The age-herald., 1901-10-20

automobiles. A line of automobile coaches to leave at regular intervals and private fast flyers to be admitted on payment of a toll. Is this the milk in the cocoanut?
 About 12 o'clock every day. often as the great clock in Trinity's sentinel steeple strikes the hour, an automobile hanson swiftly truns from Broadway in D Wall street and draws up in front of the great banking house of J. Pierpont Morgan & Go. From 1t alights a we'll dressed, athletic young man, who is now one of the most-tallxed of men in the great financial world. He is in the early forties, clean shayen, quick-eyed of a nervous temperament. One glance at him and you see human machine of muscle and nerves suggestive of tenn pered steel operated by an electric motor Of course, refer to George W. Perkins. a. mariner of the banking house and vice president of the New York Life Insur- ance Company. His rise in life has been remarkable. He began as grocer's clerk in a western town. went into life insur- ance was rapidly advanced from position to position, and, while in Europe nego- tiating with foreign governments, came into close relation with the agents of | Pierpont Morgan. His snrewdness and ability made so great an impression on the great fnancier that ne took him into partnership. From g o'clock until five minutes before F he Is to be found at the office of the insurance company; from 12 to at the banking house, and at five minutes past back at the insurance company. Such Is the busy life of a busy man. He started out to make mil lions, and he is doing so.
 
 When I see Gen. M. J. O'Brien at Del monico's. which is his second home, I think of his old friend John Hoey. Both were presidents of great express com panies and thoroughly, all around men of the world. O'Brien Is one of the most agreeable men to sit with and pass an idle hour. A more delighted raconteur cannot be found. Chatting with him few days ago he told anecdote after anecdote, incident upon incident, con corning Trayers, Jerome, Ochiltree, IT, wing, Mansfield, Wallack, Florence Soth- ern, Withers, Belmont, Sanford and a score of others, and all these men were conspicuous figures in making the Great CT New York of these days.
 Tn the lower part of the city, in a street that has lost its once famous iden- tity, stands a great, plain, sombre, dirty looking building. II is now, as 1t has been for century a soap factory. It's product is sold the world over, and 1t yielded fabulous fortunes to it's owners Strange how the world runs. The family name passed from two generations and became extinct by the fact that there was no male heir, and the great industry passed to the female branch of the fam iIy. The manager of the great business is a great grandson of the founder of the house.
 In strange contrast to the sombre build ing. approached by a stranger, dark old fashioned straircase, Is a room occupied by Mir Talbot Hyde, the great grandson of B. T. Rabbit. This room is hand somely furnished, and contains choice works of art and souvenirs of travel. Mir. Hyde has been traveller since he left college and before he/seriously buck led down to hard work. This handsome, athletio-looking young fellow, who at times wistfully looks out into the old street as though signing for polo ponies and golf, Is one of the shrewdest, clever est manufacturers in the world, and in this handsomely-fitted office he watches the doings of all soap manufacturers, and the markets, the world over.
 Speaking of Talbot Hyde and of George W. Perkins as young men reminds me that all of the conspicuous financiers to- day are young men. I refer to the pro- motors mainly. For instarce, Charles W. Morse, the Ice king and organizer of a chain of banks, Is a young man, also Thomas F. Ryan, Robert Bacon. Frank Tilford and Tolbot Taylor. When Ryan fifteen years ago, was a stockholder, he was obut 32 years of age. He could not have dreamed of the road he was destin- ed to travel. He became associated with Robert L. Cutting. who owned bonds on western street car company. He sent Ryan out to investigate. He proposed plan of reorganization which was suc- cessful This brought him into the field and success in similar directions made him a great fortune.
 One of the greatest railroad reorgan- izers was Chalres Coster of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. He was a tremend- ous worker. In fact. he worked himself into his grave. All of Morgan's junior partners are hard workers. He took a fancy to Robert Bacon, a clerk In his of flee. Bacon was a Harvard man, a hand some, cultivated Bostonian. Nobody in the early days, believed that this gay, young dancing man would become ser ious man of business. So much for every body. Bacon proved his ability. and be- fore long MT. Morgan advanced him to junior partnership. Today he Is known the world over as an able and far-seeing fnancier. The great steel consolidation