Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-11-07

, times of trouble the controlling fac
! tor in several of what are known a
the coal roads of Pennsylvapia-thI
Erie. the Lehigh valley the Central o
New Jersey and The Reading, togsthel
with ,neir tributary coalfields. He |,
the pre- dominating influence in tbs
Southern railway and in three OF rs
connections, the foremost railroad sys
TEN OF the southern states, with over
5000 miles of track. system which
he has created a. d I of which an as
sociate and friend is president. He is
also power in many other railroads
as witness his recent appointment OF
the directors of the Northern Pacific
railroad and his evident influence
through ]. J. Hill in the Burlington
and Great Northern management. And,
as have already said, he is at pres
ent practically dictator of the vast
steel interests of the country, through
the United States Steel corporation and
he controls at least one Atlantic
steamship line.
Mr.. Morgan impresses one as a
large man, thick of chest, with big
head, set close down on hurley shoul.
ders, features large, an extraordinary
lily prominent nose, keen gray eyes,
deep set under heavy brows. high,
fine forehead. square, bulldog chin.
His hair is iron gray and thin, and his
mustache is close-cropped. For man
of his age and size he seems unusual
ly active, moving about with almost
nervous alertness. He is a man of few
words, always sharply and shortly
spoken. When a man comes to him
Mr.. Morgan looks at him keenly, wait.
ing for him to speak first and his de-
cision follows quickly.
Hobbies and Charities.
Business by no means absorbs all
of Mr.. Morgan's energy. Perhaps his
first interests outside of his work is
his enthusiasm as collector Of works
of art. He is the possessOr of many
fine paintings. and is interested in
rare china, Limoges ware particular
| ly. AS evidences of his taste he has
gathered and presented collection of
fabrics to Cooper Union, of rare gems
to the American Museum of Natural
| History, of Greek ornaments to +he
Metropolitan museum of art Yacht
| ing is his diversion. and he superln.
| tended the building of his steam yacht
| Corsair in every detail. For long
| time he was commodore of the New
York Yacht club, which he recently
presented the land for a new club
house. After hard siege at business
Mr.. Morgan goes for a cruise. and il
is related that he often takes with
him a mass of papers, and that VIII FL
his friends look for him he is to be
found below deck buried deep in fig
ures utterly oblivious of his surround
ings. Fond of fine dinner. a connois
seur in wines and judge of cigars, ht
is temperate in all these. Cairns
little for society, he occasionally en-
joys quiet party and may warm into
talkativeness, though never on bust
ness subjects. Anyone who has seer
him at the dinners Of the New Eng
! land society knows that he enjoys
them. There he viii sometimes join
in the singing. but it is rarely that he
makes a speech. None of his few In.
innate friends are among his business
associates. The outward mark of es-
TEEN which Mr.. Morgan bestows on a
man is to present him with a dog from
the kennels of his country home. A
member of many clubs, he is too busy
to be much Of club man, but he has
always been a church goer, and, what
is more, a church worker, being a yes.
tryman in st. Georges church in
Stuyvesant Square, and the unfailing
friend and helper of his rector, Rev.
DR.. Rainsford. He has taken especial
interest in the boys of the church,
has helped devise means to keep them
off the street and to teach them trades
and sometimes he attends the evening
session of their club and talks to them.
Two of his known philanthropies have
been the establishment at cost of
over 100000 of the now we'll known
New York trade school in the upper
east side of New York, and the found.
ing Of smaller trade school in con.
nection with st. Georges church.
Mr.. Morgan has given 10 Harvard
university for the medical school ST..
100000; for great lying-in hospital
near st. Georges church, 1880, 900;
for st. Johns cathedral 100000; for
help toward paying the debts of the
Young Mems Christian association
100000; for the Loomis hospital for
consumptives, some 100000; for a H.
brary in Holyoke, Mass. (his fathers
birthplace), 100000; for preserving
the palisades along the Hudson river.
sf25,000; for a new parish house and
rectory for st. Georges church, $780,
900. He also contributed largely to
the Queen Victoria memorial fund and
to the Galveston relief fund; he pre-.
scented st. Paups cathedral in London
with a complete electric plant, and
built a hospital at Aix-les- Bains,
France"
JAP LABOR I'M HAWAII