St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27

+. az now rlcn Inll Armour
q 81 is he himself declares
E& "a he has no idea. 1t is
Wy ~ certain, however, that
~ NesShe can "clean up" as
S% ,Mhthe Western phrase is,
@SGSS& G8not less than S25,0O0,-
$500 5000. He carries more
NAly \SEIR business in his head
% NGI, than any two men in
R>C 6HChicago. He lives in
very modest house on Prairie avenue.
Every night, winter and summer, he
goes to bed promptly at 8 o'clock. 1t
doesn't make any difference what is
going on in the house. If there is COM
pany, he excuses himself. Ii his wife
is giving a reception, she has to receive
alone after o'clock. Every morning,
winter and summer, he is taking his
breakfast at e O'Clock. and at Z, before
any of his clerks appear, he is at his
desk hard at work upon his immense
correspondence. Nevertheless, for
man worth S25,000,000, Mr.. Armour is
exceedingly cOmpaniOnable, and when
he sits down with little company after
dinner at hrs home he is Jolly good
soul. He is one of the most charitable
rich men i'll America. His gifts aggre-
gate about 100000 year, and there is
not public charity of any kind in Chi
cago that does not receive his
unsolicited check. Very few people
know this, and he does not
like to have it known. He is Repub-
lican, but he cares a great deal more
about the price of st. Paul stock than
he does about a century of Republican
politics. He is heavy holder of st.
Paul, and is credited with the intention
of moving the shops and headquarters
of that enormous system from Mil
WaulIee to some place in the suburbs of
Chicago and building up a model town
like Pullman.
Pullman, however, as a matter of
fact. Is anything but blooming sue
cess as model town. The people are
i'll a chronic state of irritability and
complaint making about the alleged
hardShips they labor under. The phil
anthropic gentlemen who helped George
NJ. Pullman plan the model town drew
up set Of cast iron rules about things
which would be excellent if the inhabi-
tantS were machines, bat are entirely
unSuited TO men and women. AS the
entire place is owned by the Pullman
company, there is no chance for the en-
pioyes Of the big shops to get away
from its control. The residents say
that the company is the very worst of
landlords, too. Most of the houses
were hastily and poorly built. and it is
harder to get the company to make any
repairs than it is to induce Chrystie
street {NeW York; landlord to put a new
knob on the door.
A strange, silent. auStere sort of man
is George VI. Pullman, after whom this
town was named. When he appeared
III court the other day to press his suit
about the veStbule train against his old
rival, the Wagner company, he seemed
as nervous and excited as a Schoolbov
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about from Chicago to New York and
then to Washington in an uncertain
way that is rather pulling to those who
come here to do business with him.
His home on Prairie avenue is one of
the finest in the West The summer
residence he is building Oh Pullman
island, in the st. Lawrence, will be one
Of the curiosities to the visitors to the
Thousand islands when it is finished
Certainly there will be nothing like it
in this country. Mr.. PullmanS wealth
is estimated at $G,000,00O. He is cor
daily hated by the anarchists and is not
nearly aS popular as Phil Armour.
When Armour was just getting his
pork packing business well started. a
good many years ago. there was in his
cutting department sturdy-limbed,
bright-faced young Irishman, whose
duty 1t was to split hog carcasSeS length
hioC WIN DlS ClCdNcI. MI.
used TO inspect the works pretty closely,
and ne was particularly we'll pleased
with the energy and vim with
which the young man whacked away
with his cleaver. He made him the
leader of his gang, and finally foreman
of the cutting department.. The young
man was industrious and Woodworking
III every position. until his employer
made him the superintendent and gave
him an interest in his business. Now he
is recognized as Mr.. ArmOur'S partner,
and is worth 100000. His name is
Michael Cudahy. He lives on Michigan
avenue in much handsomer house than
his old employers. The Cudahys are
leaders in Chicago's best society.
Potter Palmer, the millionaire hotel
keeper, lives in an immense greensboro
turreted and lowered castle on the lake
shore, near Lincoln park. His wife and
the eldest daughter of A. J. Smell, who
was murdered by a burglar, divide the
glory of being called the most beautiful
women in Chicago. He is about twenty
years her elder. He owns 5000, 600
worth of real estate, and his big hotel
is said to bring him in S500,000 year.
He pays very little attention to it. and
it practically runs itself on its reputa-
ton. 1t is the Democratic headquarters,
and during political campaign it is
sight to see. They pack abOdt 1000
people into it during convention. Mr..
Palmer used to be a prominent Demo
cratic politician, but he told an inter
viewer the other day that he had lost all
interest in politics and didn't care rap
who was president. 1t is noticed, how
ever, that he went down to Washington
to assist in the effort to get the Demo-
cratic convention here, and that the
Democratic Central committee fully eX-
pect this year the donation of $4,000
which he has not failed to give it every
year for a very long time. In some
campaigns it has been about all the
funds it has had.
Marshall Field is the richest man in
Chicago. He made his money in the
dry goods business, and he is probably
the most successful merchant in that
trade since A. I. Stewart. He is worth
S30,000,000. The great stone pile occu-
pied by his wholesale department made
President Cleveland stare very long and
hard when he saw it for the first time
last fall. Mr.. Field was an object of
peculiar hatred to the anarchists. and
he had mortal dread of them. When
he built the wholesale building he had
them particularly in mind, and the
structure looks much like a big, gloomy
fortress. The story of his quarrel with
his old partner, l.. Il. Letter, is very
familiar. When they parted, Mr. Field
took the retail business and Mr.. Letter
took the fiye-Story iron block in which
1t is conducted. Lately Mr.. Field has
bought all the ground adjoining the
store and when his lease from Letter
expires he will have a much bigger
building of his own to move into Mr..
Letter continues to live in Mr.. Blaine's
Mansion in Washington, and Chicago
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