The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-18
ROBERT CARPETS SISTER.
She Controls $40, 100000, and Would
be President of the B. and o. if She
We're Man.
rom the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Miss Mary Garrett, the daughter of the
founder of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
system, is an extraordinary woman" said
a gentleman well acquainted with the facts,
and but that she is a woman, would to-
day be president of that road" Miss Gar
rett has never obtruded her individuality
in the management of the great property
which her father Jeff at his death, but her
influences AMI capacity have nevertheless
been felt and recOgn 1ed by every one who
has come in contact with the tinaGc al man
agemeut of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company. For many years before her
fathers death she was his chief assistant
Her love for her father was the ruling p S
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 to-day, although few per-
sons know it, controls and manages the
| Garrett interest in he Baltimore and Ohio
railroad and has for some Uime been the
most potential factor in the manipulation
of the interests OF that great corporation.
She is thoroughly acquainted with all the
details of the business of the road and its
financial status, and has always been locke
upon As one Of its most sagaclous advisers.
Although personally directing the man
aEement Of p property worth not less than
! So, coo 600 Miss Garrett is almost unknown
| to business men, because her fine sense of
moIesty and true womanly reserve will
not permit her to assume an individual and
! personal control which both her capacity
or 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 70 Id
and its management gives her a position in
the councils of that corporation not
possessed by any Other individual. When
her father was living Miss Garrett was his
! private secretary, his best adviser, and his
most trusted friend. even above any of the
old gentleman's sons. 1t was in is capacity
that she obtained her knowledge Of the
road and her insight into It's financial affairs.
! Aftr the death of her father, Miss Gar
retts influence over her brother
! Robert Garrett, was 50 marked
that it became a matter of cur
rem talk in Baltimore. But there were GER
tam theories held by her bi otler which even
| the influence which she held over him could
not successfully combat. When the schemes
: which led to the invocation of the al of the
Drexel syndicate eliminated, Robert Gar
| rett saw the wisdom of his sisters cOunsels
which he had failed to follow, and prac-
| tically surrendered to her the management
of his interest in the road. When he started
on his tour around the world his sister fol
lowed 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 company.
Recently, when the syndicate which had
helped the Baltimore and 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 tine recent death Of
her brother, T. Harrison Garrett, Miss
Mary CARROTS control of the Garrett
estate has become practically Unlimited
during r bert CARROTS absence.
Miss Garrett is most unas uring lady
and would never be taken for a great
financier as she Is, at first sight. She is
not fond of notoriety, and in manners and
habits is "A most domestic and hOme-lOving
woman Sac worshipped her father, auo
her most ardent hope is to see the great
road which he built and brought to such
great importance kept to the position where
lie left it, and perpetual ed as one Of the
great institutions Of the country.