File:Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade (1908) (14598209510).jpg

Identifier: lifecharacterof00bake (find matches)
Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ble, reliable andhonest men. In fact, it has today the best council ofany large city in the United States, and the Feder- THE CIVIC FEDERATION 173 ation, and those who worked for it, have ample reasonto be proud of what they were the means of bringingabout. It is not to be wondered at therefore, in viewof the drastic house-cleaning which was going onthroughout the city, that my father became the targetfor abuse and hatred among the criminal and the law-less element. Many times did he receive anonymousletters through the mails, stating that he would beassassinated if he did not let up in the warfare whichhe was engineering, and many times he was followedby persons with evil intent when walking alone at alate hour; but all this had as much effect upon hisdetermination to follow his convictions and to do hisduty as he saw it, as a babys breath would have hadin attempting to blow out the Chicago fire. * P* •«&. ■ -rgjt ^-^jig^^ fgg^.Ji*™ *jEEjI I^B^^^B w <O h _ < o Of~r o
Text Appearing After Image:
< k < aa 3 C/3 Chapter VIII.SXOQUALMIE FALLS AND WHITE RIVERPOWER DEVELOPMENTS.1887-1904. AS my father entered upon the later years of hislife, he began to have a joy and pride in hischildren, which earlier in their lives he did notdisplay to so great a degree, for like most natures,his mellowed with the years and as his children grewup. He looked upon his children as a business propo-sition. Towards them he had always been exactingand severe. He was as sparing of his personal en-dorsement of their capabilities as he was of hisfinancial assistance to them. In our early life welooked upon him as a hard master. We did not getthe inspiration from him that we would have donehad he leaned a little closer, so we often got dis-couraged in the hope of pleasing him. But that washis way, and it was perhaps for the good of us. Whenmy brother Howard and I were attending CornellUniversity we were not restricted by him in the leastin the quality of board, our dress, or in the essentials.We we

Note About Images