Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20


Yet to-day he is known not by his inventions, but
by those big theatrical enterprises which have earned
or lost other fortunes for him at various times The
most recent of these is the Manhattan Opera House
of New York city, of which he is proprietor; the
most profitable, another theater from which he is
supposed to be drawing income of two hundred
thousand dollars. The name OF the man is oscar
Hammerstein.
Two Presidents Secretaries
HAMMERSTEIN has always been hard worker.
IL To that, perhaps is really due his success and
this quality in him suggests in the present connec-
ton, another man who has made a big reputation
for himself in very different field. To-day this
young man-for at forty a man who is doing what
he is doing is entitled to be called young-s Score
tarv of the Treasury. Awhile ago he was Post
master General; and before that, Secretary OF the
Bureau Of Commerce and Labor HIS So name an is
a stenographer to Robert H. Maxwell, Fourth Asss-
tant Postmaster General. One day President Cleve-
land said to Maxwell, II want good stenograPher
YOU got one?" Maxwell sent up Cortelyou, and
there began Cortelyous public career He has
been dOer rather than talker from the very
start.
Of much the same sort is the man now holding
Cortelyous old job as Secretary to the President
William Loeb ir Loeb was stenographer in
Albany who used to do court work and take
paper dictation at nights. The day Governor
Roosevelt sworn in Loeb happened to be in the
executive Office at the Capitol, and, when the Gov
ernor told his secretary to get him stenographer
for some rush work, the secretary grabbed hold of
Loeb. Next day the Governor wanted stenographer
again, and said to his secretary, Get that same
Young chap l had yesterday. Almost from that
hour Mr.. Loeb has been with Roosevelt.
Chance and Persistence
PUT chance, though it has played potent part in
y giving direction to the progress of many
cessful man. has in very few instances done more
than that To accomplish what has been accom-
plished by the already referred to, calls for
something than favoring circumstances.
Above all else, perhaps their careers demonstrate
what may be done by sticking to chosen path.
Indeed, in some careers this quality of conviction
make one overlook the element of chance that first
opened to their vision the chosen path to sue
cess
In the struggle of Charles Goodyear to manufac-
ture rubber compound that should fulfil mercan-
tile needs is presented striking, rather familiar,
example of what eternal persistence will finally
accomplish. and of how it may be assisted by what
we cali luck When he was twenty lone Goodyear
entered rubber house in Philadelphia; in 1880
the business failed Meanwhile developments in
the india rubber trade had greatly increased the
an india rubber mania. But the manufactured
product very unsatisfactory, and Goodyear
began those experiments which for ten years he
carried on sometimes in prison for debt, often with
his family in actual want, and himself almost con-
tinuay an object of public ridcule.
Twice the business that he had begun to build up
little rubber mixed with sulphur fell on stove and
he what resulted that he realized what ght be
accomplished by what is now known vulcanza-
ton. Even then, to carry out the experiments sug
gesed by this idea he had to pawn the school books
of his children; and finally, when he applied for
renewal of his patent the process it refused
him Though decorated abroad and awarded
several international prizes, he died in debt.
Defeat Brought Beveridge's Chance
A MOTHER instance of what hard work, coup
= led with ability, will do if given that one
needed chance is offered by the career of Albert
J. Beverdge, Senator from Indiana. The old