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...Four of California (Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington), organizers of the Central Pacific, the Southern Pacific and innumerable West Coast companies, seem the most arrogant, most shameless of them all. Last week their group portrait appeared in a 424-page book which combined careful reports of skulduggery with excellent characterizations...
...book The Big Four, his first chapters make it plain that five men were instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author...
...Crocker. After the road was finished, each partner believed he had been principally responsible. But big, blunt, bearded Charley Crocker simply said, "I built the Central Pacific," and let it go at that...
Weighing 250 lb., a hard-driving man with unaccountable periods of complete inertia, Crocker was in charge of the actual construction of the Central Pacific, boasted that he found fault with everything and that everybody was afraid of him. But on payday he rode through the construction crews with 150 lb. of gold and silver, paid workmen himself. Because he admired the endurance of his Chinese cook, he favored Chinese crews over his partners' objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific...
Last month the trustees thought they had found their man: Rev. John Crocker, 38, studious, absentminded, enthusiastic high Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...