Show I 1 1 0 11 1 1 lon bofto FE PEOPLE 0 1 TALKED ABOUT 1110 H A SUCCESSOR with th ahn election of robert chairman scott lovett a an of 0 the executive committee of the union pacific and southern railroad companies co m the continuance of edward 11 II harrica Harrl mans r 1 policies poll clee elems assured ae so far as any man other at he 9 than the creator of those thoe policies could continue them for judge lovett aa as he ie is commonly called haa has been mr lir Harri mane right hand loan man and personal counselor for the last five years and probably la Is more conversant with the dead einart alers plans that any other living ity ing mari lie has been also general counsel officially for the harriman lines and vice president of both the union P pacific effle and the southern pacific as well as a 4 director ot at these and a number of other railroad railroads I 1 under harriman Harrl man control A small man physically judge lovett ha has of quizzical eyes and a determined mouth that can break into smile a st ns be he talks lie gives an impression imp of vigor and masterful which qualities Uee it Is said he was chosen to self reliance for advise harriman Harrl man in hotly contested law suits I 1 lovett ovett had demonstrated many bla his ability before he wa was asked the by man whose place he will try to fill to go to new york at a 4 salary that made him the envy of most high priced counselors li 11 that city born in san jacinto county TL texas aas 60 miles north ot of lim houston atoil june 22 1850 1860 judge lovett waa was the son of at a poor pioneer farmer who went to the to lone star state from alabama As an a boy he worked on the farm and went wen to a country school when he was 14 yeara years old the construction crew ot of the houston east and west railway reached albe neighborhood in which he lived and the boy was given employment by a contractor at digging out stumps from the right of way then he drove a scraper and after several months of hard work tor far several contractors he bacame bacare a clerk in a start and a railroad agent at shepherd texas then be he studied law in houston in the office of charles stewart at that time representative in cd congress agress beginning the practice ef of the daw at cold springs the county seat of hil hl home county after being admitted to the bar in houston in 1882 lovett obtained his first railway connection when the houston east and west rail ra 11 way went into a receiver a hands he lie was employed to look after the road i 1 interests teresta In at nacogdoches es affer a year of this work he returned to houston and was made general counsel for the road from this time on his record shows rapid climbing as a texas railway lawyer in 1889 be he became assistant general attorney of at the texas pacific railway company at dallas and two years later was made general attorney becoming a member of the firm of baker botta botts lovett he was soon in fix the front rank of texas railroad lawyers trained in the gould system as his practice expanded he came into contact with mr harriman Harrl man through the large interests Inte rents of the Sovi southern thern pacific system in texas january 1 I 1904 he was made general attorney and counsel for all the harriman Harrl man lines in texas and aud went to new york to live GUARDS ROYAL JEWELS after a long and active service in the I 1 british army the quiet of the tower of london will probably be welcome to gen sir robert cunliffe low who haa has just been appointed keeper of the jewel house in that venerable and historical pile vew few general officers in the army have havo a more 4 vaa v tried and brilliant record of services and few can look back on so many exciting moments ai as sir robert has gone through in the courry of his career ip receiving his first commission in tho bengal cavalry in 1854 he served throughout the indian mutiny and was present at the sieges of delhi delb and lucknow after that lie oe took part in several minor wars vars in different parts of india earned medals was as mentioned in dispatches and re elved the thanks of the indian government govern hent on several occasions lu that terrible march from kabul to kandahari Kan dahar with which lord roberts name Is everlastingly connected connectS 4 bin sir robert lov low was chief director of transport and he was present atlee battle whick took place af at the latter place s f 1 later he took part in one of the burmese expeditions y and in 1892 having by this time risen to the rank of major general be he commanded the relict relief force to chloral Ch itral and for this was again mentioned in dispatches and thanked by the government of india 1 krom 1898 to 1903 as lieutenant gereral and general he commanded the forces in the bombay district of at india and now jr after having life many soldiers would envy he will end hll is day days with nothing more to worry him than the responsibility tot for the atlle crown jewels these consist ot of the crown the scepter I 1 the orbs for king and queen and several other interesting relics of ancient jya daya used at the coronation of english sovereign sovereigns lying side by tide side wit with we no very ery modern modem cullinan diamond recently presented to king edward without this latter gem the value of the regalia Is placed at 15 TO PROVE COOKS CLAIMS evelyn briggs driggs baldwin Bald BaId wiL the arctic explorer firmly believes that dr cook has reached the pole and announces that he will boon soon organize organ lz nn an himself to prove dr cooks assed tion aak in 1898 89 99 mr baldwin waa was with the Well wellmah mat expedition in its journey to franz josef land ht ile built and named fort ric Kinley graham dell bell land waa was and arid ex explored pored by him in lit the intervals between voyages baldwin lectured ex ten on polar explorations through the states of the middle west and the south the public la Is familiar with the detail details of the baldwin expedition which started june 13 1901 william VIl Ilant ziegler fitted out the america tor for mr air baldwin and also gave him charge oi of two chartered supply steamers tte amere the frithjoff ft and belgica As A a result of this trip there in f now a series aeries of stations extending from camp ziegler to alt ar lodge crown prince rudolf land the latter being in sight night of the former headquarter headquarters of the italian explorer explorers these eta ata tlona including several large ones on ott franz josef land stretch for nearly miles in establishing them the party went 0 er the distance a dozen times several of the stations included houses and pony sheds thousand thousands of pounds of conden condensed ped food was stored at each of these points whether they have been utilized bi b succeeding expeditions does not appear personally mr baldwin has the magnetism magnet lem that draws men toward him modest in hie blis expressions be he Is forceful when the topic arouses him and when he argues he ie Is corkAn clug he la in unmarried WOULD BUILD BIG SUBWAY george washington jackson who Is president of himself ulma elf incorporated has startled even chica go with the proposition to build a bubay system under the downtown down town loop district ard out into the suburbs for george washington who was chief engineer in the construction of the tb illinois tunnel system and has been consulting engineer in a number of other large projects of JA tike like nature was born in chicago in 1361 and took up his present business in 1883 her ile saya says that his borne home city with no subway Is shamelessly behind the umes times and that new york and boston have hava subways philadelphia Is to building one and st louis and pittsburg are planning for others mayor busse experts have estimated as the cost of a subway system but only under the congested loop district jackstas Jacka Jack oas proposed subway would have eight loops under downtown chicago and continuous sidewalks Ide walks which will prevent congestion at a any one point jackson has ban worked four or five years on his plans th difficulty being in planning the proposed work to dodge the many water bipes telephone conduits sewers gas tall mains electric light conduits cold storage pipes steam pipes for next et power and high pressure water mains |