The age-herald., 1897-10-24
IN THE WORLD
 AT LARGE.

It is beginning to look as if all the great railroad systems in this country are to hs merged into one. and at the head of all J. Pierpont Morgan is to be.
 Morgan is a general. He has been able to accomplish all things he has un- dertaken in life except one. He has made money cut of everything he touched. He is destined to be the richest man the world has ever seen. He has engineered more great deals than any other man. He bulldozed the govern ment into issuing gold bonds that he might be able to make six million dol ars. He seems to bs able to do anything but to get him a new nose. His nose is as big as your fist and as red as a boiled lobster. It looks like an old field mush- room. Morgan has spent thousands of dollars with physicians and specialists endeayoring to have the color taken out of it. But his nose remains the same. Indeed, 1t becomes worse every year.
 However, Morgan is today at the head Of the financial world He is al the head
 
 His latest move is to gobble IL the Uni n Pacific system which is to be sold on No vembsr l. The Vanderb;lts are with him, and Collis P. Huntington has finally enlisted under his banner Huntington wants the Union Pacific united with his great Southern Pacific system. There fore he has pooled issues and joinsd with Morgan. It is said Morgan is to get $6,000, 900 for fifiauciering the deal, and is to be the great controlling power in the consolidation of the railroads of this country.
 Morgans plan is to consolidate all of the gg,sat trunk Hires. Railway opera tors and firaneiems have grown tired of the ceaFeless rate wars ard decrease of dividends. For two years there has bsen quite a picking up of the consolidated reads during the control of J. Pierpont Morgan. He has n5thing to do with their direct operation, but he manages their fir.ances and makes any obstreperous of ficial walk the plank.
 At the present writing twenty-one of the most important railroads in this country with an aggregate of 43,674 mil are under Morgan's absolute charge, with the acquisition of the Union Pacific, Wisconsin Central, Baltimore and Ohio, Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, all of which he is now after MT. Morgan will control over fifty thousand miles of American railways He is the represen- tative in this business of foreign as wsDE as home capitalists who have their money invested in transportation lines and who want it to earn an income
 The New York campaign is getting warmer. The election is on the seeond day of November It will be the moat exciting New York city has ever had. Tom Platt is straining every point to de- feat Tammanys candidate and elect his man Tracy. HIs has gore into Marll Hanna's national committee till and has drawn heavily upon 1t. He has raised outside the city of New York the sum of SS,000, 900, and is said to be sperdirg it extravagantly. Of course this amount of money VIII cut great figure but Tammiany has few dollars itself ard the chances are that the Tammany h. didate, Van Wyck, will win. Bets are still 10 to z on Van Wyck
 The world will miss Charles A. Dana. He was a great editor. He was pe,haps the greatest newspaper man this world has ever produced. He was the au,hor of maxims which every well-regulated newspaper office in America should have if they have not. Ask every reporter, from whatever section he might come, and Gf4 will tell you that Dana was the greatest of all newspaper men. He was reporter above all things. Whatever the Suns editorial opinions might have been, his instructions to his repolte2s af d correspondents wera to print the news, but never to go beyond facts. "If you see 1t in the Sun, it's so," was the maxim of his newspaper. He required every re- porter to stick strictly to this maxim. Another rule of the Sun office established by him was to prirt advertisements as advertiseme nt.s. Never to print paid majtter unless it was so marked in the columns of the papsr-never to sail un- der false colors. MT. Dana rarely ever employed reporter who had worked on another paper He took young men and trained them up in his own peculiar style. That is why the Sun has always been a great newspaper. That is why it is a good newspaper today. Dana is dead, but his work will live after him. and his work will continue to grow. In editorial opinion he was cratic at times
 
 were his personal opinions The news might influence his editorials, but his ed- Hor;als never colored his news
 He never permitted a badly wrttsn article ito appear in the columns of the Sun. Ambitious newspaper men all over the land read the Sun in preference to any o.hep paper. I never saw news paper man who did not pronounce the Sun the best newspaper in the world.
 Dana was a much abused man. He was cenHured for his cratic opinions, yet he was always honest in them. He believed them. There was never a haint against his character. The men who worked under him admired and loved him. He treated them with consideration and politeress, yet he required ev ry msn to do his full duty. He had an extreme contempt for dishonest men-especinlly dishonest politicians. He was always for what he believed to be the right. He desp:sed above all things an upstart.