Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1931, Page 3

GEORGE F BAKER - EXPIRES AT91 Dean of Financiers Pneu- | monia Victim After Two- Day lliness. (Continued From First Page) Baker went to Albany, N. Y., where he found a job in a shoe store, later going to Troy and establishing his own busi- ness. One of his first acquaintances was Russell Sage, a young merchant, and when he married Eveline Stevens of Greenbush, N. Y., May 9, 1839, Sage ‘was the best man. George Pisher Baker was horn March 27, 1840, when his father's business prospects were none too bright. The name Pisher was given him after an uncle by marriage, Hinsdale Fisher, of | Medfield. When young George was-5, the family moved to Brookiyn and the father set Financier Dies l GFEORGE F. BAKER. THE SUNDAY 40 VACANCIES LEFT BY BAKER Directorships and Trustee- ships Included Banks and Utilities. STAR, WASHINGTON. D, C, MAY 3 SILENCE SECRET OF SUCCESS. SAID BAKER AT AGE OF 82| ‘Mute During Prosperity and Active Dur- ing Adversity, Banker Established Envied Record of Service. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 2—"Silence,” By the Associated Press. 1 NEW YORK, May 2—George F. } Baker's death tonight left vacant direc- | torships and trusteeships in more than 40 organizations. | His main interest was the First Na- tional Bank of New York of which he was chairman of the board. In addi- | tion he was chairman of the board of the Pirst Security Co., an affiliate of the bank. He was president and a_director of | the New Jersey General Security Co. and of the Long Branch Railroad Co., vice president and director of the Jer- sey City Water Supply Co., second vice | president and director of the Northern Securities Co., trustee of the Consoli- George Fisher Baker remarked at the age of 82, “is the secret of success.” Tdentified as intimately as any man now living or gone before him with the financial and industrial develop- ment of the United States, he h!dl less to say about it than any of them.| In the times of prosperity, he we-| mained mute. In adversity, his actions alone bore witness to his faith in| America’s destiny. Wall Street said he lost, £50.000.000 in the market collapse, | but Baker said nothing about it. He stond calm and unwavering—a solid pillar of confidence. | Aid Given for Asking. J. J. Hill, the empire builder, once said in a speech in Seattle “When the panic of '93 came along flgmclnl history. He survived most of these. He saw the elder Rockefeller divest himself of command for a life of com- plete_retirement from business, while he (Baker) continued at the helm of many of his interests—chiefly, however, as chairman of the board of the First National Bank of New York, which he | helped to found, and of which he had been president. ‘The iron for this giant’s work came from a long solid line of New England ancestry. 1931—PART ONE. HOOVER AND MELLON SEE GREAT LOSS TO NATION By the Associated Press. Regret at the death of George F. Baker, New York financier, was ex- pressed Thst night by President Hoover and Secretary Mellon. The President did not prepare a for- mal statement, but Secretary Mellon, who had known Mr. Baker for many | years, said: | “I am greatly distflessed to hear of | the death of Mr. Baker. He was the dean of American bankers, and for many years has been an outstanding figure in the banking world. He was a man of the highest integrity, and pos- sessed in an exceptional degree the qualities of farsightedness and good judgment which he exerted over the | course of his long life in favor of sound | banking and the building up of Ameri- | | can_ business. No one in the financial | | world will be more greatly missed than | | Mr. Baker." | NEW DETACHED HOMES 6403 to 6411 3rd Street N.W. Drive Out Georgia Avenye to Rittenh Street, Thence East to 3rd Street and Then Nort;"?wo Squares Houses Face New Public Park and School Grounds BIGGEST BARGAINS EVER IN THIS SECTION up a small refail shoe business in Maiden lane. Young George had two sisters then, Martha Elizabeth, born in |and currency was almost impossible to | | get, or credit_either fcr that matter, |1 asked the First National for some dated Gas Co., and the Mutual Life In- surance Co., director of the D. L. & W. 1842, and Eva Frances, born two years later. Young George spent his Summers at Grandmother Baker's at Dedham and at Uncle Fisher's at Medfield. The father had little taste for business, liked liter- ature and politics, and so_became ac- quainted with Horace Greeley, for whom_he did some work for the New York Tribune. Removes to Williamsburg. Later he removed his family to Wil- lamsburg, where he became town clerk and a power in local affairs. He was elected to the Legislature in 1851 and put through a bill making Wililamsburg a city, for which he became known as the “father of Williamsburg.” Young George worked on the farm in Summer and went to Carlos Slafter's school in the Winter. Later he attend- ed Seward Institute. The struggle which was to result in his later vast success began with his appointment in the State Banking De- partment in March, 1856, at a salary of $500 & year—large for & boy of 16 years in those days. He saved, bought bank stock, enlarged his holdings. At 25 he Was frequently called to Washington for consultation by Secretary of the Treas- ury Chase. ? Tn 1869 he married Miss Florence T. Baker, whose father was connected with the Treasury Department. She was not a relative. Five children were born, three of whom are living: Evelyn, who became Mrs. Howard B. St. George, Kingston Hill, England; Florence, who became Mrs. William G. Loew, New York, and George, jr., who in 1911 mar- ried Miss Edith Brevoort Kane of Tux- edo, N. Y. For some years the family made its Summer home at Monmouth Beach and afterward at Tuxedo Park, where they bought the home formerly owned by Mrs. Pierre Lorillard. ‘Baker usually picked men with un- canny insight. Henry P. Davison and Thomas W. Lamont are examples. Both went, from the First National Bank to the House of Morgan. Amid all his activities he retained an {nterest in art and music. He began collecting pictures as a young man and his' liome aro’many ‘rate paintings and tapestries. He v:'x active in sculling in his youth and an ardent yachtsman in later years, and always fond of golf. WILL SPEAK ON MOROS An address on “The Moros of the Sulu Archipelago” will be delivered by Lieut. Thomas Q. Ashburn, jr., aide to the chairman of the Island Waterways Corporation, at a meeting of El Club Espanol of George Washington Uni- versity in building “K” of the Univer- sity next Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock. The public is invited. ‘The club held its first dance of the svr\nl;gfl dseuan at the Hamilton Hotel SPECIAL NOTICES. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of Cedar Hill Cemetery Corporation will be held at the cemetery Monday, May 4, 1931, at 4:00 P.M. J. 0. HARRISON, President. _J_T. SHERIER. Secretary. _ ANNUAL MEETING D. C. LAND & BUILD- ing Co. sinckholders will be held June 19318 o'clock p.m. gt 927 New ¥ork a nw._ ____________E. G. BENDER. Sec.° I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DEBTS other than those made by myself. JOSEPH L._BROWN. 1214 5th st. n.&, 5 DOES ANY ‘ONE OWE YOU MONEY? SPE- calists in collection of overdue accounts. No Chll;e unless collection is made. FED- ERA 'ROTECTIVE BUREAU, 301 Bond Bide. 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T | Mine: CEREMONY MARKS POLISH UPRISING Wreath Is Placed at Tomb of “Unknown Insurgent.” President Speaks. By the Associated Press. KATOWICE, Poland. May 2.—Upper Silesia today began a two-day celebra- tion of the anniversary of the uprising of Polish insurgents who took to arms in 1921 fearing that Poland would not be given, the territory she claimed after the plelscite held that year. Today's exercises included the plac- 1ni of a wreath at the tomb of the unknown insurgent, the arrival of Pres- ident Moscicki, Premier Slawek and other cabinet members from Warsaw, a military parade and midnight cere- monies at Freedom Square. It was a sunshiny, festive day with colerful costumes illustrating centuries of_Polish handicraft. ‘Toward noon an endless stream of deputations, each dressed in the bril- liant garb of his district, appeared be- fore the unknown insurgent's tomb, which was heaped with flowers. By early afternoon the streets of the square were crowded in anticipation of the arrival of President Moscicki. Two little girls in national costume presented the President with flowers. He was then given water which had been carried from the Baltic Sea and earth from Posnan, these being symbols of Poland's having obtained access to the sea. Members of a relay team on bicycles who had started from Gdynia, the Polish port, Tuesday afternoon, made the presentation. The President thereupon released a dove with Silesia's greeting to Warsaw while hundreds of other doves were re- leased to all corners of Poland. At the academy the President re- viewed the history of Upper Silesia, in the course of which he said: “With all due observation of treaties Poland will not forget the 600,000 Poles living be{ond the Silesian borders.” He also paid tribute to Marshal Pilsudski, as the father of the insurgent movement. the President reviewed the | Later troops and at midnight the Insurgents’ Union paraded before him with torches. MEDICAL MEN HEAR STRICKLAND GILLILAN Strickland Glllilan, local humorist, will address the thirty-fourth annual banquet of the Washington Medical and Surgical Soclety, to be held in the ball room of the Mayflower Hotel, Tuesday night, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. William Gerry Morgan, president of the American Medical Association: Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, and Rear Admiral Charles E. Riggs, surgeon gen- eral of the Navy, will be guests of honor. The organization has a limited mem- bership of 25 specialists, while 400 guests will attend the banquet. Dr. John C. 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Clev._0619 307 Siorrizon hase___ Furniture Repairing, Upholstering, Chair Caneing CLAY ARMSTRONG 1235 10th St. N.W., Metropolitan 2062 Same location 21 years, which intures low | prices snd high-srade WOrkmansnip. $1.50 gallon Railroad Co., the American Telephone | & Telegraph Co., Astoria Light, Heat & Power Co., Central Railroad of New Jersey, Chase National Bank. the Big | Four Rallroad, East Jersey Water Co., | Lehigh & Wiikes-Barre Coal Co., Le- | high Valley Railroad Co., Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co., Michigan Central Railroad Co., Montclair Water Co., New Jersey Junction Railroad Co. He also was a director of New York | & Harlem Railroad Co., New York & Putnam Railroad _Co., New York | Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. | Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. New | Jersey Edison Co., New York Mutual Gas Light Co., New York State Realty | & Terminal Co., New York, Susque- | hanna & Western Railroad Co., North- ern Pacific Railroad Co., Pennsylvania Coal Co., Philadelphia & Reading Coal | & Iron Co., the Pullman Co. and the Reading Co. | His other directorships were Rutland | Railroad Co., Spring Brooke Water Supply Co., West Shore Railroad Co. | New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Co. Pullman Inc, United | Electric Light & Power Co., United Btates Steel Corporation, Harlem Trans- fer Co, Erle Railroad Co., New York Edison Co., Pittsburgh & Lake Erle | Railroad Co. and Cleveland, Cincinnati, | Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co. Mr. Baker was vice president and a | trustee of the American Museum of | Natural History and a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was | & member of the New England Society | and the American Fine Arts Society. | He founded the Harvard Graduate | School of Business Administration, to which he gave a permanent endowment | of $5,000,000. Many of his benefactions have not been made public. One of more than $2,000.000 to Cornell Uni- | versity was kept secret for many years. | Thousands of Bargains iflWAN‘MfllflW i BRICK Millions of Handmade Brick é s 4.50 Per Thousard Toilet, Complete, Stores, Restaurants, Hotels, Etc is a golden opportunity mantled materials. 710 13th St..N.W. 900 Pa. Ave. Complete Lavatories ........$3.50 Complete Windows. .........$2.00 Single Sash ...................50c Tons of Structural Steel. .1c pound 4.In. Cast-Iron Soil Pipe. . .10c foot Also Electrical Wiring, Electrical Fixtures, STAIRS, TRIM, Complete Heating Plants,. Theater Sea Everything You Need to Build or Repair. It HARRIS WRECKING CO. Ph. NAt. 9196 assistance and George Baker sent me | this answer: T send you by express tonight what you asked for. If you actually need more, T will take off my ccat and go to work." “It was $300,000, but at a time like that it seemed almost as big as that many millions in flush times.” George Baker's wealth grew from the first $7 he earned salvaging cranberries left behind in the harvest on his Uncle || Hinsdale Fisher's farm at Medfield, 8 miles from his Grandmother Baker's | farm at Dedham, Mass,, where he spent his boyhood Summers. | It was there he laid the foundation for the rugged health and physique | that madé it possible for him to attend to business at 91. | Many Famed Contemporaries. | George Baker's confemporaries were | the elder J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, James | stillman, James J. Hill, E. H. Harri- man, Jacob Schiff, Henry C. Prick, H. H. 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