The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-04-25

proportions of today He took a strong
business aCumen Of ms own. and
brought to its support the brain and
energy of numberless young men in
whom he had confidence. Some of
these. now advanced in years, are to
he officers or directors of the new cor
poration of Armour & Co.
The generation of today has known
little if anything of the upbuilding Of
the Armour house prior to 1890 Yet il
was nearly twenty years old when that
decade opened, and is now i'm its for
tleth year The Armour boys" as they
were known back in StOckbridge, n. V.
from which place they originally came.
We're brothers whose financial inter-
ests from the start were closely knit
together Their mother believed in
family unity, family concert of action.
and held her children to the same line.
Her rule was:
you must all stand together"
II thus came about that no matter
where in after life the children located
each had an eye unOn the other. their
interests were more or less in common.
and in what they undertook presented
the spectacle of a family pitted against
the world. This oneness of aim has
had much to do with the success Of
the Armour interests i'm Chicago.
Omaha and Kansas city. These in
torests have invariably advanced, ret
regarded.
OPENED IN NEW YORK.
Before the senior of the present
mouse of Armour gave w the grocery
ana grain business i'm Milwaukee, in
when he Tad interested himself with
the Plantations after a successful trim
10 the gold fields of California. a
brother, II. O. Armour. opened pack
lng-house in New York city, and a
'hlcago feeder TO this was established
ny Joseph r. Armour, another brother.
ThiS was prior to 1865. Chicago was 4
cattle market almost from the day OF
It's Incorporation, but the first great re-
celNlnE yards and the FIRST effort IN
cohcenter packing and receiving inter-
eSts here did not come until lS4S, when
the Bulls Head" yards were opened
al West Madison street aud Ogden ave-
nue., In 1854 the Michigan Southern
road opened yards at State and Twen
tE-S"cond streets, which endured for
twelve years. The Myrick yards were
opened i'm 1856 on Cottage Grove ave-
nue. The Burlington road opened larg,
yards of its own mile and a half Yves,
OF the city, but they were not sue
cess The present yards were opened
in 1855, and at that time the Armour
house was but an INFANT.
The health Of Joseph f. Armour be-
gan to fail Competitive interests in
chicago made it imperatively neces-
Sary that the Armour business should
nave strong head. It is said that al
the time there was much discussion as
To which Of the brothers now residing
in Chicago should be called to take
charge of the business However this
may be- p d. Armour, already one Of
the foremost business men of NIL
Waukee, removed to this city and took
charge of affairs. He retained his
valuable connections with the Plank
intons, increased his financial hold
ings in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St
Paul road and started on that career
which was to give him the eventual
reputation of being one of the greatest
provision suppliers the world has
known Two OF his brothers at least
kept in close touch with'him for years
George Armour was president of the
board of trade in 1875 and Joseph r, a
director of the same body in 1873 and
1874. George Dole, one Of the pioneer
stock dealers of the city, was i'm the
firm and close to its elevator interests,
which were constantly expanding The
firm not only dealt in cattle hogs and
sheep. but in all kinds of grain as well
In 1884 Armour, EOle & Co. controlled
elevators i'm the city having grain
capacity of G,S50OOO bushels, while r.
ID. Armour owned the Chicago and
Danvllle elevator, with a capacity of
450, 900 bushels.
MAGNITUDE OF BUSINESS.
r. ID. Armour, nor his two sons, into
whose hands much of the active con-
troll OF the business passed in later
years has never been inclined to say
much publicly about the magnitude Of