The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-09


paxesfsl nan ri the weird. &C
GU eordfng 70 slas Eastern pfess.
yeshn y Rockefeller sssstsouefesfty
fsss4Hxes Il larger fortune, b2s Nj A9r-
gaa controls - his iroa Will Eve times
TIE capital ard ten tsEnss TIE number OF
naen controlled sy the president OF the
STANDARD Oh Company.
NJ Morgan has just accom- rsisAea BY
8 master STROKE what fssns nllsieBaAres
have sought So yair 10 do for many years.
ffe pas obtained the practical contro. af
the anthracite coal production ri the
limited states not by consolidating rail-
roads bit ny securing by lease or par-
chase under 81 almost obsolete charter III
Pennsylvania nearly ali tie Independent.
cnag ngssd geerx Besides this giant c0fTs-
b.naflon. organized secretly an3er the
name Of the Temple Company Mr.. Nor
gar exercises ABSOLUTE control by holding
n majority u the stock 81 these rail-
roads.
This Northern Pacific, with tss miles
and s2ioo.sa gross earnings last year
The Reading, 1855 miles and ss4. ao.o@
gross earnings.
The Erie. Ell miles ard 81 ss.eos gross
earnings
The I4ehigh valley s.iss miles and us
es.s. earnings.
The Southern Railway. :, 20 n.sles and
81 9stsa gross earnings.
The stocks 81 all these are deposited
with Ar Morgan under voting trust
giving bin absolute control for a term
Of YEARS. bar In che case ~ the Lehigh
Valley the control IL vested In a finance
COMMITTEES, of which SIR. Morgan's part
neY Charles ~ Coster. is chairman. The
same partner represents Morgan in the
Ballfmure and Ohio railroad organization.
conducted by speysr a Co.
Morgan Is thus the autoeratie ruler Of
aii except the Baltimore and Ohio. and
III that III haa a large interest. These
sssteHs combined make 1868 miles Of rail-
way whose employees number S.so men.
and whose gross earnings last year were
tIsgf.0ao, They own or hold 2s,570473
acres of land.
Same Amazing Figures.
The employees of the Morgan railroads
exceed the entire establishment of the
British navy. excepting marines. IL they
wnr" disefnaarked In New York and
marched through the city in regiments in
close columns of Tours they would stretch
In almost "A solid mass from the Battery
10 One Hundred and Twenty fourth street.
In single line. arms length apart they
would stretch from New York To Whining
ton, Del.
Morsan's roads move 10000 cars. Made
into one train. at very moderate esti-
mate, IL would be IA miles long without
counting 4a9 locomotives.
The landed estate OF the Morgan roads
the acres which they till and from which
they dig coal or cut lumber exceeds In
area the combined Kingdoms of Holland
Denmark and Belgium, which support
over 10000 people. Mr.. Morgan's rail-
roads might exchange acre for acre meas.
nFsd by territory alone with the Ave New
England states New Hampshire Massa-
ehusetts Vermont Rhode Island connec-
ticut. and when he had acquired every
Inch OF those states he would haze ass go
acres Of land left.
Mr.. Morgan q Man.
The head al this new billion dollar trust
1.-The FIRST ever organized in the world
IT, the most formidable and the most ap-
rroaehahle figure In the worlds inarcs
Go down to the corner ~ Bread and
Wall streets. climb ten steps ON the south
east corner enter a large counting room.
across which millioDaires and messengers
are acefrgtng In noissless confusion and
nervous haste All day long. look 10 the
right ~ you enter this vast counting room
and in a long Office behind glass parti-
lions with wide open doors whic, are
never closed, you viii zee between 20
A 81 and } T. NJ any day J. pierpont Nor
gan either seated at Ia. big desk ar walk
Ing nervousls up and down usually with
a cigar In htE mouth ard his hands In his
pockets. His clothes are English in cut
ard sometimes loud So design. He has The
shoulders and waist cf "A pogiisSi. a clean
shaver chin. with lips that close HE a
steel trap. lie is no exception Ia the rule.
taat fnastesful men In Jhe worlds history
have always had big neses. lie has from
gray bait rather thin at the top of his
head a nustache lightly tlnged with gray,
and IRENE udous hands. which he uses
wgEh unusual grace.
ill, there Is one feature ~ his face,
which has not been mentioned II wifi
never hss fosEottou by any ONE who has
faiked With Nj Morgan i've minutes
eEe@. They are very large. with over
hanging tgavs and the pupils have ths,
rare roJor 81 highly polished steel When
there il ans feeling or passion behind
them taey take all the cpioV4 of a chanel
sen No puw has seen another pair q
eyes ike them. TAsy dart Are they blaze
vita lstEsion. ar they eiow like sTan az
white heaf Fhey have the te,yser Of iaere-
tvafi0a - the N-rty y railroad presl-
deaf otsce said that when Ny Morgan
iooked AZ h3n lntertiy hc lei, as though
his flesh and lnuea were Transparent
white t.s very soal was laid bare to Mr.
Morgaas eyes,
An sasaaraed Dictator.
There was Ha oface hos az MI Nc.
ssH'a f'aoY Ane one cauid walk into hss
frsSe frogn the street Ills mariners
ana his secretary 4 desks ar. scattered
aisous the his rpan whleh hv oceups.s
its windows oyeglaok Broad stteet and
syvat glass lasrgitinnS oH the l3peT siae
make tas counting Fc0n. a5th igs @curry-
inv messenger tsoy~ stock ct,Fk~ ansf {sa-
tfent Investors waiting thegY tuTn. 8u ylst-
hio ~ Neesan ana hs - ttsu
i'n4@t the he"T ~ tss~ counting rog,ta
Vaults were hs}fst HNr vrafs age ssH sig