The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-26
WHERE MILLIONS ARE MADE.
AMERICAN BUSINESS MANS LUXU-
RIoUs WORK ROOMS.

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New York City-Jobn HOckefeIIer's
system of once Nnps-Mr. Thomas
PlRtt's Dark ROOm-Richard Crok-
er's Democratic simpIicity-The
Way One Young Midas Is Served
and Gives Teas.
| New York Nov Alt is pretty safe to
! assume, III view Of some Of the modern
improvements and ornamentauoh intro
duced in the big up-to-date Office build
| ings that the American business man has
the most Iuuxurious work rooms Of any
! bread winner in tine world London nor
| Paris nor proquratic Berlin nor Hamburg
ere likely for many years TO show any
thing to compare with the Offices in New
York, Boston and Chicago where our COM
mercial geniuses sit and pun the wires
that make the world Of finance go round
1t goes to prove that love of art and
ease is by no means incompatible with
long hours of the hardest kind of mental
labor and mat the American financier has
found in the luxurious environment ana
the comDanionship of things beautiful
genuine aid in his struggle for dollars ana
power.
This was one of the successfully practic-
cd theories of Henry Hyde, the late presi-
dent Of one of the greatest insurance com
panies Of America. In the prominent
building on Broadway, where he spent
the best years Of his life the rooms he oc-
cupled were far more like a suit of superb
| private apartments than quarters for the
transaction of sordid business. A coy
niue private elevator, sacred to Mr..
hyde use alone brought him to the door
OF the room whore his desk sat, and where
the aspect presented was precisely that of
a small, richly furnished library. Behind
this opened a marvelously well appointed
iaVatory and beyond a snuggery where a
dlVan offered opportunities, for a map,
where space and appointments would per
init the spreading of a perfect luncheon
ana every appliance was al hand for max
ing a toilet
This office was one of Mr.. Hyde's IA
Vorite hobbies and not Emperor William
himself, had more thorough protection
against intruders than this insurance
prince. In all the gauntlet of eight clerks
and servants had to be run before admis-
sion to this private suite might be gained,
and In consequence with enormous bust
ness to transact, Mr.. Hyde accomplished
1t in velvet silence and with fewer in
terruptions than most busy men.
Another Insurance Prince.
The addition of private dressing rooms
to the offices occupied by the heads of
great companies is an accepted essential
now in the erection of the fine new busi-
ness buildings President McCurdy of
another famous insurance organization en-
joys the use of as complete a little boudoir
as art and science can conceive. In one
corner of it, under a well arranged light,
stands barber chair, and here the ma
nipulator of millions who IS noted for his
utilization of every possible waking mo-
ment, reclines to be shaved in the morn
ing while the secretary sits near for dicta-
ton. Not a thousand miles away from
the handsome work rooms of Mr.. McCurdy
is an equally prosperous life insurance
company that has earned some special
fame because of the tapestry and carved
oak furniture in the Offices of its most
prominent employees.
Solomon, in all the glory of admnistrat-
ing the wealth Of jerusalem never labored
In more congenial surroundings than
these; cat-footed servants in gold braided
livery passing in and out, to offer visitors
cards on silver trays the pens, ink wells,
biotters, elc., upholstered in the heaviest
repousse metal, and cupboards concealed
behind tapestry curtains, containing every
appointment for spreading a hasty but
thoroughly effective meal al any moment.
A Midas Tea Party.
To such a point of perfection has one
Young man-lately risen to the rank of a
millionaire in Wall street-brought his Of
flee existence, that the antique mahogany
cupboard in one corner of his work room
contains a full set of silver and china of
the most expensive sort bearing his ini-
tails. Drawers below the well loaded
shelves hold an appropriate complement of
fine marked table linen, and next to
sideboard. weighted with glass and de-
canters, in the deep wall of the room has
been built, at the cost of $3.50, a combina-
Il a,,Ia NJ vafp hn
business of amassng a great fortune has
left this young midas small time for fol- |
lowing the social amenities, but after
banking hours he is known to give charm
ing tea parties to his feminine friends in
smart society and the great room on Wall
street, that opens TO view over the bay,
affords as luxurious chairs, as fine dis
play of flowers and as fautlessly equip
ped and served tea table as can be found
in any fashionable drawing room
No such combination of fashion and
finance is made in j. Pierpont Morgan's
downtown laboratory, where time is
money and where, in the slang of the
street, the effect is "rich. but not gaudy."
This banker Prince has a taste for red
and the floor of his special and private
room is covered with a superb ruby red
carpet especially woven on an English
loom. All the mounting of the room is
done in dark, hard wood and the Bank
of England vaults are not harder to reach
than Pierpont Morgan on his busy days.
A negro in livery sits like Argus before
the entrance to the private room, for Mr..
Morgan like Coils p. Huntington puts
great faith in the fidelity of colored serv-
ants A smart mulatto in q livery that
fits as faultessly as a West Point cadets
uniform. wards off intruders from the
large, lofty chamber where Mr.. Hunting |
ton. the famous railroad and steamship
magnate. tolls on the walls of this hand !
some chamber hangs a collection of prints
of ocean craft that has been gathered to-
gether with great care and represents a
deal of money and artistic taste, for prints
of vessels are one of the Huntington hob |
bies.
Richard Cookers Office.
While the majority of men who
nowadays sway vast financial destinies
love to surround themselves with consid-
cradle pomp and ceremony, Richard Crok-
err cheerfuly conducts his share in a
f1ourishing real estate business in one Of