The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-26
SONS OF MILL|ONAIREs
WORKING AS MENTAL S
Chicago Heirs Fitted to Assume
Fortunes Of Fathers by
Hard Work. ... ...4z
Special to, The Journal.

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! Chicago, Aug. 25:-sons Of six Chi
during the summer vacation period: in.
and near Chicago for salaries ranging
from 500 to $50 a month. They have
accepted mental positions in preference
to the pleasures Of summer resorts,
yachting, trips abroad and mountain
climbing, because they are anxious to
study the character Of men, become
closer to nature and learn trades and
occupations so they may be able to
dustry. ~ ..
These young men are college students
and have millions back of them, but
they must first prove their fitness to
handle the vast estates built up by their
fathers. These hard-headed progen-
itors hold that a boy who is trained on
cigarets, steam yachts, automobiles and
angel food is hardly competent to jump
into possession Of the great wealth and
hope to handle it properly.
The east has offered several examples
of this sort and here in Chicago half a
dozen fine old families have died out
and the great estates have passed to
strangers because the sons were not
properly trained. E.@< -.
Richard Haugan, son Of n. II. Hau-
gan, president of the state bank Of
| Chicago, withdrew from North Shore
society affairs as soon as Wisconsin
university closed and went to work on
farm near Sugar Grove, ILL.,, for 500
a month, board and washing. He is an
enthusiast on scientific agriculture.
Van Zandt scullion.
Philip van Zandt, son Of George van
| Zandt, president Of the Prairie Stata
| bank, who is studying for the ministry
at the University of Chicago, is clean
ing pots and pans and doing kitchen
chores about the Lake Geneva club
house. He is a sstuden of sociology
and took up this work to study charac-
| ter.
Chauncy B. Mccormick, on of the
younger members Of the well-known
| family, tolls as a common laborer,
studying the first principles of making
threshing machines and farm imple-
ments.
B. L. Winchell, Jr.. whose father is
the head Of the Rock Island and Frisco
systems, has donned a pair Of overalls
is earning $l.25 day. He expects to
support himself on this salary.
Guests at the Virginia Beach hotel
in South Haven, Mich, are served
daily with food by Charles Coole y, son
of Lyman E. Cooley, the millionaire
engineer Of the sanitary district. He
is another student of sociology and is
studying the conditions of the working
| classes
The son of Major Robert Crosby
works from, sun up to sun down on a
be a farmer. He likes the work and
declares he would not give it up for all
the yachting parties and automobile
trips that were ever planned. NFarm
work. says Mr.. Crosby, strengthens
the muscles and heart and is the best
education young man can get.'
Ideal Gets Jolt.
| Young Van Zandt has high aspira-
ton. He wants to become mission
airy and 20 out into heather lands and
ideas about right living and right
thinking, he believes in greater democ-
racy and is endeavoring to study the
character Of the unregenerate so that
| he may know how to reach them and
bring them into better life. Meanwhile
ne is securing pots and pans, cracking
ice and carrying in coal at the fash
1 10. Lake Geneva club, Of which his
father is member
The young man had evolved the idea
that in order to understand the char
acter Of the classes which he wants to
reach, those whose conscience and mo-
rails have been ground to pieces by
hard ship and adversely, he must be on
intimate terms with them and must feel
as they do in order to sympathize with
them and to show them paths that will
lead them out of trouble
One Of his cherished ideals about
greater democracy and equality of man
got an awful jolt few Sundays ago
when he was snubbed by some guests
while taking dinner with his parents
sisters and brothers at the clubhouse
Some snobs, who were seated at an
adjoining table, raised such a protest
about his presence in the diningroom
that he was forced to withdraw. But
! these taunts worried him but little and
he continued at his work.
Banker Van Zandt has six sons and
he compels every one of them to work
in vacation. Philips idea was to take
up slum work this summer, but as
there is no pay. in that, he accepted
the next best thing offered by the EN-
ployment agency Of the university. HI
gets a chance to study all characters
now, and he declares he has learned
more than had he followed slum work
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