Arizona republican., 1902-09-15

Boston public school thence to a Ger ing house.
 If Vanderbilt hardened to the young CTS advice he may have suggested the four tracking of the New York Central railroad, which was the first large feat in our railroad energiZing. As the West Shore railroad added two. tracks, the Central possessed six. William F.. Vanderbilt sold his fathers stocks. also by Morgan's advice. it is believed, and thus left the largest American fortune in money. His sons shared the conti- mental imagination of Morgan, and be- gan to create Vanderbilt extensions west. Commodore Vanderbilt had d Dutch provincial prejudice against ex- tending his lines outside of the charter territory of New York. but his posterity found it was like capitalizing the watermelon trade, for the true west ern New York is the great west. Thus Morgan has entered upon the fourth generation of Vanderbilts, of which three generations are dead. No doubt Morgan learned much from them ;sf. but the activity of his commissions, the confidence capital took in him, the systematiZing of his banking house and his final control of it, carried him out side of any single influence.
 Morgan's discernment of the ability of subordinates, and utilizing their minds to the fullest extent is hardly less conspicuous than his overbearing will. His affinity with the Episcopal church is a family legacy, the Morgans of Hartford having assisted to revolu tionize Connecticut against the Congre- gational pastor tyrants when Oliver Wolcott, the old federalist, bolted that party and led Connecticut toward lib- erality. As late as 1870 I heard a Hart ford lady say to a gentleman: "They became Unitarians, and then, of course, we had to drop them"
 Morgan is. with William c. Whitney, and A. J. Cassatt, one of the exemplars of personal independence as against be- Hitting Constraints from old, rancid so- ciety. He runs his yacht; they their race horses. Sport is as necessary to modern life as prayers were to the life of the old sects. Yet two of these men came out of the parsonage life.
 Puritanism is one of the hardest things to kill in ones temper and aus terity. l recollect the late John R. Duff taking from my hands in Boston some newspaper l had bought and giv- ing me the Advertiser, as better suited to my moral needs. He who spent three or four fortunes trying to corner Hannibal & St. Joseph stock, and de- sired me not to read the minority side of anything, told me that when he passed Monaco, a young married man, he was too moral to go into the town because they gambled there. In like manner, l read some editorials lately on MT. SchWaE 0f the steel trust, its prac- tical genius. The Puritan commenta- tor observed that ever since Mr Schwab tried the roulette al Monte Carlo his period was abbreviated as the chief mechanic. In point of facl Schwab is not to be replaced unless he wants to be. Any young man who sud denly receives SI, 900 900 salary and wlo will not try the game at Monte Carlo a little while on that salary, is disqual- flied from taking a chance in a church lottery or playing croquet on the green baize of nature. What right have we to specify the precise behavior of our neighbOr in financial control as if he were our politician or priest? All the money in this world is not to be given up under the club of the moralist, and that press is narrower than the times which keeps a spy upon the merchant. The conviction of this age is that We came here to live, and that if we must die it is no great matter, as everybody has done the same, but comparatively few have lived well.
 Poker, like palmistry, etc. has be- come the female amusement. l sec every now and then the woman on Broadway with the painted face who plays poker upon the steamships. She never appears until the steamer is three days out, and then has a child with her. The purser, who is in ~S-c game, seats her ceremoniously near the two old fools who play poker, and they, thinking it is a widow with one small card in that child, ask her into the game, when she raises the limit and breaks their money belts.
 Horse racing, although, as Greville says, it is full of welchers and low company, has still an intelligent scope When I was in Spain in 1892 I observed the miserab ble horses and the high bred fighting bulls.
 Where are your Andalusian barbs? ?'
 "We don't have them any more. We have no fine breeds of horses now"
 So I believed we would whip Spain, which, from the nation of chivalry, had got down to the one animal amusement of tCrturing bulls.
 Poker is unattended with the amuse- ment of the million or the improvement of species of any kind. Not as sin, nor lapse, but as an insanity, an asi- ninity. the latest vestige of King Charles the Simple, it has met with it's reproof from the temple of finance.
 MT. Morgan is a book buyer and book reader and of literary descent, and has no time to bet on two cards being rela- Gath" in Kansas City Star.