The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-19
JOE BROWN OF GEORGIA
THE SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF A
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
One of the Bralniest Of Men-NOtHing
Can Danish the Placid Smile from
His Patriarchal Face


From ne Ne,r York Press
WAsHIYGToN, Jan. lL-Nobody who
looks down from the Sennte galleries on the
statesmen below would be likely 10 pick
out old Joe Brown, as they call him IN
Georgia, as ono of the braniest Of them.
His shiny bald head is broad and long
enough, to be sure, 70 indicate that there IS
plenty of gray matter under it; but ms
smooth, sleek, patriarchal expression his
flowing white beard and his white hands
folded religiously across his breast make
him seem like a man who has no worldly
interests to take his mind down from heaV-
emily things.
Strangers who have a vague impression
that the Mormons have an apostle some
where about the capital, always pick hlm
out as the man, while others, little better
posted, who know that the Senate has
chaplain, look on his cheruOlc countenahce
and give thanks that he is such good one
Nothing ever occurs to make him lose ms
temper, and no Senator has ever seen MN
without his placid smile.
With all these peculiarlties, ana a great
many more of which these are only the
surface indications, it Is hard to believe that
old Joe Brown is one Of the few men III llle
world who has made a conspicuous success
in everything he has undertaken, but taat
IS the fact He went into the railway phSl-
ness and became president Of the best lin',
and, in fact, nearly all the lines IN ms state
He tried political life, was state Senator
four times Governor, aud IS now UniUed
States Senator with life lease.
AS a lawyer, he was graduated high IN ms
class at Yale, practiced with unqlestoned
ability, before the age Of - was Judge OF
the Superior Court, and, but for his resigna-
ton, might have been still Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the State. AS a
manufacturer he put his mills at the head OF
the establishments IN his section, and as
coal operator he is probably the largest m
dividuai owner OF paying mines IN the
Southern region. His business faculties
estimated III dollars and cents, are better
than those of any man who started with
him and suffered the reverses OF the war;
and his religious faculties, estimated Ivy ms
influence, extend further probably than
those of any other man in the Baptist
church of the South.
His mind is versatile. To mention his
business enterprises III detail would be to
give list of all the paying concerns IN
Georgia and Southeastern Tennessee. He
is the head of the Western and Atlantic
railroad, the line from Chattanooga to At
Ianta the owner Of private lines connecting
his own mines with other roads, the con
trolling stOckholIe. i'm the Dade Coal Com
many President of the Risino Fawn Fr-
noce Comnanv win its Lig tracts of ore.
President of the Chattanooga Iron Com
i,ysos that his noI,,e ,.,.or,s mn IN every men
Hon of iron coal or RAILROAD interests in
Georgio Alabama mr. Tennessee
He contracted for the work of the pris-
onars in tbe GEORGIA nenitentioIry by
txyent,, years, agreement which giyes him
aIyays 50G str0nr Iong-term men and he
fms nracticaIIv controls even the criminals
Of the STATE within the walls of his stockade
az the DaJo mines From tba Kentucky