The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1904, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. to see Thomas manipulators sugar busi- 1 the wide own con- v of & man Henry so prominent a I had ic eye some the keynote of acter when s 2 e to get up early I know, of purpose. T. Oxnard it in his eet him but t this fact at well apart the t of him. Under he the straight of a man who can say The forehead, broad a somewhat express and deeg sparse covering of ) sandy hair. betoke e solid, practiczl, achievir d head is well set &b comfortable looking body height. Not a brilliant outward mal up, but wideawake and business like. most unob- a little black wned derby, ard e man whom 2 spoke of In in 1882 a e and with r was fre- be seen passing by the old 1 Eagle, on lower He was ene of the sons £ sugar refiner. whose factory r of k and Water n fe It was his grad- for his business grandfather At Harvard year he had the velt, then Roosevelt bade good-by him the future President had acquiring some of the de- graduate’s belongings in so bination of English and French est sort were the fac- Henry T. Oxnard, him- rseilles, France, in 1860, s family were traveling ties of persistence, sse. His English ancestor in 1740 and settled in sent by Lord Mon- father of Freemasonry in to further the estab- in its new home ster of all Amer- xnard family has New England— he most progressive iry T. Oxnard came rench family of Loulsi- dated back to the Capets. His father disposed of his ex- fi es in Louisiana 1 tn caped the dangers of the Civil War by 1560 and es- trave Shortly after the birth of the f ate Thomas future ms: Oxnard re- old home in Massachu- Here voung Henry T. grew up, and an out-of-door his first business by raising chickens on an extensive scale. setts loving the country life and starting in It is worthy ef note, in the lizht of his future undertakings, that who knew him then describes the outcome one of this first business as “a great finan- efal success ' After his college career came his first actual experience in the bu which with two of ss of his life, was gained, in comy Broc " brot k- ers, in the lyn sugar factory. Through observa- tion and study he conceived the idea that by virtue of soil and climate the United States should be able to produce its entire supply of sugar, instead of importing ¢ $100,000,000 annually. With his bro spent Jame abro: Oxn: some tim e, Germany beet sugar industry n 1887 the great sugar trust was formed and the Oxnards sold their plant for over $1,000,000. -In 1588 Her T. Oxnard constructed at Grand Island, Neb., the first beet sugar factory in the United States. Mr. Oxnard is now pres- ident of both the American Beet Sugar Gompany and the American Beet Sugar Association, which represents all the beet sugar factories in the United States. He controls with his brothers five sugar factories in the United States It was in the fight in Congress against the reduction of duties on Cu- ban sugars that of the most marked characteristics of the man were some brought out; his tireless energy when scmething is to be achieved; the fact that with his tenacity of purpose goes the capacity for being a good hater; his remarkable knowledge of men and the almost intuitive art of manipulat- ing them to suit his own purposes. He had opposed other things, such as the annexation of Hawali and the making of Porto Rico a part of the United States, but the Cuban sugar fight made him for the first time almost a na- tional figure and subjected him to ava- lanches of criticism and accusation, and such titles as “double dealer” and “promoter,” but he gained his end and - | | i | £ 133 I had gained a capacity for getting great and far-reach- make you ing happiness from the ex- quisite little joys of life.” Thus the hero of a short story in one of our current magazines 1is characterized by the author and what a splendid thing it is to be able to say that either of & man in a story or & man In real life. Wheh you have reached the point where you do not need a rare plece of good fortune or a trip to Europe or a unique relationship to the great and mighty of the earth to make you happy you have mastered the secret of con- tented and fruitful living. When the play of the sunshine across your desk, the laughter of a little child, the cheery greeting of a friend who meets and passes you in the crowd, a page out of & new book or any one of the compara- tively trifiing experiences whith befall you between sunrise and sunset can deeply and unfelgnedly happy you can bid deflance to all the black bats’of fear and trouble which hover about your dally pathway, The little things that together com- prise the life of a single day ought to yield us joy. In the same story from which I have quoted the author refers to the great happiness which comes “from the blessed continuance of the unnoticed dally good.” Whenever the routine looks bare and tedlous to us let us think how we should feel if something interposed to bring it to a sharp conclusion. If some illness or disabllity prevents one from going to his daily task, how he yearns for a return to the former routine. Pray, is it nothing to you that you arose this morning in health, that you can take up your duties in the full posses- slon of your reason, that you have HENRYT-OXNS/D s O BY ALfRLE JENRY TOXNARD By the Parson some honmest profitable work to do in God’s great working world? The other day a well-known American authoress was burned out. But instead of crying over the catastrophe she wrote as fol- lows: *I lost nearly everything—price- less books, all my notebooks of years of work. Well, to be alive and well is good.” One can harvest, too, a crop of joys by being responsive to the beauty and order of the universe in which we live. An elevator boy sald to me the other day, “I ought to be thankful that as my car moves from floor to floor I can get such frequent glimpses of the sun- shine and the sky.” How foolish we are to fall to notice the loveliness of tiny things in nature, the blending of colors in the violet, the glory of a single star, the thrilling song which the little bird pours forth. You can connect with many of these sources of joy without hardly stirring from your tracks, only there must be the ear %o listen, the DEZENDORF /'/, - — £y eye to see, the mind to appreciate, and if you are absorbed in the fluctuations of the stock market or the perplexities of housekeeping you are likely to pass them all by as too small for considera- tion. The loves of our life may make us profoundly happy and true love ex- presses itself in a hundred little ways. ‘What you really love about your little boy is not merely the man that you see he is going to be by and by, but the fact that he toddles toward the déor the moment he hears your key in the lock and gives an exultant shout when he feels your arms about him. The man who postpones the pleasure that he is to get out of his kinships and friendships to the time when he can sit down and take in fully and scientifically the dimensions of that love makes a vital mistake. Learn to <enjoy your children, your home and your friends as you go along. And it is marvelous, too, how the lit- tle services for others react and pour - 4’”‘2«‘51:’.‘2;5555 won the cause which he champloned— that of the beet sugar men. Mr. Oxnard erected the first beet sugar factory in the southern portion of California in 1891, when he pur- chased the famous Richard Gird ranch at Chino. In 1898 he erected the most complete beet sugar factory in the world at Oxnard. It cost nearly $2,000,000 and devours 2000 tons of beets per day. In these California factories are Invested $10,139,519, one-half of all the capital invested in the beet sugar industry in the United States. More than a thousand men are employed by them and more than $500,000 is paild out In wages each year. These factorie~ render Mr. Ox- nard the fountain head from which accrues to the farmers in California mere than $1,500,000 annually. In the dally affairs of the lighter side of life, Henry T. Oxnard’'s love for fine horseflesh perhaps comes next to his capacity for work. Next to horses he Is fond of dogs and is al- ways the owner of some good ones. ‘When he first started as an owner and breeder of thoroughbred horses he purchased only brood mares and had them scattered among the various breeding farms of the East, to study the different strains of blood produced and so find out what he wanted. At various times he has owned the most select collection of brood mares fn this country. Mr. Oxnard has owned Lux Casta, a speedy fllly; Va- lentino, Invincible and Wealth, cele- brated runners. He owns Hawks- wick, a celebrated English bred stal- lion, and has recently purchased the two most promising stallions he could find, Prince of Melbourne and ible. His horses have been run in England, Saratoga, Bennings, New Orleans and other racing centers. hig personal scrapbook he keeps a record of their achievements. Mr. Oxnard has a large stock farm in Fau- quier County, Va., called Beverly Place. In addition to his fine ranch of 5700 acres in Ventura County, he has recently purchased a stock farm of 113000 acres in the same county, where he will keep some of his finest horses and thoroughbred cattle, in which he also is greatly interested. In £ &2 2 THE LARGE IN THE LITTLE =2 2 =2 a flood of joy into your own life. That is the delight of doing something for the child—a penny present often counts for as much in his eyes as a $10,000 check. And people generally are helped more than you realize by a small offering on your part provided your heart goes with it. And the mo- ment that we realize how we have served another’s need another fountain of happiness is opened In our own hearts. God put us in this world to be happy. Philosophers have fought over the propoesition whether virtue or happiness is the main end of living, but no system of ethics leaves us any right to be gloomy and even that stiff old theological document known as the ‘Westminster Cathechism affirms that one of the chief ends of men is to enjoy Ged forever. But if we are going to enjoy God and heaven by and by we must establish at once here a habit of forcing little things to yleld us their proper meed of delight. his beautiful wife among the spec- ious tracks of the notably at the Chevy Chase tunts at Was! on, D. C. It was here that a s reporter gave him tte following sive descriptio “He seems possessed of tireless ener- gy and no girl can smile more =v ly.” As would naturally be expected in a man so partial to horses and dogs, Mr. Oxna is an husiastic hunter and { known as a sure, quick shot. Many of his days when time permits are spent with his dogs in the out-of-door life which he well. While Mr. Oxnard spends & large part of his time in California, most of it at his country home in Oxnard, he of necessity travels a great deal, some. times making a round trip to the E: three or four times during the year. His love of home is strong, and there iy no time but that, as he says, “my fam- ily are my chief Interest, rather than business or politics.” His love of jol- lity and fun comes out perhaps mest strongly in his home life, as with many men of busy lives. His wife before her marriage in France some years ago was Miss Maris Pichon, and is a very handsome and accomplished woman There are two children, Adeline, a blooming little miss of 3, a stanch com- rade of her father, and Nadine, who has only a little over § months to her credit in the way of age. One of the most striking character- istics of Mr. Oxnard s his entire ab- sence of formality, even with a casual acquaintance, He !s known by the people in his residence sec‘ion as kind- hearted and democratic, and with the rare but inbred faculty of at once plac- Ing the humblest visitor at his ease. With his family he has been spending the past winter in Los Angeles, having rented a handsome home on Figueroa street, In the fine residence section. The home at Oxnard is not an osteata- tious one, and the life there is simple, that of a country gentleman who loves the quiet by which he is surrounied. Music is a favorite part of the evenings of home life. Driving forms a part of the pleasure of almost every day, and one of the favorite vehicles, especially of the little Adeline, to drive out with her father, is a Parisian tub cart of latest design, drawn by one of the fine horses for which the Oxnard sta- bles are famous. The large house Is surrounded by beautiful grounds, typi- cal of California, and is siduated not more than a mile from the factory. where the millionaire spends much of his time when at Oxnard. His regis- tered place of residence for the past few years has been Hueneme, a little coast town a few miles away. Oxnard has been the home of Mr. Oxnard for most of the time during the past six years or more, and many of his friends, among the best known peo- ple of the hour, are entertained here and at his Los Angeles residence in the royal manner which belongs to the open-hearted generosity of the West While more domestie than a clubman in his tastes perhaps, Mr. Oxnard is a member of the California Ciub in Los Angeles and of the San Francisco and Pacific-Union clubs in San Franeisec With hotel life in New York, as he has no home establishment there, club life makes more demands upon hi is well known in the exclusive Y in the in the loves se s offices au street, financial district. Should he be nomi- nated ‘as a resident of California to fight for the post of honor which he acknowledges he desires, he will nter the political arena with the triple and valuable armament of decision, daring and, last but by ne means least, a goodly supply of practical political ex- perience galned at Washington during the sugar fight.