Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-09-28
SOLUTION OF THE LABOR
PROBLEM.

/ PROBLEM.
The Carnegie troubles With the
iaboring men have brought the labor
problem TO the front IN the minds OF
all. The only solution lies in the di.
vinely given Golden Rule, GAS ye
would that men should do to you, do
We also unto them" This has been
strikingly illustrated by the millionaire
merchant prince and Evangelist. MIR.
Charles n. Crit.enton, who has taken
INTO partnership five of the heads Of
departments in his great wholesale
house in New York, pronounced by
the New York Times "probsbly the
largest IN the world" The New York
press is full OF praise for this notable
deed. The New York Herald saws
I''On its face the transaction was simply
the reorganization of the house OF
Charles n. Crittenton as an incorpo.
rated company.
As q matter of fact ii wss voluntary
surrender by Mr.. Crittenton OF con-
siderable interest in his very prosper
ous business to five of his old employees
Many employers have adopted one
M ans or another of making their en-
lployes sharers in the profits of their
business, and thereby securing their
hearty cooperation. But the volun-
Itary transfer by a man of large means
of large interest IN his business to
his employees without the payment of q
Denny, is unique.
Edward G. Wells, Third Vice Presl-
lent of the company, says: 'It is cap
talized at $500, 900, Mr.. Crittenton
having turned into it every dollars
worth OF assets of the house of Charles
Y. Crittenton. of which he was the
sole owner. The stock is all taken,
being held by Mr. Crittenton, Messrs.
Alfred B. Kennedy, William a. Dem
irst, Franklin B. Waterman, Thomss
f. Delano and myself. Mr.. CritteEton
is President of the Company.
"All of the men who have been taken
INTO the company are old employees,
1.-The youngest of the five in point of
service being myself, with record of
thirteen years in Mr.. Crittenton's en-
Iploy. MIR. Kennedy, who is the buyer
for the house, has served twenty-six
years. MIR. Demarst, head of the retail
department, twenty years; Mr.. Delauo,
the general manager, twenty-eight
Years, and Mr.. Waterman, who runs
our advertising department, sixteen
years. Others may be taken an.
81 presume that We were selected on
account of our long service and thor
Ough familiarity with every detail of
the business of the house, but should
not be surprised if some other old en-
lployes were taken into the company
later"
Mr.. Crittenton is himself devotin8
his entire time to Evangelistic work
and his fortune tn founding Florence
lCrittenton Missions for the rescue of
erring girls. The story of their found
ling touches all hearts to tenderness
and all eyes to tears. A few years
since his little four. yesr-old Flsrence,
IN her dying bed PLEADED "Paps sing
l'Ihe Sweet Bye and Bye With
lshokIng voice and breaking heart her
l'athsr sang the beautiful words and
her beloved spirit fosted heavenward
IN the wings of song. Though the
Bye and Bye might be sweet, the pres
ent without his darling seemed so over
whelmingly dreary, that he did not
care to live. But IN his sorrow the
Saviour who had taken the little child
n his bosom, brought comfort to his
oleeding hear tand he found strangely
rue the words of Christ my peace I
give unto yOu."
Then he began to prove that he was
indeed follower of the lowly Nazafene
who forever digDitied labor by being
Himself a carpenter, who in the midst
Of his toll uttered these royal words,
which forever settle all strife between
capital and labor, by this shall all
men know that ye are my disciples il
sc have love one to another"
Mr.. Crittenton was so full of love
that he went down into the slums and
helped to upIift the fallen, and Que
might when he was pleading with a
poor errIng girl to leave her life of
shame, he said in the words of Christ,
I'Neither do L condemn thee, go and sin
no more" Through her tears she said
l"Where can / go?" Quick as fash
came the thought "Where can she
go?" scarce a door save a door OF
sin is open to her and then aud
there he determined as a memorial to
his own little Florence to found g
home where other fathers little girls
lost in the whirlpool of shame, might
be rescued and restored to a life ol
virtue. So at 21-23 Blocker St, New
York. nine years ago was opened the
First Florence Crittenton Mission, a
large double four story house, where
food and shelter and clothing and @
home are freely given, and under the
Influence OF Mother Prindle the W. @.
L. q. Matron, hundreds become Chris
lain women. Over five hundred girls
annually find home here and three.
fourths of them are redeemed.
Mr.. Crittenton has also established
Florence Crittenton Missions in New
Brunswick, n. j., San Jose, Sacra
mento, Los Angeles and San Francis.
leo, California. The latter was for.
merly known a. "The Pacific Rescue
Home" successfully carried on by 6
number of philanthropic people, but
since Mr.. Crittenton has become Its
President the name of his darling
child has been given to it.
These Missions represent en- invest.
ment of nearly quarter of a million
dollars, while his private charities foot
lup nearly as much more. 1t is the
dream of his life to found a Florence
ICrittenton Mission in every large city
in America and Europe, and plans tc
that end are made with the Woman s
Christian Temperance Union, under
the leadership of Miss Francis E. Viii
lard and Lady Henry Somerset.
AS an Evangelist, Mr.. Crittenton is
wonderfully blest of God, thousands
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