Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1913 — CUTTING OF $140,000,000 IS UP TO HIM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUTTING OF $140,000,000 IS UP TO HIM

Wi Averill Harriman, just twenty-one years old, has set the speculators of War! street guessing an to how he will cast his deciding vote in the cutting up and distribution of the juiciest melon that Wall.street has heard of In years. The Union 'Pacific railroad, which was the pet road of E. H. Harrtman, the boy’s father, has accumulated the tremendous surplus of $59,000,000. To this has been added the $81,000,000 which came into the cofTers of the railroad with the sale, by court orders, of the Southern Pacific railroad. Now, young Harriman, Yale 1913, holds the deciding vote ih the distribution of 'this vast “sum of money, j