The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-23
ARM0UR'S MONUMENT.
How the Millionaire Sought to do Good in
his Day.

! ""1oA Out 6HOIC tlne ago ne gave
| SOU, ,OOO in one remembrance. Asked
once what he considered his best pay
ing investment, he replied:
"The Armour Institute"
The institute today represents an
Investment On the part of Mr.. Armour
and his brother Joseph of 2,75O 900,
with yearly expense for maintenance
Of 100000. Mere than 1000 boys
eager to be masters in manual training
work are studying at the institute each
year, aud applications for admission
far exceed the number who can be
cared for.
The institute grew from the Armour
mission, Of which it was said that next
to the Worlds Fair it was the biggest
thing in Chicago. The mission con-
tains a day nursery for children, a
Church, Sunday School. free medi.
cine dispensary and innumerable other
good things for the children of the
poor. 1t represents several millions
Of Armour gifts.
In connection with the institute it
will be of interest to Baltimoreans that
Rev. DIR. Frank w. Gunsaulus, for
mcr pastor of Brown Memorial Presby-
tcrian Church of Baltimore, was an
instrument Of securing this establish
mcnt. In discourse one Sunday
morning in Plymouth Church, in Chi
cago, DIR. Gunsaulus set forth his
views on the subject of educating
children. At the conclusion Of the
service Mr.. Armour went forward and
asked:
"You believe in those ideas of
yours, do you?"
81 certainly do" replied DR.. Gun
saulus
"And would you carry them out if
you had the opportunity?''
81 would"
"Well, sir" said Mr.. Armour, "if
you will give me Eve years of your
time I will give you the money"
but to carry out my ideas would
take million dollars!' exclaimed DR..
Gunsaulus.
II have made a little money in my
time returned Mr.. Armour, and SO
the famous institute began.
The magnitude of the charities Of
Mr.. Armour will never be known. 1t
is said that outside Of the money given
to the Armour Institute he gave away
more than 81 900 per day. Much Of
this went to an army of pensioners.
Illustrative Of the mans broad hn-
manity the following may be told.
One Sunday at the institute Mr.. Ar
mour was showing friend about the
big pile of buildings. In the course
Of conversation the visitor had re-
ferred to the vast business Mr.. Ar.
mour had builded. Before replying
the great packer opened deor leading
into the big auditorium, where nearly
5000 children were engaged in Sab
bath School exercises. All Of them
were pupils at the institute as we'll.
Waving his hand from left to right to
sweep the room, Mr.. Armour, his
eyes sparkling, replied:
Eyes, we do big things up at the
stock yards. We make everything
from porter-house steaks to glue. But
we're doing vastly bigger things here.
We're making men and women"
There is one story which every
newspaper man who knew Mr.. Ar
mour intimately loved to tell and they
told it many times. Hero it is:
a clergyman called on Mr.. Armour.
He told the philanthropist of most
distressing case that needed prompt
relief A young woman, he said, lay
in room absolutely devoid OF furni-
ture save the bed IN which she lay
There was no fire, there was not food
and the weather was intensely cold.
BY her side in that squald chamber
lay her child, scarcely day old.
The great heart of Mr.. Armour fair
ly leapcd in his bosom. He rushed
over to the cashier, came back with
handful Of bills, thrust them in the
clergyman hands aud cried "Jump
in carriage. Get the poor woman
everything she needs. Get her a
nurse. Fly, man: Come back if you
need more. Poor, poor woman!'
AN hour later and the clergyman re-
entered Mr.. Armour office.
"Wcll low is she?' was the eager
inquiry.
The clergyman, pulling out the iden.
tical roll Of bills that had been thrust
in his hands short time before, re-
Dliad.