The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-13
mATH OF DIR. WARNER

pw K. ng Yer Warner, who died
..,aAah1v. Saturday forenoon at ms
15ntex home. Aear Augusta, Georgia
man of notable business talent
a,d 4ba Last of the school of business
w., ~ a generation which did mucn
70 brfne Bridgeport to q POSITION Oh IN
...-+-s., ,rou,tneuce in New England.
A younger man than the ia0S
Pnineag y. BaEnuEn BY some thirty
sears ana younger by some twenty
wears than the late FSa8h an4el Wheeler'
Na was tnHDEa41 1ztany years oontedn-
-c-mw-v ,rf4l1 them in the industrial lie
- Ez1d<e,ort and with such men ss
oss,reuus Hartley, 8. R. Wilmot, E. II.
Burnhazn, W. .. Bishop. DAVID 4.
Reads and others who have passed on
aach leaving a monument in some Inn
r,avtant Bridgeport enterprise
0r warner was born in 1910, in a
1,+saa VILLAGE In New York. Bridgeport
had been then incoRpoTs%ed as city
FOR sarae years, but It was 1874, before
Rev York and New Hsven Railroad
was Is1nnched upon it's career OF
ernwt1a and aEgran dixezaez1t. The In
FAINT Warner grew with the growing
city. each hong unconscious OF the
other. He was q lad OF nine years
before the streets OF tlas oatys Of his
future were AgsAsd with gas. He was
. sturdy boy Of thirteen before the
frst real, public water supply was
creaAetf sn Bridgeport. FEe Yves Enan
Of twenty-five before the first street
ra4fvay tracks were LAID in the COM
rnuui4v in which he was to found and
leave the s~eatast industry of it's kind
in the world
There rs destiny which orders the
affairs of men. But none then for
sew-and there was none to know
that S4ae boy born in the New York
village would live 70 play an import
ant part in the management of all
those great enterprises that he would
die director of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad Company,
now a great System; a director of tho
Connecticut Company, successor to the
original horse railway company; and
chAeE officer in beth the gas and
water companies of Bridgeport, each
IegithnatS successor of the earlier
enterprises which have been desortb-
ed.
The years from 1870 until 1880 were
important 70 "ehe second city in Oon-
ueceacut'' Durhng those years the
future was made sure which was born
with the founding OF the Wheeler u
Wilson Mfg. Company Ia 1856 and the
Union Metallic Cartridge Company In
Ises ~
Came bstween 1s4O and 1880 the
Eaton, Cole s. Burnhazn Company,
founded by H. e. Buznha1n. the Will
mot & Eohbs Mfg. Co.. founded by the
late g. r. Hobbs; came also The War
ner Bros. Company, engaging in an
humble way in the manufacture OF
rorsats. That business was destined to
flourish like a green bay tree. Tt waa
to create . great fortune for les foun-
der, ana it was to provide employ
ment. before his death to more than
5000 souls
Few do large things entirely by ac-
sidenA
It was not otherwise with DR.. War
ner. He had received a medical train
ing: indeed had tectured upon health
and hygiene to thousands of men and
women, believing that this was knowI.
edge which should not be exclusively
n the possession of a professional
saste. but rather the possession o.
everybody.
Thus his attention Yves attracted tc
he type of corsets in use in his day
and the result was a corset which
among the progenitors of the ex
sting garments of its kind which ar
L blessing to the women of a, nation.
Upon this improvement in an articl
in common use and universal deman,
was the foundation of DR.. Warner
Fortune laid, and the enormous bust
ness of the Warner Bros. Compan
built up.
Associated with the late W. I
Bishop, who was of family of rail
road Builders, and equally with tn
late Nathaniel Wheeler, who had be
come interested in the New Have
system as a director, it was not stran g
that DR.. Warner should have turne
his attention sooner or later to tn
public service enterprises servin
Bridgeport, as offering field of un
usual productivity to a man with bust
ness talents and executive ability
In this he but followed the examp1
of many able business men of tn
time. finding in his foresight large in
crease to his prosperity
Personally DR.. Warner was a ma
Of substantial figure and pleasing ad