The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-06-19
IS THIS THE
YOUNG MANS DAY?


For years past this statement
has been dinned in our ears, UNI
til most Of us have accepted 1t
as fact. Venture a feeble protest,
/ score Of examples are hurled at your
devoted head. Kipling Marconi, the
Kaiser, even Winston Churchill, are
| quoted Authors, artists, actors, in
ventors, soldiers, statesmen of under
forty are pointed out as brilliant ex-
amples Of the great truth that the
world to-day is run by young men,
You are told that SO great is the rush
and pressure of modern life that man
who has entered the arena in early
youth must be old at fifty.
Whose brain is it that has humbled
the might of Russia and won an en-
pire for the island kingdom of the
east?" asks T. C. Bridges. The whole
scheme of this amazing war was
Matched in the brain of Marshal
Oyama, and it would be rash to say
that there is man alive Of under
sixty who could carry in his head the
threads of SO many and so complicated
schemes as does this white-haired,
silent Japanese.
Who is the greatest scientist alive?
/ suppose that there is no one who
would suggest any other answer to
this question than the one name, Edi-
son. He is fifty-eight and patents on
an average thirty new inventions a
year. Does any one imagine that his
activity will cease in two years time?
On the other side of the Atlantic by
far the greatest star in the scientific
horizon is Lord Kelvin, eighty-one this
year. The best and greatest work OF
his life has been done within the last
twenty gears. Three at least Of his
greatest inventions in the way Of cleo.
trical measuring machines have been
achieved since he passed the sixty post,
Only g couple of years ago he was
conducting a series of most delicate
and interesting experiments in connec.
ton with the rotation of the earth,
illustrating them before his pupils with
a boys spinning top. Not long ago he
was lecturfng on the tensile strength
of various metals. To illustrate his
figures he slung ffty-six pound
cannon ball from the roof by thin
steel wire.
NOW said he, 40 prove that my
calculations are accurate I will stand
beneath that ball for the rest Of the
LON" An he diu.
Turn to the world CT business and
see Who holds premier place. Undoubt
eddy the greatest inancier alive is
Pierpont Morgan. He has practical con.
troll over properties capitalized at more
than S6.O0OO0O,OO0, an amount far
greater than the combined annual rev.
enue Of the forty-three principal ma
tons In the world. Six feet high
weighing two hundred and thirty
pounds, he is straight strong and
powerful, and looks ten years younger
than his sixty-eight years. To see him
Jump out Of cab, run into his Office.
devour the contents of a lengthy docu.
ment in fifteen seconGs, by no stretch
Of Imagination you could consider the
amazing man as beyond work.
Andrew Carnegie again. The same
age as Morgan and every bit as vigor.
Gus even though ne has retired from
active business. Just begun to enjoy
life, so he says. He COLTS, motors
rides and attends to more business ir
his private mousse than most men dc
In their Offices. Only the othe~ day he
was delivering a lecture on the .Mys
teries of STEEP at meeting of the
iron and Steel Institution.
l could multiply such instances by
the score. Russell Sage at elghty-nine
Is active as ever in the pursuit of mill.
ions. John D.. Rockefeller, in spite OF
bad health, manages the largest priv.
ate fortune and public company al
sixty-six. H. NJ. Flagler, Of Standard
Oil and Florida hotel fame, is seventy.
FIVE. Charles I. Yerkes again was the
same age as Morgan and Carnegie. He
was fully sixty when he went over tc
England and began to confer upon
benighted london the inestimable
benefit Of electric traction on the sul
phurous underground. and incidentally
to make brand new and enormous
fortune for himself.
Lord Roberts was sixty eight years
cid when he took command Of the
British forces In South Africa and
began those operations which brought
the war to successful conclusion.
How about the English Taeky Fisher
Does any one feel inclined to call that
apostle Of efficiency too old and to
recommend him to retire to private life
and to make way for younger men?
Pass to the stage. Sir Wyndham had
recently to undergo a slight operation.
$50 ahead" he said. II know all about
it. was doctor myself once" So
he was. More than forty years ago
he acted as army surgeon during the
great civil war. Yet, in spite Of his
more than sixty years, could anyone
seeing him either on or of the stage
call him oldg 1t would be impossible
The stage is the most trying OF all
the professions, and is said to age
its votaries the most rapidly, yet not
only Wyndham but many other yeter-
ans are proof of players over sixty
who can hold their cwn with any Of
the younger generation.
Turn to the knights of the pen.
Here. above ali othev professions, the
genius OF youth Is supposed to shine
pre-eminent. The common idea is that
an author is written out at thirty. May
/ suggest to such as share this belief