The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-02-12
COMMODORE OF
ANEMONE DEAD

Commodore Charles Leaning Tut,
who visited Honolulu with his fine
yacht Anemone on the occasion of the
first transpacific yacht race, which was
won by the yacht Lurline of Los An
geles, and second by the Anemone. died
suddenly in New York City at a. IN.
January 21. Death, which was due to
heart failure, complicated with pneu-
monia, came unexpectedly. The funeral
was held in Denver, his home town. He
was forty-five years of age, and is sur
vived by his wife and two sons.
Honolulans remember Commodore
Tutt as genial, whole-souled man, a
clean sportsman. a lover of the great
sport of kings upon the sea. His en-
trance in the transpacific race was due
solely to his desire TO assist the local
people in getting up race that would
be memorable. He came around the
Horn with his yacht, went to Los An
geies and started for Honolulu, coming
IN second His yacht was always CEN
ter of social interest, and while Civ
ing many entertainments and dinner
parties aboard, he and his party were
greatly entertained in town. In the
party were his son, William Thayer
Tutt, Judge E. C. Stimson, and the late
Prof. L. Ahers of Colorado. They
were jolly party. The race occurred
in the month of June, 1906
Besides holding a leading position
in business and financial circles of Colo
rado Mr.. Tutt was fond of society and
club life. He was member of the
Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, the
Cheyenne Mountain, Country, Town and
Gown and Ell Paso clubs of Colorado
Springs; the Denver Club, the Arling-
ton Club and the Portland Rowing
Club of Portland, Oregon, and the
South Coast Yacht Club of Los Angeles.
He was self-made man. Shortly after
his marriage, Mr.. Tutt opened a real
estate office in Colorado Springs with a
branch office at Pueblo. He was one
of the earliest of the business men of
Denver to see possibilities at Cripple
Creek, and in the latter's first year he
staked out the famous C. o. d. claim,
which he sold for $250,000.
Subsequent to 1894, when Mr.. Tutt
built and operated the plant of the
Cripple Greek Sample ard Ore Com
pany, for several years his operations
in mining were varied and>almost uni
formly successful. By judicious invest
ments and the exercise of remarkable
business talents, he added largely to his
fortune, and in 1896, with Spencer
Penrose and C. NJ. MacNeill, he organ
lied the Colorado Philadelphia Reduc-
ton Company, which later expanded
into the United States Reduction and
Refining Company. and which built the
first reduction mill in Colorado City,
now part of the Standard mill. The
same men organized the National Gold
Extraction Company in 1899 at Flor
epce, and built the reduction plant
there, which now forms one of the main
| plants of the u S. R. & r. Company.
The town of Gillett in the Cripple
Creek district was founded by Mr..
Tutt and Spencer Penrose.
Mr.. Tutt was several times president
of the United States Reduction and Re-
fining Company, tie United States
Smelling Company, of the Waldo
Smelling and Refining Company, of the
i Granite Gold Mining Company and
several other concerns, in all of which
he owned large interests when he died.
He was also one of the pioneers in the
smelling business in Oregon and one of
the largest stockholders in the Takilma
Smelling Company, cf which he was
elected president pm several occasions.
He was also heavily interested in Ne
vada in both the mining and smelling
business and owned large amount of
real estate there and in California.
His holdings in the Utah Copper Com
pany of Bingham, Utah, are also very
extensive. In his own State he was
largely interested in several of the
sugar refining companies and with
other Colorado Springs capitalists had
aided materially in the development.of
several large irrigation schemes on the
western slope, notably in Gunnison and
Mesa counties.