Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-24
BOOK Il.
The Carew Case.
CHAPTER L.
The Man of Iron.

! ne MdU or Iron.
 Whoever it was that dubbed Theo. dore Van Vechten the Man of Iron" he displayed a pretty wit. For the phrase was descriptive of the man, both figuratively and literally
 His offices were in New Street, just off of Wall, and quite close to the Stock Exchange; a location unrivaled for his purposes, which were both tremendous and infinitely various. He has also been likened to a fat spider lurking in the midst of his web. the hlaments of which radiate in all di- rectious throughout the contiguous territory, and every one of them guiding a steady stream of gold into the Van Vechten coffers.
 Theodore Van Vechten typined Power.
 There was, first Of all, the prestige of the enormous Van Vechten for tune; and then the regulation and su- pervision of all the money, stocks and bonds within rifle shot of his office; which is to say, the entire country, for even the United States subtroas- ury-its parent also for that mat ter-is not excluded from this sweep ing statement.
 As head of the Consolidated Metals Company he was @ shining target for the United States Attorney-GeneraI- and, it is no doubt needless to add. an invulnerable target. There was not a metal article manufactured and marketed. from a pin or a wire ciothesline to a locomotive. motorcar pr battleship that did not contribute along one or another of the webs fla nents to the aforementioned Van Veehten fortune. Hence, literally, he vas the Man of Iron"
 He was a big man physically as well as mentally, which was as it mould have been His activity de- handed prodigious physical strength and vitality, and these two factors in his makeup, together with an inhax- ,hle will, showed never SO adyaula. seously as in his habitual reserve, his steady answering sglf-assurance which made obstacles or no more in. portanCe than SO many sheets of pa per opposed Co a speeding bullet
 As for his personal appearance, its general effect was one of iron gray ness: the smooth-shavon lips were a straight, thin, uncompromising line that scarcely moved even when he spoke, the bare chin was square, mas sive. ironlike. and the closely trimmed gray "sidoboards' were well nigh eclipsed by these more salient features. His eyes, under a thatch of gray brows, were simply a metallic glitter beyond whose surface no man had ever seen. His moments of weak ness, if he had any, would have been another mans strength.
 There was only one person who had ever been wholly at ease in this man'i presence-his nephew, Rudolph Var Vechten Of the hundreds who came Into and went out of the New Stree offices, this young man alone seemed wholly oblivious of the fact, or indif ferent to 1t. that Theodore Van Vech ten had but to utter the word, ana be would be extinguished
 Rudolph paid his uncle a visit or the Monday afternoon that Tom Phin ney was cruising around Long Islan' Sound in his friends catboat H entered the inner shrine, and O course found his uncle busy. The cir cumstance was pointed out to him.
 Rudolph ignored the other two mel present.
 "I see that you are," he retorte carelessly, "and ] am sorry that have to intrude. But you always ar