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Show BIG BUSINESS WILL CONTINUE Westinghouse Will Provides Trusteeship for Direction of Many Large Industries. VOTING POWER GIVEN Personal Wealth and Holdings of Famous Inventor Estimated Esti-mated at $50,000,000. New York, March 13. George Westinghouse. the famous engineer and Inventor who died here yesterday yester-day of heart disease, provided In his will for the continuation of his large business Interests under a trusteeship. trustee-ship. It was stated officially today that ; his death will not cause any change of policy or operation In connection with any of the Westinghouse Industries. Indus-tries. A plan which long ago ho carefully thought out for their continuance con-tinuance and direction goes immediately imme-diately into effect. Tho men chosen to carry out this work are his brother, Henry Herman Westinghouse, who is president of the American Brake company, and vice president and general manager of the Westinghouse Air Brake company; com-pany; Charles A. Terry, vice president presi-dent of the Wesilnghouso Electric nnd Manufacturing company, and W. D. Updcgraff, director of the 'Westinghouse 'West-inghouse Air Brake company. To this trusteeship will go tho voting vot-ing power in all tho corporations in which George Westinghouse was interested in-terested here and abroad The Individual In-dividual wealth and holdings of Mr. Westinghouse have been estimated at more than 50,000,000. Funeral Service Sunday. 'Mr. Westinghouse, who was in his sixty-eighth year, will be buried Sunday Sun-day In Woodland cemetery, this city. Mr. Westinghouse becamo an Inventor In-ventor at the age ot 15, when he produced pro-duced a rotary engine. Four years later he constructed a device for replacing re-placing dorailed steam cars. Then, when 21 years of age, he sought the. financial backing of the lato Commodore Commo-dore Cornelius Vandcrbilt for his now famous air brake, perfected after throe years of labor. "Do you mean to tell me you can stop a railroad train by wind," demanded de-manded the commodore. "Well yes, in as much as air Is wind I suppose you are right," spoke the youth. "I have no time to waste on fools," said the commodore, thus abruptly terminating the interview. Westinghouse sought and found capital elsewhere, manufactured his invention and made high speed possible possi-ble on railroadB, revolutionizing traffic traf-fic systems and inaugurating a notable not-able era of railway development. Many Electrical Devices. i Mr. Westinghouso did not confine his gonius to railroading. For half a century he continued to make other contributions to electrical as well as engineering advancement. His inventions inven-tions and Improvements had to do with railway signalling; the develop mcnt of tho alternating current sy? torn for electric lighting and power devices for safety and for economically economical-ly conveying natural gas over long distances and using it for industrial and domestic fuel; air springs for motor vehicles; and a geared turbine systom Tor the propulsion of ships, developed in collaboration with the late Admiral George W, Melville, U. S. N., and John II . MacAlpine-Distinguished MacAlpine-Distinguished Honors Conferred. In return for his many achievements, achieve-ments, the highest honors in the gift of the technical societies and Institutions Institu-tions of Europe aud America wero bestowed upon him, European sovereigns sov-ereigns conferring distinguished orders. or-ders. As recently as last December he received from the principal engineering engi-neering society of Germany the celebrated cele-brated Graahof gold medal. Mr. Westinghouse founded many manufacturing companies in this country and abroad. In these plants some fifty thousand persons arc cm-ployed, cm-ployed, and the many companies have a capitalization aggregating $200,000,-000. $200,000,-000. Mr. Westinghouso's mental alertness alert-ness and activity remained to the last unimpaired. The final few years of life were among the most productive. For several months, he had, however, limited his activities, placing greater responsibilities on his associates. Born In Schenectady. George Westinghouse was born In Central Bridge, near Schenectady, N. Y., October 6. 1848 and as a lad attended at-tended school in Schenectady. He entered Union college but left in 1S63 to join the Twenty-sixth United States cavalry and served In the Civil Civ-il war. His love for engineering led to his transfer to the navy and before being in service a year he was attached at-tached to tho Potomac flotilla, acting as third assistant engineer. In August 1867, he married Marguerite Mar-guerite Erskine Walker, who survives sur-vives him, together with one child, George Jr., who lives near Lenox, Mass. The son married Miss Violet Brocklobauk. daughter ot Sir Thomas and Lady Brocklebank of Irton Hall, Cumberland, England. 25,000 Men Idle. Pittsburg. Pa., March 13. Twenty-five Twenty-five thousand men arc Idle today in the Turtle Creek valley out of respect re-spect to the late George Westinghouse. Westing-house. He was a factor in the Industries In-dustries of that section which were today ordered closed until after the funeral. |