Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-16
But They Find It's Just
Business Enterprise
That Makes City.
One Author Has His Big
Story" Spoiled When He
Hits C. of C. Leader.
(By KNIGHT p. DOUGLAs.)

pled1ate vicinity as the setting Tor
articles they have published, and this
city has been, in turn. the stage of
plots envolving moonshine stills cat
tie stampedes. gun fights and oil runs
Recently there came to the city of
Tulsa another author who sought in
this city the setting for a story of ex-
citement, such as one would look to
find in the market exchange of New
York's Wall street, or in the Chicago
grain pit. Tulsa, with its supposed
oilmad population, was to serve as the
setting for the new article and the
galvanic atmosphere which is be-
lieved to fill the space about Tulsa
was to be the predominating color.
In the course of his visit in Tulsa
the author called at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms and sought addi-
tional facts and data for his article.
The Authors Dream.
1T must be great to live in so much
excitement the author said to the
secretary of the organization, with
all of this crackle Of activity, all this
electric atmosphere about one, and
the mad rush to succeed in the oil
business. If | can but incorporate
these colors into my story am salts
1 fled that it will satisfy the most ex-
T. afting publisher and please the read
= ing publlc.
r There he laid the track which was
TO serve the secretary in bringing up
the 42centimeter cannon of fact
which was to assault the structure of
which the author was to build his
story.
The Real Situation.
ut is not n city of great excite
ment, Tulsa" declared the secretary.
ut is not the man who is rushing
around as one who has lost his head
In Wall streets pit or in the Chicago
exchange who has builded the Tulsa
OF today and who will build 1t of
tomorrow. The men who are making
Tulsa famous are men who do not
know much about excitement They
are business men and their success is
not in the larger share the result of
luck, but of business ability
And as the author listened the sec
retary told of the growth Tulsa had
enjoyed at the hands of men who had
succeeded in oil only because of their
business ability and keen judgment
OF the score or more of business
men who are now contributing to the
development of Tulsa thru the erec-
ton or improvement OF properties
which will mean an expenditure this
year of almost $l0,000.000, there are
few If any who can be called lucky
rather than good business men.
16-StOry Monument.
One Of the most recent announce (,
ments of the building circle Is that
by r. NJ. McFarlin, president of the .
Chamber of Commerce, that a ID Z
story building will be erected at the /
Intersection of Fourth and Main, to
cost, together with the property on /
which it is located, more than 81 .0OO,-
OUU While M tho gF,1
men in the oil game in Oklahoma. it /
Is doubtful If Mr.. McFarlin would at
tribute any of his success to luck As ,
pioneer cattleman this man had !
great faith in Tulsa as a success. The |
,attle business in oklahoma gave
Say to other industries when the men
# his makeup decided that other in
iustres were more profitable, and .
iere Mr.. McFarlin succeeded. In the .
pioneering OF oil in oklahoma he |
orged to the head by business and
xecutive ability and succeeded.
. His success in the oil game was
lot due to any cloak of galvanic at.
nosphere, and as for excitement, his
ulse probably continued normal
hruout the negotiations whereby he
nd associates sold their holdings Of
II properties for approximately $685.
10000.
Cosdcn's Story.
The same character of man
anne out of n small oil refining plant
nd became the dominating charac-
n In the Cosden Refining company.
he fact that he built one of Tusa's
reatest refineries, one of Tulsa's
lost magnificent homes and plans
lie erection of 12-story building
the corner of Fourth and Boston
rs not heightened ]. s. Cosdens
N,.a hac
ered with many days OF excitement.
lis career. on the other hand, has
cen the career of a business man
pplying himself to that business and
laking it one of the greatest assets
the community in which his first
lccesS was achieved.
Tulsa in becoming the home of the
'eatest Independent oil company In
lie world first became the home of
AIRY Sinclair. Here he went about
Is business of securing oil properties
business way and with keen Judg-
tcnt and foresight, unaccompanied
' excitement or plunging, brought
to existence the greatest independ-
1t oil company the world possesses
Is ten-story building at the south
st corner of Fifth and Main was
AIMED for Tulsa because keen bust
.ss judgment said such n building
,uld be a business investment 1t
is not the reslt of snap Judgment
itch causes men to run mad In the
of n stock exchange.
A Banks History.
The history Exchange National
NIX building going up at the corner
kfhrd and Boston is the result OF 9
decision on the part Of common )
Use bankers that such a building Is
banking investment. The growth OF
financial institution from its first
to n place at the head of the list !
lOklahoma's banks illustrates the
md business judgment of these q
.ikers. Theirs is not q life of ex- /
sment.
business judgment and not excite
ut causes a community to decide
4 a $500. 900 hospital Is needed
Tulsa. The same sense dictates
.stantial business men and women /
give s164,000 for Young Women's
ristian association building, $780,
for a waterworks system, $780,
for a beautiful boulevard system.
FOR 100000 city hall,
sanking instinct directs that hank
ldng at the corner of Fourth and 8
In would be an asset. The direc.
! cS the First National bank act or
instinct marnifIcent fpn-