Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-27
PIONEER TUNNEL
 BUILDER IS HERE
CFrom Sundays DaIlyN

Arizona has had the honor of being visited during the past two weeks by several of the big men of the nation, and another one arrived last night in the person of William Gibbs McAdoo, the genius who has linked Manhattan Island to New Jersey and all the west by group of tunnels under the Hud- son river.
 MT. McAdoo is a friend of F. M. Murphy, in fact, is associated with him in the Ysvapai Consolidated Gold silver-Copper company, which operates the Bodie, Davis, Old Tiger and other properties in this county. In the ab- sence from the city of MT. Murphy, New York g noted captain of indus try was met at Ash Fork by A. W. Edwards and upon the arrival of the train here he was placed In an auto mobile and whisked to the Yavapai club, where he was shown the stope
  All this occupied only ten minutes, for when the train pulled out for Phoenix, MT. MeAdoo was again re- clining in his seat in the Pullman. He will spend a couple of days in Phoenix, where he will join Mir. Mur phy and return with him to Prescott. Like all southerners, the famous tun- nel builder is extremely fond of a good horse, and he confided in MT. Edwards his desire to make a horse back trip from Prescott to Globe upon his return to this city. The Journal-Miner representative only mst him for a short minute last night, but in that instant, during the grasp of a handshake, he saw a calm, smiling young man of high ideals and in- eessant energy; a philanthropist who is actually making altruism pay good dividends on an investment of sixty millions of dollars, a dreamer of great dreams that have come true before one hair in his head has turned gray. There you have a sort of sketch of William Gibbs McAdoo-the idealist captain of industry, now 46 years of age, who has invested some of his wealth in Yavapai county. And yet MT. McAdoo was not always a man of affluenee. The first fourteen years of his life were spent in grinding poverty. While studying law in the University of Tennessee he accepted position as clerk of a division of the United States circuit court in order that he might acquire the funds to continue his studies. He was admitted to the bar of Tennessee in 1884 and notwithstanding his ex- treme youth, became division counsel for the company which was later ae- quired by the Richmond & Danvilie Railroad company. In 1892 he went to New York to practice law and in 1898 entered into partnership with William McAdoo, police commissioner of the City of New York. The law partners were not relatives, although they bore the same name. For years he lived in New Jersey and was T daily commuter between his home and his office. Many times he was de- layed on the river by bogs and fields of ice, and he conceived the idea of running cars through tunnels under the Hudson river. He began the study of the problem and became con vinced the project was feasible, al- though others had failed in the eff fort. To enlist capital in the entee- prise was a gigantic task, but finally | he secured the backing of Walter G. Oakman and Pliny Fisk, and in 1902 the tremendous project was inaugural | ed. The initial tunnel was a success, others were constructed, and now mi! | lions of people have passed through the Hoboken tunnels.
 MT. McAdoo is president of the Southern society, vice president of the Automobile Club of America, a mem | Der of the Metropolitan, the Strollers, and the Ardsley and St. Andrews Golf clubs, but the clubs see little of him for when not at work he is at home |
 He has just returned from a trip to California but last night he sad ''Arizona appeals to me-"
 And it is such men as Mir. MeAdoo !, that Arizona wants and needs-the | type of men who are to be the build |