Saint Mary's beacon., 1904-08-18
A Man Of Energy.

Baltimore World.
Vigor, ceaseless energy and de
termination.
This has been the cause of the
success of the Union Trust Co. =,
whose home will be ready for oc-
cupancy by September l.
Rearing its lofty head over the
burned area, the tall white building
looks like monument at the corner
OF Fayette and Charles -sts., q monu-
ment to the hustle and spirit of the
trust company. which completes in
few months the first skyscraper
since the fire.
-Four days after the blaze started,
on Thursday morning, work was
begun removing the debris of the
building. In a week it was cleared
out. A few days later the heating
apparatus was being sent in.
THE CONTRACT FOR REBUILDING
was in the hands of Wells Brothers,
Joseph p. Burnett was the engi.
neer in charge. Gangs of men hung
on the big steel structure like bees
around comb. And today, six
months after the work was started,
the building is so near completed,
the elevators have been hung are
the finishing work of the marble
and telling is now going on.
To look at George Blackstone a
stranger might be liable to err in
realizing that the close knit, CON-
pact frame, the keen blue eyes, the
iron-gray hair and the soft voice
belong TO a man OF strongest deter
mination and will. For to Mr..
Blackstone is due.
MUCH OF THE ENERGY
which resulted in the speedy re-
building. He does things. Quietly
enough, true, and consistent with
his dignity, but just the same he
does things. Other moneyed men
and capitalists talked. Blackstone
worked. Trust companies looked
over the ground and figured condi-
tions out Blackstone worked. Di-
rectors talked and talked about nos.
sible business chances. Blackstone
worked. What is the result? To
day, six months after the fire, the
Union Trust Co. stands as an exam.
pie for every other concern ia town.
and will be filled from cellar 10
dome six months before any other
building, getting six months rem
tails from every Office at a gold
figure.
THERE WILL BE 132 OFFICES
in the eleven floors. Each Office
will be fitted with newest appliances
for light and heat, with hot and
cold water and three elevator lifts.
There will be cafe and telegraph
Office in the basement and a vault
containining 500 safe deposit boxes.
The trust company will occupy the
banking floor, while the Herald
business Office will be located on
the first floor. The New Yerk Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co. will occupy
the third fioor, aud the Surry Gov.
SMITH Lumber Co. nearly all the
ninth floor.
The banking room will be gor
geously furnished and finished.
There will be four immense scagliola
columns.
OF ANTIQUE CoLORING.
and the woodwork and modelling
will be in mahogany. This, how
ever, will be the last room to be
completed.
II don't think we deserve any
particular credit" modestly said
President Blackstone yesterday.
We went right ahead and waited
for nothing. We have had little
trouble with sympathetic strikes and
that sort OF thing. but the work has
gone right ahead, until now we are
almost completed. We will not
have an Office left for rent when the
work is completed" he concluded.
every bit OF room shall be utilized.
Reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. II HArria Tam -liar = -, 81