Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1913 — President Fairfax Harrison. [ARTICLE]

President Fairfax Harrison.

Fairfax Harrison, who has been the president of the Monon railroad for some four years, has been elected president of the entire Southern railway system, a very responsible position and one to which he has ascended! because of the splendid success he has met in the other railroad positions he has filled. Mr. Harrison has been of great benefit to the Monon road,, which is controlled by the Southern, and has developed it in every way since he became its head. Rensselaer especially has every cause to feel grateful to Mr. Harrison. He 'has caused the splendid new depot to be erected here and has provided for every passenger train to make this city a stopping place, whereas in former years some of the best trains passed through here without stopping. In addition to this he has f increased the train service by the addition of other ttains, making travel in both directions much more convenient than formerly. Mr. Harrison was credited with saying when he became president that he would put back Into the road all the money that it eartied until he had greatly improved the road. The magnificent new trains, the Improved road bed, the better stations, have contributed to make him very popular along the route of the road and the people have many kind thinks to say about him and the road he has so much developed. Mr. Harrison possessed a spirit of progress that extended beyond the railroad offices and seemed to enthuse the people all along the road he managed. His loss will be keenly felt fherever Ills influence extended and it will be difficult to procure a man to fill the place he is to vacate.

‘The Only Son,” a new play by Wlnehell Smith, author of many Cohen and Harris successes, as ‘The Fortune Hunter," and “Brewster’s Millions,” which coip/es to the Ellis Theatre tonight with Mr. Richard Kent In the title role, will prove a success in Rensselaer as It did when it ran at George M. Cohan’s Gayety Theatre In New York and the Olympic Theatre, •In Chicago, with Thomas W. Ross in the title role of Thomas Brainard, Jr. Tossed about the rocks of dopbt, suspicion, and jealousy, Thomas Brainard, believing his wife has been writing loVe notes to another ipaji, drives her from her home. The daughter goes with her father but the son, Thomas Brainard, Jr., believes his mother Innocent and In a hard struggle /helps her to. win her home