Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05

Books. art, travel worship at the
shrines OF the mighty have no place in
their hearts. II is work, work, work,
scheme and plan for the making of money.
Armour Died In Harness.
Five years ago a physician told p. d.
Armour he would be a dead man in a
short time II he did not quit business. Mr..
Armour said he could not live without
business. His health declined. He decided
to retire. He went 20 Europe, but the spir-
Il OF unrest possessed him and business
would let him have no peace. He came
back and became the slave OF business.
In a year he was dead In the harness.
Only Mr. Armour OF all these multi
miIlionaires has done anything in pub
lie way for Chicago. He took up the idea
OF a dead brother and created the Armour
Institute, a school OF technology, design
ed for poor boys. IL Is a big success. and
IS now afaliated with University of Chica-
go. Another characteristic, Mr.. Armour
was generous to the men who helped him
make Armour & Co.
A Man With an Idea.
Twenty-Five years ago an idea flashed
through the brain OF an obscure workman
in the H G. Hammond plant. This idea
has been worth hundreds of millions of
dollars TO the packers. IL has been devel-
oped until the meat supply OF the country
Is IN the CunAfOl OF a lew men WuO bebetAi
life as butchers for the Chicago market.
Following that idea. they have reached
out and obtained control Of other food
supplies. chiefly eggs. fruit and poultry.
This workman. whose name is not even
known. and who is said to have never
reaped any substantial benefit from his
idea, said TO himself one day: why can't
Hammond & Co. sell meat to surrounding
towns same as Ia Chicago?"
N,~ h.T
OF cooling and keeping the meat" came
the answer. This workman's idea was
refrigerator car and cooling depots In
large towns. Hammond & Company said
Il was a good idea. and they were the first
to build refrfkerator cars and cold-storage
plants. Dressed beef was shipped out OF
the city. sold at profit, and then began
tn, invasion of all the states. The other
packers were quick to see the success and
scope OF the scheme. With greater re-
sources they followed the lead Of Ham
mond & Company. and It was not long
before they passed the pioneer in the
struggle for supremacy.
The Whole World Pays Tribute.
Today the United States. the islands in
the seas and lands beyond the seas are
paying the tribute that Chicago packers
exact. They own and operate 10000 cars.
Of which l4.000 are refrigerator cars. They
have thousands OF cold-StOrage plants
scattered through the states. When a
firm grip on the meat supply had been Sc
cured the power OF cold storage Impress
ed them
Why not reach out for control Of the
other food supplies? Easy enough. More
and bigger cold-torage plants were built.
Poultry, fish, eggs, fruit and butter are
bought at a low price when supplies are
plentiful. The stun is kept until a scar
city prevails. be It six months or two
years. and is then dumped upon the pub
lie at high prices. This coup is just now
being successfully executed. Poultry and
eggs are at high prices, and the great
cold storage plants Of the packers In Chi
cago. Kansas City and Omaha are selling
out at . per cent, profit.
The possibilities OF the idea OF that
Hammond workman are not yet ex-
hausted.
But who are the men who grasped that
idea and by main strength developed IL
into such a tremendous. powerful sys-
tenn? Who are they. what are they, and
how do they manipulate their giant ma
chine?