The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-17
ODDS AND ENDS ABOUT LOW.
He Will Be the Richest Mayor New
York Ever Had
New York World.)


The navor-elect of New York is first
of all oethodical man He maps out
in the morning Just what he is going TO
do that ebay and he usually adneres TO
He never rushes or plunges into any
thing and he never talks Wlt nous ai' -
thinking calmly. He is conservative III
He can get through an immense
amount of work in a day because OF MS
easy, rnethodical manner.
ne has been a student from poyhood
and the constant training MS mlhu mas
received shows in his work. ,,..
Mr. Low will be about the WedlIhleS'
MAYOR the city has ever had .,ooo
His fortune amounts to at least @4,Vo-
COO and may exceed S5,00eN. Much OF
it is in real estate, which mas auVdhCeu
greatly in value in recent years .,.,,,. bic
There is nothing OBSERVATIONS apOuI ms
He dresses very plainly He wears his
clothing until the last ounce OF service
ma His oef home me- at 80 East sixty-fourth
street. at the corner Of Madison avenue
is a big. comfortable house, with SUBJ
stantial rather than fine furnishings.
Much of his work IS done N MS sIuuy'
Mr. Low has no children
He and his wife go little into fashion
able society. -. =,
They belong to St Georges churcn m IN
Stuvvesant square, though Mr.. Low was
reared a Unitarian. They pay much at
tention to church work and philanthropy
ic measures.
Mr. Low and has been for twenty-eight
wears. In 1873 he took 1t up when he
found that in Brooklyn II cost 90 cents 70
distribute each dollar donated Tor the
needy. Because of his knowledge and
interest in this work striking changes
will probably be made in the departments
of charities; also in the public school
Mn Mr. Low comes of old New England
His forefathers were among the Puri-
tans who settled Salem. Mass Ihey were
shfp-owners long before any serious Jalk
| of revolt among the colonists was heard.
The ships owned by the Lows naNlsdtee
the earth soon after the revolution ana
were among the first to make the Amer
I lean flag known in foreign ports.
Seth Low. grandfather of the mayor
| elect. came to New York in 1893 because
! of its supremacy as shipping port, ana
| established his place of business IN BUT
| ling Slip and his home on the oIner size
! of the East river, on Brooklyn Heights
Seth Low, the grandfather, was klnd
/ of man who attracted attention. ana IN
the '30s was elected mayor of Brooklyn,
| a position which his grandson ana name
sake filled half a century later.
Abel Abbott Low was the father OF the
mayor-elect.
| He was a man of very progressive and
far-reaching ideas. He went to China
| earlv i'm the first half of the last cen
| turv to personally study the trade condi-
tions there Then he established the firm
of A. A. Low & Co. which made a sDe-
ciaitv of importing the products of
| China. Later he was chosen president
/ Of the chamber of commerce
He accumulated a very large fortune
much of which was invested in real es-
I tate
When Seth Low graduated from Co
lumhia in 1870 he ut once entered the
employ Of hiz fathers firm. starting with
| a humble cleTkshiD.
He was carefully schOoled in the in
! frica cies of the business by his father
and when he was . was admitted to a
/ nartnershfu and given the active manage
ment Of the firm.
/ DR. Lows first interest in politics was
aroused bv the presidential campaigp Of
/ 1876 He made speeches and helped form
the Young Republican organization one
/ Of the rules of the latter was that any
| member who accented political office for
feited hts membership.
In 1883 Mr. Low supported Grover
| Cleveland and has beer regarded more
IS an independent in politics than Re
publican.