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Show DESERET = Man Ractne For EVENING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907. Wo ie sone THat GAMBLING PURPOSES _ Is Nor Trur¢@ 2 The £6006 © 2a "I would « to start ae ca not a advise breeding a any and While Colin, No more s man ‘establishment with the expecta«~ tion of making a profit on his , investment. With all of my taken into " % © considera- SOOOODorD a tion, | do not know that | have made money out of my horses." Snorer POODLE HIS was whose turf spoken recent have by a successes netted him man on the almost Romance of a monument this See pression Ah, grave Colin. Nota the financier. thy hopes The a are ene inclines to music is sweeter fol- vain; ce still Anse sts proceeds dabbled of all this that of yearling it," remarked tain of a industry says it settles prominent recently & vigorous discussion of one ventor's latest evolutions. capduring of the inThat is a fair expression of the business world's opinion of the man who Is the dominant a score of great manufactur- ing establishments representing an investment of $100,000,000 and furnishing employment to nearly 40,000 persons - This confident trust in Westinghouse's ability to "make good" came from a knowledge of his career and of the fact that he has met with few failure ie has had some strenuous moments in his business life, but in the end he has won When he acquired the patents covering the use of the alternating current and established the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company, he was met by the most formid ible opposition to the system. In those days it was the belief even among scientists that the use of the alternating current was out of the question; that it was altogether too dangerous and uncertain in its action to trifle with The older electrical companies claimed that they had sat{sfled themselves by numerous trials that the direct current was the only thing, and that was the opinion of the general . public So convinced was everybody that in several states efforts we re made to have the use of the alternating current prohibited by law Westinghouse was satisfied that he knew what he was doing, and it was not Jone until he had proved it He took the contract for lighting: the Chicago World's fair at $1,000,000 less than his lowest competitor In order his obligation he was obliged Firat for every step he took. from using the Edienjoined manufacture of son patents in alr pumps for lamps, as Nothing dauntexhausting the eu, me ser about It and invented a new which were 890 lamp and a new pump, enabled to satisfactory that he was of his contract the terms / Wertinghouse's greatest achievement in recent years has been to horsepowbring to perfection the 4,000 to designed is which locomotive er the trains through haul heavily loaded the Hudson Pennsylvania tunnel under river rt es four years of costly meet that reason he is fonder of it than he would be if it had been designed and built for him by ethers. Another man is attached to an automobile because he thinks that it is a little better than the automobile of any pther. owner or maker. man eho hunting dog takes nes a that dog because it can do certain things in the field which are impossible for other dogs. "So it is with the wonderful race horse. is not the sum that the horse may earn, it Is not the possibility that he may be employed for speculation that makes him desirable. Racing for gambling is not sport It Is the fact that he is a wonderful work of nature, a fine, high spirited, perhaps gentle and intelligent, animal that es- so and purses seasoned American regret that he has extensively in the costly racing sport. He has always been most pro- at lees ONG eg v is a little superior to all time and whose courage the races he runs and the follo others is te results of his by which James R. Keene is the most picturesque figure in Wall street saaey, and the most stalwart as well Battle scarred veteran of finance that he Is, bearing the marks of countless financelal encounters carried on for more than a score of years, he im. as vigor. ous and alert as he was when he Field; how Havemeyer lfted him from the obscurity into which he had been thrust and made him over into the most skillful sugar manipulator in the country; his battles royal with Morgan, Whitney and a doz others- all this is ancient history. He is a man who has schooled himself never to acknowledge defeat. Despite the heavy blows t have been dealt him by foes; both open and concealed he has never "remained on his back, He has fought most of his battles hand the fray. His life story reads like a romance, and it teaches the lesson of infinite patience and bulldog tenacity. ow, a broad shouldered and. rosy faced English lad, he came to America with his parents and located in California, becoming a miner and in time the possessor of a fortune of $6,000,000; how he moved eastward as far as Chicago and picked up several millions more; how he proceeded to New York and lost everything but honor, a lamb shorn by Jay Gould and Cyrus W "Whenever you hear my name mentioned In connection with any coterie you may take it for granted that there is no truth In it," he once remarked. He is not affiliated with any business association. It is his proud boast that he is a director in only one corporation -a local racing association! Unless he forms it, he never goes into a pooling operation of any description. He is the one man in Wall street big enough and courageous enough to stand alone The "made Man his Himself. appearance in the sennele ee ‘time of life he belongs "to no A Wall How The the Idea air brake came a collision be- tw sen two freight thtrains. First he be-| ee e Nen Eee RT te ee . Donegall re is no d of stock gossip or the chitchat of the street. t that stealthy, panther-like gait too long in sound of its droning hum; ne has held the flying ribbon of paper o often not to know its vagaries. ca a he Ft His Favorite iy GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, INVENTOR AND ‘MULTIMILLIONAIRE Rate ee to attend him first he bit of it. Go to those } We first T will wait my a ee we cp a Ree noe pn ta eee OES CF. MNBL +d eB q ea and when ou LIVES THE SIMPLE. LIFE. A MINIATURE HETTY GREEN. In Naples (her irl el i years old in. the fruit busin and' she is doing so well that he employ t ‘lve ren and .boy She begen in her father's fruit stand at six year id ° Recreation, She n accounted th sharpest buyers in the tra id It is predicted that by the t ie is fifteen she will be one of i chest. She cannot read or write, but has to sign her name by making an X. Several fruit dealers h been fined for trying to injure her busin 8 8 oes -F \ nd loeal folk mustered outside tennis ball which we nbled for} tors the prison gates and gave the prisoner and carried off by children despite big reception the efforts of the poli Thirty expresses covering 100 miles or A young visitor ent to jail at match the animal recovered two balls more without stop now run in and Jersey, England, other day for one of which had been lost a week out of Paddington station, London,datly twer ty-fou hours because during the previously The station is 700 feet: long and 252 flowers he thr n empty A motor van loaded with lawn tennis battle of It covers about eight acres, a basket weighing a few ounces from a feet wide. appliances caught fire in Westminster | ana it involved an outlay. of 0,000. triumphal car and struck a policeman Bridge road, London. Pireinen who There are nine platforms, ac commodate it. The sentence caused considwere called threw into the roadway a | with eS | {nAl 4 moet Oyen? : here ro of =m number said ind gentlemen, the party after dinner | dog to recover balls whi h are lost on other | inspected the famous Holbein picture | the cricket ground, which is surroundcing Henry y VIIL, V é by3 deep ditches During a recent turn." BF | of King the . much marri ied | ed Sarl of and who ,; of Donegall, little opeeginbo mer a | Since he began his army career as a monareh What. would you do, fa- | Thé in the Scots guards, in 1864, | ther, as a Jesuit, if King Henry there | years old, 1s lord high| | Baron Fis ficen: in going to aloha Af- | lieutenant is not yet four heredity by Lord Methue der in chief, will be on! Lord Methuen has enjoyed a popular- } were at this Instant to step out of the | Neagh els of admiral. iden fete recently when | ere ne for he pai a leading ty with soldier which few English | frame?' asked a gentleman. "I should He was ata g your is "What him, asked eege Arn a rand had the mis- | officers secure request all the ladies to leave the | one Bome "5 ally taken prisoner by | A good story of Father Bernard | room," came the immediate reply | "Admiral Donegall," prompt- | part in. ihe name?" oil | fortune to aye marquis fous battle he had | Ldaea tele is told. A guest at Trinity A member of the Fyfield (Essex) | the youthful Ty replied 1s he his | hs t } mentioned, Envwlend'. lub, cricket led titles other with i¥ s two ) the te! surgeons ah ginger | heen Eee sides woundet r, and Baron Chicheste also » Viscount one. It Is interesting to know that a woe man of such great intellectual achievements as Mrs. Leslie urter is very simple in her food requirements Practically she eat only two meals a4 day, as she takes only a cup of coffee on rising During her vacations. this is at 9:30 or 10 o'clock. He next meal is a substantial one' at 12:30 while dinner is at 6 or 7. She travels in her own. cai ind when she is on the road all her meals are served in her private apartments at the hotels. Then she rises at 10, lunches at 3 and does not dine until 11:30, or after the play is over She eats meat but sparingly, preferring beef or mutton and eating no veal or pork Although a Kentuckian, her friends suy she has nev tasted a mint julep or a rcktail She does not care for win ind except for an occasional glass of champagne Is. said nover to touch tl ? The advocate of the apple dis rid ree little encouragement from h for ie literally cannot bear th ( of t f Sh will not hay i frest ppl ih the house. althoug! } I been known to partake of app! ‘ ked Even now work is apparently the chief recreation of Mr. Westinghouse He enjoys the process, however difficult. of reating omething hat will| prove of value to the yrld, and he be- | lieves in building true and perfect ma- |} chines and in giving the purchaser| what he wants Therein Hes an ele-| COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY GesoroRD Wy. Eat throb, ment of his success Once, it is related, a dissatisfied customer came to Mr. Westinghouse and complained about an ill advised purchase of incandescent lamps ‘Did you know that these Jamps were not suited to that man's business when you sold them to him?" asked Mr. Westinghouse of the employee who was responsible for the sale "Yes,"' was the hesitating reply "That Is not the way to buildup a business," sald Mr. Westinghouse, and he dismissed his a rdinate on the Rr WOOLSEY: spot plate ition It was realized t! the Invention had made high peed rallroading possible, and a comy y was organized at once to manufacture the brake and the following year Mr. Westinghouse went abroad to introduce his invention He also went to work to improve his appliance and in time produced the triple valve, which permits the brakes to be used simultaneously on a train of many cars and sets them fast if a car happens to break away SC every Possible gan to develop the old wagon brake on a larger scale, but in time he realized that it wouldn't do-that a motor cylinder under each car would be necessary. He had heard a good deal about the use of compressed air in the Mont Cenis tunnel, and he determined to make use of it in his model It is small wonder that railroad men were skeptical when young Westinghouse called their attention to his new invention and asked them to give it a trial It was so novel, and {ts promoter was so young and untried. They looked askance at the enthusiastic young man and shook thelr heads sagely with the confidently expressed opinion that stopping trains with wind was not exactly feasible Keay wished "Not a || fellows l its ea to stimulate Its feeble beat by ‘supporting orders' or check its raging impulses by. selling a block of 10,000 shares.' This is the premier American sportsman, the man who has never hazarded a dollar on a horse race, and almost equally worthy of exploitation is His son, Foxhall Kene, gentleman jockey, bon vivant-but that ig another story. W. S. EMERY. Railroading \G¥/ | | it Is the pulse of the market, an knows one glance, and he sis. ows how Genius; 1 IN THE PUBLIC EYE. undivided wer over matter, he surely hypnotizes the tape. In fact his superstitious foes insist that this His Air Brake Tested. Westinghouse had very little ready cash of his own, but he was not long in finding a capitalist who had and who was willing to put some of it into the new venture Finally it was the Panhandle railroad that was. persuaded to give the air brake a trial\on its line The brakes were fitted to an engine and four cars running between Pittsburg and Steubenville, O.. and the first trip was made under this novel equipment As it happened, the air brakes ‘ the means of preventing a collision at this first trial At this time Westinghouse had Just passed his majority It became evident at the first test that the air brak¢ was all nae It professed to be and now there e plenty of capitalists who were anxious to Share in its ex- Came. inspiration of the fter witnessing his Estimate. he makes no tes in his own name. He changes his brokers frequently. One man may have selling orders from Keene and another orders to buy, yet none but Keene knows that the orders come from the same source "All arts of manipulation are his. He can conduct a still hunt for the control of stock In such a noiseless manner that the opposition never has its suspicions aroused Again, he can manage a campaign with all the fanfare and alarum of a sham battle It all depends on what he Is after In the Bone. George Westinghouse may be said to have come naturally by his inventive As many of his boyhood s as he could manage were spent in father's agricultural works at Schenectady, N and he began at an early age to take an active part in everything that was going on in that establishment When he was fifteen he produced a rotary engine after his own design. Not long afterward he was able to pass an examination for the position of assistant engineer in the navy, and he went to Annapolis to complete his studies in that line Before he had finished his course the civil war broke out. Although a mere boy, he enlisted in the cavalry service and served a year After his discharge he received an appointment as third assistant engineer in the navy and was assigned to the Muscota, whence he was transferred subsequently to the Potomac fleet At. the close of hostilities Westinghouse went back to Schenectady and became a student in the Classical department of Union college He made up his mind long before graduation that active participation in the mechanical fleld was best in accordance with his tastes. About that time he perfected a railroad frog which proved to be a success and gave him considerabl reputation. Shortly afterward he concelved the idea of what was destined to become one of the most useful inventions of the age, the air brake Street The following is a Wall street man's estimate of the great speculator: "There is no man that can talk better or more forcibly than Keene when he wants to talk. There is no a who would serve better as a statue of silence when it behooves him to sa nothing. He does not let his right hand know what his left hand does. How he distributes his orders, who his As he cliques. Inventor and Milan of Speed Mlade High Who Ma n Although Mr. Keene was president of the San Francisco Stock Exchange in old "bonanza" days, he has never owned a seat in the New York exchange. Nevertheless he has often bent this famous institution to his will as if it were an embryo board of trade in a town. Many a time he has converted it into a seething pandeIt js affirmed by those who know him that he has never me set foot within the exchange, yet men who have paid fortunes for their neath are but pawns in his games, re experimentation to develop the scheme, and some of the parts of the powerful machine were used in the operation of a miniature as long ago as 1 indication making use of now occurred to him a good Neither time nor money counts the Westinghouse shops when the "old man,' as he is called, is working out a certain line of experiment When he is convinced that a design is founded on correct principles he will keep at it until all mechanical obstacles are overcome. His assistant engineers may throw' up their hands, but he will continue to work at it Bred ticker Wain One of his employees once gave this pen picture of him as he appears during office hours: "With his hands clasped behind his back, his inscrutable gray eyes fixed in fancy on the brokers shouting themselves hoarse around the stock posts, pausing to look at the tape, he paces back and forth with the light tread of a panther ready to Spring on its prey. There is something almost cruel in his Ba te Sine it certainly is. He is not t man you see watching the eit of some classic event at the track nor the man you may see at the Waldorf chatting pleasantly with his friends He is eene playing the game that he loves, Playing the game for the sake of winning it rather than for what he may get out of it "The whirring ticker draws him toward it, fascinated, and with the same panther-like tread he stalks up to it. HEENE ATTHERACES With him it appears to be a genuine love for the game itself and not for What it may bring. This is how he expresses it: "It is the gratification of possessing something that you know is a little better than that possessed by anybody else. least, that is the winner's way of looking at it. Beyond that it is a matter of intense personal pride One man is devoted to his yacht because it is a faster yacht than that possessed by any of his friends. Perar Mr. ns Keene * Work. Westinghouse, George Westinghouse will work, it will-that In that racing sales The factor a nounced in his conviction that for gambling purposes is not sport. a swa ; than thine. George hours bore tablishment whose owner is also a breeder is not a safe investment. He declares that there have been many suggestion | Won. Yet this turfman does not in speculation attentio ever had foaled is ooee foe eae t is Aceene pipe and thy laurels resign why tai Whose F which and its quaint expression | years in which his horses have cost melody made a deep im-| him at least $125,000 more than the ‘on' lowing verses gave him for the name of his colt: "Thy his This may seem extravagant, but there was much to justify it. There was at least one reason why Mr, Keene could afford to be sentimental over the dead racer and could speak of him as "one of the best friends I ever had." In 1893 the financier was threatened with downfall in Wall street. The foundations which he had been years in laying were slipping from beneath his unsteady feet. Turn as he would, nothing but apparent disaster confronted him It was a question of ready money, and none was to be had. t was only a comparatively paltry sum that was needed to rescue the threatened millions, but it seemed to be impossible to obtain it in time. It at this crisis that Domino performed the feat that won for him the lasting friendship and even gratitude of his owner. Within a short period he won for his harassed master more than $150,000, enough to set the financier on his feet again. Name. Sentiment cut a very pretty figure the christening of Colin. While he up his mind what to eel sing son of Pastorellaa certain shepherdess oF named from Classical en came "Colin's Comacross (a2 Dp It was written about two cenplaint." over eos "One of the best friends I and the fleetest horse ever ead." in turies ago, and weird of His step is as agile as that of a much younger man, and his upright and well proportioned figure is accentuated by the most punctillous atten. tion to matters of dress. It is at his New York office, 230 Broad street, that he is Keene, and Keene only, oblivious to all else save the story told by the ticker. He is at his desk shortly after 9 o'clock, and unless he goes to the races he is quite likely ces remain at his office until 6 p uring market his poem was ia wire of NichRowe, poet laureate in the reign of George I. and the intimate associate of Pope, Swift and Addison By a lucky coincidenée the colt's trainer also bore the name of Rowe. Mr. Keene was far too g00d a sportsman not to recognize something prophetic in all this. "Let it be Colin," he said, and it was so. If this were not enough to convict the Wall street man of a "tender Streak" for his racers further proof is at hand. Of all the horses he has ever owned it is probable that Domino was his Absalom. It has been said of Mr. Ceene that next to his immediate family there was nothing on earth so dear to him as the great black colt ree won for him such notable victories the turf. When Domino died 1897, a third of a million dollars, the veteran James R. Keene, who has probably done more than any other living individual to make horse racing in America the legitimate sport that it may be in the hands of the upright lover of horseflesh for its own sake Yet the earnings of only one fleet racer from his stables, the invincibie Colin, have been $100,000 this seaso That is double the sum paid to the president of the United States and ten times the salary of the governor of the state of New York, Few college professors earn more than a twentieth part of it, and the heads of the larger banks and insurance companies receive much less than has been secured for his owner by this speedy equine Mr. Keene confesses to decided fondness for Colin. It is evident that the wonderful colt holds the place in Keene's affections once occupied by the lamented Sysonby It would be the very apotheosis of ingratitude not to feel a tenderness for a horse that has added so much money to his bank account during the last season. Mr. Keene is not such a monster of ingratitute, feeling for Colin is tinctured with more sentiment ae might be expected from a has spent so much of his life in Pall street. In fact, the owner of the Castleton stud admits that he yields to sontiment, especially in the matter of the naming of his colts. The strain ana olas a ve successes forgotten racing wu Ps constant seems to have left faint impress on the rugged personality of Mr. Keene. His sharp gray eyes have lost none of that determined ‘ |