San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
ROBERT GARRETT's SISTER.
She Controls Twenty Million Dollars
and Would be President OF the
q R n ~ She Ware Man.

She Controls Twenty Million Dollars.
and Would be President of the
3. g. Q. II She We're a Man.
From the Philadelphia Record.
"Miss Mary Garrett, the daughter
of the founder of the Baltimore u Ohio
railroad system, is an extraordinary
woman" said a gentleman well ae-
quainted with the facts, "and, but that
that road" Miss Garrett has never
obtruded her individuality in man
agement of the great property which
her father left at his death, but ner
influence and capacity have never
theless been felt and recognized by
every one who has come in contact
with the financial management of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
For many years before her fathers
death she was his chief assistant. Her
love for her father was the ruling pas
sion of her life. and her devotion to
him was the admiration of her friends
and the despair of those who sought.
to win her hand in marriage.
Miss Garrett today, although few
persons know it, controls and man
ages the Garrett interest in the Balti-
more and Ohio road, and has for some
time been the most potential factor in
the manipulation of the interests Of
that great corporation. She Is thor
oughly acquainted with all the details
of the business of the road and it's
financial status, and has always been
looked upon as one of it's most saga
cious advisers.
Although personally directing the
m N q M worth
less than $4,000, 900 Miss Garrett is
almost unknown to business men,
because her fine sense of modesty and
true womanly reserve will not permit
her to assume an individual and per-
sonal control which both her capacity
for financial affairs and her direct
control of millions of money would
enable her to do.
There is no woman in the United
States who can command more
ready cash than Miss Garrett.
Her knowledge of the road
and it's management gives her
position in the councils of the corpo-
rattan not possessed by any other in
dividual. When her father was liv-
ing Miss Garrett was his private sec
rotary, his best adviser, and his most
trusted friend, even above any of the
old gentleman's sons. 1t was in this
capacity that she obtained her
knowledge of the road and her insight
into its financial affairs. After the
death of her father. Miss CARROTS in
fiuence over her brother, Robert Gar
rett, was so marked that it became q
matter of current talk i'm Baltimore.
But there were certain theories held
by her brother which even the infiu-
ence that she held over him
could not successfully combat.
When the schemes which led to
the invocation of the aid of the Drexel
syndicate eliminated, Robert Garrett
saw the wisdom of his sisters coun-
sells, which he had failed to follow,
and practically surrendered to her the
management of his interests in the,
road. When he started on his tour
around the world his sister followed
and overlook him at San Francisco,
where he was induced to give to her
the control of all his interests in the,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COM
pany.
Recently, when the syndica to
which had helped the Baltimore &
Ohio out of the difficulties in which it
had unwittingly been plunged, began
to haggle about the commissions and
threatened to place the road in an
embarrassing position, Miss Garrett
quietly brushed them all aside, put
up the needed cash, and saved the
credit of the company. Since the re-
cent death of the brother, II. Harrison
Garrett, Miss Mary CARROTS control
of the Garrett estate has become prac-
tically unlimited during Robert Gar
rett's absence.
Miss Garrett is most unassuming
lady, and would never be taken for q
great financier, as sheis, at first sight.
She is not fond of notoriety, and i'm
manners and habits is most domes-
tic and home-loving woman. She
worshipped her father, and her most
ardent hope is to see the great road
which he built and brought to such
great Importance kept up to the posi-
ton where he left it, and perpetuated
as one of the great institutions of the
country.