Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-03

thinks Of colossal wealth.
W 'n' y, individuals suggest 'nell-
d, riHt ~, " ancIents linked croesus
ssa Ine n biblical days Solomon
dbpl. ' msre used in metaphors re-
SIi's s A few years ago 'he
yhs 70 S'a unified wealth beyond the
Ssss''l'ais ESTIMATION - but the modern
~ o. 'li, xaresses the superlstiye OF
ssa y "I Morgan. W X. Vanderbilt
PSy amid or Russell Sage s.
iss' Ov' career of Russell sage
pc n r',,cbed in history ana is no'
." 's n standard fiction borh "a
|sF'',n's % absolute poverty denied
'D''' youth the advantages OF
ca" .cDool education, he yet DC,
fsnoD Inv AT twenty, a mast,etlut.
5.. vat at thirty named a ,h tresltSI'
fllqiI4i United states when thlI ,.,,,'
De U aSsr h Congress at lhlrty-siA,
~ isaa' carser OF sixty-fve years as
rlai'a us,stesman. hnancler railroad
.E.aah',. a. capItalist, is today, at the
~. " Isisht.nye. one OF the po 49,,
q I'M, es figures In the most stupe ,,o
g acu' VIA, "1i anl commercial era the
W l aai aver witnessed His wealth.
FiIi ns' ,,iO Loco 900, and II may DC
,.mwJ, y career Of Russell Sage was
~ 's' a. time and amid surtoundlhss
Iia' 3. vel '~ from those which now
. " ND III II Is difficult to draw COM
!,.,Ss or point moral lie was poin
wv , Madison was President Of the
NV. aa',' states and the country had not
iiE a..' Ar nam the shock Of the war
s ,,,,, when Russell Sage was a boy
Y. - we're no milIlonalres IN THIS couh-
As M Tbere were no railroads no
" . ,G and nothing which would
-Ss.sA as machinery today our
|s1sr civilization had not yet been
~ ebild Of today who rides to
IVY an an electric car, whose school
(, sre furnished by the city, VINO
IA Al hand libraries containing thou-
~ of valuable books, magazines
|.t,1eals and papers cannot readily
aorhend the prospect before the boy
I'm sage as he lived on the farm In
IN county, New York, more than
1, score Years ago, There We're no
|-.nrInes and few papers.
nm the larger cities Ike New YORK,
NM and Phladelphia-and these
Z, hen but small towns-boastsd OF
,srfs and they were private. There
|w mol a public library In the entire
rEtIy
saw STARTLING CHANGES.
Russell Sage was two years old when
!. inst steam power press was set IN
ulu in this or any other country.
n, 6st coal mine had been dlscoy-
al blt ten years before he was born.
\. svt gas was manufactured In the
M II his birth. Young Russell was
es.sn years old and a clerk IN a
IA when the first matches were
~ Pins were a novelty and sold at
Var a paper.
fKsn Sage was nearly fourteen
nr Of age when the first railroad
n built In the United States. He
n.l voter before the first steamship
.,s~d the Atlantic. When he was a
such cities as Chicago, 81. Louis,
i.an Milwaukee, Detroit, Omaha,
byef San Francisco, st. Paul and
igahds OF others we're not In exist
Is
lt0lgh born in q civilization as far
irsyei from ours as that era was
"a Tie time Of julius Caesar, Russell
W. has lived to take an active part
siasse bewlderlng changes, and Is to-
BY one Of the master spirits In the
wi " finance and In railroad and
tstnnIcal development The boy who
l6H dreamed II a railroad has be-
s,t heavy stOckholder in a railroad
,lsige which would girdle the globe.
his ptobably no exaggeration to say
ali 20 man ever lived who was so
alive participant In changes as wide
ytsi and momentous as those which
AFs been a part Of the life OF Russell
'gs There are thousands Of men
~ have attained a greater age, and
thsYs two or three younger men who
tN recently played more conspicuous
rts but Il will be difficult 10 name
D nan who can match the record
NE BY Russell Sage in q business
aver extending trough q period of
is'y seventy years And he has not
iemo,est idea Of retiring for years
} cone.
BORN AT SHENANDOAH.
b The spring Of 1916 Elisha Sage de-
~ 70 abandon Connecticut and move
Michigan. He had served through