Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-07-19

has also put money into holes II j..
ground in Colorado, and every hole h.
yielded astonishing dividends If NJ
shall Field can be induced to 90 hi,
any sort OF an enterprise. no matts.
what the enterprise may be, it win h.
gin to pay dividends from the ir,s
He never makes losing lnvestnen,
but what boots it?
Who will get these millions rou
being SO carefully piled up?
He has business partners. but ba I.
buying them out as fast as possib,n
and will soon own the entire conco.n
Among the partners who went Az.
only short time ago was Iafave,t.
McWilliams, whose name is mentionss
in the newspapers every time the Wiz
of President William Mckinley con,as
to Chicago, as she always stops al ,bs
McWilliams house, the gentlemsr
named being a relative of Mr., No
kinley. Other partners have ygI,aa
the plank, and all will eventually ev
cept Harlow n Higinbotham. cradi,
man of the firm, and sometime pras.
dent of the local board of the worlds
Columbian exposition. He Is abont Tho
only partner who cannot be SHARED
His wealth is estimated at $4,000 600
and he became known the, world over
in 1893 by wearing a dress suit at
luncheon given by the late Mayor Car.
ter H. Harrison in honor of the prn.
cess Eulalie of Spain. He was even
photographed as he sat at table with
her royal highness, and was not dis.
pleased
Books by the Yard
1t is related of Mr.. Higinbotha1n that
he buys books by the yard, The only
stipulation being that the binding
shall be costly and of color TO mar.
monte with the prevailing tints Of the
apartments in which they are to be
located
No clerk or head of a department IL
a harder worker than Mr.. Field, mis-
office being in the wholesale house q
mammoth pile of stone covering
block Of ground and it Is related Of
him that he knows every man In his
employ by name. He never forgets a
face, always rewards faithful and con-
scientious work, is the severest Of
disclplinarians and will call down the
head of department receiving $4,000
per year as readily as porter whose
wages is SIS per week Work is life to
him; he plans and others execute, for
his is the great directing brain.
STILL how is all this to aid in de-
Gliding who the heir to Marshall Fields
S75,000,000 shall be?
No one is in training to take the
masters place, for no one could fill his
place. When he dies stock company
will probably be formed, just as has
been the case in the matter of the
vast interests of p. D. Armour, the
king OF pork and beef packers, being
incapacitated by illness from directing
affairs as in years past, but as long
as Marshall Field lives there will be
no stock company or corporation to do
his business for him.
If there is a lonely man in all Chi
cago it is the master of all these mil
lions, for he is essentially a man OF
Recommendation and does not care
to herd at clubs. He has few if any
intimates, and no one knows what be
proposes or intends to do until that
thing is done. He does not care for
confidants, mainly for the reason that
he values the opinions of others too
lightly to ask for them.
Yet he is fond, Unfortunately fond, Of
giving advice, and has often called at
the editorial rooms OF various Chicago
newspapers for the purpose OF giving
the editor-in-cnief instructions as to
how a daily paper should be conducted.
This idiosyncrasy has often involved
him in controversy.
The great merchants step is as light
and brisk as it was twenty years ago,
and although his hair is snow white,
his figure is as straight and supple as
that of trained athlete of thirty
years Of age. He is 50 little known
that he can pass along the streets for
mile or more and not meet half
dozen men with whom he is ac-
quainted 1t is the same with Potter
Palmer and Levi a. Letter, his Oh
business associates. However. when
they We're his partners he was the
head of the house as he is today and
as he will be until the day of his death
His family is scattered, his only
son being in the south of France ana
his only daughter in England, and ne
never sees either unless he goes where
they are. He Is not a particularly So
cial man. cares little for the thea-eF
or opera, and is intent only upon bus!-
ness If he tried he could not %
otherwise than he is, for his only hap
piness is the piling up of millions
upon millions Being supersensltFs
man he never gets into print, save Oh
very rare occasions, and while Waa'