The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-21

lio pdChiu5 ESTABLISHMENT IN chicago known
| as the Cork house, now owned by Swift. His
present plant is the old Myers house. and in
conjunction with a stock company he oper-
ates between this city and New York 600 Lip
| ton cars for the handling of meat He IS now
having built sixty new cars, which will be
| run between Chicago and the seaboard. From
| their color, they will be known as Lipton's
| white squadron.
| With all his business interests to look after
and to keep in perfect condition Sir Thomas
is firm believer in frequent vacations for
business men. He sets the example by trav-
cling as often and as much as he can. He
HES away to Egypt to Ceylon whenever he
feels like it, and visits the United States
philosophical and his business duties do not
weigh upon him as they m ght another
given to work.
Commercial men of aesthetic tastes will
deprecate his free use of advertising as vuI-
gar while seeing their business pass to his
hands. But Sir Thomas takes his age as he
finds it and appeals to popular curiosity in
the strongest way to move it. He feels that
1t is necessary he should do this to keep up
interest in his great enterprises, and he likes
to do it. The sport is much like angling for
black bass.
A year or so ago, to take from his shout
ders some of the responsibilities he had
created, Sir Thomas sod out his provision
interests to an Incorporated company, known
as Upton, Limited He was paid s125Oo,-
GOO. He himself subscribed for one-third of
the stock Of the new company. The Bank
VI SCOLtdGu OueTeQ the remaining St0ck to
the public. This remainder was sub -cri.el
fer six times over. The first day fer the sub
scrIptions the Bank of Scotland, which he'd
the books. received $4,000 letters, and the
crowd Of personal applicants was so great
the regular business Of the bank could MT
be transacted. The second day the bank
found 1t necessary to rent an extra building
to accommodate the public.
At the time Of the queens jubilee the
Princess of Wales conceived the idea thai
dinner for the outcast noor of London would
be one of the fitting celebrations Of the time
The princess desired to reach the very low
est of Londons poor and give them a sub
stantial dinner After giving a large sum
herself popular subscriptions were solicited
so that $15OOO0 might be raised fer the din
ner. Lord Mayor Sir George Faudel Phillips,
of London. and his wife had charge Of The
fund, but the popular subscriptions came
slowly, and finally only reached sos, 900.
The prospect was that the dinner would
be dismal failure and the peop'e connected
with it were feeling very blue. Just then
Upton learned that more money was NEEDED.
He Immediately drew his check for s125 90
and sent it to the lord mayor. asking that
his name be not connected with the gift
some one in the Bank Of Scotland could not
keep his mouth shut about this big cheek
and soon all England was ringing with the
praises of the Scotch provisioner. The n
ner for the outcast poor was SO succ ssfu1
that 100000 hungry people were fed on The
first day and 45 .0GO on the second day.
Shortly AFTER tDlS the rSp~Tt was CiTCulrJou
that Sir Thomas was to marry the daughter
of Lord Mayor Phillips but he will not EN-
firm this, and 1t Is not believed. He says
he is old enough Gorty-eighD to support
the head Of London, was well known through
the fact that it raised $10.C0o0o0 for the poor
in India and other parts Of the world.
Lipton's opinion Of the poor is:
eT like to help them. I like t. be with
them and see how to make them happy If
did not have so much business 1 would like
hA fn hon
Upton does not drink nor smoke. He
breakfasts on oatmeal porridgee, boiled eggs.
bread and butter and tea; For dinner he
potatoes and Appolhnaris. IN the evening
he is ready to quit with chop. bread and
butter and tea. One of his chief recreations
acres Of land near London filled with orchids
He believes in the use of short skirts by
women when riding the bicycle.
one as compared with that Of other great
employers. He mixes up with those who
labor for him and learns their names. He
believes in arbitration and he invites all
grievances of his employers to be settled in
| that way. He is ready to listen to complaints
| and ready to remedy wrongs when 1t Is on
| his SIDE He has never been troubled with
| strike.
The income tax which he pays to the
British government annually is ssOo.o0o
| His portrait by Herkemer is in the Royal
academy. and he has been knighted by
Queen Victoria
the first popular advertising which he ever
ATTEMPTED was to have two fat hogs driven
| through the streets Of Glasgow. They bore
| the label:
sLipton's Orphans
Ten days ago he visited Marlborough house
| and gave the Princess of Wales $50, 900 with
which to start dining rooms in Tendon at
which working people may secure substan-
tial meals for from to 8 cents.
will ta kQ fnferAst in him
since he Is the challenger now for another
race for the Americas cup held by the New
York Yacht club. OF the challenge he says:
"The challenge Is absolutely condiionless.
as I am perfectly satisfied that the race will
be conducted with the same impartality as
are the Cannes races, and that all Americans
desire the best boat to win, as my col
leagues and myself do. My boat will be a
ninety-footer, cutter-rigged."
The boat will be known as the Shamrock
and will be built at Belfast. It's completion
is looked for in February. Charles Russell,
the representative OF Upton, Is expected to
arrive in New York within ten days and ar
range the details of the race with the OIL
ciais of the New York Yacht club.
The Defender was the last American boat
to prevent old England from carrying off the
Americas cup, but the Herreshoffs are said
to have designs in contemplation which Will
give a much faster boat with which to meet
the Shamrock than the Defender was. Capt.