louis, Marrh 23, 1905. there are at least two feminine roles of greater Importance. But you forget My Dear Sir: I open in Spokane, that when you see Daphne. While she Wash., at the Coeur D'Alene Theater may not dominate the show entirely, May 1st. This will be my first appearthe stage la certainly her own when ance on the western coast for nine she appears and, thinking it over next years. At the conclusion iff my en d Co. By the Mack Swain The Meek Swain Minpany enter enIt upon the loot week ef meet progagement, which ha been a nounced artistic and financial aueccee. PARISFAL BY INNE' BAND. "Perlefal" reappeared In Omaha Thursday evening, m;i the Dally News of that city, when Innea band of It played, as the Second part pro-Bra- escerpts from Wagner famous were admirably opera. The selection Interpreted, furnishing a gratifying of the two productions of ihe work hrard In Omaha but a few week previously. That Farsi Cal" haa gained a lasting music lover waa bold oa Omaha attshow by the great audience which Kun-dr- y the Mrs. sang ended. Partridge arias In the portion where Parsifal Is tempted by the maidens, while Mr. lluttman sang the Parsifal solo. The Impressive chorus of .the kalghte of the Holy Grail was given by the band and the festal chorus. rarslfal will be one of the feature to bo given by Innea at hie forthcom FI-K- gagement at Spokane, which will end, 1 presume, Sunday, May 7th, I shall be presum'd to continue niv tour through British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, and I shall be pleased to arrange with yon for opening at your house. Now It makes no difference how large or how small your house Is. I will guarantee to fill It at every allow, and I am willing to give four shows a day. If necessary. To use a plain expression, and aa they say in sporting parlance, I ant out for the coin," and 1 guarantee to give you return equal to two to one for any of money amount pay you decan you me. Now this with me a sparpend upon. I have ring partner in Jim McCormack, not Jack McCormack, but JIM, who. In my opinion, is a world beater, and we do a three-rounsparring exhibition, and In addition to the sparring exhibition, 1 give my monologue turn which lasts twenty-thre- e minutes, and ran make It more or less, just as you want It, but 1 can assure you I keep the audience in a roar of laughter from the time I set my foot upon the stage until I leave 1L Now 1 will do my monologue turn and boxing turn every afternoon for you. and every evening for you. or you ran arrange It any way you like, and have two monologue turns in the afternoon and two boxing exhibitions at. night, the more boxing I do the better I like it, for it helps to keep me in condition for my coming fight with Jeffries. It must be borne in mind that this Is ihe first time 1 have had the gloves on in public for seven years, and to say that the boxing Is appreciated, only faintly expresses It, and at every show the houses have been packed to the limit Now this Is saying a great deal, but they are facta. It seems as It the present generation, in addition to The pIcaKure-iovinpublir, who followed my every fool step ten out cninus at years ago. are turning the present lime. 1 can adapt myself to any style of audience, and tho words that fall from my lips are appreciated by the grandmas, grandpas, ladies and children, aa well aa the sport-lovinpublic. This will be my only appeur-ancon the voaat, and 1 have had to sacrifice a great many dollars in order to get away from the east here, and while 1 like your pan of the country very much, my business interests are of such a nature here In the east that It will compel me to return at the conclusion of the rortland fair. rieaafl do not address mo en route, but send your replies to my permanent address, Id 8. Broadway, St. Iritis, Mo. 1 shall be pleased to receive an offer from you; no matter how small It may be, it will be treated with Ihe same courtesy and promptness eg if it was g g e $10,000. Very trnly yours, JOHN L. SULLIVAN. A dramatic writer writes aa follows of Ida petformauce: Ladles and llcnt lemon If you will give me your attention for awhile 1 will show you what I can lo with a Monologue according to monologue. Hoyle, 1 mean Bhakeapeare, means solillquey and aollllqiiey means talking to yourself. Now as rule this is a very bad habit. They say that most aumologiiists are bad,' but I will try and prove myself the exception to the rub-.- " This la the way In which John L. Sullivan, once fistic champion of the world, who haa set about again to win back the championship laurels, and ia presenting to the public a monologue which certainly surprise hla moat enthusiastic friends. It certainly was a surprise to the writer and a party of friends which he took to the theater yesterday afternoon to hear good otd John L. in what he supposed would than an nothing more or idle talk. I soon forgot that it waa John L. talking, and became o deeply interested jn tnr stories and reminis-cens- e of hla past life, that 1 found myself listening to a philosopher and a logical man. John L. ia carefully disguised in a full dress suit made of the finest doe skin cloth, and it must hate cost John at least three bill. Hi suit which fringes a wiiito shirt front, 18 inches x "4 inches in eros, presents him before the public more like a man from Wall afreet than n man from the prize ring. He might be an alderman leading a ward cotillon or a retired hotel keeper nl a wedding for all the audience knows, if his manager had not taken the precaution to Introduce him with complimentary allusions to his record. Whether the monologue which follows Is John L. own production, or has been hammered Into shape by blacksomo profd-sioua- l monologue smith, ia a secret which the audience is not presumed to know. The champion's attitude on the stage can scarcely be called a characteristic one. He picks out a spot, when he first comes In, plants both feet down solid, and then bangs on to l( for dear life until he leaves. Hla left hand stays in hla ironaer ixicket, during must of the performance, but hla right hand ia used fur goatures, whose relation to the monologue la n second secret. autJohn L tarns like n rapid-fire- , omatic rififlb at first, probably to get away from the axiomatic philosophy -. which his blacksmith author has laid out for him, and wuen this portion ia over, and he begins to tell stories, usually on himself, ho has gotten so into the habit of jerking out his word that he raunut get over It. Oj several occasions he essays dialect in his stories, hut even n critical could not differentiate between his Irish and Hebraic aud juubably both are Bostonese Irish. Hta voice is good and hia presence aud personality la grand and he nevur flaters throughout the monologue until his climax, wrjen he trie to recite imthetie law in to slow music. Jun why this idol of the pugilistic arena should seek lo emulate some lovrairk herof a la secret numoine, ber three, which again ha docs not share with tue audience. But It M all by John L. Sullivan; what magic there is in the name for the pleasure-lovin- g public and that probably accounts for the tremendous applnu-- o which greets him when he Uiws ni the end and says, "Thunk- - you." At the evening performance John L. gives a spurring exhibition with tils Jim McCormack. sparring partner. Whether John works the act up or not. or whether he still maintain the same vicious spirit that hr has always shown in the ilug, 1 could nut judge. It was all 1 could do to sec, for tho people all around ntc, and the !aJic- as well, were yelling and standing np In their seals for John and Jim McCormack certainly go at it dike hant-mn- r and tongs, and when the manager steps In to separate them mid cull time at the end of the first round, John turned on him, and the manager quickly and John L. could not but help cracking a smile. Da a grand, good closing ot the show. tu mclo-dram- i i ; i :( Hi ' aide-steppe- d kXHdHdMddMdHdHdHdHdHO-KKOdOOddHOtO-IOdO-KHdHdHdHOdOttM- HI w a rt Edvard Henry Harrlman, A aware taciturn man of thy, undersized, la today the moat potential figure in the management of A me liesa undisputed railways the master of sytem-tretchinfrom the lake to the western ocean, with numberless branches in the shape, of feeding" lines tributary to It in every direction along its course! Although hlr prerent power and prominence hare come to him in the Inst seven years, the foundation for .them Wss laid with signal ability and foresight g more than a quarter of .a century ago. His father waa a clergyman in New Jersey, who. if he did not endow hia children with wealth or opport- unity, bequeathed them some thing ng Intellect. The younger Harrlman came to New. York) in his teen, went into Wnll Street, and licaan hia actir career there as n better-stro- broker. lie mastered the brokerage business without delsy, but its opportunities did not satisfy hla active and creative mind, nor was he content with the handome gains which came to. him ig the way of commissions. Accordingly, ha became n private hanker and organized a banking bouse, which Inter pissed over to his brother and ronton with Nichols Fish as n special' partner. This venture, thanks in part ibc I? profitable clientage of William K- Vanderbilt, prospered from the first, and aa time went on Mr. Ilarrl-mtbecame identified with various small railroads. It was during this also that hia formed dose business and personal relations with etuyresant Fish, who had been a member of the stock exchange and ,n influential official of the . m Central railroad. When in JWi Mr. Fish, at the instance; of th Piid torelgn stockholder the who controlled of that' to en-tits loard of directors. The lat-served aa of the S?,8 "7 ibroe years, and was Mr. man and moat trusts , in ,he extensions and leie mx rounded out the Illinois Can--- 1 , im system of 6,37(1 miles, nnsnrirg most, if not all, of the deals. lta capitalization and than trebled lta J earnings. Tfie 111! .nils Central, when they dominant factors in tts man-ruS'ran ,rom cl,icRO to New chirK to Bknix fitv -I- ,,xndn from entrance into t. Lou!. rw mall feeders. ' One q its ST1 fafmidable rival was Ihe Louls-tnti- f. which had an en-,n,. N,'w Orleans, lmt no el ween that city; fit. Louis ... , lcK. An Independent line Mem,hl to New Orjenn. anrt Harrlman cleverly ii rml tt Nash- !he Loui,vm Wmlng control of It. afcd thus Illinois Central the only A vA hi,rtlr" between those cities, kror "1, they invaded the terri-?.- " ,h Louisville A Nashville. the Chesapeake, (MUi 5,,5V,rta 'bwetern, secured for the lllimi "n entrance . into and with il command of a wat votume of eatexn tail north- m ratfic which formerly had gone th over its rival. Nor did they fbt ,lh clipping lbs wings f t,C.n1,Pnt. lAunsville k Nashville, Th j,,,,..1" of the Illimris Central ?lliIPd in,', b cost and Iron it; Alabama, and a better out-bt i.n 8l kwi to the aon:h recur- purchaae or the St. Louis.' Aw Terre Haute, while in !0U l' completion of the branch from I!..-- . p' ,n Council Bluff cnn d siih ihe Union Pacific by a . presidency row- - he Induced Mr. Harrlman cr w "Kbl-bnn- d I'roblcd nt di-li- 1 !! . I m a n , Inle m :-- i k.e o ff Ini By Rufus Rockwell Wilson a ii ad Dir 1 04WMd000lO0-- r had bridge over the Misaotiri .River into years prior to 1899 the Alton divipaid seven and eight per cent Omaha. dint ribtil ions had During the years In which, ns chair- dends, lmt these man of the finance committee of tho lvn effected )y lndefc:tsible econoIllinois Central lie was helping his mics. Bridges, 1 racks, and rolling friend Fish to expand that road into stock had been allowed to run down, and mo- -i profitable and tue road, as an expert tersely the of system la the valley of the Mississip- pul It, had IrtFOfltc two streaks Mr. Harri-mapi. Mr. Harrlmmi grew steadily in rust and a a- won a he wait made chairwealth and In the esteem of the men whoso respect anil good-wil- l help to man of the hoard of directors ot the success in large affairs. He became new company, began the work of n director in the Union Pacific, and mending tnese conditions. Samuel forined close relations with Jacob H. M. Felton, a railway constructionist of tho first order of ability, was made Brhiff and Janie Speyer, both leader in the little group of private president of the ronipsny. Felton ankers whose large command of do- bought fifty new locomotives and five mestic and foreign capital makes them thousand cars of modern type, and the real rulers of Wall Street. He then proceeded to rebuild the road, waa now in n position to execute the n division at a time. Grades were refar-r- e ching plans for railway acquisi- lowered, curves cut out, bridges tion and control whlrh had long been built or eliminated, aud heavy steel ructaking shape in his mind, apd the first rails laid, me work of reconxt and of these became an accomplished fart tion extended over three years, mile to accomplish when In the fall of 18Mt he carried It cost $19,000 the Alton into transformed but It of the it, deal the n or purchase through across Illinois and a track AlThe railroad. speeding Alton k Chicago more ton, under the management of T. 11. Missouri ; and tne returns Inhave 1898 the Blackstone snn his friends, who own- than Justified the outlay. ed n majority of it stock, was then Alton'- - average of tons per train mile a free laace In the rsllrosd world, and was 187; the present average i S87, earna disturbing element in the adjust- while the freight and passenger ment anil maintenance of rate. Sev- ings of the road show n steady nnd eral other companies coveted its pos- sulistantial Increase. Bnllding Up the Union Pacific.. session, hut gave up attempts to obMr. Ilarriman's aucre-- s in acquiring tain it when they found that Black-alon- e would 'not sell his stock unless and rebuilding the Alton caused him every shareholder was given the priv- without delay tu lie placed in charge ilege to sell at the same price- - a con- of the Union Pacific aa chairman of dition which called for 46,000,000 In the executive committee of its board The Union I'arific at of directors. cash. The terms demanded by IHack.toiic, that, time had just emerged from the shadows of n checkered nnd disastrous however, did not disturb Mr. Harri-maea-- t who, after a careful study of the past. The first road to link the played n field, formed a plan for the purchase with the 1801110, it had of the Alton in the Interest of the sev- mighty part in the development of eral systems to which 1L would be of the west, but it had suffered from and had greatest use and value. The Missouri succession of bad manager, Pacific, controlled by George Gould, been burdened, beside with n heavy and the Missouri, Kansas k Texas, load of debt. The Union Pacific finances were at dominated by John I). Rockefeller, have terminals in St. Louis, which la once reorganized along line laid out, Reached by the Alton, while the A- it is sain, by Mr. Harrlman, which ltons Kansas City line furnishes an gave it n new basis of credit and prooutlet for the Illinois Central. The vided also for a future expansion and Alton al-- o connects with the south- consolidation on a scale then unern branch of the Union Pacific, and dreamed of among financier. One of reorganization Jia future was.thereforc, of direct con- - the first fruit e ofofthis what, had been the cent to the group of capitalist,, beaded was the purrha-Pacific, from Kansas City to by Mr. Schlff. who the year Wore Kansas This was effected In February, Denver. had entered into control of the rosil. Using this community 1898. nnd before the end of the year of interest aa n lever. Mr. Harrlman the Union I'arific secured the remainof ttfc Oregon Short Line, easily persuaded Gould, Rockefeller, ing stork outlet to the Pacific its then only n to enter Schlff syndicate Fib,'and fur the purchase of the Alton, control coast. Mr. Hnrriinan had no sooner of which should be retained by its B rebuilding than he resolved the in held else lie or jointly members, for it another and more secure to He roads. several of their interests to the Pacific. The outlet southerly ninety-fiv- e INMI for cash 842,000, paid Pacific proper ends at Ogden, per cent of the Alton stock. Then Union ne refunded the old bonds of the road whence the Central Pacific runs to Snn on a three per cent basis, an.l by the Francisco. The late Collii p. Huntboth the Southsale of new lionds Issued for improve- ington then controlled the Central Pacific, ments cleared 80.000,000 profit for the ern Pacific inand the spring of 1900 went members of tbla syndicate. Thee and to him Harrlman with an offer for the things accomplished, he organized n Mr. new operating company, the Chicago purchase of the latter road. This offer rejected on the instant. He would k Alton Railway, which, after leas- he never, he declared, let the Union Paing the old Alton railroad. cific into California his own terri$02,000,000 of new securities, divided tory. Then proof waa given him of the about equally into common stock, pre- shrewdne-s and unreal ing purpose of collateral trust ferred stock, and tne man whom nia refusal had transbond. The preferred stock and bunds formed into an antagonist. It was sold for 133,000,000 in round figures, so that tne control of the 'common announced within a week that the Northern railroad had been instock, which carried with It control Utah k of n railroad occupying an important corporated. to built from Salt Lake to San Francisco. All of its stock strategic position, cost Mr. Harrlman City owned by the Oregon Short Line, and hia asoclntes s little more than was ana It was to be the main line of the hulf of 89.nutl.flOO. a Union Pacific from Utah to the coast These opera t ions placed Mr. in the front rank ns a ftnan-en- d Work was at mice begun on the new and by the summer of 190U It bad they al-- o gave him oppor- road, cier, been pushed as far sonth as the tunity io demonstrate on a larged State tine. srale that with him control f s atood fur good railroading. For I Mr. Huntington, who bad strangely . d right-of-way.- " 1 lie-gu-n Har-riuis- Xn-vs-- rail-roa- the fact that, deprived of the eastern connection afforded by the Central Pacifle Union Pacific, (he would be n road stranded' in the wild'a erness, waa sadly pondering Mr. brilliant countcrstroke, when In August of the year just named death suddenly overtook him. Seven months inter his holding In Southern Pad tic. together with those of ihe Crocker and Stanford estates, were sold lo the Union Pacific, which issued Isolds to pay fur them. Thus nt n single stroke Mr. Hnrrintan added 9.821 mtlea tu the Union Tactile aytem, secured his coveted entrance into San Francisco, and became the dominant railway factor In n territory reaching eastward from that city to the Gulf of Mexico. Incidentally Die I nlon Iarific, through Its purchase of the Bunt hern Pacific, obtained a direct water line from New Orleans to New York by the Morgun line of stcamsnips. while abort ly afterward. moved thereto by Air. Hsrri-mathe Southern Pacific bought n majority interest in tho Block of the Paciflc Mail Steamship company, which own steamship operating from Snn Francisco to the Orient, thus opening to the Harrlman lines n vista of vast ixwalbilities in Asiatic trade. Since 1900 no one haa arizen bold enough to dispute Mr. Ilarriman's absolute rule in his realm. When, after aeciiring possession 'of the Southern Pacific and the Central Pacific, he nt once began rebuilding the latter line, the work was planned on a large rale, and with a thoroughness that amazed more conservative railway men, yet in carrying it out he made short work of the doubt and feeble protests of his associates. Again Mr. Harrlman made short fifty-tw- o of tint work miles then lost by the Central Pacific in skirting Balt Lake on the north over grades so steep snd around curves so hour to sharp that It took several make the detour. Collls P. Huntington, Jn an earlier time, planned to do away with these grades and carves be running the road through the northern arm of the Salt Lake, but abandoned the idea when hla engineers Informed him that for several miles the mud In the lake ran down to a great depth. Mr. Harrlman was told the same story when he in turn grappled with the problem, but he was not to be swerved from his purpose to shorten the road nnd save time. He drew a line from Ogden straight across the lake and the desert to lAirin, Utah, and said to hla director and engineers: Build it. The cost of operation will warrant the expense. The men who executed this command had to run twenty-thre- e miles of trestle-woracross swampy flats nnd through water thirty deep, taking trains further from land than they had ever before been run; but they succeeded In their task, and In so doing cut ioriy-fou- r miles of track out of 148, at the same time eliminating 4.000 degrees of curves nnd 1,500 feet of grade. A Gigantic Ambition. Those who, from different motives, have studied Mr. Harrimans methods since he entered in'o control of tho Union Pacific early made the discovery of the fact ihat his course waa shaped by an ambition lo build tip n system that would lay at his feet the commerce of the whole Paciflc coast. It was in pursuit of this ambition that he acquired the Oregon Short Line and the Southern Paciflc. Then he spread bis empire into the north, and pushed In the outposts of the Burlington, liie Northern Pacific, snd the Great Northern. finding new snd profitable traffic for his lints In all f ihe states west of overlooked Jtsr-riman- dim-ease- k ft Nebraska. Finally, In 1901 he' carried the fight for supremacy into the ojien. Early in that year James J. Hilt, head of the Great Northern, and J. Plerpont Morgan, whose firm had for several years managed the finances ef the Northern Pacific, Joined in n deal to buy for those mada Joint control of the Burlington. This ileal waa prompted by the belief that It would permanently strengthen the Great Northern aud the Northern Pacific. Mr. Hnri'lnuni demanded a share in il, and when liill and Morgan refiiacd his demand at. once undertook to secure control of the Northern Pacific by buying its Block in the open market. The fight that followed was a battle between giants. For three days the Morgan millions were pined against the Harrlman millions in n battle for Nortnern Pacific stork so fierce Ihat the price advanced by Iraps and bounds. Then Mr. Morgan's lieutenants, believing that they nad secured control of the property, ceased lo liny. Mr. Harrlman and his saHoriates, moved by like belief, quit the market at the same time, and called In the stock they had lent to those outsiders who, speculating on a fsll in price, had sold stork they did not own, hut had borrowed with a promise to return on demand. The panic that followed this calling of stork will he long remembered in Wall Street. Swires of men. called upon to return tho borrowed stock they had sold, were compelled, in order to get. it, to part with other securities at prices which Involved a kws to their owners of $G0.(H)4.non in a single day, while, in response to the demand fqr Northern Pacific stock, its price advanced so rapidly that on May 9 several hundred shares changed hands at nearly $1J)(H) n share. On May 11, at the call of Mr. Harri-niathere was a historic gathering of financier In his office. Charles Steele and Robert Hamn represented .1. P. Morgan k Co., Mr. Hill the Great Northern, nnd Mr. Schlff and Mr. the Union Pacific. It was found that out of n total of Slua.nnq.iinQ Mr. Harrlman and his friends held $7k,HMt,-00worth of Northern Paciflc stork. But $41,000,000 of the Harrlman holdings was preferred stork, which, under the reorganisation plan of the Northern Paciflc, could be retired at any time. The Morgan and Hill forces, on the other hand, held $42,000,000 of cmn-mo- n stock, nnd this, should the preferassure red stock be retired, would them control of the road. Mr. Harri-matoo wise to resort to a fruitless struggle in the courts, consented to n compromise whereby he became a director both of the Northern Paciflc and the Burlington. When In October, 1901, Mr. Morgan formed the Northern Securities company, to own both the Great Northern and the Northern Paexchanged his cific, Mr. Harrlman Northern Pacific stock for the ecttri-tle- s But when, of the new company. decided in 1903, the supreme court that the Northern Securities company had no legal right to exist, he demanded the return of this stock, and scouted an offer of a pro rata share of all company. Tho the stocks owned by thewhich has Just result, was a lawsuit court. bees decided by the supremo Mr. Harriman'a contention has not been sustained, but he and his friends remain holders of Northern Pacific iKK. shares of n psr value of $33,non routes by Out of th seven great which freight snd passengers are now roe carried from the mountains to one western const. J J. Hill controls M . absolutely, the Great Northern. Harritusu. as has been sw n. ns Pifi J large Interest In the Northern Oregon J and controls Union Pacific, Mur-rima- n 0 n. Short Line, and Central Pacific. The San Pedro, Ia Angelca k Balt UIih railroad, which runs front Salt City to I ami Angeles, was projected in T9Ut by Senator William. A. Clark, of Montana, who, nsing tho Denver k Rio Grande ns n feeder, thus designed to bring Into the field n formidable rival lo tho Central Pacific. This design, however, Mr. llstrinisn lias nipited In the litid, for within the last, few month In the new route has n been bought by the Union Pacific. Securing the Santa Fa. The Kanin Fe road haa been pointed to for years aa the one transcontinental system tlisl had not been absorbed" by any big banking house or ayndieale of railway magnates, and that took orders only front the men charged with tlm management of lta affairs. With terminals st Chicago and Han Francisco, and feeders reaching down to Galveston and K1 Paso, Its jsisltlon In the railway field has been that of a sturdy Independent, tuklng business wherever It could find It and holding friendly relations with nil, but entangling alliances with none of Its neigh-iNirThe Moores have coveted it as an addition to or InvnluHbl ally of the Rock Island system which ends now at El Paso, and Jatnes J. Hill and George J. Gould have likewise rnst longing eyes in its direction, hilt it remained for Mr. Harrlman to hag tho one big apple still left on the railroad tree. This he accomplished in the closing days of last year by purchases which made hint the largest individual holder of Bantu Fe shares, and which, if they do not give hltn control of the rond, render It Impossible for anyone else tosuvurc It. Including the Northern Pacific and Bantu Ke, but. omitting the line east of Omaha which he either owns or controls, Mr. Hnrrlmnn'n domain now bulks ns follows: Mile Railroad Capital Union Paciflc and halt-intere- . Oregon lines.... 6,105 Southern Iarific k Central Pacific.. 9.621 Ban Pedro route . . 1,100 Atchison. Topeka k 8,004 Santa Fe Northern Pacific . . 5,970 30.806 $1,945,762,323 This Is in truth a lordly empire, and with an Iron Mr. Harrlman rules It hand. He is president not only of the Pacifle. Union Paciflc and Southern but of all their subsidiary companies. He Is president In fact aa well aa in name, and executive committees and lxutrd of directors meet only to record their approval of his plans and Year in and year out, in hia office at 120 Broadway, with n map ot his entire railroad system before him, he toils with the untiring energy ot an electric dvnnmo. No living man is n more rapid thinker; decision and ace tion go hand in hand; and he will in an hour of n mass of reports and correspondence that another could Ms Indeed, not master in a day. stenographers work in relays, and even then find It difficult to keep pace with him. And he la always the man nt the helm, nothing large or small escaping his watchful eye. I a Physically this czar of railroads narrow-chestesmall man, slight in build, nnd delicate in appe ranee. He la simple in his tastes snd plain in his attire, fain business dress invariably consisting of n sack atilt, all of the same material, a low turnover collar, nnd n small black bow. Hie town residence la one of the block of houses on Madison avenue built by the late Henry Villa rd. and his next door ntdghlxir is Whltelaw Held, edit or of the New York Tribune; but he lives moat of his pur-(awe- dis-jKje- s. time on hi great qpnntry estate neap Arden, In Orange . county, where he find as much delight In the rearing of does Mr. Morfine stock nnd horse gan in yachting, Mr. Carnegie in golfing, or Mr. Ilili in the collection of picture. Hla wife, who waa a Miss Averill, could command by reason of her own family association n high aortal place In New York, hut for social delights of themselves, Air. llnrriroan cares nothing. Nor has the building of his railway empire left him any time for them. RESENTS CZARS ACTION. M. Witte Disheartened and Humlllat. ed Through Intrigue. . Bt, Petersburg, April 15. Quite a sensation was caused this morning by, Ihe appearance In the Neva, the most widely circulated illustrated weekly In Russia, of a half-tnnpicture representing the Imperial family. Including the empress, holding the heir to the throne, the liarkground of the picture showing In ehsdowy nutllneq the emperor, Grand Duke Sergius, Grand Duke Alexis, the Dowager Empress, the heir to the throne and pwdlcally. all the living members of the Romanoff family lying dead In their coffins. The work is dime so skilfully that In the shadows, in tho drapery hrihinrl, the Imperial family are illaeonilM with great difficulty. Copies of this edit Ion of the Neva are felling t a big premium. M. Witte, president of Ihe commit tee of ministers, has definitely decided to give up nil work nnd go abroad. Tho-lastraw waa the Imperial rescript addressed Thursday to Interior Minister Bouligan creating n special commission to discuss questions relating lo peasant tenure of lands and the abolition of the peasant commission over which 51.' IVltt presided. Th emperor took th step without even advising M. Witte of Ills intention. The members of the Wilts commission were actually at work Tuesday evening and woke up yesterday to fii-- d the commission out of existence. M. Witte attributes the emperor's act to court intrigue, directly aimed against himself, and yesterday informed his friend that he was complete. Co disheartened and disconraged, longer able to endure the humiliations heaped upon hint, and that he wou'd leave all and go abroad for a time. M. Witte's antagonists at. court, where their Influence was greatly feard ed by M. Wittefi were effectively by part of the old Von PIchve cabal, headed by M. Hturiner, formerly under-secre- t ary of the Interior, nnd 51. Bticblnskl. former chief adjutant of the interior department, who was forced out of Uie ministry of the Ulterior by former Interior Minister Bviatopolk-Mirsky-; they have wreaked their vengeance on their ancient chief enemy, 91. Witte. 1; n st . !' iH j n j .. j rele-foree- MURDERER ! i REPRIEVED. St. IawK Mo., April 13. Goetnnr Folk today granted a reprieve lo Btl Rudolph, the bank robber. UJtil May. bti, to allow Kmlolph' case limit for presentation to tb? United States supreme court. Hudolnh was to hsvo been executed Monday at Union. Mo., for the murder of Detect! e Shumue!-e- r. The sheriff had Just arrived to take Rudolph to Union when the notification of the reprieve was reech?d. Warsaw. April 13. accused of wounding ing the January riot tenced to death after martial. Three workmen a policeman dur- were today sena t liul by count u |