The sun., 1918-10-27

who would vouch for him, and handed the
memorandum to his fair fellow traveller,
who, being thus treasured, consented that
he might call upon her. On reaching
home he announced at the family tea table
that evening that he had met the woman
he was going to marry. A few months
later he married her.
George Westinghouse was only twenty
five years old when he first went 10 Eng
land to introduce his air brake. The OBJ
stacles he encountered at the hands of the
conservative British railway managers
were positively dishesrtening. In one in
staneehe had to offer to bay train, loco
motive and all, to show his brake on. Ten
years of persistent work, however, brought
their reward, and in 1881 the air brake
was in use on 1857 locomotives and 10
ears in Great Britain and LAG loeomo-
tives and 7,193 ears in France Address
ing gathering of scientific men in Lon
don in 1903, Mr.. Westinghouse recalled
his early experiences there thus:
II came here first about thirty years
ago and for ten years was here half my
time. At that time it was very difficult
TO get anything done in England, as l
could get no one to believe in anything
] proposed. / wanted in those early days
10 try an iron brake shoe, because on ac-
count of the rapid wear We could not keep
The wooden shoes adjusted. had to beg
and plead to be permitted to put a set of
metal brake shoes on one tender Of the
CaledOnian Railway. Finally succeeded.
OF course you all know that nowadays all
the railway brake shoes or blocks are made
of~rast iron or other metal and are used
upon all the wheels of the train
Extent of His Success.
In this country probably not less than
- 100000 was expended in experimental
demonstrations before the Westinghouse
air brake was adopted by all the great
railway lines Of the United States.
All visitors to the Worlds Fair at
Chicago will recall with wonder and pleas
ure the magnificent electric illumination
of the grounds and buildings furnished by
the great Westinghouse lighting plant
George Westinghouse had realized his
most fervent aspirations. "By the spring
of $780," says Mr.. Leupp, che was in
control of concerns which were manufac-
turing air brakes and switch and signal
apparatus for steam railroads, making
pioneer experiments with electric railways
for local traffic; furnishing natural gas to
large district tributary to Pittsburg,
running small industrial plants that
could utilize the gas effectively, turning
out every kind of mechanism for the gen.
Grafton and distribution of the alternating
electric current and furnishing electric
illumination to communities in all the
American States and Territories and in
various other parts of both hemispheres,
even the Chinese city of Canton having
contracted for an equipment The total
sales of the appliances produced by
George Westinghouse electric company
amounted to s. ,000, 900 year.
George Westinghouse, however, appears
to have been too optimistic TO be success
full as financier His business survived
one financial ordeal following the failure
of the great English banking house of the
Barings, but in 1907 the principal West.
inghouse concern succumbed In conse-
quenee Of the excessive expansion of its
operations and for fourteen months it was
managed by receivers. At the end of that
period the business was restored to the
stockholders purged of most of its imme-
date ills which had bcset it." It's pleas
ant TO know that notwithstanding this ex-
perience Mr.. Westinghouse still retained
a considerable estate at the time of his
death in 1914, the bulk of which he left
10 his wife, his son and his brother.
Hated Personal Publicity.
The most striking personal character