The Newtown bee., 1899-06-30

in the fact that during the recent five years of hard times the receipts of the business fell off only 10 per cent, com pared with the previous five years of the largest prosperity ever enjoyed by this business in particular or the country in general.
 One secret of the success of these en- terprises is ascribed to the fact that it has been their policy to allow competent employees or heads of departments to acquire an interest in the properties. While these competent young men are associated with MT Myrick in the present purchase, practically all the old stock holders keep all their stock, ard many of them have taken as much more ss they could secure. A number of the wealthi- est and most conservative business men and fiuanciars in Southern New England, New York and Chicago have also become heavily interested. A large number of well-to-do farmers, country merchants, rural bankers, and others influential in the farming community, are also identi- fled with these properties as stockholders. It is understood that they are more than satisfied and that little if any of the stock of either company can now be obtained.
 Herbert Myrick was born at Arlington, Mass, August 20, 1860. His father is Rev Fl. l.. Myrick, now an Episcopal clergyman at Sing Sing, N. Y. His mother was Lucy Caroline (Whittemore) Myrick, daughter of Gershom White more and granddaughter of Amos, the inventor. The father, Rev Fl. L. Myrick, is 8 man of great learning and much ability. The mother was & naturally brilliant woman of great energy and en- thusiastic temperament, highly cultured, and Of considerable proficiency in litera ture, music and painting. The minister's family was large one, times were hard, and all the children were early taught to work indoors and out, in the various New England towns where their youth was spent.
 The father was an amateur horticul- turist, who built what was perhaps the first greenhouse in Hancock county, Me-, and with the help of his sons conducted & model garden on the parsonage grounds at Castine, Me. While still boy, Her. bert also was keeply interested In horti- culture and at II years of age was put in charge of greenhouse. All the chill dren early had such education as the village schools permitted.
 In the spring of 1873, Rev Mir MYrick and his son, Herbert, went West in search of health and fortune. They finally To- csted at Fort Collins, Larimer county, Northern Colorado. Here the boy had 8 variety of experiences in farming, herd ing cattle and sheep, fighting grasshop- pers, etc, until his father bought an in- terest in the local paper, the Fort Collins Standard, and young Myrick went into it's office as printers devil. Somethit g more than & year later he became foreman of the office. Soon afterward the hard times necessitated discharging the help and running the paper on ''patent out sides,n which ls another name for buying half of the paper already printed each week. Thereafter young Myrick did all the typographical and mechanical work alone on this country weekly, as we'll as the job printing for county bigger than Massachusetts with about as many pop ulation as Podnnk. Finally the property was sold out, young Myrick taking the contract to freight the outfit to Black Hawk, Colorado, where he worked for some time on g new paper printed by it and then went to an Episcopal boarding school at Golden known as Jarvis Hall, now one of the prominent educational institutions of Denver.
 When his money WAS gone, young My rick went to Denver BE printer, where be also had varied experience. Indeed, these four years in Colorado, from the ages of 1917, were full of experience, adventure and sshustling for livlng.'' He seems to have an inexhaustible reper toire of stories based on these pioneer days.
 h 1877, Herbert Myrick returned to the old home farm at Concord, MiddIesex county, Mass., and conducted it for a couple of years, also attending the Con- cord high school. It was here that he learned Hhow to make milk at A l0ss'' and still have the farm show profit. Is1 was here, too, that he helped to organize one of the first local associations of milk producers. In the fall of 1878, he enter cd the Massachusetts Agricultural c0I- M