The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-25

"I do not smoke-I have never
drink-these things interfere with
men 8 successes and sap their vitality.
Vitality is the first essential to sue
cess, and vitality is not energy, but a
spark that is the essence of perfect
health and a keen mind. No man can
succeed conspicuously without it, and the
only way to get and preserve vitality
is to 60 to bed reasonably early and get
up early and work; work and sleep Will
keep any man in good condition If he is
interested ID his work and has chosen
his profession right.
Mr.. Cromwell is An optimist; not the
kind OF an optimist who sits down IN a
comfortable chair and pbilosophizes
cheerfully upon life. His is optimism
born of success wrupg out of hard ee.
fort, continuous application, and vic
tories won by cheerful BATTLES against
terrific obstacles.
This keen-witted. viriie. ruddy man
of fifty, who has played such y promi
nent part in the affairs of many vast
business interests IN tie !ass twenty
years, has ripe views upon the yeTities
of life. His outlook is q fresb IS a
youth Is and his euthuiasm amounts 10
hero worship, but whether philosophi-
a vigorous draught from intellectual in
tercourse, passing upon men OF affairs.
men of yesterdays topics that concern
the last word III current thought, or ef
joying the minutest details o. Nibert
that adorns the walls Of his dining room.
Mr.. Cromwell is never far away men
tally or corporally from the click OF the
typewriter and the ring Of the phone.
At a. In. ne is UP and reauy for his
bath and a walk, a half-past six he
breakfasts, and at eight he is ready 10
commence the days work. either at his
Wall street office, AT his house, or wher
ever he may be. For al hour he dictates
to his clerks. outlines a brief. and reads
such of his CORRESPONDENCE as is put be-
fore him. From half f-rest nine to four
o clock be receives his clients and at
tends meetings of the numerous rail
road, commercial and banking boards OF
which he is member. Evening tide
finds him at home-whcre work is ever
at his elbow.
It was Mr.. Cromwell who struck tho
death knell TO The old trust idea and
in its place conceived the corporate idea.
"I saw splendid business entangled in
the mesh of the law and great inneri-
Sances despoiled because of no legal way
20 hand accumulated business from
father to son or individual 20 individual
without great expense and much trou-
ble,' he said $50 ] sought 70 formulate
the incorporated idea for companies 70
better preserve them and protect their
interests. -
AS matter of record Mr.. Cromwell
organized the first corporate body un.
der the New Jersey laws, II was the
American Cotton Oh company. an i'm
nense organization, OF which he is still
counsel. Next ne organized the $50
000, 900 National Tube company. but
though the organizer and attorney OF
twenty companies, il was his association
with the Panama canal that brought his
name TO the lore
'fFor number of years J was tine
most hated man IN the United States, -
said the lawyer, smilingiy, ''hut then
the American people had never heard Of
the Panama route. and those who had
only looked upon il MS a huge failure, -
"'It was my task TO convince them
otherwise, sell the canal, secure the
money and deliver the goods -
This he did aftsr a battle royal that
ran through The courts OF America and
France and underwent the fire of q con.
gressional investigation and a factional
political opposition,
''My only hope is said Mr.. Crom-
well, In this connection. 'that I shall
be instrumental in establishing a
treaty between Colombia and Panama,
and that it about 10 take place, 4 pro-
tocol has already been signed.
His feat in selling and delivering the
old Panama Canal company and its
property to the United States was q
coup that reversed the policy of the
government aud made an isthm1in canal
feasible. His activities as fiscal agent