The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-05


for years to get the railroads TO adopt
protective appliances for the personal
safety of their employees, is always
iokingly insistent on his Irish blood.
| The Irish have a large representation
in the realm of finance. Thomas For"
tune Ryan, loyal son Of Erin, is said
by many to he the coming king of
American finance, if indeed that honor
has not already fallen upon him through
the failing health of j. Pierpont Nor
gan. James j. Hill is the greatest
commercial pathfinder of the present
century, having laid open the great
! Northwest with his railroads and sent
| his commerceladcn ships to the ports
of Japan, Russia and China. Alexan-
der e. Orr. president of the New York
Life Insurance company, is only once
removed from an 1rishman born IN
County Cork, and John A Mccall, his
! predecessor, was also Irish. Daniel
o Day is one OF the presiding geniuses
of Standard Oil. Capt. John Flannery
exchange, and Col. c. G. Sanders head
ed the State Banking company of
| Georgia,
Capt. John j. Healy was the COM
mercial discoyerer of Alaska. When he
| had burrowcd his way through the
frozen North TO the largest Alaskan
settlement. he found four Of the six
! teen men already there to be Irish
men. Thomas F. Walsh Of Washington
is president of the Irrigation congress.
George j. Whelan, with his 800 cigar
stores, is the largest retail tobacco
| dealer in the United States, Samuel 6.
! Bayne has organized more national
banks than any one man in America,
! having spread his labors over seven
| States, Samuel Sloane, railroad prcs'
| dent. and Richard c. Kerens, capital
! lst, are fellow countrymen from the
Emerald isle.
The four Cudahy brothers. Patrick.
John, Edward and Michael, exercise Il
( large control over the food supplies of
the world, and their native cities, Nil
enormous commercial debt TO their un-
tagging enterprise. George Russell of
| Nevada, and Timothy Kinney of Wyo-
ming, are cattle barons, Thomas Mel
Ion is dean of the Pittsburg bankers,
Three 1rishmen, James G. Flood, Will
liam S. O'Brien and James G. Fair,
with their leader, John w. Mackay,
took from the famous Comstock lode
in Nevada millions in precious metals.
Gordon Bennett who financed the
scheme to connect Europe and America
with All Atlantic cable.
Not many people know that in addi-
tion 10 establishing the Catholic church
in the original thirteen colonies, both
the Presbyterian and Methodist de-
nominations in America were founded
10y Irishmen. Philip Embury founded
the Methodist Episcopal sect. and built
the John Street church in New York,
called the "Crndle Of American Meth
odism.' Reverend Francis Mackenzie.
an Irish immigrant, was the first reCu-
larly established Presbyterian minister
in New York, and was known as 1.-The
Father of the Presbyterian Church in
America. The first American cardi-
nal was John McClosky. Cardinal
Gibbons is also Irish. Ireland has CIV
archbishops, the latter being John Ire
land, John j Keane, Patrick J. Ryan,
John NJ. Farley and John j. Glennon.
The Irish have made n great record
as inventors and builders, The Morse
system of telegraphing is the product
of an lrishman' brain. and so was the
steamship of Robert Fulton. Alcxan-
der and William Orr, father and uncle
of the president of the New York Life
Insurance company. were the first to
invent machinery for printing wall
paper by cylinders, and the first TO
make printing paper with wood fiber
William Kelly built the first two brick
Kelly laid the political foundation for
Pittsburg's riches. John F. Mulhol-
land was the constructor of the first
successful pneumatic tube of large
diameter, the kind that is now used in
the Government postal service, John
p, Mcdonald built the New York sub
way and the Baltimore belt line, and
David Lynch laid the Alaskan cables
The newspapers of the country owe
an amazing debt TO the Irish. Tho New
York Sun became great and famous un-
der the guidance OF Charles A. Dana
and John NJ, Laffan; the first daily pa
per IN Boston, called the Polar Star
and Daily Advertiser: was founded by
John DAILY Burke; the st, Louis Re
public was founded by Robert Charles;
the Chicago Tribune by Joseph Medill;
aud Golfers Weekly by P. +. Collier
! All of these men were of the talented
| Gaelic race Henry W. Grady. the for
mer brilliant editor of the Atlanta Con
stltution, was also an Trishman.
As educators the Irish have furnished
| father of The University of Chicago: /:
Robert Alexander. the founder of
Washington and Lee University: VIII
! liam II. Maxwell. for eight years the
superintendent of New York Public
schools; Maurice Francis Egan, profes-
sor of English in the Catholic Univer-
sity; Jeremiah Cutrin, one of the
greatest living philologists and lingu-
! lists; and Archibald DeBow Murphy
"the father of North Carolina public
Schools the first native historian of
the State of North Carolina. and the
foremost geological worker in America
John Mitchell, the labor leader. comes
of the fighting race so does James
| Whitcomb Riley. F Marion Crawford
! and Cyrns Townsend Brady, the we'll
| known writers, Among prominent Hv-
! ing Irish PLAYERS are Ada Rehan, John
! Drew, Marie Cahill. James O'Neill, An
drew Mack, and Chauncey Olcott. The
present day Irish boast of Victor Her.
! bert the tunefu composer and brilliant
! leader, The CorcoraD Gallery of Art
! In Washington was founded by an
lrishman, The work Of no American
sculptor is superior to that of Angus.