The Topeka state journal., 1901-01-07

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900. His personal share of this prop
erty is variously estimated at from $25-
000,0 600 to- $50 900, 900.
In works Of charity Mr.. Armour q
monument will be found in the Armour
institute. to which but a short time ago
he gave $750,000 in one remembrance.
Asked once what he considered his best
paying investment, he replied, THE Ar
m0ur institute" The institute today
represents an investment on the part of
Mr.. Armour and his brother Joseph of
81, 750, ,000 and a yearly expense Tor
maintenance OF 500. 900.
Frank Billings who was at Mr.. Ar
mour's bedside when the end came and
who had been almost constantly in at
tendance upon the sick man, stated that
he had heard Mr. Armour make no men
from the gigantic Milwaukee, Great North
ern deal, by which he was reputed to have
made S., 600 O00 to S. 000.0 900 last week.
He looked upon such holdings" said
from the Speculative viewpoint"
I'VE were not altogether unprepared for
mour ssAll the members of the family
had been here since the relapse of this
morning in anticipation Of the most seri-
The news of Mr.. Armour's death spread
rapidly through the city and there were
many callers at the Prairie avenue man
Mrs. Armour retired to her apartments
and during the evening saw only the
members Of her immediate family. J.
Ogden Armour, who, with his wife, had
been at the bedside of the dying million
aire all day, received the callers during
ARNoURs VARIED INTERESTS.
While Mr- ArmOurS name was more
generally associated in the public mind
with the great packing and provision es-
Establishments in which he was interested,
and which do an annual business exceed
ing 800, 600 600. employing 20, 900 persons and
having representatives in every city of
Importance in the world. he was actively
interested in many other big enterprises
iTDnOTfanf of
grain elevators and as a heavy investor
in the grain products of the middle and
western states, Mr.. Armour was an inn
the world
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad
company and in the reorganized Balti-
in the Illinois Trust aqd SAVINGS: Metro
the Northwestern Life Insurance. COM
pany and was a heavy stockholder m the
company which controls the street rail-
ways OF Kansas City, No, and Kansas
may never be accurately known. It is
estimated to be not less than $50, 900 900,
and by some said to exceed $50, 900, 900. The
combined wealth Of the Chicago Armotrs
is fixed at 10000 COO In one sense the
total is the wealth. of Philip D. Armour,
his own name and how much in the name
of his sons is unknown He has not been
pay cash for his purchases and he has
never asked q customer to discount a
In his great wheat deals he has always
had ready cash. In times of panic he has
showed vast resources in spot cash. In
1888, when a run was made upon the
city and the fate Of the exposition were
11a11eiT1eS in The lslance 3l1i1fT Is Arr,o51r
bought half a million of gold in Europe
and offered to help the big institutions Of
the city from his cash resources in Chi
With a business of s1OO. 900, 600 q year in
Oh 7cr,r nI1 IN
business of half that amount and practi-
cally the owner OF a great railway sys-
utmost figure appear modest instead Of
exaggerated.
earth and can say nothing further now,
was the way the Rev. Frank W. Gunsau-
Armour. The dead millionaire and Mr..
GunsaQlus, president of the Armour in
ing Mr.. Armour's sickness he has been a
daily visitor and was at the bedside when
ON YOUNGER SHOULDERS.
Jonathan Ogden Armour succeeds to
the management of the vast business of
the Armours- He is the only surviving
son of the dead millionaire, p D. Armour,
Jr.. having died about a year ago at Pasa-
Mr.. Armour has been thoroughly trained
for the business that now devolves upon
him, and had the fullest confidence of his
father. J. Ogden Armour's S life Is divided
between business and home. He does not
care for society and is not a clubman
ton. He is democratic, unostentatiou
easily approached and of sympathetic ma
ture. He cares nothing for Jewels and
wears no diamonds. He is charitably in
clined, belongs to no church and in the
matter of charity never questions the OBJ
ject about his religion.
The Armour institute III Chicago, which
was largely supported by his father, is
also favored by the son. This institute
was founded by J. f. Armour, brother
of P D. Armour, with original bequest
of 500 600. The latter gave more than 81
100000 to it. The institution IS educa tionaI
and has 1s500 or 1000 pupils. 1t was estab-
Hshed for the poor, and, a boy seeking a
course in the Armour institute may give
his note for the tuition, payable at some