Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-15
FIVE YOUNG MFR.
They Arc Responsible For n Remarkable
 Engineering and Financial Enterprise.


 ISrscial Correspondence.l
 BVFFAlO. Oct. a.-\o work depend ing upon scientific knowledge, engineer ing skill and great capital for its develop ment has caused so great m amount of in- tcrcsting sketches as well as more technical writing since the discovery of the telephone us the stupcndOus plant now being finish cd at Niagara falls for tho conversion of some of that power into electrical energy.
 But with the Niagara falls power dcvcl opment there have been associated a group of five men, all of them young and some very young to undertake the solution of such n profound problem.
 Of course many engineers have suggest cd that an enormous power went to waste over Niagara falls, and capital had even developed some of it. But 1t was n young lawyer of Niagara Falls, Mir. William B. Rankinc, who took seriously tho sugges- tions of the engineers, and when he was only n law student used to spend all of his time that he could spare in thinking about these things, often spending hours watch ing the falls, trying in his youthful way to solve tho mysteries
 At last Mir Rankine decided that dream ing would never accomplish anything. So he went to men who had what hc had not -capital-and for n long timo without success. Finally he went to New York city and was there brought into association with group of comparatively young men, whom he at last interested in the work.
 Mir. Rankine persuaded a young lawyer of New York, young in comparison with the vcterans-Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, who Is known to the country as the law partner of President Cleveland. Up to that time Mir. Stetson had been since his | admission to the bar completely absorb | ed in his practice, but he became fascinated with the idea of controlling the falls so that they would be compelled to deliver as much as 45O, GOO horsepower, and he went about among the capitalists.
 One of those whom he first saw was Mir. Edward D. Adams. He Is a young man about 10 years of age whose name, while 1t is not familiar to the general public, Is well known to the great railway capi- talists of the United States. He Is one of those who, though born in comparative poverty, beginning life without a dollar, revealed such powers of organization and capacity for constructive energy that long before he had reached his thirty-fifth year he had accumulated a fortune. MT. Ad- ans and MT. Stetson went to some of the greater capitalists, men whose achieve ments have been prodigious, like Pierpont Morgan, the Seligmans and the Wander bilts, and securing their interest the mil. lions were pledged which were necessary to develop this work.
 Later two other young men were associ- ated with 1t, one of them Nikola Tesla. It is Mir. Tesla who has shown these capitalists how they can take the enor' nous currerts of electricity generated al the falls aiid carry them over wires foi miles and miles, distributing light and electric power to cities even far away as 800 miles.
 Another young man now only 36 who has been prominently associated with thi. work is Frank w. Hawley. He it was who appeared before the committee of the con stitutional convention recently in New York state and made brilliant demonstra ton of his belief that the electric power generated at tho falls would in ten years be found driving the locomotives on the railways that bisect New York state, serv ing the trolley roads, propelling the canal boats and delivering power for the manu factories in a district within a radius o 300 miles from the falls. Hawiey, too. be gan with nothing and only a few year ago was a roporter upon Rochester pa per. VIM. E- MERRILL