The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27
How One Mans Energy Made Him {
Millionaire and Created City
Sketch of the Career of G. W. Post the Battle
Creek Manufacturer, Reads Like a Novel.
His Unhagging Industry the Source
of His Great Wealth

from other States and countries TO be ex-
pended in the little town where the articles
were made.
His own example was in evidence and
the people Of Battle Creek awoke, so that
to-day probably no town In America or To-
600 inhabitants is as active, energetic. pros
porous and growing fast Between forty
and fifty new manufacturing enterprises
have been started there within the last
eighteen months.
Mr. Post built one of the largest and
handsomest hotels in the State. and there
are few, II any. better conducted ones in
the United States. He said. at the time.
foresight was keen. The business OF the
town has grown so rapidly that the Post
Tavern is now regularly filed.
He has also erected other imposing build
ings and the people have caught the spirit
and carrying on the work in most
enterprising fashion.
Mr.: Post has recently leased plant at
Peoria, ILL.,, and under the name of the Post
Sugar Company, Ltd, is manufacturing
new kind of sugar. This sugar is made
from field grains and belongs to the fruit
group OF sugars. being entirely different
from cane or beet sugar. Post candies and
Post chocolates made from Post sugar are
now being placed before the public.
Mr.. Post has, to a large extent, relin-
pushed the active duties of business living
a portion of his time in Washington. New
York and in London, in each Of which cities
he maintains an office. Most of his time is
spent in Washington. for he is deeply in
terested in national affairs and feels that
at the capital he can keep more closely in
touch with them than elsewhere. He
steadily declines political office, preferring
to live 'in house by the side of the road
and observe the ways OF man."
AS an employer Mr.. Post has devoted con-
siderable attention to labor matters, and
as a solution of such difficulties favors a
contract between the employer and each
individual employee, with provisions equally
advantageous and binding to both. He has
tried the plan with gratifying success in his
own business
For several years past portion of his
time has been employed I'm perfecting
system Of postal currency known as post
checks. A bill is now pending before Con-
The patents to be assigned without
recompense TO the government, Mr. Posts
work in the matter being entirely unseifish.
He maintains at his own expense bureau
of information and promotion, it being
well-knOwn fact that if some enterprising
citizen We're to proffer a tub of gold
dOubloons to the government ii would re-
quire wise management to steer bill
through Congress permitting the govern
men and farmers throughout the country
universally support the post check propo-
sftion, realizing il to be the most pressing
postal need, and that il would, If adopted,
result in an incalculable impetus TO internal
commerce, and furnish all classes with a
much-desired convenience.
Men of the type here presented are orig
inal and Individual thinkers. They do not
depend for their conclusions upon the di-
rection of some one else. The motto of
such men is. in effect, Don't give me your
advice; give me facts; then l can take my
own advice"
Mr.. Post is fond of yachting, and after