The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-21
SUCCEEDS FLOWER
A.N.Brady Will Take
Up Dead Finan-
cier's Burden.
HIS BUSINESS LIFE.
Starting Without a Cent He
is Now a Gas and
Street-car Magnate.

Since Roswell P. Flower died, it has
been matter of much speculation, on
the part of business men as to who is
to be his successor as bull leader In
the stock market. 1t is a recognized
fact that nobody but a financial giant
can successfully take UP and manipu-
late the industrial stocks laid down by
the dead financier. 1t is the opinion
of most who are capable to judge, that
Anthony Brady is the man on whom
the stupendous burden will fall
Mr.. Brady was one Of Gov. Flowers
closest personal friends, both socially
and in the business world. He had
been associated with the governor in
almost every one of the great enter
prises that the governor was interested
\ in from the time that the governor
himself became interested In them. -
| A. N. Brady is a very well-known
man in the business world. $50
He is an Irishman, as one might
guess, but he was born IN France, ms
parents having left Ireland in 1910. He
was born in 1843. He came to this ceun-
TRY with his parents when he was still
an infant, and they settled in Troy
He went to public school. When he
was IA he made up his mind that IT
was about time he should get out and
hustle for himself. He went over to
Albany. He was employed in the Della
van House, when he finally got to-
gether money enough to start in the
tea and coffee business.
Soon he had the biggest tea store in
town, and he started in to be capital
list. The money he made he invested
in other stores. He branched out into
adjoining towns. He had just about
as complete a monopoly of the tea
business of that part of New York
state as the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
has today of the passenger-carrying
system of Brooklyn.
1t was about then that granite be-
came an important factor in the big
cities; granite was wanted for street
pavement, it was wanted for building
houses, and in his leisure moments Mr..
Brady quietly gathered in all the
granite that was coming to Albany. All
manner of public improvements was
needed and Mr.. Brady was right there
to look after it, He got along so
famously that finally he bought
granite quarry of his own. Mr.. Brady
today Is boss in the gas business, a
boss in the electric light business and a
boss in the surface railroad business.
he S a quiet, lOW-VOiced, energetic
man, little under the average in
height, with thin blond hair that is
rapidly turning gray.
He dresses quietly and doesn't look
like millionaire many times over. One
| of Mr.. Brady's characteristics is that
| before he puts his money into a bust
ness he learns all about it, every de-
tail, and he started in to study gas.
| How to make water gas had just been
discovered. He studied water gas and
| he mastered the art of making 1t.
| The oil business is closely associated
with the gas business. Mr.. Brady dis
covered that fact when he was learn
| ing all about gas, and he had some time
on his hands, so he went into the oil
| business and organized and successful
| ly operated the Manhattan Oil company
| of Lima, o., and sold the oil to the
| Chicago Gas. Co. 1t was in Albany
that he tried the first electric road. They
had horse cars up there; he started In
as he had started in the gas business,
and he possessed himself of every line
| in the neighborhood. Then he turned
them into trolley roads so quick that
Fit turned the heads Of the folks up
there. A4
Mr.. Brady was one of the organizers
of the Metropolitan Traction Co. It
was ne it is said. who first suggested
the cable road in Columbus avenue and
in Lexington avenue, and he once drew
a check for 81, 100000 and gave it to the
city to secure the city against any
failure of the company to carry out its
contracts. aaH6