The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
OBITUARY.

By the death of Mir Thomas Beecham at his home in Southport, England, on Saturday, April 6, a man whose name was a household word in every hamlet, village, town and city on the face of the globe has passed into the Great Be- yond, leaving his friends, acquaint- ances and his commercial world to mourn most interesting and lovable personality. He has left monument to his memory in the gigantic business establishment he created and placed upon solid, lasting and prosperous basis, and in the hearts of those who knew him both in business and in pri- vate life.
 MT. Beecham was the founder of the great pill manufactures in Europe and America, and which had their small be- ginning in the town of Wigan over half century ago. It seems almost in- credible that the great manufacturing establishments of Beecham's Pills should have built their enormous suc- cess around an accidental remark dropped by lady customer, that these | pills were worth guinea box" But this remark was the catchword, | the slogan of an advertising campaign which in 1890 was roughly estimated to cost S500,000 a year-the largest cam paign of publicity and success known to the commercial world. It placed MT. Beecham in the front rank of men who had achieved great success through natural aptitude and indomi- table energy.
 MT. Beecham in business loved promptitude and had the thorough re- spect and love of his employees and their full cooperation because of this existing condition between employer and employed In the earlier days, be- fore the great developments had taken place. he was in the factory at the commencement of the days operations until it's close, and was unceasing in his watchfulness and care. His me- thodical habits impressed themselves upon those in his employ, and as a con sequence his world-famous institutions even from their beginning, were mod els of order and cleanliness.
 At the funeral which took place on Wednesday, April 10 at the St. Helen s cemetery the tribute paid to MT Beecham by the officiating clergyman the Rev. Dr. G. E. Cheesman, fittingly expresses the position held by the de- ceased in the esteem of those who knew him best. Dr. Cheesman said, in part:
 MT. Thomas Beecham was by na- ture a greatly gifted man. He had a genius for building up business, and the foundations of the firm, whose qualifications are now worldwide, were laid by his far-seeing sagacity and per severance. The man himself was as remarkable as the monument he has reared to his name He was transpar. entity honest. There were no lurking deceits or cunning complexities in his nature. He was open as the daylight a sincere and artess man, never pre-. tending to be other than he was.
 He chose his friends carefully, but when once a friendship was formed ht was loyal to the core never deserting a friend, never failing a friend In ad versity;
 No man less ostentatious has live( among us. When he gave to good ob jects or deserving persons the gift wa: generally secret nor could he tolerate that his benefactions should be blazet abroad on subscription lists, Oftenel than even his intimate friends suspect ed he would do good by stealth.
 He was a model employer. He wal on the friendliest personal footing witt all his employees. His relationship witt his staff of workers was almost patri archal, and he never allowed it to sinl into mere money nexus. His Ions lease of life was the reward which na ture confers upon the temperate"
 MT. Beecham was eighty-six yeari old. The great establishment will b, continued by his son and partner MT Joseph Beecham, who has been fo many years an active factor in the con duct of the business and who has per sonally guided the tremendous adver Using campaign which has mad Beecham's pills worth a guinea a box a household word in every civilized | country.