The age-herald., 1900-12-18
MAN OF MILLIONS
 SEES OUR RICHES
Douglas H. Gordon and Thomas
 P. GraSty
ARE VISITING BIRMINGHAM
Mir. Gordon is President of the lnterna- tional Trust Company of Baltimore the Richest Company in Amer
 ica Outside of New York.

Douglas II. Gordon, president of the In- and one of the principal owners of the Baltimore News, and Thomas P. Grasty of the Baltimore Manufacturers Record, are in Birmingham and will spend the re- n:ainder of the week in the district.
 MT. Gordon's great company is largely interested in the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company, in that it made the financial arrangements for the consoH- dation and has never placed the securities on the market; and the purpose of his present visit to this district is in part to view the properties of the Consolidated Company These properties include the great Standard coal mines at Brookwood, the Mary Pratt furnace, with thirty-three acres of city land eighteen hundred acres of valuable land on either side of the rail- roads at Gate City; two iron furnaces at 1ronton and one at Clifton and large quan- tlties of ore and coal properties in various Ironaton.
 Yesterday MT Gordon and MT Grasty insr ected the Consolidated properties at Gate City, including the powerful artesiaa wells there, and viewed the working of the ore mine on the mountain side in the gap at that point, and today they will visit Ironton.
 The repairs to the Mary Pratt furnace are about completed, and the furnace is almost ready for the resumption of work, after being idle about thirteen years.
 MT. Gordon is possessed of great faith in Birmingham, a faith which he demou- strated by large investments years ago and which he has renewed by other large in vestments fecently made. And while he gives these material evidences of his con- fdence in Birmingham and the district he is emphatic in the preaching of the nat ural resources which he is doing so much to develop. The iron and steel manufac- turing industries, so essential to the full greatness of Birmingham, will come in good time, MT. Gordon doesn't doubt. He looks ahead, and not far away he sees an immeasurably greater Birmingham builded upon and about great manufacturing plants-industries for converting iron and steel into the varied products required by commerce.
 MT. Gordon's great financial company, the International Trust Company of Baltimore, is the richest and most powerful financial organization in America, outside of New York. Its capital Is $4,5000OO and its credit is practically unlimited. Hence to have the International Trust concerned in this dis trict is of immense importance to all in- terests.
 MT. Gordon is believed to be the young est man in the United States who is at the head of such powerful financial interests. He appears to be under forty, and doubtless is, and he is physically a splendid type of man. He is a young giant, with a large head and face of great strength, and in his manners he is singularly gracious and modest His entire appearance his move ments, all lend the impression of extraor- dinary physical and mental strength. He is man who impels confidence and compels respect. And that man is the official rep resentative of many millions of money. The two forces together are of vast import, as- suredly!
 The Sleepless Grasty seems to grow more and more alert evermore He Thas enough of energy for a dozen ordinary men!