Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-17
President GEHRING.
Controlling Spirit Of the American
Wireless Tel. & Teleph. Co.
A SKETCH OF THE MAN.
Ms Genius and Capacity for WOrs-HIs Char
aoledslIos, Wealth and Standing In The
Business WurId-The System Controlled by
His CcmpanJ and The Tremendous Impulse
Given Il By the Commercial World.

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The Globe has had considerable to
say touching wireless telegraphy ana
on Sunday last published a lengthy
statement from the American Wireless
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
This statement was in reply to sin
lister and malicious attack in the New
York Herald, inspired, no doubt, by the
owner of that sheet, who is the princi-
pal hacker or stocKholder in the ltal-
ian Marconi's imperfect system. Mar
conf has been boosted by the Herald
and even imported into this country
for a brief space to inject some life in
to his failure Of sending messages
without wires. and the Herald las it
boasts itselfD has influenced other pa
pers TO copy it's misleading state
ments But i'm wireless telegraphy, as
In everything else, mankind falls back
on that hOmely but truthful cpl
gram, "The proof Of the pudding is in
the eating of IT," And so when it came
to show down in the international
yacht races the American Wireless
Telephone and Telegraph Company
put Bennett and MarcOni out of bust
ness.
The great head or master-mind OF
the American system Is a German
American, Dr. c.. p. Gehring The
Doctor is sdll a young man, some.
where In the forties He is not only
self made. but an intellectual prodigy
in this era of superbly equipped mental
geniuses. That Doctor Gehring is a
genius we will not assert. as we do
not know what the attributes of geni-
us Is, except the freak things some of
the literary cusses do, who are called
geniuses But that he has a marve-
lous capacity for work, a trained and
sagaciOus intellect capable of grasping
and solving mercantile or business en-
terprises, all who know him testify.
He has no difficulty i'm debating mat
ters Of great moment and involving
great enterprises with the rapidity of
lightning. and on subjects wide apart,
tqsperhaps half a dozen secretaries.
Indeed the editor of The Globe has
seen him perform this feat and mary
eled at the typically phlegmatic man
ner in which the Doctor rolled of his
thoughts. The half hour IN which we
had a chance to study him at work
while waiting for an interview reveal.
ed to us the secret Of success Of this
millionaire and king of wireless tele-
graphy.
Doctor Gehring is, as stated a man
In the forties, he is scarcely Of medi-
um height. but of stout build, with the
quiet. phlegmatiC outward demeanOr Of
his race. His face in repose is an al
most perfect prototype or likeness Of
the Great Napoleon. The Doctor has
the same large. round eyes with that
semi-childish dreamy look, seen In the
NapOleOuic pictures, the contour of his
features rs an exact fac smile of the
CorsiCan's and even I'm the placidity
Of expression, while evolving weighty
and important enterprises to his Sec
retaUes he more than ever reminds
one Of that marvellous character who
rose from being a subaltern in the
French army to the most dazzling
height Of mortal greatness In like
manner, too, DR.. Gehring the much
sought after president of the Ameri-
can Wireless Telephone and Telegraph
Company has risen i'm another field
from a lowly position to his present
commanding standing in the CONNER
cial and business world. Born in Ger
many, he came while still a youth to
the United State and having gradual
ed from an Eastern college ne launch
ed out in mercantile pursuits.
That he has been eminently success
full goes without saying, when a man
can have his check honored in the
seven figures many times over. A com
pact figure below, as stated, the medi'
um. height, with a semi-oval face and
NapOleoniC look and action, Dr. G.. p
Gehring is known in the marts Of
trade and in mighty enterprises as a
giant i'm conception, untiring I'm action
and invariably successful in result. II
is, however. among his employees that
he is the most aifectlonately appreci
ated, however high he is regarded by
his peers i'm the business world From
his confidential secretary to the most
humble of his employees, Dr. Gehrinl
IS fairly idoliZed because of his uni
forinly urbane manner and kindly TEN
perament Unlike Napoleon In thil
sense. he neither storms, swears mol
reproaches those who eat his breaC
and all are compensated for their sery
ices so generously that their best faCul
ties are stimulated to- the limit point
Nor is the Doctor an exacting master
but on the contrary a cOnsiderate EN-
plOyer who can correctly gauge the ca
pacity of those who serve him anl
that capacity he never strains to tn
limit OF endurance. Hence he has al
ways at his command fresh and will
ing servants to execute his mandates
flesh his thoughts and intelligentl
give point to the necessarily rough o
unfinished drafts Of his teeming brain
A millionaire and a man Of culture
he is a worker and a student fror
choice. When time permits he can b
found In the laboratories Of the CON
pany in consultation with Prof. ShOl
maker and his assistants, as INTEL
gently and effectively active as In th
midst of his secretaries or directin
his many varied private interests. TO
although the Doctor, as the presiden
Of the American Wireless Telephon
and Telegraph Compauy GevOtes hi
time and ineXhaustable energy to tina
tremendously developing concern he
compelled TO keep tab and I'm touc
with the investments his millions hay
naturally created or enlarged.
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