The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-03

, Of any other game Of chance. Tie intoSication
| OF the wheat nit is as unknown to him as any
other form Of drunkenness. In an indirect way
the Titanic struggles on the board OF trade have
been OF profit 10 him, for he has supplied the
victims OF wheat ribs and lard corners with the
cash TO settle their losses by buying thcr inside
giltedgcd downtown real estate and adding 1t to
his lucrative permanent investments.
Another foundation stone OF his success has
been business integrity The house OF Marshall
Field Co. Is as far above suspicion as Caes.
ar's wife. The great merchant has escaped the
sobriquet of "Honcst" Marshall Field, but the
adjective is indeiby stamped upon his business
reputation.
Marshall Field has lived the selicentercd life
of the strenuous business man. PubuiCty of any
sort is distasteful to lin, and he regards the in
tervicwer as an intruder. His persistent refusal
TO talk for publication or to consent to pose
rs the subject of the biographcr or character
student is not chargeablc to excessive modcsty.
lie is modest enough but it would be more ac.
curatc to say that his dislike to appearing in
print is the natural resentment of n rcclusivc
spirit to seeming interference with its affairs.
1t may be charged in part to the sensitive pride
that is so apparent in people who live much to
themselves or are wholly absorbed in their own
affairs.
only of late years has it been possible to oh.
tain his photograph, but the best counterfeit
presentment the photographers art can produce
does not do him Justice. It Is faithful only in
showing his white hair and mustachc, and the
well-prcscrved features of Il man who has lived
an abstcmious life. 1t can give no idea of his
dynamic presence, suggestive well of unlim-
tied reserve force. 1t shows the general contour
of features, but not their animatng keenness
and shrcwdness. 1t cannot put the rapier glanccs
in the cold, gray eyes, set far back in the head.
Ii Marshall Field were in the midst of State
street crowd on bargain day any student of char.
acter would single him out of the thousands us
master of men. His erect military bearing
might cause him to be mistaken for retired
admiral major general, but would ever
mistake him for an ordinary man. No young
blade Of soldier carries himself better than
this man of sxtysix, as he walks to his place OF
business in the early morning. His commodious
and old.fashioned residence is about mile from
his great retail store. 1t is not so large or i'm.
posing as the Pullman residence further down
the street. yet George NJ. Pullman in the latter
years of his lafe was only kind OF head clerk
of Marshall Fields car business.
There is library in the house, but the mas
ter merchant does not rank as a bool.lovor;
there are pictures on the walls-good ones, too,
but the owner can scarcely be called an art col
1cctor or connoisscur.
In this home of his Younger days the OF
many millions dwells alone. His wife is dead,
and his Children son who bears the same name
as himself, and a daughter are both married.
Mr. Field is not publicly identified with church
affairs, as are Rockefeller and Morgan but
whenever his religion is expressed in any act
it reveals the old Puritan spirit of literal OBJ
servancc. lie is the only big merchant i'll Chi
cago that does not advertise in the Sunday pa
pers