The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-08

I TOOI Sne expensive ana LcIiOus experiments
/ with the camera to prove his suspicion that
fast-trotting horse raised all bis feet from
the ground at one time and was literally
suspended in the air by his velocity dem
onstration as original, perhaps. as that Of
/ Wolfe or Columbus
When we come TO railroading though, he
| does not pretend TO have been more than
/ others in his extended system, still his dura-
4 ton in the presidency thereof has been
I twenty-eight years. and he can do twelve
hours work a day at the age of Go. The rail-
road system has 1000 employees and is 1000
| miles long, nearly the diameter Of the earth,
and he risked his whole increase, about
! 100000, when he was 80 years old, % await
the event.
KNOWS WHERE IT GOES.
He is the largest giver in ones lifetime TO
philanthropy, not emitting Girard; his
buildings at Menlo Park have cost 81, 5OO.-
600 already, and have been given to the
office of the great Architects Richardson to
create, and the property in the endowment
is, at the present valuation, as marketable
property. worth sc, 600, 900 to 81, OO0, 900. lie
has constituted himself and loaded upon his
living shoulders the executorship Of this
device, no qualification of the bequest ex
cept uusalaried stewardship. Nor Is there a
man in California who by common consent
there could match him for fitness
10 do that same. He is seldom looking for
cheap men TO do large work; he wanted
Francis Walker, whom money could not
tempt from Boston. II gives an order
for painting it is TO Meissonier or Bonnet,
or some Of the most capable Of our home
artists. Yet few men have ever lived in this
country who received more ideas from the
humblest and least self-seeking men. That
man who thinks he does not know il all
Stanford extends his time and con versatIon
with. believing that modesty has the artesian
depth and musthow living springs if bored
deep enough.
He is the greatest vineyard proprietor on
the globe; 1000 acres Of vines, making
1,3O0,O0O gallons of wine per year, or
10000 casks, suggesting cooperage that is
Of itself a career; he has 100000 gallons
Of wine and brandy now, which, it is said.
will be offered for auction in New York to
relieve his vaults. He uses no foreign
wines but champagne. The vineyard and
fruit land in the $4,000 acres he has put
into his bequests is worth in part 500 or
$500 per acre. California fruit this year
almost controls the world, and the state
exports II, 0O0, 900 tons of grain.
AID TO INVENTORS.
He largely perceived the first and set be-
fore the world the invention of the cable
railways and the grip, a sequel of the wire
cable manufacture to draw up from the
deep mines, of which so many have ceased
TO be worked.
He is one of the most sagacious and sue
cessful real estate operators Of the age, hay
ing realized above million in the suburbs
of San Francisco.
The railway shops at Sacramento employ
$500 men, aud in great part sustain that
once booming mining mart His cloth
mills, the Golden Gate, employ 240 weav.
ers. He has a residence in San Francisco,
one in Sacramento, one at Menlo Park
near the university, and one in Washing
ton.
inquired Of person well situated to
know which OF his occupations most en-
gagged Mr.. Stanford at this time. He said
the university and politics.
why politicsW
''The study of large current affairs is a
good deal of solace and stimulation to the
old governor. He has been a good deal
pleased with the confidence put in him by
California and the way it was done Fol-
lowing the death of his son in 1884 the ac-
tion Of the legislature was unexpected and
pathetic, and he and his wife both feel
gratified at the thoroughness OF his victory
this year, since it was accomplished by his
personal appearance and the most non-par-
tisan esteem for him after the indications
seemed general Of a democratic legislature.
He had $4,000 majority in the state legis-
lature, though all the newspapers of San
nanimity like his voting TO seat Lamar on
| the supreme bench broke down the demo-
| cratic candidates He spent no more money
| than his usual contribution Of $40 600 to the
| republican state committee. In fact, wealth
| is as powerless to cause such a result over
the great area of California as would be the
attempt of Gould or Rockefeller to carry
the state of New York.
"The vast outpouring of people at AL
haD CO..,
San Jose. MERGED, San Diego, Los Angeles,
Showed that he had the heart OF the popu-
fslaees They came like the locusts The old
| folks remembered their war governor, the
new generation wanted to see the man who
| gave away his wealth to them in the name
Of grief aud the grave. He speaks in low
tone of voice. Tney did NOT care for that
| they wanted TO see hun. He answers the
idea of the people; his alert eyes, strong
| eyebrows, solid head and port, plain but
| quiet demean5r. With Peter Cooper and
| Johns Hopkins his wealth is not to his pre-
| JUDGE among the granger people"
The idea of the Oregon railroad, talked
| over at his fathers Preside, Mr.. Stanford
thinks, had an unconscious influence over
his mind. About lS45 some eastern rail-
| road person-the name sounds like Judd
talked over with Josiah Stanford plan fol
railroad from the great lakes to Oregon
| This was possibly before our Pacific posses
sions were more than Oregon. When tbs
proposition was preached at Sacramento
where Stanford, having come down from
the mining camps, kept a large genera
store, it sounded to him like renewal o
the marvellous fireside legend up on the farm
near Albany of road to the other side O
the globe.
Indeed, says the governor, "the poet i
right when he remarks: "A boys will is tn
winds will. and the thoughts of youth ar
long, long thoughts "
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.
AN EASrRRN MYsTERy