The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-09-07
F. E. Dc.nze,
Che Napoleon
OF Copper
ryYHEN it was announced a few

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days ago that L. Augustus
" HeinZe had won his fight
against the Amalgamated
copper company ana its Standard Oil
baclcrS men familiar with the dapper
little mining king We're not greatly sur
triSed. There are few men who stand
i chance of winning when the battle
is against such men as John u. Rookie
Teller. II. II. Rogers. Senator w. \.
Clark and other eNnoucutS of what
Thomas w. Lawson calls the system"
HelH|e is one of these few. He gen
orally has luck on his side. He knows
the copper mining business from \
to L. he understands how To play both
business and politics SO that the two
games will work his way. and he has
nerve pnou2h to tackle anything. The
harder the proposition the better he
likes it. ii. H. Rogers is considered to
possess Il wonderful power as to eSti-
mating men and handling them in any
negotiations he may think fit to enter
with them. But IIeiuZc even ten years
Vs. W lAN "a ~ W tNN Allltt a NOuli@ tiidll,
proved too much of an enigma for the
Standard Oil vice president to solve
There is story that about that time
Mr.. Rogers invited him to his Office one
day with view of compromising
the fight IIeinZc had preciptated by
suits against the companies controlling
Amalramatcd properties At the be
ginning of the interview Mr.. Rogers is
said to have iutimated in his usual DO
lite ana Suave manner that of course
ne had the power to crush his youthful
sival completely to the earth. hut that
1e heSitatcd to exercise it, that litiga-
ton would Interfere with some of his
plans and that. in short. he would lis
ten to proposition for settlement Mr.
Heinze, with equal politeness, remark
ed that he hai not come to make Il
proposition, that Mr.. Rogers had sem
for him. and he was there to listen.
Thcreupon John u. Rockofcner's right
hand man is said to have declared
We'll, Mr.. Hoinze. we will give you
S250,000 to settle all your claims-give
it to you in cash ihis afternoon"
Young Hcnze smiled. MIR. Rogers"
he said, Il am surprised. had thought
you were man of broad views. accuS-
toned to great negotiations"
I'm heavens name" gasped the oil
magnatc. how much do You waut?'
Ten million dollars" coolly replied
Henze rs he turned ana said good day
It would have been economy had the
representative Of Amalgamated and
Standard Oil closed with Hcnze at his
own figures then But he could not see
it that way at the time. When the
long warfare was recently concluded
through the purchase of Il majority of
the IIeinZe mines by company con
trolled by Amalgamated tinanciers it
was rulnorcd that HeinZe got $4,000
coo out of the settlement. Amalgamat-
ed officials deried the sum was so
large, but nobody doubted it was
good deal in excess of $l0,000,000. The
effect of the settlement will be to re-
lease the Amalgamated mines in Mon
tana from the injunctions obtained by
Heinze and permit the working OF val
liable veins to be resumed
The n" in the name of Mr. Heinze
stands for Frederick, and he was call
ed Fritz rs boy. but he now goes by
his middle name of Augustus. He IS
the son of Il New York merchant AMI
was born in New York in 1863 IN
graduating from the School Of Mines
Of Columbia university in 1889 he start.
ed for Montana. His first job WAS that
Of an assistant engineer on the inside
Of the Boston and Montana mine. and
his pay was So day. During the day
he grubbe1 patiently Loco feet he
meath the surface in ovcrails and laced
coWh,deS. lie studied the trend and
dip Of the copper veins and compared
his notes With the surface location Gt
other claims. When he came out OF tb2
mines he washed up. put ON his "claw
hammer evening suit, one Of the first
seen in Butte, and dined as though 10
. clubhouse on Fifth avenue The min
4rS called him dude" but they soon
learned that he was no tenderfoot
After two years of practical work In
the mines H2inZe went to Germany
and spent two years there In study of
mineralogy. Then he returned to this
country ana with his brother. Arthur
IIeinZe, a lawyer, formed copper
company to operate in Montana. The
goun@ men had inherited some money
g. II.
the venture. They bought mines sup
posed to be valueless. but which they
knew to he worth millions. and soon
came to he big factors in copper min
Ing. Then came the clash with the
Amalgamated. with the 0utccms al
ready described
The Punishment of the Bagno.
In former times the punishment of
!he bagno Oath. one of the most
rleverly cruel infections ever devised
by an official of the torture chamber,
was administered in Italy, probably in
Venice. where the water of the lagoons
played so prominent a part in its penal
system. The punishment was as fol
lows: The prisoner was placed In
vat the sides of which were slightly in
excess of the average height of man.
In order to hold in check the rising tide
of supply of water which ran into
the vat in constant stream the crimi-