The Washington times., 1904-10-30
THE COUNTESS TORBEY.
Some Famous er- TeLegraphers
Who HaDe Won Htqh Places

s.The recent death Of former Gov.
AI0uzo p Cornell remarked a veteran
teIegraDher 10 a Brooklyn Eagle re-
porter recently. -and the appoint ment
By President Roosevelt OF Robert j.
Wynue as Postmaster General. both OF
whom started in life as telegraph 0p-
orators. are examples Of the success
some Of the knights OF the key NAV
acquire after they leave the telegraph
business. This profession is essentially
q young mans business. as promotion
ins it is slow and the salaries Of the Of
heials are not large. Fer this reason
many leave the service of the telegraph
companies after serving a few years as
operators In which capacity they often
gain executive ability and a good i'm
sight of general business affairs
The press operators, especially, who
handle thousands OF words OF news daily.
get a good training for the newspaper
business and some Of the best men in
this line OF work were former teiegra-
pliers. Amoug the most prominent whom
] can recall ar the present are T. Rose
water. proprietor of the Omaha Ee5r
Walter = Phillips, formerly general
manager OF q press association but now
connected with gramophOne cgmDany-
William j. EMERSON, the Philadelphia
publisher George KEENAN,, the we'll
known IrateleI ana "illets W e. ioL.-l-
stonr T. Comerlc i @ Martin. 1u0ulas
TaIavaH. and Frank A Munseys the
magazine publisher.
Wynne Not the First.
Postmaster General Wynne is not the
first manipulation OF dots and dashes 10
enter the Cabinet; Daniel Lamont aho
served as Secretary Of War under Prezl-
Fdent Cleveland, was, I believe, the first
of our calling TO hold a Cabinet office.
Among others who have achieved fame
I'm the political arena are eX-Goy. r. T.
Bullock. Of Georgia, and in q lesser de-
gree d. IT, Hearn, the health commits
si0ner Of Boston; c. j. Christie, who
was acting mayor OF Cincinnati during
the past summer, and Walter G. Burton
! New York State senator.
THE introduction Of leased wires
twenty-five years ago as a necessary ad-
iunct 10 the successful handling OF
! brokerage business initiated a large
number of operators into financial cir
Giles and the offices i'm Wall Street and
Iother ceuters OF finance throughout the
country contain many OId-time opeU-
Iafors who have accumulated fortunes
/ Charles G.. Gates, son OF john rs.
/ Gates. has I'VE partners, three of whom
I were formerly JelegrapheTs, ana Ile
New York stock Exchange membership
/ hist has four old eE-telggraphers III. c.
] EFeuburu h. T.. Eudel. John NJ Mar
/ fiu and Thomas ID. Hooper. The ECJte
( board. or Consolidated Stock Exchange,
has about half a dozen, among them
/ being J. Frank Howell stephen j. Cal
Iahau Edward II. Marrlns and John T.
Hoey. who Is also running for Assem- Dis
I iu New Jersey i'm the present campaign
r. W. Dillingham; represents our craft
I il the cotton exchange ana j. 81 au
Wormcr is connected with the Lincoln
& Safe Deposit Company In am oluclal
CIuaClty. Quite "a number OF Ihe board
/ of trade members also worked Tor the
telegraph companies In former years.
Prominent Business Men.
~I. C. Weir president Of the Adams
Express Company W. a. Wolverton-
IAN OrnciaI Of the New YORK Transfer
Company, David Homer Bates. OF the
Singer sewing Machine Company, and
In n. sJover of the Gameweu Fire
Alarm Company. are men who were OPP
orators in their day.
&C ]. GIdden and Loren n Downs
/ have reached the magnate class I'M the
/ telephone field, the former also making
( n Worldwide reputation as an auto
mobiIist William j.. Denver is also
Iu.4EiuE rapid strides I'm this lne- b-iu-
assistant general manager OF tae New
England Telephone Company John H-
Sabine. j. il. kohler, Arthur Cameron,
, and ". o. Miles are among the Brook