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.
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)
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!
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.
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.
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!
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 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!
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.
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.
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'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!
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.
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...
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 . . .
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.
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.
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.
Good grief! My favourite Hazzard character Yerkes, the man who was responsible for much of the London tube/underground was born only 10 years after Beethoven's death.
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.
Governor Altgeld is remembered at the University of Illinois at Urbana because the most beautiful and interesting building on campus is named for him. It has the Mathematics department and a carillon.
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!
_"[Yerkes] could make money where no-one else could."_ My Uncle George was like that, too. Did seven years for Forgery after making it in his basement.
(Originally posted as a reply to Robert Fletcher) I tried to post a comment on this a little while ago but it didn't seem to take. I have visited the Yerkes Observatory -- it's in Williams Bay WI on the shore of Geneva Lake. The University of Chicago used to run it (the world's largest refracting telescope -- 40 inches diameter -- is there) and the buildings are quite striking. The University pulled out in 2018 and the place is being refurbished. Hale went on to much bigger things -- three big telescopes in California, including the 200-inch reflector at Mt Palomar. In my now-lost post I made the "observation" that Yerkes' involvement suggested that he could sometimes be "far sighted", and by contrast with his Chicago shenanigans, the Observatory has much better "optics".
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...
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
Yerkes part 2 urgently require, please don't leave us in suspense!
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.
Finally! A Yerkes origin story!
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)
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
If the question is "would you like me to make a video about..." then you know the answer is always "yes."
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.
Yerkes Post Boodle is URGENTLY needed. Please, Jago. 🙏🏿
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.
Finally the villainous backstory
Ah yes Yerkes, the mascot of the channel and central character!
Edit: Yerkes Part 2 is definitely needed greatly!
You can never have enough of Charles Tyson Yerkes, so more please
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 🤣
Of course we want more Yerkees content, bloke was a legend!
I like the way he did all this with his chest, swaggering about like he's not a whole criminal😂😂😂😂
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!
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.
Yes part 2 please! Also something like this for the second mascot of this channel, Watkin, could be interesting as well!
Yes please, Jago.
Corruption is as old as humans, but Yerkes' London story would be fascinating to hear.
Thanks.
a FULL episode on Yerkes?? wish GRANTED, thank you Jago!!
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!
Yes please. Yerkes in the Great Wen would be wonderful!
That was fascinating. We definitely need a part 2.
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 - where would we be without him !!
The enigma Jago Hazzard does it again, thanks.
Brilliant stuff. I can never get enough of Mr. Yerkes
This has been a long time coming and a definite yes to part two.
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.
We definitely need a UK follow up.
The life of Yerkes would make one hell of a movie. No-one would ever believe it.
You could blame it on the sunshine, blame it on the moonlight or blame it on the good times
This was quite a heavy one in the Yerkes' Drinking Game, yeesh. More please, Jago.
Yes, of course we want the rest of it. We can't get enough of the old truffle hog.
Yes please, you certainly left us there with a cliffhanger!
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.
With interesting well researched stories like this of course we want the rest!
anyone else think this sounds of rail franchising under the tories ?
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.
I live in the Surrey Broker Belt, the longer I live here the broker I get
Yes, an update on Yerkes' London exploits please
This video is long overdue given how often Yerkes is mentioned here 😂
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
He does seem, in America, to have been their version of Britain's George Hudson "The Railway King" half a century earlier.
Yes! His influence on the development of the tube is obvious so a background video in just Yerkes would be great.
I knew it! This Yerkes fellow is a complete bounder! Harrumph.
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!
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.
Hi Jago. More Yerkes. More Yerkes. More Yerkes!
An Entire Video about "That Man", I've been waiting for this for a while.
3:50I thought you were going to say "Well, you run for President, obviously"
Yerkes! Yerkes! YERKES! The man, the legend, the shaker to our mover! Get him theme music and his own BBC series.
You are the chief Yerkes historian to my budding ear. More please!
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.
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 . . .
The video we have been waiting for for so long.
1000 views in 25 minutes is testimony to the power of Yerkes.
Maybe it was the layout of the prison in which he was incaserated inspired him to move to UK😅
"He needed to build 'Els' of his own, in order to stay on top" 😁🤣
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.
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.
His name was Yerkes!
He was a showman!
With tube-lines in his head and profit-projections up to there!
Yes, everything you do is excellent
"The Financier" - a novel by Theodore Dreiser - was based on Yerkes' life. (1914)
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.
Thank you, great video, he may have been a crook, but he did help to build the greatest train system on earth. Regards JH
Finally, A villain origin story
Ah, Yerkes.
🥇👏🏻👏🏻
🏆🥇 you beat me by 4 seconds
Not that you give a dam
Yerk the Jerk
@@seanbonella if he never existed, the tube would be nonexistent and jago would be a…football RUclipsr or something?
Excellent content Jago, thank you.
Yes please to more on Yerkes!
Good grief! My favourite Hazzard character Yerkes, the man who was responsible for much of the London tube/underground was born only 10 years after Beethoven's death.
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.
I see that mischievous mustache, and I click
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?
Fantastic video! Many thanks.
Governor Altgeld is remembered at the University of Illinois at Urbana because the most beautiful and interesting building on campus is named for him. It has the Mathematics department and a carillon.
A man from Chicago built the London Underground, and a man from London built the Chicago Elevated
I can't keep going wih my own self-made drinking Yerkes game! Many thanks for this.
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!
Both hands up for Part 2 of the Bodle man
Yahoo! Yerkes! Yes! Yes! Yes! 🙏
Yerkes built his own Els to stay on top. Sublimely brilliant, Jago!
Yep we would love to see more of Yerkes! and his Story in Britain. Great Video Jago
Definitely more on Yerkes, please.
Yes of course, more Yerkes please.
Missed opportunity to title this "Yerkes Boodle Dandy" but a solid origin story well told nevertheless ]:)
Of course we need a part 2
I'll put a vote in for a part 2 to this one
Your voice is so soothing and informative. The story of your Nemeisis was interesti g lol.
_"[Yerkes] could make money where no-one else could."_ My Uncle George was like that, too. Did seven years for Forgery after making it in his basement.
Very interesting vid Jago, I'm sure we would all love to hear more about Mr Yerkes
(Originally posted as a reply to Robert Fletcher) I tried to post a comment on this a little while ago but it didn't seem to take. I have visited the Yerkes Observatory -- it's in Williams Bay WI on the shore of Geneva Lake. The University of Chicago used to run it (the world's largest refracting telescope -- 40 inches diameter -- is there) and the buildings are quite striking. The University pulled out in 2018 and the place is being refurbished. Hale went on to much bigger things -- three big telescopes in California, including the 200-inch reflector at Mt Palomar. In my now-lost post I made the "observation" that Yerkes' involvement suggested that he could sometimes be "far sighted", and by contrast with his Chicago shenanigans, the Observatory has much better "optics".
Yes! I's love to hear more about Yerkes. He is the villain to my pantomime. Er, I think!