Arizona republican., 1909-10-27
MR. M'ADOO's ESCAPE FROM THE REPORTERS
overtaksp Only Twiee-onee at Chi
 cago and Again at Phoenix.

William G. McAdoo, the man who
 made the great tunnel which united II New York to the mainland possible
 left yesterday morning for Prescott
 Before his departure, he said that
 greater publicity had been given tc
 his plans while in Phoenix and be- J fore his arrival here, than at any | point where he had stopped in his long journey across the continent.
 Y He had set out from New York
 with the idea of taking precaution | against that sort of thing, and it had | been successfully exercised every | where except at Chicago and Phoenix. ! He started from New York in an ! automobile, with one of the clerks | from his office as chauffeur. He in-
 structed the clerk wherever he stopped
 to register in place of McAdoo any name that might suggest itself. He | had no feeling against reporters, but
 he was simply tired and wanted a rest.
 | In this way he succeeded in reach 1 ing and passing Detroit without any l reporter running afoul of him. But
 his acquaintances in Chicago were so ! numerous that he did not think it advisable to make use of an alias,
 so that he was registered under his ' own name.
 He learned then that Chicago was
 thinking about building a tunnel. The
 next morning reporters swarmed about 1 the hotel Every paper in the city
 was represented. and letters were ad- dressed to him by editors. urging him
 to make an estimate of the cost of
 the tunnel Chicago was thinking of |, building. He was unable to satisfy | public or reportorial curiosity on that | point. He probably knew as little | about it as any resident or taxpayer | of Chicago. He had not been favored with the dimensions of the bore nor | did he know anything of the character | of the ground or the natural difficult | ties to be encountered. Leaving Chi cago, Mr. McAdoo was bothered mo- where else until he approached Phoe- \ nix. New Workers. of course. could not annoy him while he was gone
 but they did the next worst thing. II Harper's Weekly of october 16 un- Il der the title of Celebrities at Home Il devotes two pages and half of that Il exclusive periodical to MT. McAdoo and | his achievements, besides publishing II full page portrait of him. The arti- | cle deals less with the building of the | tunnels, which is already a matter of | world wide knowledge, than with in- | ciderts of his life. It says of him: Il While still in the twenties MT. Mc- Il Adoo acquired the controlling interest | in and became president of the Knox | vile Street Railroad company in Ten | nessee. This was a sad and grinding
 experience. for electricity was just be- | ginning to take the place of mules | as motor power for street cars, ana | the appliances for generating and us- \ ing the current were primitive. costly Il and delicate. Every time the controller | box of a car burned out it took one or | two days receipts to buy new one. | Slowly but steadily and inevitably the | little street railroad company was | forced out of existence, to go through II the throes of reorganization. But In the years that elapsed before re- ceiver was appointed MT. McAdoo was N learning the street railroad business as \ thoroughly as he had acquired the de- tails of the bigger roads; and all this
 was ammunition and equipment for
 the great campaign that lay still un- \ dreamed of before him.
 | The young railroad expert came to | New York in 1892. and engaged in the
 practice of law. having also an inter- | est in a firm that dealt in investment | securities. He entered, in 1898. into partnership with William McAdoo. for
 merly representative in congress from | New Jersey. assistant secretary of the
 navy. and police commissioner of the | city of New York. The law partners
 were not relatives. though they bore | the same name.