The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-10

Commodore Charles Leaning Tut,
VINO visited Honolulu with his fine
saeht Anemone on the occasion of the
first transpacife 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. m.
January p. Death, which was due to
! heart failure, complicated with pneu-
MONA, came unexpectedly. The funeral
was held in Denver, his home town. He
was forty-fve years of age, and is sur
yIved by his wife and two sons.
Honolulans remember Commodore
Tut as genial, whole-souled man, a
clean sportsman. lover of the great
| sport of kings upon the sea. His en-
| trance in the transpacifc race was due
| solely TO his desire to assist the local
people IN getting up a race that would
| be memorable. He came around the
Horn with his yacht, went to Los An
! geles 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
Tut, Judge E. C. Stimson, and the late
| Prof. E. Ahlers of Colorado. They
were jolly party. The race occurred
in the month of June, 1906.
| Besides holding leading position
| in an and financial airolos of CHA
RADIO, Mr.. Tut 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 Airing
/ 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 ss3arriage, Mr.. Tut opened 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.. Tut
built and operated the plant of the
| Cripple Creek Sample and 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-P Philadelphia Reduc
| ton Company, which later expanded
into the United States Reduction ant
| Refining Company, and which built the
first reduction mill in Colorado City
now part of the Standard mill. TIL,
same men organized the National Golt
Extraction Company in 1899 at Flor
ence, and built the reduction plan
there, which now forms one of the mail
plants of the U. s. r. & r. Company
The town of Gillett in the Crippl
Creek district was founded by Nj
Tutt and Spencer Penrose.
Mr.. Tut was several times presiden
of the United States Reduction and Re
timing Company, the United State
Smelling Company, of the VALID
Smelling and Refining Company, of tn
Granite Gold Mining Company AM
he owned large interests when he died
He was also one of the pioneers in tn
smelling business in Oregon and one o
!; the largest stockholders in the Takilmi
Smelling Company, of which he wa
elected president on several occasions
He was also heavily interested in Ne
vada IN both the mining and smeltini
business and owned a large amount o
real estate there and in California
His holdings in the Utah Copper Com
pany of Bingham, Utah, are also yer,
extensive. In his own State he wa
largely interested in several of tn
sugar refining companies and wit
other Colorado Springs capitalists ha,
aided materially in the development o
several large irrigation schemes on tn
western slope, notably in Gunnison AM
Mesa counties.
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