Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-13
TRUSTEES TORUN
LARGE INDUSTRIES
Of WESTINGHOUSE
inventor, Who Died Yesterday,
Provided for Business Sue
cession in Will.

NEW YORK, March 13.-GeorBe
Westinghouse, the famous engineer
and inventor, who died here yester-
day of heart disease, provided in his
will for the continuation of his large
business interests under O. trustee
ship.
It was officially stated today that
his death will not cause any change
of policy or operation in connection
with any of the Westinghouse indus
tries. A plan which long ago he care
fully thought out for their cont,n-
uance and direction goes Immediately
into effect.
The men chosen to carry out this
work are his brother, Henry Herman
Westinghouse, who Is president of the
American Brake Company and vice.
pres dent and general manager of tae
Westinghouse Air Brake Company;
Charles A Terry, vice-president of
the Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company, and w. d. Upde-
sraff, director of tie Westinghouse
Air Brake Company.
To this trusteeship Will go the Vot-
ing power in all the corporations in
VIII Oh George Westinghouse was in
terested here and abroad The in
dividual wealth and holdings of Mr..
west -nBnOuSe nave Deen estimated
at more than $5),000,000
Mr. Westinghouse who was In his
eixty-eighth year, will be buried Sat
urday In Wood.anw Cemetery. this
city.
Great Industrial Figure.
Experts in the Industrial develop
fnent of this country have placed Mr..
Westinghouse among the seven or
eight men to whom credit must be
given for the country's commercial
advance To Sir Henry Bessemer and
Westinghouse the exploitation of the
resources of America Is due Sir
Henry developed the steel rail, Mr..
Z Westinghouse the airbrake that now
is in use on all the railroads through
out the world.
Mr.. Westinghouse made many ad-
vances in the science of railway Sig
nanl.ing. He fathered In this coun-
try the development of the ternating
current system for electric lighting
and electric power He invented de-
vices for safely and economically con-
veying natural gas over long dis
tances and making II available for in
dustral purposes. His air spring for
motor vehicles of all kinds has proved
Immensely valuable. He developed,
in cola boration with the late Admiral
GeoFBe w. MeiNllle' ~. o. ~, anu MS
partner, John II. Macalpine, the
geared turbine system for the pro-
pulsion of ships.
For his work he received the highest
honors In the gift OF technical So
cieties and institutions of Europe and
America. Distinguished honors were
conferred on him by European
sovereigns. In December last he re-
ceived the Grashof gold medal from
the chief engineering society of Ger
many.
Father Inventor AlsO.
Mr. w - ,ghouse was born IN he
village of Central Bridge, near Sche-
nectady, ". Y, on October 6, 1876.
His father. also named George, was
the inventor and maker of farming
implements. His mother, poeticai and
imaginative. had a great influence In
moulding his mind and character.
His mind turned instinctively to in
ventife work, and his eaRerness to toll
In the shop was interrupted only by
his desire to fight for his country
AT the age of seventeen he Joined the
Twenty-s United States Cavalry
in 1852 but his love for engineering
led to his transfer to the navy and
he was attached to the Potomac
flotilla, with which he acted as third
assistant engineer until the end of
the war.
Returning to his fathers shop in
Schenectady. he invented a device for
Terai Ing steam cars. He next became
Interested In the invention of brake.
lie tried steam first. but that proved
futile; then. CHANGING to read of air
power, he hit upon that means of de-
We oping power for his brake. While
working on this invention he quar-
relied with the two men who were
working with aim and moved to Pitts
burg.
The device was patented when
Westinghouse was twentY-one years
old. Westinghouse had difficulty at
first in impressing on railroad officers
the value or his invention. but now
the use of n" Twice is compulsory
In this country Nv act OF Congress
after the panic of 1907 the West
-inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
COMPANY went into the bands of re-
ceivers. He fought for the reorgani-
cation of the company on his own
plan and was successful
Nr. Westinghouse was unosten-
tatious. kindly and helpful to others.
More than six feet In height and "os
sessing tremendous physical emery,
he proved a man Of lndomitab'e
power, but he always was thoughtful
Of others. He introduced in this
country the Saturday half holiday,
now almost general.
Lord Kelvin said of him: George
!, Westinghouse is in character and
achievement one of the great men of
our time
Mr.. Westinghouse married in Au-
gust, 1857. Marguerite Erskine Wal
ker. They had one child, George
Westinghouse, jr., who lives near
Lenox, Mass. The latter married
Miss Violet Brocklebank, daughter of
Sir Thomas and Lady Brockle' anl1,
Of Trtnn Hall Cumberland England