The sun., 1900-12-30
PHILIP D. ARMOUR'S WAYS.
THE CHICAGO PACKERS BUSINESS
CAREER ABOUT OVER.
His Present Illness . Result Of Sport win HIS
grandchildren Two Institutions 70 Wh'ch
lie Has Given -. 500. 900 His Rule About
Charity Desire TO Help Young People

/ Charity Desire to Help Young People.
| CHICAGO. Dec. 29-Philip d. Armour.
the Chicago millionaire packer. played a
game OF snowfall with his grandchildren
tho other day II was after the first snow
| fall of the season The boys are the chill
| dren OF the late Philip ID Armour. Or, whose
| sudden death last winter was great biow
| to the founder Of the Armour Industries
| The scene Of the sport was the spacious
| grounds surrounding the house built by
the younger Armour. and now occupied
| by his widow and two sons. at Ihir'y-seV-
| enth street and Michigan avenue Mr
| Armour undertook To show little Phiip III
| and his brother Lester how boys USED 10
SNOWFALL one another at school wheh ne
himself was a boy back in Madison county,
| n s. some sixty years ago.
| -See grandpa do it." cried the youngsters
| in delight as Mr. Armour gathered up the
| scapty snow, packed IL into balls ana hurieo
| II at the fence
| Guess that's enough. boys" he said by
| and by "l'nH cold We'd better 20 INTO
| the house
Since that day Mr. Armour has been smut
| up in his Prairie avenue house In 'hicaso
under the care OF n physician ana Haineu
nurse lie has been suffering from sever"
/ attack Of bronchitis. which at times 'hrea'
| ened to develop into pneumonia pnt AT ias'
accounts he was recovering This H'ue
e.nerience teaches that Il Is not safe for
! "A man worth from tAO00o0oo 70 soo""c'uoV
TO indulge In winter sports to anuse his
grandchildren. especially when he is Of
stocky build with lot Of superruous flesh
on his bones. and has passed the sixty -eighth
milestone on LIES Journey.
While MIR. Armour's friends hope to see him
out soon, and able to take his accustomed
trips 70 his Offices and to the Armour Mis-
sion Sunday school, II is believed that there
is not much prospect OF his resuming his
former business activity. Yet he ~ q man
who breads to put of the workaday harness
Against the advice Of his physician and the
wishes OF his family and his friends be has
often insisted that he must continue his
work at the head OF his great business en-
terprises as long as strength remains. as
that seems to be the most satisfactory way
in which he can spend his time. lie has
never in any formal way retired from busi-
ness, but in recent years he has made an
occasional break In Ma busy career by uav'
elling to California In The winter and 10 Eu-
rope in the summer to gain renewed strength
for the direction OF his vast and diverse in
terests II may be said now, however. that
his business career Is ended In measure
The commercial operations that have made
his name familiar throughout the world
are still going forward. IL is true. but they
no longer receive the same active personal
attention from him as formerly
Philip ID. Armour as a captain OF industry
will long be conspicuous In the commercial
and industrial history - America. H.,
traits are less picturesque, perhaps, than
those Of the Paterson locomotive builder.
Jacob S Rogers. about whom THE SIN
recently printed a story. One trait however,
the two men seem to have in common. and
TO have 1t in a highly developed form. Both
are great at mndina their own business
one day Just after Mr. Armour's return from
a European trip a Chicago newspaper sent
a reporter to interview him in regard 10 his
observations of life and business abroad
The millionaire packer received the reporter
courteously, but added In his brief. direct
way. with Quiz2ical smile
Il am no talker. | made my money by
learning to keep my mouth shut. When the
teeth are shut the tongue Is AZ home Besides.
you'll never he convicted OF foolishness IL
YOU follow this rule
Whenever Mr.. Armour has had anv COM
ments to make on travel business. politics
or re gion they have always peen terse and
20 the point. but he never was anxious 10
take the public into his confidence. He Is
one Of the leading members Of the Chicago
Commercial club and has seldom been absent
from its dinners but no one can recall him
as an after-dinncr speaker
Mr. Armour's pet projects In philanthropy
nre the Armour Institute. n school of tech
noloey. and the Armour Mission. an unsec-
tartan institution whose object Is to pro-
mote the physical. intellectual and moral
Improvement Of children and youth These
institutions stand side 10y side at Armour
avenue and Thirty-third street on the south
side. In Chicago. They represent al invest
ment bv Mr. Armour in behalf OF the edu-
cational and ethical welfare Of the COM
munty amounting to s?.5Oo,ooo while
the first building was being erected. some
fifteen years ago, 1t was reported one day
that the briCklayers had struck because Of
sympathy with certain alleged labor griev-
ances in which the Armours figured at the
[ Mon stock yards.
Are the bricklayers refusing 70 work
for your" Mr.. Armour was asked
oh, no." he said with twinkle IN his eve.
The mission is still going up They doa't
70 sGh Sd unohsr ny mssSn S"rse
have postponed operations for the present.
You see. have been a little short on religion
! could do would be 10 try to get even
sent that young man sitting over there out
to see the contractors. and he came back
and said By God stop there. Dave
said | Don't swear in talking about
! mission house Perhap-, though. you be
forgiven on my account, so go on He told
| me that the contractors advised post pone-
! ment of work for year or 80, and agreed
| | will have to hustle a little harder then to
| catch up on the religious end that is all
| In the meantime | will kind q struggle along,
| leaving the other people 10 do the talking
| and perhaps the Walk lng-while Armour
| 4 Co DO the business He then resumed his
| interrupted task of filing out an order
| for new suit OF clothes for clerk who
seemed to deserve a reward for his exceptional
services This form Of reward was always
| a hobby with Mr. Armour.
| A little more than a year ago he made his
| last Gift of s75o.OOO to Armour Institute
| The first intmation Of the Gift was made on a
| Sunday fternoon. when DR.. Frank W. Gun
| saulus, resident OF the institute, was con-
| ductiVg the Sunday school at the Armour
| Mission. MIR Armour was on hand. beam
Ing on the exercises. After the services
| were concluded he said 10 DR., Gunsaulus.
| Doctor, N seems to me you are taking
| q great many cares on yourself"
| Yes but they are delightful cares and
| ] love to assume them
| Well doctor, have been thinking OF light
| that ] will give the Institute more money
| Call on me tomorrow and I'll tell you more
| about IT,"
When the transfer had been made. the next
day. Dr. Gunsaulus said: Mr.. Armour
| faal hae . Il. iVsN "a H.