Well, what are we supposed to do now that the Eurovision drinking game has been ruined? No key changes and extremely few wind machines, costume changes, ethnic instruments, white pianos...
If they deemed a TV series about the American founder of Selfridges a good idea then I demand to know why we don't already have Mr. Yerkes series! Jago will have to take up the slack that television has dropped.
Yerkes donated enough money somewhere along the line to have the Yerkes Observatory built in Williams Bay, WI (Wisconsin to folks across the pond). It was the largest Refracting Telescope (had to Google that to make sure I got it right) at the time. My father grew up in Williams Bay. My aunt (my dad's sister), uncle plus kids lived across the street from the Yerkes. It is quite an impressive structure for small town Williams Bay.
The Yerkes 40 inch remains the largest successful refracting (lens as opposed to mirror) telescope ever built. The scientific force behind Yerkes Observatory was George Ellery Hale who went on to be the driving force behind the wildly successful Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar observatories in California. Hale had a talent, not only for science, but also for persuading wealthy people to fund observatories.
I find it genuinely fascinating how many times the name of Yerkes crops up in the history of London's transport systems. I must confess that I'd never heard of him before I joined this very informative channel.
Yerkes, Watkin, Forbes, and probably Beeching as well, are the most commonly reoccurring names in Jago Hazzard history. I'm pleasantly surprised you decided to do an origin story on Yerkes. Greetings from Alberta, Canada!
My home town Philadelphia and the prison shown was Eastern state Penitentiary which is still there to be visited via tour. Streetcar is still here with new trolleys coming soon and some from the 1940s still running the streets. As much as i watch you channel it's great to see one of your stories involve my home town.
Simple. Make the same mistake I did. Start talking to your neighbour's little girls and showing them how to make Daisy Chains on your lawn, in full view of the neighbours. "A Lie can be half-way around the World, before the Truth has got it's boots on." It only needs one uneducated moron to see the happy children enjoying themselves and your life-long good reputation is consigned to the gutter, because he jumped to the wrong conclusions. My 'Crime'? I'm a pensioner who has never married, because I spent 20-odd years caring for aged parents, until their deaths. It's taken many years for me to be able to clear my good name, but only because the moron got prosecuted for abusing his own daughter.
@@johnmurray8428 Far from it, John. The World is full of self-opinionated people who think they are the font of all knowledge. There is a common belief, here in the UK, that any single old man living alone in a Council flat, can justifiably be considered to be a perv, or pedo; especially if he admits he's never married, or had any children. That was my first mistake. As I'm not in the habit of lying, it never occurred to me, that someone would twist an honest answer into something disgusting. I didn't help matters, by occasionally opening the main entrance door of the block for his daughter, as I was entering or leaving the building. Opening doors for women and children is a life-long habit, instilled in me by my late parents, when I was a schoolboy. Today, it can be construed as demeaning, sexist, or stalking. Old habits die hard. I still continue to be an English gentleman and I won't be giving up the habit, all the time I continue to draw breath. Peace be with you, brother.
I was never ostracized from polite society, but then again, I was never accepted in the first place 😄 ( I think I'm supposed to make some reference to cousin Lol about here. I'm not sure why)
Very cool, thanks. Definitely would like to see more of this story, and of the other "characters" that were involved in all the skulduggery and shenanigans of the tube and related lines.
Good to know the background story of Yerkes in detail. Evidently the press, banks and investors were fed a highly sanitised version when he arrived in London. Still, most dodgy businessmen just line their own pockets. Yerkes left a tram network, elevated railways, underground lines and an observatory. Like they said about Mussolini, at least he made the trains run on time. Part 2 will be good, but a lot of it is already in other Jago videos.
I spent Christmas Day 1977 riding the Philadelphia street car (tram to you and me) out to Reding and back. My children were enthused by it all. I spent a 4 season Sunday (rain, hail, snow and sunshine) in February 1984 riding up and down the Elevated street cars around Chicago. If I had known about Charles our Pantomime villain at those times, I would had been more overwhelmed with um; something! Thank you as ever, a great video.
Whenever the channel's mascot's name is mentioned "what, him again?" It always hits home just how effective Yerkes was, even if his magic wore off pretty quick. We must have more!
At this stage I want to wear a CTY t-shirt just to see how many people point at me and shout "Jago!" whenever I'm out and about wearing it whether on a train or not.
And why the standard “1920s” stock tube trains have a similar appearance to a 🇺🇸 street car; the “arched” ventilation bit in the middle of the roof and the “swept” cab windows at either end of the train.
As always, Jago, a fascinating and exquisitely told tale. But are we really not going to comment on Yerkes' most compelling feature? That man's magnificent 'tache deserves a video all of its own.
I'll cjime in with everyone else and say that more on Yerkes' story would be welcome. I'd wondered just what he'd done in Philadelphia and Chicago to develop his methodology on public transport, and this filled in a lot of the details. Well done!
What would have happened if Mr Yerkes hadn’t come over here.? Great video, I’ve been hearing about CTY over the years. What we need is a move, Tom Hanks would be an ideal Mr Yerkes
I click on a Jago notification in one second. A Jago notification with Yerkes in the title, half a second! 😂🎉 Edit: And that's a yes, please, of course!
Fascinating, well made and well told. And yes please, I’d very much like to hear more about Yerkes’ further career and what became of him in the end . . .
For a bond issue to be sold at par (or even at a premium) it depends on the interest rate it is bearing (if any), if the rate is generous (to the prevailing rates), then the par value is not impossible. The problem, that present banks have found, is if the prevailing interest rate goes down, (as it did), then logic says bonds held will go UP in trading price as they were/are paying a higher interest rate, even though you will book a capital loss on redemption in the future (if redeemable) the arbitrage rates (tables in them days, fast computer calcs nowdays), will always equal expected net future total yield adjusted for risk (of future interest rate changes ). If Interest rates RISE your bonds go down in value(as they are paying low historic rates), the fall is flexed depending when redemption is due. Depending on accounting you might have to record a "book loss" on bonds held as their value has dropped, but you will still get back the par rate at least on redemption , which will reduce any real loss. The greater the variation in interest rates the bigger the potential gap. There is also the impact of taxation, which may differ on income vs capital gains (and we can see the clever UK treasury move to cut capital gains allowances) also has to be factored in to look at the post tax net yield at any one time.
Thanks entirely to Mr Hazzard I now find myself looking at the photo of Yerkes every time I walk to St Pancras Station from the Circle and Metropolitan line platform. For anyone with the sense not to have noticed it, it's on the left, by the barriers as you exit the Underground.
There's an excellent biography of the man called *Robber Baron*. There's also the novel trilogy based on his life--he's renamed "Cowperwood"--by Theodore Dreiser. To say the man made enemies is understating it a tad. He also had corresponding success with the ladies...
A great insight into what happened in the US and, more importantly, what may have happened in the UK. Would welcome a follow up on the British antics of this US 'businessman'. Who knows if his 'entrepreneurial' methods had not been the same we may have a very different Underground system in London.
Why, pray tell me, has this scoundrel barely been mentioned, hitherto? One might have thought that such notoriety merits a reference or two in this estimable series of moving pictures.
It must be a derivation of the term "whole kit and caboodle" meaning the whole thing. This explains why there has never been an answer to the question of how many caboodles make up a shebang! CTY was more caboodle than kit, though the kit he left behind has warn pretty well.
Excellent video Jago. The shady dealings of Mr. Yerkes is very interesting. It also shows that nothing has really changed corruption wise in this country either!
In London, Yerkes seemed to get things done compared to the quarrelling managers of the other companies. He seemed to cut through the dithering. Interesting that to improve his reputation in Chicago, he funded the Yerkes Observatory which was visited by Einstein in the 1940s, the observatory still remains today. Who else is remembered for an observatory and the history of The Tube? I wish we had some Yerkes types in Melbourne when the railways were being built. I suppose he would have thought Melbourne was too small compared to Chicago and NY.
Jago. It would be interesting to know if he tried the same tactics in London, i.e. bribery and financial misdoings! After all, the UK railway barons (e,g, George Hudson) were prone to pay dividends out of capital and other financial slights of hand. Hudson would be a good story to tell.
The map at 3:57 and the painting at 8:02 ... are these online? I MUST SEE THEM BOTH AND DROOL OVER THEM (NOT ON THEM). And yes, please, a Part Deux about his London exploits.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch Yeah, but the seeking goes much faster if you know the title, which I didn't but do now ... on both counts. I'm not one to look for paintings to hang on walls ... but ... I might make an exception for Mr Logsdail's work here ...
Before C.T.Yerkes left Chicago he funded the Yerkes observatory in Wisconsin, between Chicago and Milwaukee. Such illustrious astronomers as Hale and Hubble (yes, that Hubble) worked there. So Yerkes reputation is rather good in the scientific community.
Are you kidding?!? Of course we’d love for you to continue the story!
yep yep yep yep yep yep
Yerkes is the channel’s mascot at this point
Or is it the other way around, Jago is Yerkes' mascot?
Need a Yerkes tshirt for the channel
Also need a Yerkes-themed thermos bottle for those interminable tram and train voyages we all (I presume) like so much!
His ghost was Jago's best man at the wedding
I thought this was a channel all about Yerkes... with the odd mention of Acton and the Northern Heights.
WARNING!!
Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT attempt to play the 'Charles Tyson Yerkes Drinking Game' during this episode!!!!!
I'm shorry but your shoo late, hic.
I think I've gone blind
If you limit yourself to each time he has to do a runner, it's quite pleasant.
Taking part is more important then winning...
I will have a bit of a lie down now.
Well, what are we supposed to do now that the Eurovision drinking game has been ruined? No key changes and extremely few wind machines, costume changes, ethnic instruments, white pianos...
Yerkes part 2 urgently require, please don't leave us in suspense!
Thank you Jago, you are the Yerkes to our systematic corruption.
He really is, tho. In a good way. XD
You are the T.Dan Smith to my Charles Yerkes
3:58 Jago deserves a standing ovation for being so smooth with this line.
Chicago hasn't changed much in that aspect, either.
I thought he was going to say "Run for President"
7:27 is my highlight for the episode, a very classy line.
@@TheStevewhelan Beat me to that one!
If they deemed a TV series about the American founder of Selfridges a good idea then I demand to know why we don't already have Mr. Yerkes series! Jago will have to take up the slack that television has dropped.
That would be good, though it wouldn't have the Dolly sisters.
@@grahvis but it would have trains
Your not wrong
Great idea
@@grahvis We want the Dolly sisters!!!
Yerkes donated enough money somewhere along the line to have the Yerkes Observatory built in Williams Bay, WI (Wisconsin to folks across the pond). It was the largest Refracting Telescope (had to Google that to make sure I got it right) at the time. My father grew up in Williams Bay. My aunt (my dad's sister), uncle plus kids lived across the street from the Yerkes. It is quite an impressive structure for small town Williams Bay.
The Yerkes 40 inch remains the largest successful refracting (lens as opposed to mirror) telescope ever built. The scientific force behind Yerkes Observatory was George Ellery Hale who went on to be the driving force behind the wildly successful Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar observatories in California. Hale had a talent, not only for science, but also for persuading wealthy people to fund observatories.
The refractor telescope is likely to remain the biggest of its type as it is at limit of how big a lens you can make.
I find it genuinely fascinating how many times the name of Yerkes crops up in the history of London's transport systems. I must confess that I'd never heard of him before I joined this very informative channel.
Can't wait for part two. You've Yerkes my chain. 😂
Yerkes, Watkin, Forbes, and probably Beeching as well, are the most commonly reoccurring names in Jago Hazzard history. I'm pleasantly surprised you decided to do an origin story on Yerkes. Greetings from Alberta, Canada!
Yep, a series of all these men would be much appreciated.
I'll add Brunel too.
Not forgetting Charles Holden and Harry Beck.
@@grahamwhitworth9454and Leslie Green
Beeching isn't half as interesting as the real villain, Ernest Marples.
Stanley Heaps, Leslie Green
My home town Philadelphia and the prison shown was Eastern state Penitentiary which is still there to be visited via tour. Streetcar is still here with new trolleys coming soon and some from the 1940s still running the streets. As much as i watch you channel it's great to see one of your stories involve my home town.
All my life I've been trying to 'get ostracized from polite society' - but can never quite pull it off! So well done Yerkes! Well done man!
Simple. Make the same mistake I did. Start talking to your neighbour's little girls and showing them how to make Daisy Chains on your lawn, in full view of the neighbours. "A Lie can be half-way around the World, before the Truth has got it's boots on." It only needs one uneducated moron to see the happy children enjoying themselves and your life-long good reputation is consigned to the gutter, because he jumped to the wrong conclusions. My 'Crime'? I'm a pensioner who has never married, because I spent 20-odd years caring for aged parents, until their deaths. It's taken many years for me to be able to clear my good name, but only because the moron got prosecuted for abusing his own daughter.
I thought I was the only one.
Today you just need a widows phone, simples 😂
@@johnmurray8428 Far from it, John. The World is full of self-opinionated people who think they are the font of all knowledge. There is a common belief, here in the UK, that any single old man living alone in a Council flat, can justifiably be considered to be a perv, or pedo; especially if he admits he's never married, or had any children. That was my first mistake. As I'm not in the habit of lying, it never occurred to me, that someone would twist an honest answer into something disgusting. I didn't help matters, by occasionally opening the main entrance door of the block for his daughter, as I was entering or leaving the building. Opening doors for women and children is a life-long habit, instilled in me by my late parents, when I was a schoolboy. Today, it can be construed as demeaning, sexist, or stalking. Old habits die hard. I still continue to be an English gentleman and I won't be giving up the habit, all the time I continue to draw breath. Peace be with you, brother.
I was never ostracized from polite society, but then again, I was never accepted in the first place 😄 ( I think I'm supposed to make some reference to cousin Lol about here. I'm not sure why)
Very cool, thanks. Definitely would like to see more of this story, and of the other "characters" that were involved in all the skulduggery and shenanigans of the tube and related lines.
Good to know the background story of Yerkes in detail. Evidently the press, banks and investors were fed a highly sanitised version when he arrived in London. Still, most dodgy businessmen just line their own pockets. Yerkes left a tram network, elevated railways, underground lines and an observatory. Like they said about Mussolini, at least he made the trains run on time. Part 2 will be good, but a lot of it is already in other Jago videos.
Of course we want more Yerkees content, bloke was a legend!
You can never have enough of Charles Tyson Yerkes, so more please
I spent Christmas Day 1977 riding the Philadelphia street car (tram to you and me) out to Reding and back. My children were enthused by it all.
I spent a 4 season Sunday (rain, hail, snow and sunshine) in February 1984 riding up and down the Elevated street cars around Chicago.
If I had known about Charles our Pantomime villain at those times, I would had been more overwhelmed with um; something!
Thank you as ever, a great video.
I thought the Philly folks call them trolleys rather than streetcars.
@@msg5507 You may be right, 1977 is a long time ago.
I was only seven in 1977, far too young to get trolleyed.
If the question is "would you like me to make a video about..." then you know the answer is always "yes."
Whenever the channel's mascot's name is mentioned "what, him again?" It always hits home just how effective Yerkes was, even if his magic wore off pretty quick. We must have more!
Yerkes, Watkin, Forbes and arguably Beeching are this channel's rouge gallery so yes, I wanna see Part 2 covering his London-based shenanigans. :)
rouge or rogue?
@@ludovica8221 Well, since they tended to leave people "seeing red," perhaps either would do.
@@Punnery 🤣
I like the way he did all this with his chest, swaggering about like he's not a whole criminal😂😂😂😂
Yes please, Jago.
Corruption is as old as humans, but Yerkes' London story would be fascinating to hear.
Thanks.
Finally the villainous backstory
At this stage I want to wear a CTY t-shirt just to see how many people point at me and shout "Jago!" whenever I'm out and about wearing it whether on a train or not.
That was fascinating. We definitely need a part 2.
Finally! A Yerkes origin story!
And why the standard “1920s” stock tube trains have a similar appearance to a 🇺🇸 street car; the “arched” ventilation bit in the middle of the roof and the “swept” cab windows at either end of the train.
Yerkes Post Boodle is URGENTLY needed. Please, Jago. 🙏🏿
This has been a long time coming and a definite yes to part two.
Yes please, you certainly left us there with a cliffhanger!
Yes part 2 please! Also something like this for the second mascot of this channel, Watkin, could be interesting as well!
As always, Jago, a fascinating and exquisitely told tale. But are we really not going to comment on Yerkes' most compelling feature? That man's magnificent 'tache deserves a video all of its own.
Brilliant stuff. I can never get enough of Mr. Yerkes
anyone else think this sounds of rail franchising under the tories ?
Excellent content Jago, thank you.
a FULL episode on Yerkes?? wish GRANTED, thank you Jago!!
I'll cjime in with everyone else and say that more on Yerkes' story would be welcome. I'd wondered just what he'd done in Philadelphia and Chicago to develop his methodology on public transport, and this filled in a lot of the details. Well done!
Yes, everything you do is excellent
Ah yes Yerkes, the mascot of the channel and central character!
Edit: Yerkes Part 2 is definitely needed greatly!
With interesting well researched stories like this of course we want the rest!
What would have happened if Mr Yerkes hadn’t come over here.? Great video, I’ve been hearing about CTY over the years. What we need is a move, Tom Hanks would be an ideal Mr Yerkes
I click on a Jago notification in one second. A Jago notification with Yerkes in the title, half a second! 😂🎉 Edit: And that's a yes, please, of course!
Fascinating, well made and well told. And yes please, I’d very much like to hear more about Yerkes’ further career and what became of him in the end . . .
This was quite a heavy one in the Yerkes' Drinking Game, yeesh. More please, Jago.
Yes please. Yerkes in the Great Wen would be wonderful!
We definitely need a UK follow up.
The life of Yerkes would make one hell of a movie. No-one would ever believe it.
He does seem, in America, to have been their version of Britain's George Hudson "The Railway King" half a century earlier.
You could blame it on the sunshine, blame it on the moonlight or blame it on the good times
On a technicality - an (avoirdupois) pound of lead does weigh more than a (troy) pound of gold.
The enigma Jago Hazzard does it again, thanks.
Yes, an update on Yerkes' London exploits please
Yerkes - where would we be without him !!
Yes! His influence on the development of the tube is obvious so a background video in just Yerkes would be great.
You are the chief Yerkes historian to my budding ear. More please!
An Entire Video about "That Man", I've been waiting for this for a while.
The video we have been waiting for for so long.
For a bond issue to be sold at par (or even at a premium) it depends on the interest rate it is bearing (if any), if the rate is generous (to the prevailing rates), then the par value is not impossible. The problem, that present banks have found, is if the prevailing interest rate goes down, (as it did), then logic says bonds held will go UP in trading price as they were/are paying a higher interest rate, even though you will book a capital loss on redemption in the future (if redeemable) the arbitrage rates (tables in them days, fast computer calcs nowdays), will always equal expected net future total yield adjusted for risk (of future interest rate changes ). If Interest rates RISE your bonds go down in value(as they are paying low historic rates), the fall is flexed depending when redemption is due. Depending on accounting you might have to record a "book loss" on bonds held as their value has dropped, but you will still get back the par rate at least on redemption , which will reduce any real loss. The greater the variation in interest rates the bigger the potential gap. There is also the impact of taxation, which may differ on income vs capital gains (and we can see the clever UK treasury move to cut capital gains allowances) also has to be factored in to look at the post tax net yield at any one time.
Thanks entirely to Mr Hazzard I now find myself looking at the photo of Yerkes every time I walk to St Pancras Station from the Circle and Metropolitan line platform. For anyone with the sense not to have noticed it, it's on the left, by the barriers as you exit the Underground.
Yes, of course we want the rest of it. We can't get enough of the old truffle hog.
I'm endlessly fascinated by Charles Tyson Yerkes and would welcome more of his story, told with your inimitable dry humour.
There's an excellent biography of the man called *Robber Baron*. There's also the novel trilogy based on his life--he's renamed "Cowperwood"--by Theodore Dreiser.
To say the man made enemies is understating it a tad. He also had corresponding success with the ladies...
@@andrewweitzman4006 Thanks, i'll try to find a copy of the biography.
@@gavmusic It's written by John Franch and published by the University of Illinois Press.
Fantastic video! Many thanks.
I knew it! This Yerkes fellow is a complete bounder! Harrumph.
Yep we would love to see more of Yerkes! and his Story in Britain. Great Video Jago
A great insight into what happened in the US and, more importantly, what may have happened in the UK.
Would welcome a follow up on the British antics of this US 'businessman'. Who knows if his 'entrepreneurial' methods had not been the same we may have a very different Underground system in London.
Thank you, great video, he may have been a crook, but he did help to build the greatest train system on earth. Regards JH
I live in the Surrey Broker Belt, the longer I live here the broker I get
Also, it hadn't escaped my notice that "Yerkes and the Boodle" would be a great name for an 80's covers band!!!
Sniff 'n The Tears covers.
"He needed to build 'Els' of his own, in order to stay on top" 😁🤣
Yerkes built his own Els to stay on top. Sublimely brilliant, Jago!
Both hands up for Part 2 of the Bodle man
3:50I thought you were going to say "Well, you run for President, obviously"
Hi Jago. More Yerkes. More Yerkes. More Yerkes!
Why, pray tell me, has this scoundrel barely been mentioned, hitherto? One might have thought that such notoriety merits a reference or two in this estimable series of moving pictures.
This video is long overdue given how often Yerkes is mentioned here 😂
I always learn something new from your videos;
I'm American, and had never heard of a "boodle" until now!
It must be a derivation of the term "whole kit and caboodle" meaning the whole thing. This explains why there has never been an answer to the question of how many caboodles make up a shebang! CTY was more caboodle than kit, though the kit he left behind has warn pretty well.
Definitely more on Yerkes, please.
Your voice is so soothing and informative. The story of your Nemeisis was interesti g lol.
Excellent video Jago. The shady dealings of Mr. Yerkes is very interesting. It also shows that nothing has really changed corruption wise in this country either!
8:02 - Where can I find that painting? Wow!
Yerkes! Yerkes! YERKES! The man, the legend, the shaker to our mover! Get him theme music and his own BBC series.
i fully expect this to be part 1!!! can't wait to watch part 2!!!
In London, Yerkes seemed to get things done compared to the quarrelling managers of the other companies. He seemed to cut through the dithering.
Interesting that to improve his reputation in Chicago, he funded the Yerkes Observatory which was visited by Einstein in the 1940s, the observatory still remains today.
Who else is remembered for an observatory and the history of The Tube?
I wish we had some Yerkes types in Melbourne when the railways were being built. I suppose he would have thought Melbourne was too small compared to Chicago and NY.
What a fine moustache he has - and that’s probably the nicest thing anyone can say about this scoundrel, Yerkes!
Apart from him setting up or expanding the public transport systems in a number of great cities?
Jago. It would be interesting to know if he tried the same tactics in London, i.e. bribery and financial misdoings! After all, the UK railway barons (e,g, George Hudson) were prone to pay dividends out of capital and other financial slights of hand. Hudson would be a good story to tell.
Very interesting vid Jago, I'm sure we would all love to hear more about Mr Yerkes
Yes of course, more Yerkes please.
Obviously a good deal of research has gone into the tale of Yerkes. Good work. A definite vote for details of Yerkes exploits in London.
The map at 3:57 and the painting at 8:02 ... are these online? I MUST SEE THEM BOTH AND DROOL OVER THEM (NOT ON THEM).
And yes, please, a Part Deux about his London exploits.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch The name got me to the US Library of Congress site that has it as well. Much drooling now - thank you!
Any idea the London painting?
@@JP_TaVeryMuch Yeah, but the seeking goes much faster if you know the title, which I didn't but do now ... on both counts.
I'm not one to look for paintings to hang on walls ... but ... I might make an exception for Mr Logsdail's work here ...
Definitely! Continue his story!
I can't keep going wih my own self-made drinking Yerkes game! Many thanks for this.
Yes, I definitely want to hear the rest!
Charles Yerkes on a Friday, my week is complete.
Of course we need a part 2
"The Financier" - a novel by Theodore Dreiser - was based on Yerkes' life. (1914)
Yes. More of his story, please.
I'll put a vote in for a part 2 to this one
Yes please to more on Yerkes!
Funny, been thinking had their been a Yerkes back story full vid done by Jago previously.
Before C.T.Yerkes left Chicago he funded the Yerkes observatory in Wisconsin, between Chicago and Milwaukee. Such illustrious astronomers as Hale and Hubble (yes, that Hubble) worked there. So Yerkes reputation is rather good in the scientific community.