The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-15
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Dept, Sb&, NO. Hamilton Pl,, Boston; NQ.42W. 22d St. ew York; Nos. 5S-60 Wabash Av., Chicago.
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 that he found Florida pine forest and
 converted it into a garden of roses. When he first visited the state. in 1855, Florida for the visitor meant Jackson vile; and in trying to reach St. Angus tine through the forest, after padding
 up the St. Johns river in a dugout ca
 noe, the guide lost his way and the par ty was compelled to spend night un-
 der the trees. Since that romantic be-
 ginning MT. Plants love for Florida has
 never cooled, and now there is hardly a
 county in the state that he cannot
 reach by his own railroads.
 Well on in his seventy-ninth year, (for MT. Plant was born October 27, 1S19) MT. Plant Is still one of the bus
 fest men in this country-untring sell dom finding or needing time for rest;
 full of the business of to-day and the
 requirements of tomorrow, but plan
 ming and preparing always for the con- ditions of ten years or a quarter of a
 century hence. Few things happen in
 his territory that he has not foreseen
 and prepared for. And with 1t all and with the added cares of multi-million- aire Of New York, he is one of the kind Hest ana most approachable of men, 1 stately in appearance, a rock of honor and integrity and fair dealing, gene rous and forgiving, beloved as well by the people as by his army of employees. MT Plant Is a grandson of Sarah | Frisbee, a descendant of the Huguenot, | Richard Frisbee, who settled in Vir- i ginia In 1919, and whose son Edward
 was driven out of that state in 1643 on account of his Puritanism. Edward Frisbee removed to Branford, Conn.,, l and for many generations the Frisbees 1 were Branford and Branford was the Frisbees. In the same town Mir. Plant i was born, in 1S19 and after finishing his education in the Lancasterian school of New Haven he entered at once into the 1 business for which nature had express | ly molded him, and to which he has de- voted his entire life. At eighteen years | of age he had charge of the express | business between New York and New Haven, and when that business ripened | into the Adams Express company, in | 1854, he was appointed superintendent
 of the southern division of the compa- ny. At the opening of the civil war in | 1861 he formed and became president of | the Southern Express company and | has been it's president continuously l since that time. For the last thirty zone years he has also been president of the | Texas Express company.
 | These presidencies, however, are mere | items In the long list of MT. Plants | business interests. In 1882 he organ l ized and was made president of the
 Plant Investment company, in which,
 among his associates, were Henry M. F'lagler, Morris R Iesup, Henry San
 ford, H. P. Hoadley and G. H. | Tilley. It is over one of this compa-
 ny's railway lines, reaching from | Charleston to Tampa, that the troops
 for the capture of Cuba and Puerto l Rico are carried. A mere list of the l thirteen railway lines extending sev-
 eral thousand miles; of the nine steam
 boat lines, reaching from Cape Breton | to Jamaica, and of the six large ho-
 tels, owned and operated by the com-
 pany, under the general title of the
 Plant System,' reads like a travellers s guide.
 | In 1S42 MT. Plant married Miss FL l
 of the Hon. James Blackstone, by l whom he had his only child, Morton F. | Plant, now his fathers right-hand l man and vice president of all his com panies. MT. Plants first wife died in | 1881, and in 1873 he married the beauti-
 full Miss Margaret Josephine Lough- man, only daughter of Martin Lough- | man, Esq, of New York.
 | Though on the verge of his eightieth
 year MT. Plant spends large part of 1 his time in his private car, No. 100," ] that is known and welcomed all over | the southern states. To-day he is in | Tampa, tomorrow in Jamaica, a little | later in New York, in Boston in Hali- | fax. There is a tangle on some of his | lines in the middle of Georgia, and in l a few hours he is there and everything | is smoothed as if by magic. His of l flee goes with him everywhere, by day | or night. In the midst of the pine | woods No. 100" draws up in front of
 a shanty telegraph station, and in ten | minutes he knows the entire days business of the whole system-the car l derailed in Alabama, the wharf mend I CT in Halifax, the steamers anchor | fouled in Jamaica-as well as the name | and business of every visitor to his
 New York office that day. Every de-
 tail of the vast system is familiar to { him; the business of the hotels, the | running of the steamships, and a thou
 sand matters every day that would
 drive the untrained mind to distrac-
 tion. Yet at every stop of his car he 1 finds time for a comfortable chat with | some old friend, with as much ease.
 apparently, as if he had not done fifty