The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-03-16

make up the favorite bad-weather costume.
Most of these men ride horses, as the dis
tances between pens are too far and time
too preo ious to admit of foot travel. They
dash about the yards like wild Western cow
boys, and when they come in after sharp
Dive despatched from head to foot with
mud, and stock-yards mud at that, the
sight is picturesque one. On pleasant
days it Is not so bad and more atten ton is
given to the conventionalities. 1t is in fine
weather that the visitor see these men
clad in neat business suits and wearing
''boiled" shirts, with blazing diamonds in
the frunts, and goes away wondering what
they do t o earn living.
There is no dispute among those who
know, of tho statement that Will Mallory.
tie head cattle buyer for tho Nelson Morris
| company and general manager of the bust
mes. is he hi. h st salaried man ut the yards.
Nh. Mallory is credited by wellposted men
with drawing $4,000 year and a percentage
of the profits besides. Will Leavitt, head
buyer for Swift G. Co., is Another man who
gets a big salary, something like $4,000 SO
The rumor goes, and he is worth every cent
of it if II the good things said about MIN
by his feliow-woI &ers are true. just what
1dluth ID duDuTl, lie uesiu uuA cF 1Of Al
mour & Co, is paid no outsider knows, as
Mr.. Bradburn like all the rest of the men
| in the same line. refuses to discuss the mat
ter, but he is rated as a $40 00U beauty. n lie
has been with Mr.. Armour twelve years
| and has full charge of all the cattle buying.
Everybody who has ever done business at
the yards knows Paddy" Burns, the repre-
| sentative of the Eastman company. New
! York export frm. Burns is one of the
| characters of tho yards. An Irishman by
birth, he has all the sLrewdness and humoI
OF the race and is sharp trader. He is an
other of tue big-sa laried men.
George Pratt, a Vermonter who has been
nineteen years with Armour & Co looks
after all their hog buying, for which he is
paid about 7,000 year. The other prin eli
pal hog buyers salary are Ben Butler
with Swift & Co., George Nicholas wit h
Nelson Morris. Dan Brown with the Inter
national company, Sam Wells with the Con-
tinental. james Turner with the Anglo
American, and Charles Cooper with Viles
& Robbins. Cooper is an Illinois boy VINO
came 10 Chicago from fam at kankakee
| in 1878 when he was only l6 years old. He
| started in at once .uying hogs and made ii
success of il. For the last four teen years
he has been with the Underwood company,
now known as Viles & Robbins
| Statesmen are of a class by themselves.
Men who have ability to get full value for
sto are worth big money and they know
| it. They argue that if they can aarn $1,000
OF $4,000 year for somebody else they can
! earn moro for themselves and as eonse
quence most of them are in business on
| their own amount. They solicit consign-
menfs of stock to sell on commission, and
when they have built up trade their in
comes are very large. There are few firms
| that hire sa lesmen. as in most cases the
firms are composed of practical nen who do
| the work themselves. They get around
| the yards just as he buyers do, but they
| have harder tine of it. for while the buy
er has 10 satisfy only the man who en-
ploys bin the salesman has to please all
| Lis customers. and tley so, 81 lines number
hUnd1 eds. Of course there is no way of
| finding out what thesc & esInen make, but
| the fact that they have Teen known to re-
| fnse salaries OF the size mel toned is a pref
| ty good indirat ion that he busine SIS is very
| profit bic. George W. sh nnon Of the firm
OF Sham ON + says Ills Iade will aver.
age fully Ss.GHu,GO1 a Year. and has run as