Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-12
Mr.. wright's insight into character


Mr.. Wright's insight into character
was another element of his eminent sue
cess. There is "A striking analogy be-
tween the execution of Il military cam
Il paign and the execution of large bust
ness schemes. Success depends so large
~ or conductors and subordinates that
"A commanders fitness for his position
turns ut last on his judgment of men.
Selecting the right men and putting
these right men In their right places.
success may be reduced to certainty.
Mr.. Wright's faculty of discernment
served him excelently in his manage
ment OF business, but as no man is proof
against deception, when an error in
judgment became obvious, like good
tactitian he knew how to change his adj
justments to meet emergencies. Ii is
here that nerve finds Its appropriate
place i'm business and enables a master
mind to bring victory out Of defeat.
Mr.. Wright interest i'm his employees
and his great sympathetic qualities find
lifting place as factor of success i'm
his business life. Fairly understand
ing men he was not afraid to trust them
and the confidence he so generously
repOsed in them inspired them with
strong attachments to his person and
his fortunes. Their fidelity and devo-
ton to his interests always met with
ample rewards. 1t is safe to SAY that
every young man in Mr.. Wright's ser
vice, showing himself worthy Of his
confidence and forming a business char
acter on his own model of integrity and
efficiency, has been so directed in his
pursuits and so generously aided by his
employer as to find himself in possess
ION OF both an enviable position and
fortune. They have his sympathies and
friendship to such degree as to enrich
their own business life with nOblest
qualities and impulses. And well has
Mr.. Wright been repaid for his kind !
ness, his sympathy, his generosity to |
those in his employ 10y the steady march |
OF his accumulatiOnS TO an ample for /
tune. thus furnishing an illustration of
the truth of an old maxim: He that /
watereth shall be watered himself
Mr.. Wright's business career has been .
slngularly free from all troubles involv-
eel III the relations of capital to labor. /
The attachments and friendships that
associate themselves around his person
al existence make his life rich inheri
lance as thoughts of age steal in upon
his vigorous understanding.
The highest relations that man sus-
tains to society and his race furnish the
concluding observation on Mr.. Wright'S
business history. For many long wears
he has steadily manifested the noble
virtues of liberality and philanthropy.
He has ever been the intelligent friend
OF all material Improvements and all
civil, social and religious progress. He
has done much for all the business in
terests of this section of Michigan. He
has made liberal contributions TO all
the objects and agencies of benevolence
and philanthropy that made a suitable
appeal to his intelligence and Judgment.
But there has been no ostentation
about his charities and beuefactions.
Plain and sensible in his tastes and
thorough and substantial i'm
all his doings, he aids and supports all
worthy institutions much less from inn
pulse and sensi3ility than from the ex-
ercise OF his judgment in reference to
practical results. He has a high ap-
probation of enlightened public senti-
ment and does not venture in any di-
'ection with great gifts where chill
ng atmosphere may not invite the OPP
'ratlons OF bounty that obeys the law ,
,f cooperative industry. The high
st type of philanthropy helps those
who willingly help themselves. What
arge schemes of good. through the
thoughtful bcstowment Of wealth. Mr..
Wright may have in contemplation are
inown only to himself. From the en-
hence of life and fortune he now oc-
upies, his clear vision may circum-
cribe some grand results of his great
business career that shall give his
lame and memory permanent place
n the record of history. His wonder
I'll constitution and strength give him
romise of many years of activity be-
ore his final retirement from the all
pursuits of his busy life and
he wishes and prayers of his friends
nd the community at large converge
D the confidence based in their knowl-
dye of his character that his sun at
,st shall set in the mellow radience
nat streams from the horizon of earth I
existence to the zenith of immortali-
7. so that ut ercning tine il shall be light.