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3 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY IS, '1013. EOSLT A STATE WW IHUmJER, THE MA ENRTf M. FLAGLER. Ell organizor, along with John D.

Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company, financier and builder o( the State' of Florida, Is dying; at the age of 83 years, lw I Whitehall, bis magnificent mansion on tie shores of Lake Worth, at Palm Fla. Blind and deaf, and unable to sign bis name, the aged financier has tor many months been awaiting the end. When tbat time comes the career of ne of the most remarkable men who have figured in the tremendous enterprises of tor the largest botel In the world. He then started men at work building a railroad from Orinond to Palm Beach. By the time the railroad was built the hotel was ready.

He next built the Breakers. The original Breakers Hotel was burntd. but was promptly rebuilt. A few years later Mr. "lagr rtached out to Nassau.

The original plan was to connect Falm Beach with the British Island off the coast. A gigantic pier was built out Into tho sea directly lu front of the Breakers Hotel. It was propojeJ to laud passengers frjm pissing strainers. This was one of the few plans of Mr. Flagler tbat ever failed.

It aa found aitcr the pier was built that ships could not land at the pier. It li from this pier that John Pulluiau and other distinguished anglers haj won their laurels as fishermen. Projector and Builder of Railroads. Mr. Flagler was not to be defeated by this failure t.i connect tile Kast Coast of Florida with Nassau.

On doan the coast was Blscayue Bay, a beautiful body of water, deep enough to shelter ships of moderat; size. Tiie builder of rallwaj and hotflb promptly surveyed the reache of Biseayuu Bay and started a towu. Miami, is a magic city, it Is of the greatest surprises to tie found on the Ai- kh Wl tnv 111 IVP i lantic seajoard. It Is a modern city witu i many industries. Flagler built another pplendid hotel, and again extended his fry ewrcMrM fCLyX OJ ZZZ few-; Ml 4 ffZZ l.

'1 'k rauroau. When the Florida East Coast Railroad reached liiauii, it bad all but reached tne end of land. Still it was extended forty or nfty mik-s to a big truck of laud where Henry Klacler, agriculturist, bad developed great groves of and grapo-iruit. In a score of years Henry Fiagler had opeueJ up the entire east coast of Florida. He had created towns and its mcau.i of access to them.

He bad also given the country a v.int.r resort unexcelled iu thi world. Although an old man, long past tne age lueu usually retlre-u. Mr. Fiagler conceived another enterprise, at once daring and original, and momentous. The islaou city of Key West, a hundred miles south, was isolated from tho world.

It was still an important link ia reaching Cuba. Before Mr. Flagler decided to build bis railroad over tho Florida keys to Key West, he most surely discovered Cuba. It was his l'lan to bring Cuba within uine-iv miles of uls chain of Florida hotels. The engineering, and the actual construction of the railroad over the keys, tu it-solf was wjtiderful achievement.

For the road runs over the ocean, tho roadbed reaching trom oue key to another. "If Mr. Flagler had been twenty years vouukst v. beu he started his road to Ky West, he would have developed Cuba, as ho has Florida," said a frieud a few days ago. It is said that the original plan i in.

I'd chain of resort hotels In the past fifty years In America will be brought to a close. Of the men who have been commanding figures In the financial world during that time, only John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Henry M. Flagler remain. While Henry M.

Flagler unquestionably ranks with the foremost men of his time, not only In the amount of wealth he possesses, but or the energy and magnitude of his enterprises, comparatively speaking, he is unknown to the public at large. "The most remarkable. thing about the carreer of Henry Flagler," said a friend the other day, "is the manner In which he has consistently avoided publicity. It was from his brain that sprang the organization of the Standard Oil Company. Mr.

Rockefeller, on the witness stand, Jias given Mr. Flagler the credit for a large amount of the work that brought bout the most wonderful business organisation In the world. He Is the sec-end largest holder of stock In that organisation. In a little over a quarter of a century he has built up five hundred miles of territory on the East Coast of Florida, from Jacksonville to Key We3t, with railroads, Bhips, hotels and a thousand other enterprises. And yet Henry M.

Flagler is today as little known, out-aide of Florida and financial circles, as the latest curb speculator. "I suppose the reason is simply that Henry Flagler has always been lacking Jn those qualities that may be called picturesque. He was not a sportsman. He never played golf or tennis, or kept fast horses, or distinguished himself as yachtsman. He never had a fad.

except work. He had no hobbies except Florida. would rather buy a swamp and convert It Into a garden than to acquire land already developed. He wan always changing things; buildiug up. transforming, doing impossible things.

But always In a quiet way, never announcing his plans before the projects were realized. And he was always trying to do something bigger than anything he had beforo accomplished. His last great undertaking was the crowning achievement of his life. 1 it buildiug a railway to Key West, literally bridgiug the ocean, ho achieved an engineering feat that would serve to establish him one of the most remarkable builders In the country." Tlaglei- Born in New York State. Henry Morrison Flagler was born In Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, January 2, 1830.

At an early agu he became a clerk In a country store. When a very young man Henry Flagler became interested in the manufacture of salt and went to Saginaw. Mich. The salt business being a failure, he later went to Ohio, where ho ougaged in the business. John D.

Rockefeller, another young niau, was also in the commission business in Cleveland in those days. Shortly after going to Cleveland, Mr. Flagler married. His first wife was Miss Harkness, a wealthy and attractive young woman of Clevolaud. Samuel Andrews was in those days a prosperous oil refiner.

He aold oil to Flagler and Rockt-Xuller, who eventually joined forces as Jobbers and brokers. Andrews paid Flagler and Rockefeller a commission of $1 a barrel to handle his oil. The latter firm soon concluded that if Andrews Cuba and to ferry trains from Key West to Havana. A passenger couio. in mm way take, a sleeper, and wake up on the big island.

ff e-. "Mr. Flagler remoiniuie The prk'e didn't balk the young monop-1 Florida," th's friend contmueu, to the fuct that he considered living hero I his life. Being forced to seek the warm climate to avoid the rig ors of Northern wliners. ne iuhuu possible to keep still, ne eouiu nut il vacation, llu was neve.

he was building or reuuuuiuB "He was a man ot sironn uuu mind. He was able to strip iuuuiui nil iinosaentlals and SO sir ght to tho heart of what was before Bccauso of this faculty he coul'i aeeompnau erormous amount ot worn, nm aud cnc-ey and rsreat wealth enabled hlu ollsts. however. Tiiev accepted Andrown' proposition, and raised the million, and Ihe Standard Oil Company was started Samuel Andrews, whoso modest coitage Is a familiar landmark at Palm Beach. not far from Whitehall, the winter home of Henry Flagler which cost once said: ''If I had kept my interest In the cenmanv It would have been worth $S0.

000.000 to me today." Tue history of the Standard Oil Company Is too well known to need repeating. Henry Flagler and John D. Rockefeller built up tho organization until It became the most formidable business organization in the world. Flagler was vice president, treasurer and secretary of the company at different times, until be retired a few years ago to devote hi! declining years to Florida. Flagler's Work in Florida.

It Is the work of Henry Fiagler in Florida that 's less familiar to the gen to surmount almost impussiuia lu the business woi.ld. "Strict In business. Mr. riagier ways kindly in his home, and very demo cratic. There 1 suow ur about him.

Whitehall, his winter home, is one of the most magnineeui uuu.c. vvhiio nnt a connoisseur. k-nlonoBsessed rare judgment and good taste, and his art treasures are very valuable. r- i rwmf -u Hi3 Artistic Tnstes. th most beautiful rooms Whitehall Is the music room, where specially built organ i8 a feature eral public, excepting the lortunate onc3 who have speut ttie winters In tne Land of Flowers, where It is always sumnirr Flagler speni mucu ui "srr -i swTf 7 pjt rhom.

una wnne nui joyed tbe playing of '7 three or lour eceo ui rw and he would have them played o- ana over lntermezio from 'Cavalleria 'Melody in Rubinstein, and a IFTO? TO XS'I I selection from 'Stauai I among bis favorites. time. To those who live in Fionda. or have visited the State, the name of F.ag-ler is synonymous with the Eaot Coast. Not only tho railroads, hotels and many industries are in his name.

but. orange groves, hospitals, churches, newspapers and other developments bear the stamp of his creative hand. ''What worries me," once said a oook-keeper for a Flakier orange grove, to a "While he possesses pinmrs A 1 1 could afford to pay them as much as that ther must be money in it, aiid they esked him to join them and let them in on the refining end. Andrews was about ready to retire. He Jiad built up a large, conservative business, but he was not averse to taking ia borough and other world-famous nami inss he still has prominently displayed in Whitehall the first plctura he eve.

owned A very commonplace pictuie, but i he likes it, and it remains. Mr. agler has always been a very temoerate man. reporter for a Hagler newspaper, as the younger men. Accordingly, the firm 1 of the attraction.

The clinging moss and the wonderful foliage made the spot one of Rockefcllor, Andrews Flagler was they sat lu a lagler botel in st- Au' formed. The company prospered from thp I sustlne, is whether 1 should charge was going to build the finest hotel In the world In St. Augustine, the cynical merelv sarugged their shoulders. If he wanted to squander bis money, it was his affair not theirs. Old San Marco, the grim Spanish eltadel, standing five sides to the waterfront, looking up and down the Mantanzas River opposite the inlet from tho sea.

was picked by Flagler as the best site in St. Augustiue for a hotel first, and bought up several other con of rare bcautv. Flagler bought tue hotel and retained thc managers. Then he ex-1 tended his railroad, and Ormond and Daytona became popular resorts. Several vears later Mr- Flagler went farther down the coast.

Mr. Ingraham, flakier noiei manager or fi a box for Mr. Flagler oranges. The Flagler railroad charges so much for transportation, that it is bard for bis plantation to make money from his hotels without boosting the price of his fruit." Mr. Flagler had two children by his Bret wife, a son and a daughter.

The son, Harry Harkness Flagler or Park avenue, and Mllbrook. N. Is land he tried to buy it, but failed. He then bought the present site of the Ponce dc Leon. He purchased part of an orange grove of Dr.

Anderson of St. He smoked two eigars a u. until he lost his sight, a great reader, although he was not a student In the broadest sense. The books be read. "He the pictures, and everything else around in.

were what he liked, aud represented his a philanthropist he did more for Florida than is generally kuown. His gen-erositv and free-handed manner of glvins. kept the extent of his benefactions from becoming known. The present Mrs. Flagler too is verv democratic, and has done much for Florida on her own account." Mr.

Flagler has been married three times After the death of his first wife, he married Mies Ida A. Shourds, the daughter ot an Episcopal clergyman was divorced from her in 1901. after thi Florida Legislature had passed a lswr making Insanity a cause for divorce. Thi second Mrs. Flagler has been Insane for manv years.

It is said that Mr. Flagler has alwovs treated her with the greatest. i Augustine. In payment he induced Dr. well knowu as a musician and composer.

Anderson to take Standard Oil stock He was the friend and pupil of Mac-! That is now worth over $1,000,000. later an official of the Fiagler roads, had a cottage on Lake Worth, flt a place called Palm Roach. Mr. Flagler was told that ho should sec Palm Beach. A fact that is seldom considered Is that Florida Is in two zones.

Palm Beach is 300 miles from Jacksonville. In those days there was no wav to get to Palm Beach, except bv a small, shallow boat, which could wind in and out the inland water-wav along the coast. When Mr. Fiagler reached Palm Beach he was delighted. He found himself iu the tropics, with luxuriant foliage every- cerns.

It was then tbat Rockefeller and Flagler conceived the idea or formiug the Standard Oil. Rockrfdler was the office man, Flagler was the manager who made terms with the railroads, and according to Mr. Rockefeller, originated the system of rebates that was later to be investigated by the Government. Flagler aud Rockefeller wanted to foranch out. They were constantly Increasing the business, but wanted to revolutionize the oil business.

Audrews, ou the other hand, was a conservative, lie had built up his business along old-established lines, and the younger men were constantly opposed by Andrews. Tho time soon came when Rockefeller said to Flagler: Henry, it's up to to buy Sam out." Flagler agreed, and they asked Andrews for a price. Andrews was not offended, and said he was willing to sell. The price he asked almost took the ibreath out of tho young partners. He wanted $1,000,000 to get out.

A million dollars, during the sixties, when the offer was made, represented a gigantic consideration. She is worth, In her ow i dowcll. Harry Harkness Flagler was expected by his father to take up business when ho left college, but he inherited none of his father genius for affairs. Ho married Mls3 Ecnedlct of Manhattan, and his interests are artistic. Their honi le the center of a distinguished coterie of literary and artistic people.

When the first Mrs. Flagler died she left a daughter who was very frail. Henry Flagler, It is said, first visited Florida In the early '80s in his yacht. He took his daughter there for her health. SSse did not long survive her mother.

But Henry Flagler had discov wnerc. J200.000. and lives under the su- wrecked on tne coast. uu a nf n.onIo who -iVc her every Dr Anderson has long been perhaps the nearest friend of Mr. Flagler.

When Mr. Flagler decided to build his first hotel In St. Augustine, there was then no railroad to the town. A narrow gauge road from Jacksonville ran within two miles of the place. He bought this lailroad, made its broad gauge and brought it Into St.

Augustine. Meantime the Ponce de Leon was buliding. This structure was built of cement, aud the labor was employed by tho day. When it was completed It was pronounced the finest hotel In the world. Tho diningroom Is hardly surpassed In beauty, even in this day of magnificent hotels.

Tho unique architecture and the extensive courts and piazzas make it one of the show places c.nmfort. and care. oi me aouw. it is sain u.ai mis cure xo u.c iuuBu "i washed ashore, and on open only a few weeks every season, has Cordova, now an annex of the AVarar. slrip 0f land between Lake never been a paving Inveomcnt.

It cost was built by another man and bought by those t.ocoanuis $:.000.000. Mr. Flagler. i Thc eoeoanut palms are In 1901. Mr.

Flagler was married to tht present Mrs. Flapler. She was Miss Mar Lilv Kenan, the daughter ot William R. Kenan of Wilmington, N. C.

At the fmi of their marriage Mr. Flagler was 72 and Miss Kenan was 3G. They have a homo on Fifth avenue, in Manhattan, but hav spent most of their time iu Whitehall within recent years. Many miles below St. Augustine, at ur- fcat.jre of the place, mond, two men, Anderson and Price, had I bought Palm Beach almost a little hotel, where a few winter visitors anJ lmmediately made their There was no ra, I-, of tne road, but the country was beautiful.

order.ed..M,r' buv iumber ered Florida. Ho liked it, and he re Builder of Hotels After the Ponce- de Leon was completed Mr. Flasler built the Alcazar, directly opposite. This building is of the same material and is of similar larehi- turn. A lot of people didn't believe there turned.

was that much money in the world. When Henry Flagler announced that he ki.Si WrtMlftrtnftnn ft part 1 Koyai roiuciuu Daytona, just across the way, was a xwvwwvo WV VWWWVWVM w- q. SHERIFF JULIUS HARBURGER, DEFENDER OF AMERICAN FLAG 1.... rl.f it me. lie is a tug.

lougn. ugiy tnau or atuieuc Continued From Page 1. how 1 I'aiuo out with cli'nu bauds and clean pockets fi'oui tbat place. "One day I liHpciKd lo be passing tlirousli the City Ilrtll, nnd 1 saw otic of jny fonncr stibordi-mitts iu tbe Curuurr'a otlice talking to a well-kuown jiUIUciiin. As I passed 1 beard my former subordinate) say to the politician "'Tbero goes a tin tuned, turned quickly, and going up to tbe lnuu I pointed uiy flnuer fit liiin like tbis" aud he gave a jihyslcal dcmouslnitiou "and 1 hissed at blai: "'Tom, you're a dimmed "lie looked at tne scared, as if he were nbmit to llirow a fit, and wild: that, Mr.

Slicrifrv "'You called me a damned fool," I mid. 'YVbat did you mean 1l I grinned and t-nid: "'Why, just I his: hen you were Coroner you I Inilgbt bave bad a barrel of money and you went cut a poor man. Some of your subordinates were I making more money tliau your salary culled for. I 'tippologize lo "'Well, if you put ii Unit I said. 'I accept jour apology fv.r you have paid me a "And from bis point of view 1 would be a 'damned fool, if 1 were Commissioner of Police." "What is you opinion of l'ollce Commissioner Waldo I queried: "Waldo fs a good friend of mine." be replied.

"I ill answer your question by telling you the following anecdote, to wit: 'When Waldo was First Keputy Police Commissioner I was a district leader. A policeman named McLoughiin had beeu transferred, and I vauted to get him back to his old district. I went to see Waldo about it, and Waldo kept putting me off. Finally after waiting for three months I went to Waldo aud said to him: "'Mr. Commissioner, bow about "And Waldo spoke as follows: I have put thc uialtei- up to uliave? quoth 1.

"And Waldo spoke as follows: "'You know where Baxter sltvct I "Mr. Waldo admitted that he hr.d a vague idea of lis location. "'On Baxter quoth I. "(here are many shops here they sell misfit clothing. You belong iu one of those shops.

Mr. Commissioner, for I have no licMiiitloii In declaring tbat you nro the worst misfit that ever drifted Into I lie Police 1 "Xbeu got bus iu uiy vvtu account. A few spite of all Hie powerful intlueuce that was wuufcu. to bear upon me be went there on that day. and lie went iu shackles.

Wheu the four inspectors were sentenced lo Blackwell's Island more powerful influence was brought lo bear upon ine to send them to the boat iu cues. They went iu the prison van and they went iu shackles." A OOOn FROM AU A STir-F B1.VFF CARRIES TUB DAY, SAYS JULIUS. "To what do you al tribute your success as the terror liuoi r. I nsked. "A I' i I and stiff bluff always carries Hie day," sai.l the Sheriff.

"1 always have myself slmi-klci! i-i desperate criminals, and I laud them in prison personally. The more desperate they are tli" belter I like it. You remember Forsbrey, the feilo'v who killed four men and who escaped from the Tombs aud was recaptured? Well, tiie day before he was lo be soul away he asked me if lie could see a filrl before he went. I told him be could ia niy presence. The girl came in, aud I stood between her and Forsbrey.

"'May I kiss asked Forsbrey. I answered. "1 was afraid she might h-trf some poison to give him. Thai is au old trick. l-'orsUvj glowered days later telephoned to Waldo.

The telephone com orsalion was as follows: "'Hello, Mr. 'This is Julius Harbinger." 'Why. how arc you Mr. llnrburgcri' "'Very well, Mr. Commissioner how are jou'f' "'Very well, Mr.

llatburgcr. What can 1 do for 'liow about "'He's been transferred, as you requested, Mr. llai'burgcr, 'Thank you. Mr. Commissioner.

I withdraw thai remark about Baxter si "'Thank you. Mr. Harbinger. Don't mention '1 won't, Mr. 'tiooil 'tiood "While we were on this line." I is your policy, as Sheriff.

ju the trc.ituieut of "i am glad you mentioned tbat," said Julius Hariiurger. "All criminals look alike to me. If a man Is a criminal he Is only a criminal, and I never treat him as a gentleman. Now, iu the case of Lieutenant Becker. He asked me to keep him for len additional days lu (lie Tombs before going to Sing Sing.

I sent word to him 'You v.ill go to Sing Sing ou tbe day jou are semence Aud iu build. He said to me: 'I don't like 'Why don't you like I asked. "Because I he said, aud be applied a vile name lo m-'. "1 took out my big gun. and going up close him 1 shoved it under his nose, und I said to the deputies "'Shackle tne to this "And to Forsbrey I shouted along, you coward, as soon as I get out ou the street I am going to blow thc whole top of your head off, aud say you tried to "And that big duffer trembled like a leaf, and when we got on the highway he was gentler than any lamb little Mary ever owned.

That, is the of success in handling criminals. They arc all towards." "In other words, wheu you see your duly yon do it?" "1 do. 1 am following in the footprints of and Jefferson In tbe sands of time." Hi bowed modestly. "Now. don't think that I have been talking toi much about myself," said he.

with a smile. Hats off! Three cheers for Julius Harhurger, Sheriff of New York i ouniy. Foe of the Kvildoers, Defence of the Vitif'..