Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-21
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Delaware chartered 6 schooner snd took 8 | load to Norfolk, where he sold 1t at a good | profit. His next work was on the Morris I canal in New Jersey and then on the Lehigh l canal. He then became a contractor and I soon had a cash capital of $2, 800 with which I he came to New York. He obtained a con- ! tract on the Portage railroad over the Ale | ghany Mountains and another on the Colum-
 bia railroad. His next work was at bridge
 building. He built the bridge over the Le-
 high river at Easton, Pa, and was for seve- ral years engaged on the upper division of
 the Lehigh canal between Mauch Chunk and \ White Haven
 From the New York Heraldl
 In August, 1887, Mir. Law came to New l York at the solicitation of his brother Jo. seph, who lived here. and wanted him in the | construction of the Croton waterworks. ! George made bids for three jobs, of which he was awarded two. His works were near ! Iarrytown, and thither he took his family | In 1853 he got the contract to build High ! Bridge. About this time his brother Joseph died, and he himself was attacked by dis ease and was compelled to travel. He went
 to Europe and travelled through England, l France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy, and ! In June, 1S41, reached home. He gave his attention to High Bridge until the latter part | or lS+2 Then he was induced by circum- | stances to go outside of his legitimate field Of labor as contractor, and become in & certain sense speculative financier By this departure from the kind of specu- | latlon with which his mind had been engaged Mr. Law saved the Dry Dock bank from
 rum. He drew it from the hands of band | of operators and replaced it upon firm f.
 nanelal foundation. After this he took hold | of the Harlem railroad. With an original | capital of $2, 100000 the stock had become nearly worthless. selling at five per cent lie got It's indebtedness extended, bought \ f hl1II1 Whlte Plalns and raised the stock to seven ty-tive per cent In the same way he took hold of the Mohawk railroad He did away with the inclined planes carried it around the hills, connected it with the Utica railroad, and raised the stock from twenty seven to seventy five per cent. His financial manage ment of these three enterprises brought him three handsome fortunes
 MT. Law bought the steamship Neptune in lS43. In the fall of 1S44 he began to build the steamship Oregon, and in the spring of l945 she was launched In 1S47 Colonel A. G. Sloo made a contract with the United States government to carry the mails to Cal
 lfornla, through Havana. New Orleans and Chagres. But he could not fulfil it as he had
 not the means to procure steamships Tn his emergency he applied to MT. Law, who promised to supply the needed vessels This arrangement was finally made in the summer of 1S4S. Mir. Law immediately purchased the steamship Falcon-he had sold ths Nep- tune and Oregon early in 1S47-and she made her first trip to Chagres in the ensuing autumn, carrying the first persons who ar- rived in California by way of the isthmus As soon as he made his contract with Colonel Sloo MT. Law began to build two steamships the Ohio and the Georgia-which made their first trip to Chagres in January, 1S49 In this year High Bridge was completed In 1850 the Pacific Mail Steamship company started an opposition to Mir. Laws line of steamers between New York and Che gres
 He at once placed an opposition line ot four steamers on the Pacific, to run from anama to San Francisco, so as to make a trough line from New York and New Orleans via . Panama to San Francisco. In January 1S51 he sold out the Pacific line Of steamers to the Pacific Mail Steamship company, and purchased their line on this side, consisting of the Empire City, the Crescent City, Phil adelphia, Fl Dorado, Illinois and Cherokee.
 This arrangement was completed April l, 1851.
 large interest in the construction of the Pan- anna railway, and decided to take an active part in it's building He sailed from New York in February, 1852, for Chagres and Panama and examined the line of road. He went to Aspinwall, located terminus, and set men at work building road, wharf and depot for steamers, which was the first wharf evsy built in that country for com merce between the two oceans.
 MT. Law sold his interest in the Panama railroad in ssae winter of 1853.
 In 1852 the Captain General of Cuba issued 8 despotic order forbidding any vessel to en- ter the port of Havana having on board 8
 hr. Smith, who was then the purser of the steamship Crescent City. Mir. Law deter mined not to submit to the command. He first appealed to the government st Washing ton city, which, being of a weak, yielding disposition, counselled him to dismiss MT. Smith from his post. But he told President MT. Smith in his place, but would also send the Crescent City, with that purser on her, into the port of Havana. President Fillmore now tried to frighten MT. Law by telling him that he would have no claim for damages if his vessels should be destroyed by Spanish can non. Failing to do this the President order ed that the mails should not be sent to the vessel and then had Mir. Law fined $4, 500 as though the latter had refused to complete his contract with the Postoffice department. Yet the Crescent City went to Havana and Purser Smith went in her, time and again, until the captain general withdrew his order. The cause of this mandate was the averment that Purser Smith had given the HeraGd in formation injurious to the Cuban govern ment.
 In 1852 MT. Law interested himself in the Eighth avenue railroad, advanc- ing to its corporation $800,O00, with which the road was built within the two and one-half months that remained of the period before the charter would expire. In the next year he bought the Staten Island ferry for $6O, 900. In 1854 he sold his inter- est in all sea steamships, determining to go to Europe.
 For the use of his family in cruising abroad Mir. Law then purchased the yacht Grape shot. This vessel became famous in the cap ture of Lew Baker, who killed Bill Poole.
 When Mir. Law put himself into opposition to both the Fillmore administration and the Captain General of Cuba he gave vent to certain opinions which chimed with those of the Native Americans or Know Nothings, and three years later in February, 1855, the Leg islature of Pennsylvania, then native Amer ican body, nominated him for President of the United States This nomination called out discussion throughout the land and George Law became well known. He was called 'Liye Oak George" 8 name originally given him by the workmen in his ship yard He was supported by number of journals; but the Native American National Convention in Philadelphia in 1856 nominated Willard Fill more, and MT. Law declared himself for John 0. Fremont.
 George Law owned the Staten Island ferry until 1864, when he sold it at large advance upon what he paid for it. He also built the Ninth Avenue railroad, and had'a large in- terest in ferries to Brooklyn. In 1872 he bought the Staten Island ferry and railroad for $3g9, ,O0O.
 Although a man of Law's temperament could not be happy when not at work he gradually grew out of schemes and specula- tions and confined himself almost entirely to the management of the Eighth Avenue rail road, which under his control attained to its present status. In this work he was aided by his son, upon whom the details were ordi- narily cast. Little. by little the sturdy physique and the rugged will gave way, until the final illness seized and prostrated him. The strong man gave up and yielded to the inevitable.
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