Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-06

arch of trade. Some of the men, who
are and for years have been nothing
| but his paid and retained subordinates,
popularly are awarded high places in
the world 't affairs by those who never
heard of Marshall Field.
! His enormous dry goods house in
Chicago is but small part of the
Field fortune. AS a dry goods mor-
chant MIR. Field doese business IN
excess of $4,000 900 year. He is
not only a merchant If dry goods, he
| is the greatest manufacturer of dry
goods in the world
! In every country on the face of the
| globe, where cotton, Yy9,en and silk
Zen goods are manufactured in quanti-
| ties, he has factories. He owns scores
of enormous plants in England, Ire
| land, France, Spain, Italy. Germany,
Austria. and Russia. Even the Orient
is not neglected. Flooding Chinese
and skilled Japanese are numbered by
the thousands on the pay roll of the
Chicago merchant prince and manufae-
turer, and on the other side of the
| equator are vast WOOlen mills in Aus
traia, the chain extending t. South
America, wllele looms in Brazil and
ished products.
| Nor is dry goods his only vocation.
! No enterprise is better known in the
United States, England and Europe
than the Pullman Sleeping Car com
panv. In the popular mind, George N.
Pullman has ever been deemed the
dominant factor in that vast and prot
! liable enterprise. When Mr.. Pullman
was alive, nine persons out of ten
would have named him as man OF
greater wealth and influence than Mar
shall Fled. But they would nave been
! in error Marshall Field was and is
fhe greatest single owner or Pullman
stock. Pullman was scrt of heau
| clerk.
Clerk in a Wholesale House.
Mr. Field owns some of ,Ilc most
taluable real estate in Chicago and
| Now York. In tie Calumet region,
tani invaluable for manufacturing pus
! poses, he owns hundreds of acres. In
the vicinity of the University of Chi
cage buildings. he owns square block
after bl~ck of valuable land and in
the business district he owns a score
J of the best sites.
AS to his holdings Of railroad securi-
ties, no one can tell how heavy his in
tvestments are. 1t is known that lie
owns S10,000,000 in Baltimore and
Ohio stock. He is one IF the largest
holders in ST. Paul, in Northwestern
and the various other first-class proper
ties. He is a director in numerous
banks and financial institutions. and,
prior to its obsorpticn by the United
Steel corporation, in which he is heav-
lily Interested, Mr. Field was one of
the biggest stock owners in the Fed
eral Steel company.
Mr.. Field has been conspicuous as
a business man for more than gener-
sachusetts, August IS, 1885, and when
II years old, tiring of the farm went
west. Locating in Chicago, lie OBJ
Gained clerkship in the wholesale
house of Cooley, Farwell and Co.. his
Iequipment being health, brains, sound
principles and ambition. In four years
he was made partner in the firm
1860. The war came and the advance
| IN prices meant small fortune for
the young men who constituted This
dry goods firm. During the four years
OF the war they coined money. In
! 1865 there was reorganization, the
new firm consisting of Marshall Field,
| Levi z. Letter and Potter Palmer.
In 1881, Mr.. Letter sold his interest
| to Mr.. Field for an unknown number
I'of millions. MIR. Palmer retired in
1867 and since 1881 Mr.. Field has con-
uucted the mammoth house alone.
Conspicuous MuItipIier Of Millions.
New York boasts of its billionaires,
Chicago of her democratic multimil-