Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-25

800 ,,aad christian charity and
m h saercul good will of Philp ~
| , ,rmoar we're shown in many an,
Mu'O, mat are remembered, but
W''' sove never, in any way
e,,in in his living, his speech
and his methods of business MI !
'"s Gas easily Interested ana
Armour .osnond to everything OF hu-
quick " w., The cant Of professional
man , ,u'p WAS foreign to him lie gave
charity !,, Sr, pleasure and with a lib
'.,lly al his own ,,uo,oro.,,v
Tn',' member and ! believe 1t to
mat J 1on one Characteristic OF me
haye , Dys" The beginning OF the tragic
mar ,nna dickinson came, ana Willle
fate OF A"'''' entertained for the recoV-
hope was bsaith and brilliant powers
erg Of h,' t",g ladies' IN Chicago sought
Of nl'uo' n fund TO defray the neayy e .N5
ioln OLE snialled by her phyyBica' s'u Wv
pengs, coDapse. II was initiated py
mental soso iIfe is one Of the most eN,
lady Nny n,rocv and who had no speclal
elusive p ,,ltb Miss Dlckinson's pubic
synp'uet e knew and was warmly at
Work W ba gifted creature, and 30
tache9 W. vi, to work to help her friend
VEN s, V lime Of greatest need -,
ID yg. S Mr. Armour Wen oelng =
NM" W bis boyhood this lady called
bsll, H., an his office and told him the
4srassfu story ,r,.,. .hoon
Tua repIlpd the fair petitioner,
Eny ~, groat lecturer. You must
,oow about her 1T. ,o,,ou tam,
~ ,be millionaire said, musinsIy'
'al. sno's "A woman, and she Is In
wy That's enough for me!
nasl cave his check for 800.
aDp auto was written all over the
en'p5 His methods. He applied 1t
MAJ, S ,.,sor and direction from the day
~ I,gan 10 pitch hay on MS tstners
Ne g,n U'I IN me stockbridge hills OF New
isun y, J." ,ba day when he not only con-
lOlN .y ,sd Inc defeat OF the great grain
suu'I Ia,ors who combined to swamp
str Inf added to his millions by the
" .co, a. the truth. the simple truth
was part Of his Instructions to ms heu-
,.aonte In every new venture he MADE,
,,or testing a new piece OF machinery
'O inys5lng a new foreign market. His
s,,s ambition was TO be a great
p .5, "y I'M. he found out that he had not
ain NJ aloouence lie admitted thar
,b e Gl.coyery panied him, but as 1t was
Wv. simn,o truth he turned his energies
h mo Erection Of his talents
81 have no talent for anything but
h,sl,sss" no said hundred times,
1but dd want to be an orator
Tho same ability to get at the facts
o,1 onply them when q boy enabled the
wlnlopare packer 10 get buttons as
won as baef steak out Of stear TO an
teipate the panic Of 1928. and by fore
stating the scarcity Of cash assets to
mrn disaster into security and even
gains FOR himself and his friends.
When he was Il years old, having
saved little money from his earnings
asa clerk In The general store at Stock
h,Idga he became Interested IN the
taias ., sudden wealth 10 be had in the
god.diggincs 0f California, and set out
6r the III Dorado with an ill-equlpped
rqrig Of arg0nautS. lie was obliged TO
walk most Of the way but he got there
and worked with pick and spade long
eruOgh to learn that placer mining was
neither certain nor sudden way Of
f.hes He found that more money
could be made by piping water to the
miners than by digging for the dust.
u wasn't so fascinating and he didn't
cO ont there 20 run n waterw0rks, but
he found out the truth about the situa-
ton and applied II directly. He re-
fused to believe In luck, ana had no pa
t.ence with the dreams that lured many
miners to Strike 1t rich" and more TO
enduring poverty Having got at the
facts he quickly turned them into
prcht and came back to the East with
HNo-the nucleus Of his later almost
lnNlculable commercial enterprises.
That be priced the friendship Of men
'smen was Illustrated by his loyalty to
Edward Croarkin a sterling Irish boy
whose bunk he shared IN the mining
amps " California nearly fifty years
no. CroarkIn came 20 Chicago 20 live
early ten years ago, old, comparative
gpoor and dlsInclned to force himself
ron the rich man who had been his
Hrner IN the placer dlgglns. But Ar
1olr found him IN his modest fiat on
ne south side, took dinner with him and
Visited him frequently II was "Phl"
ana 'Ed' with them after that and I'M
VI ne death Of Mr.. Croarklm I'm October
asl not Git holiday passed that Ar
Iolr did not descend upon his old
friend with presents delivered in per-
son and old stories recalled and recited
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