The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-18
MARSHALL FIELD II
MONARCH OF TRADE.

In contrast 10 Mr.. Rockefeller Is Mar
shall Field OF Chicago. While despising
all kinds Of n0Joriety Mr.. Field IS very
democratic and affable with the older club
men OF Chicago. Young men he watches.
but studiously avoids inviting intimacy.
OF all things imaginable. Mr.. Field
lOathes the interviewer and the man who
tries 10 figure out the extent OF his riches
There are scores Of men whose names
are familiar TO the general public who
pass or pose as leaders in commerce or
finance. who are pygmies compared with
Marshall Field-monarch Of trade. Some
Of the men. who are and for years have
been nothing but his paid and retained
subOrdinates. popularity are awarded high
places in the world Of affairs by those
who never heard OF Marshall Field.
His enormous dry goods house in Chi
casO is but a small part Of the Field
fortune As a dry goods merchant. Mr..
Field does a business in excess OF s5aOel.-
600 year. He is not only a merchant
Of dry goods; he is the greatest manu-
facturer OF dry goods in the world.
In every country on the face Of the
globe, where cotton. wooden and siIken
goods are manufactured in quantities, he
has factories. he owns scores Of enor-
nous plants in England. Ireland. Scot
land, France, Spain, Italy, Germany. Aus
tria and Russia. Even the Orient Is not
neglected. Plodding Chinese and skilled
japanese are numbered by the thousand
on the pay roll OF the Chicago merchant
prince and manufacturer and on the 9TH
or side OF the Equator are vast wooden
mills in Australia. the chain extending TO
south America. where looms in Brazil and
adjoining Republics turn out the I'm
ishei product
Nor IS dry goods his only vocation. No
enterprise is better known in the United
States. England and Eurcpe than the
Pullman Sleeping Car Company. In the
popular mind, George NJ Pullman has
ever been deemed the dominant fact6r in
that vast and profitable enterprise. When
Mr.. Pullman was alive. nine persons out
OF ten would have named him as a man
OF greater wealth and influence than Mar
shall Field But they would have been in
error. Marshall Field was and is the great
est single owner OF Pullman stock Pull
man WAS a sort OF head clerk.
BEGAN As CLERK
IN & WHOLESALE HOISE.
Mr.. Field owns some CT the most valu-
able real estate in Chicago and New
York In the Calumet region. land inval-
uahie for manufacturing purposes. he
owns hundreds OF acres. In the vicinity
o. the University Of Chicago buildings. he
owns square block after block OF valua-
ble land and In the business district he
owns score OF the best sites.
As to his holdings OF railroad securities.
no one can tell how heavy his invest
ments are. II IS known that he owns SO
oel.ooo in Baltimore and Ohio stock. He is
one or the largest holders in st. Paul, in
Northwestern and the various other first
class properties. He is a director in nu-
merous banks and financial institutions
and prior 10 its absorption by the United
States Steel Corporation. in which he Is
heavily interested, Mr.. Field was one OF
the biggest stock owners in the Federal
Steel Company
Mr.. Field has been conspicuous as a
business man FOR more than a genera
ton He was born in Conway. Mass.
August IS. ls55. and when II years old.
firing OF the farm, went West. Locating
in Chicago. he obtained a clerkship in the
wholesale house OF Cooley, FarweH & Co.
his equipment being health, brains. sound
principles and ambition. In four years
he was made partner in the hrm-lSso.