The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-26
MAKING SHEETS
OF NOODLES
Distinctly Foreign Industry in
Quarter of New York
CLEANLINESS Is FIRST
I Italians With MarConi Differ
Greatly From AermanS.
CLEANLINESS Is FIRST
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While captains OF industry are sup
posed to be indigenous to Eastern soil
and field il has never been considered
that Kansas exactly produced them. Yet
in a little southwestern Kansas town
there is a comparatively young man who
today certainly is worthy of the title,
captain of finance" if not the one used
in the beginning of this paragraph.
He is d regular Napoleon OF strategy in
the campaign of finance and banking and
his prowess has been shown many times
In recent years. This man has set the
pace for successful Kansas banking. and
he has not accompanied his efforts with
eny bare Of trumphets, either. He has
gone about his work in quiet, modest
way. He has preferred to work and not
talk as he worked. He has injected the
most rigid business methods into his OPP
erations and today. being connected with
d string of banks such as the West has
seldom seen, every one of them stands
firm upon its own bottom, and the sys-
TEN he has inaugurated is a new one
and calculated to Withstand the shocks
that time and changed financial condi-
fions may bring.
This mans name is Charles Q. Chan
der. His home is the little town of
14edicine Lodge. famed in the beginning
for the statesmen it has produced. and
now with an additional honor-that of
being the seat Of operation Of perhaps the
foremost inancier and banker of Kan
sas today. All the time this banker can
spend from his many interests and en-
gagements abroad are devoted here TO
his little bank in Medicine Lodge. and
TO his home and family.
( c. o. Chandler is a young man. He
has not turned forty. He is a nephew of
DR. w. 5. Woods the Kansas City CAPT
talist and president of the National Bank
of Commerce. But it should not be I'M
derstood that the latter fact is the cause
OF Chambers successful that he is to-
day he did himself. In his earlier and
boyhood days. Mr.. Chandler was an hum
bic employee of little county bank AS
mere boy he set out from there as a
bank clerk in one of the small Kansas
towns of the eastern portion Of the state.
Later he came to Medicine Lodge. where
n put together the topping pieces Of
one bank and then combined it with an
other. and made the two one of the
strongest and best little state banks in
Kansas. Having won at home, he turn
ed to other fields.
Today c. Q. Chandler is interested in
nineteen banks Of Kansas. They are all.
with the exception Of four, IN the Seventh
district of Kansas. About half of them
are national banks. When the term in
terested in is used 1T is meant that
Chandler is large or majority stock
holder in each institution. OF many he
Is president: Of others. he is vice-presi
dent; of still others, he does not appear
on the officers list but merely as direc-
tor. OF all he is practically and essen
TALLY the head. 1t is his skill and his
ideas and his advice that directs them all.
These nineteen banks arc;
Kansas National. Wichita.
Citizens State. Medicine Lodge
State Bank Of Hazelton Hazelton
First National. Kingman.
State Bank of Commerce. Dodge City.
jColdwater National Bank Coldwater.
Farmers State Greensburg.
stockgrowers' National Ashland
Z First National. Liberal.
Meade State. Meade
| First National, Madison.
= Colony State, Colony.
National Bank Of Commerce. Garnett.
Wellington National. Wellington.
Hunnewell State Hunnewell.
Southhaven Bank. SouthhaveRN
Humboldt State Humboldt
Coats State. Coats.
Bucklin State. Bucklin.
Perhaps of these banks the proudest
achievement Of Mr. Chandler is the Kan
sas National at Wichita. This bank was
purchased three years ago Its deposits
We're then half a million. There are
now nearly one and three-quarter mil
lions They are still increasing. The
earnings of the bank are in keeping with
deposits OF course the bank has most
excellent vice-president. Mr.. z. +. Mas
terman. who has long been associated
with Mr.. Chandler. but il is the banks
head who really directs affairs The
bank is now actually loaning money and
buying securities in New York City,
fact which would have been hooted a
II predicted a few years ago Of any Kan
sas hank Its securities are gilt-edged.
and there could be none better.
In discussing with anyone the system
OF banking which he has inaugurated.
MIR Chandler always insists on making
one point: That his system is the direct
opposite Of what is known as branch
banking. At first thought this idea does
not favorably strike the listener. but
when he thinks OF It. he sees it. Mr..
Chandler is proud of the fact that there
IS no parent bank. as there must bs
under branch banking He is proud that
each of his banks has an entity and de
ponds entirely upon itself
This idea is well illustrated in a recent
editorial on Community Of interests n
country banks" which appeared in the
American banker. Among other things.
this edItorial says:
The banks thus connected are not
branch hanks'-that Is although they
are united by common bond each is
q separate entity. Mr.. Chambers banks
are all individual coRceVns-separate dis
board OF directors. its own local stock
holders and even it's own correspondents
IN the reserve cities. Moreover. there
IL no interchange Of paper. II one OF
these banks seeks accommodate ton. il ap-
cIies on its own account 10 ITS CORE
anondent Having local direction and