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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-20
Close Supervision Necessary.


That such a lesson may be worth
there are about $50 of these branch
houses throughout the country. Three
hundred and fifty manager are neces-
sary for their conduct, and 35 super
intendents and as many travelling au-
ditors overlook the business of tiese
houses between the Armour head and
the myriad details of buying and sell
ing.
The possibility of 5000 loss in each
of $50 branches is an item, even in a
business which nets $4,000, 900 or So
100000 in a year
1t is only the accurate knowledge
of Armour which saves him in these
personal rounds of inspection. There
are managers and superintendents
and travelling auditors who are touchy
enough by instinct and by training
to resent idle inquisitions of the kind
There is no resenting the keen, clear
cut analyses of the master of a great
business and OF its almost infinitesi-
NAL details.
There is a story extant in which
just one man did resent the Armour
finding.
He was the cashier of the Boston
branch of the business, and he drew
one of the big salaries on the Ar
mour rolls. One day, Unexpectedly
as usual, Armour entered the Boston
office quarter Of an hour ahead of
the cashier.
Most men will admit that 1t isn't
a pleasant experience to go to ones
office expecting to find an employe
there and who for any reason has not
yet shown up. In the height of the
baseball season it requires an unusu-
ally good American to accept any
kind of excuse for the absence.
But when man who never had any
time for society himself finds himself
in such position of cooling his heels
because OF an employe who has had
entirely too much time for that par
ticular thing
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became fast friends official
to
eral of the navy
Of the priced being decoration
Rather tall couly bearing
fails make
n a o ngton.
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Chicago.-By virtue of his millions,
his diversified financial and CONNER
cial interests. his methods. ans his
means to business ends, J. Ogden Ar
mour is one of the accredited great
captains of industry of Chicago.
But when you seek to discover of
his friends the social side of the man,
they are not certain even of its exist
ence.
Ask Mr.. Armour himself and he re-
CARDS the subject as not at all worthy
of discussion in business hour.
And ]. Odgen Armour has more
business hours in the course of the
calendar year than has any other mil
lionaire in the western metropolis.
He eats his luncheon in his private
office in the general offices. in La
Sale street; sends out for it some
where and satifies his hunger with
the least possible loss of time. When
the days work is done he starts home
in his automobile, just within the
speed limits of the ordinances, for a
seven O'Clock dinner.
Responsible for days work as the
head of Armour & Co, with its pay
roll of 10000 men, looking to his own
private interests in half a dozen lines
of investment. meeting in one way or
another the multitudinous calls that
come from a great world to the desk
of the millionaire.
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Downfall of Cashier.

Downfall OF Cashier.
ne cashier came at last. wearins
the patent feathers. the gloves. the
SILK nat. tie, and few other OF the
evidences Of night in the company
oil dressy friends. He bowed to the
heaa of the Armour business. who
haa been filling in the time looking
through an office ledger
IL was a nice morning. according to
the Armour weather report. apropos
oil the cashiers silence.
The cashier admitted that in his
cniets meteorological observation the
chief had beaten the weather bureau
by ten degrees.
nr. Armour had been waiting for
some time. he said.
lhe cashier hadn't doubt of It.
Inc ease, and composure. and pains.
taxing care with which the cashier
laid aside oyercoat. hat, and gloves
were little irritating at best. Just
when the cashier was removing his
gloves, careful of the wrinkles. the
head of Armour's brought a hand
down upon the open ledger.
Mr.. Jones. that's - bad ex.
ample of bookkeeping. II / know any.
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lighter their strength is retained.
The porous texture makes the ma.
terial good nonconductor of sound.
there Is no loss of durability. and the
plates can be fastened by mailing. The
sound deadening feet can be in.
creased by adding sawdust, coke dust
or ashes.
The pulp-such as mixture by
weight OF 20 parts OF sawdust, 40 OF
gypsum. 40 OF water and one OF
sodium bicarbonate-is poured into
moulds and can be left to harden
without further attention.
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SURGEON GENERAL RIxEY

Presley Marion Rixey. surgeon general of the
United States navy who attended the late Mrs.
Mckinley in Canton, o., has had official of
the health of the presidents of the United States
for the past nine years. He accompanied Presi-
dent Mckinley on his fatal trip to the Pan-Amerl-
can exposition and was with him when he died.
DR. Rixey was one of the most skiful expert
enced and widely travelled surgeons OF the navy
when William Mckinley became president. He
was made White House physician and took
charge of Mrs. Mckinley, who had been in
precarious health for years
The engaging manners OF the Virginian and
the success which attended his OF Mrs. Nc
kinley attracted the president to him, The two
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Direct in Questioning.

Olrect IN Questlonlng.
No one in the employ of Armour &
Co. ever has accused the head of the
present business OF being unapproach-
able. Approaching him. no employe
knowing him has expected warm,
smiling greeting None ever expects
to escape the battery of keen ques-
tionings, one question hot after the
other, straight to the point. and
stripped of superfiuous wording.
Not that all such talk of the head
of the Armours is inquisitorial. It
would be hard to count the number of
managers, superintendents and travel
ing auditors who in years past have
come to the general office in Chicago,
to meet the chief in smiling mood,
who have been complimented in words
regarding their work, and who at the
end of the interview have been pre-
sented with an order for a gold watch
and suit of clothes. These are con-
yenient, convertible orders. too. If the
man doesn't need a watch. the order
viii be cashed at the cashiers win
dow at $50; or If he has clothes suffi-
clent, the cashier redeems the clothes
order at the same figure.
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Master of Details.

Master of Details.
One may find stories among former
Armour employees. told not with a
view to contrast with this testimony
but with due recognition OF the man. g
capacity and mastery of the routine
OF great business. which are in con-
fiict.
One of these men for years had
been travelling auditor of the busi-
nesses of the Armour branch houses.
scattered over one of the great Sec
tions OF the west In this organiza-
ton of the Armour business each
branch house has its own manager.
Each of ten or IL houses comes un-
der the supervision of a superinsArd-
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His Best Beloved.

Some one may find food for thought
on compensations in the fact that Mr..
Armour's family consists of only wife
and daughter.
All the world has heard of this little
daughter, now IL years old-the little
Lolita Armour. weighing three pounds
at her birth-nurseling of the incu-
bator. with the little life hanging by
a thread-finally the active child with
the handicap of dislocated hip, to
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swamps existed before. Five lines of
railway, one of which Mr.. Armour is
heavily interested in, will be shut off
by great embankment rs feet in
height and half mile in length. A
driveway ten miles in length will en-
compass the estate. The chief ma
terial in construction OF the house
will be marble.
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ent. and about the same number Is In
the territory OF travelling auditor.
The poultry business of Armour &
Co. is not one of the money making
ventures of the company. Armour.
in his touring of the country in which
his plants are located. always has an
eye to the records of this poultry
business. Occasionally the manager
of particular plant overstocks in
poultry. He may buy 10000 pounds
of fowls when the market proves to
justify only 5000 pounds There is a
consequent loss of two to FIVE cents a
pound on the stock.
Manager Called Down."
The house may be 500 or 1000
miles out of Chicago. The manager.
counting upon the distaece from the
home Office and the possibility of the
head of a great concern scarcely
knowing of the poultry department of
that particular branch. receives the
personal call of the corporations
head in sublime optimism.
Brusque but pleasant interchange
of conventional greetings lead up to
tho business talk. The weather may
be touched upon. The health of the
manager may be inquired after. No
words are wasted, however. Sudden
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las
a
all whc
that
o h
He delights social his genial disposition him
and Brooklyn Whether telling humorous
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IS aSS
M IN THE PUBLIC EYE M\
2&a-a.=<s&x 2& x4
SkILLFUL TRUST BUSTER"

Cordenio Arnold Severance. the government
attorney who has unearthed such valuable owl
dence in the Hartman railroad deals that the
department of justice has resolved to start Grim
inal suits, is young western attorney who hae
achieved enviabie reputation as corporation
lawyer when he enlisted with the government
forces. Mr.. Severance born and raised Is
Minnesota and has held number of Offices, in
cluding that of state senator.
Mr. Severances law business extends all oyer
the country. Aom Massachusetts to California
lie has been counsel for various railroads in rhs
northwest, also for a number OF Chicago packers
for the United States Steel corporation,
numerous other business industries. He was
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HAD NO OPPOSITION

To run for Office and be elected without op
position is an unusual thing in American politics
This rare distinction has befallen d. X. Anthony
Jr. who was nominated for congress by the Re
publicans of the First district of Kansas to fill the
vacancy caused by the elevation of Congressman
Curtis to the United States senate.
Mr. Anthony received remarkable politca
indorsement in that he unanimously nomi
mated by his own party. and the Democrats
the district met and resolved to make no nomina
tlon against him.
The new congressman is editor OF the Leav
enworth Daily Times and is a son of the late
Col D. r. Anthony, one OF the pioneers and his
toIlcal characters of Kansas struggle to be z
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Home and The Game"

Home and "The Game"
Home-and the game" of business,
measured by tens of thousands of
miles and tens of millions of money
would you ask more of flesh and
blood? THE game" is at once the
mans diversion and his toll home is
the atmosphere and the physical en-
bodiment of his recuperative necessi-
ties. For him there can be no social
world. writes Hollis w. Field, in the
Chicago Tribune.
Home? Why, J. ogden Armour is
spending a million dollars on a sum-
mer home to the west of Lake Forest,
its basement walls measuring $50 by
500 feet! There are 500 acres in the
estate, costing 5000 to $500 an acre,
and for months construction gang
that would affect the pay rolls of
great railroad has been at work dig
ging. ditching and leveling for the
landscape gardener
Lakes will be formed where only
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every OF MS Kingdom his
he
amusing experience Arriving
waiting recognized him
that moment old woman who had had
and asked what the matter They the
idiots
labor with this crowd watching for
INT eating
to fort
a had
in hdar
dumbst
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thing about what set of books
should bel"
Mr.. Armour" and the cashier
shaok. the desk with the force of his
chnched fist, that's a - - -
creditable ledger, and | know what
I'm talking about"
But knowing or not knowing the
Boston branch had a new cashier
within week or two Which was no
surprise to the cashier, either.
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S a a
ernaw of koeher the officer who recently had clash with
Ma e Philippines.
As
andm
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SO. Armour considered this a detail
mere something which had been
delegated to Mr.. Armstrong of the
concern.
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EASY GOING MONARCH

King Carlos OF Portugal is the happiest most
easy-gong and pleasure-loving ruler IN Europe.
The only cloud upon his horizon has bean par
lament which persisted in trying to make laws
and run the country. Life not worth Lying.
decided the jolly monarch. with such pest al
ways on hand. he sent the lawmakers home
and proclaimed that he would the country
alone for three years.
The private life of Portugals monarch is
rather interesting, because 1t is like that of
a private gentleman than the daily round of a
sovereign. AS he rises at five in the morning
he contrives to get all his work done before mid
day then five days of the six he gives over the
afternoon and evening to his one Amusement
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Wei, I; is exasperating. to say til,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-19
AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.

~ Il vesey Ev Joseph Day: 49, 434 7ah'
50. ia n w ~ Avo A. 50V1oc sly house
an store Jacob Hyman - al agt Louis Rener - al
Spro q w atfys, j pelany Isf. due. $il O83 ~
taxes. ctc. 500 amounting 50 5A0
6ls la3th 1S86 n Willis 2uNI0O. sty
smith atty. Louis S."ckler ref. amt duo 2362 -
81 taudUei 1l9 lINfu &-sty
n d~l Do sly r. ton b and store ana dVl b.
: : finydcu " N ArboEnSt tudiv anil RtWN a.
Edward Ni"tUE r r Dunn~ily. ref. partition a
20 BseSran ST. whole 'front.' between Nassau and
Theatre alley 100 4Nl4S VioO Sxts0 !. Ia brick and
stone cfre and store bldg known Temple Court. M
tioral Ulster county Bank r ReaIes al, olcott
.. E & Nom att.s- y Z HAYES sheriff. sherins sale
of an rcat TILE. 81" which p ! Rcaee had l3
1892 - 9Th ~ TSU r. -
44th -, @oStuo two sly t tenement houses and rtors
e Hess , Rrrus al. ,;ueEcuh~iIu-r. 4 *
NJ. attys. HAYES sheriff. sheriff. all right.
title which l. Burns hal December H. 1906.
alt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-19
REALTY NOTES.

Plans have been flied with Buildings Superin-
tenient Murphy for remodeng the ground floor
Of the office building annex of the new Aston
Theatre. at the northwest corner Of Broadway
and 10Th St, owned by the Long Acre Square
Theatre Company. for the Mechanics and Trad
ers' Bank rs lessee As made over there will
be marquise entrance with revolving doors
Plans have also been flied for making over
the three story school building at No. :}O6 East
96th ST. into light manufacturing establish
ment for Max Bowsky as the new owner. The
cost Of the improvements viii he nominal. ac-
cording to II. a. Wilkes the architect
John Kendrick Bangs and Francis S. Bangs
have sold to George F. Kelly their property
known the Crescent on the east side Of
South Broadway, just south OF the Park Hill
station. Yonkers. II is plot 3tlx1S7 feet. on
which are six frame dwelling houses
The West Side Taxpayers Association last
Friday elected Frank Demuth president by "A
unanimous vote. over one hundred members
were present at the meeting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-19
ANDREW CARNEGIE TO BE At DINNER
Will Be Guest of the United States Military
Telegraph Corps.

Andrew Carnegie viii he one Of the guests
at the reunion and dinner 10 he given by the
United States Military Telegraph Corps at the
Hotel Manhattan on Thursday evening. March
rs II was at Mr.. Canegies suggestion al the
outbreak Of the Civil War that four operators
were sent from the Pennsylvania lines TO Wash
ington. and The corps. from this small Begin
ming. was enlarged to about twelve hundred
men
David II. Bates. one Of the original four, sug
gested this special reunion and dinner. He and
Albert 3. Chandler and Charles A. Tinker were
cipher operators in the War Department and
none. ii is said were closer than they in conf
Dental ana personal relations to President Lin
coin. They were known the Sacred Three
The corps now numbers less than two hundred.
about sixty of whom have promised "a be pres
ent at the dinner. Twenty sons Of members
have also promised - attend The other guests
viii be the commanders OF the corps. General
Thomas r. ECkert and Colonel r. c. Clowry. and
William r. Plum. historian Of the corps. and
Ike IL. Carnegie, an honorary member.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-19
ACTIVITY IN LOWER 9Th AVE.
SPECTATORS BUY THE H. c, COOK PARCELs NEAR
21TH STREET.
nn Purchases the Ransom House IN East 52d Street
-Market Found for 10Th Street Structure.

ST. four story and basement stone front dwell
ing house. on a lot 20x100S feet.
Catharine A. Grove has sold No. ZIG West
S1st ST. four story and basement stone front
dwelling house. on a lot 1sx1O2.2 feet.
S Osgood Pell Co. have sold for Mrs Ella
Blackburn No. 123 West 56th st, a three story
stable. on a lot 2Jx100 ~ feet. The buyer Frank
NJ Stanton. will alter it into private garage
Isaac Portman has bought from Edward A.
johnson. through +. VI. Ludlow & Co.. No. G3
West 1:"}d st, a five story fiathouse. on a lot
25xg9ft feet. Also, bought from Edward \.
Johnson. of Raleigh, y c.. No. "a West J0th
St. five story tenement house. on a lot 2JxlO05
feet F.. II. Ludlow & co. were the brokers. NJ
Portman has also bought No. 1874 Ludlow St. Il
six story front and rear tenement house. on a
lot 25xS75 feet
\ Walsh has sold for Isaac Nacht to Shar-
low Brothers the four story tenement house
at the entrance to Blackwelrs Island bridge. The
buyers VIII alter the premises into store and
loft building
Young & Gibbons have sold for the CioIding
estate No. 200 West 10th street, a three story
building. on lot l9.1x949 feet
Frederick 7. Barry has sold for Abraham
Schwab TO the EdSeWater Realty Company. No.
7Z9 Lexington avenue, a four story building. on
lot 17.9x95 feet. Also sold for Charles Faulkner.
No ia East G3d street a three story stone
front dwelling. on lot 16.Sx10O.5 feet.
Leonard Shultz. Of A. w Miller & Co, has
sold for Augusta BUchner TO John SchoIes. No.
l54 East 9th street five story double fiat
house. on let 27x100l1 feet
John P Kirwin has sold for Nichols & Blu
mcnstock. TO the BORNE Manufacturing Com
pany, NO. COL West 42d street, two four story
tenement houses. lot 25XI0o5 feet.
The Meyer estate has sold through Max Blau.
TO Herschheld & Leopold Nos. Is and 20 Third
avenue. TWO five story tenement houses. on plot
50x1O0 feet.
Leonard WE'LL has sold a Mr.. Norden the
southeast corner Of Buchanan Place and Grand
avenue. plot l00Xl00 feet Casey & Irving were
the brokers.
\. Shatztn & Sons have sold 10 Cilosimonti
Fuscia the lot. 25xl00 feet. on the south side Of
213th street % feet east Of Maple avenue; also
giuseppe taNlpIneild Francesca -.
Morabito the plot 56X95 feet. the north side
~ 209th street I05 feet east Of Rosewood ave
on TN" south side OF Randall street 100 feet
west OF Fourth avenue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-19
TRANSACTIONS IN REALTY.

NJ. Edgar Fftzgibbons has sold for Silverman
& London six story apartment house
with stores Nos. 273S and 274O Sth ave. 4Ox1OO
feet. for $500.
Fleck & Brown have sold for Mandebaum &
Levine to Bchland G Akier a parcel. 1OOx75
feet, at the southwest corner of Forsyth and
Rivington SITS
Ernest \. Adler has sold for Charles Sachar
10 the Borivoj Bohemian Real Estate Associa-
ton No. Jo' East 10th St. five story double
hathoUse, on lot .5Xi16 feet. Also for the same
10 the Pokrok Real Estate Association No 509
East 10th St. a five story double fathouse on
lot 21Xll2 feet Also leased for Jacob Larschan
10 the American Salvation Army the ground
and for Antonio Bohaty to the Monitor Realty
Company the double store at No 1917 LIST ave
for term Of five years
William c. and 4. Edward Lester and Layton
Rogers. for f. A. Goethe TO John Acker for
his own occupancy four story dwelling No BIS
West l+2d St, Washington Heights
The Charles F. Moves Company has sold for
me Sta!lman & Fulton Company, to II. b. F'en-
ing & Sons, Its uaeXpiTed lease on the building
No 10 Jacob st. recently sold to Fleming q
Sons through the same brokers
Frederick Fox & Co have leased for the Rich
man Ee2lty and Construction Company, to I,
strauss importer. Goo square feet OF space IN
the new building az the northeast corner of 18th
81 and 9TH ave. for long term Of years
at an aggregate rental of $:sJOOO; also for Hiram
j. hays the store floor al 40. - West 18th St
.o' tohE term Of years, to Ciustave Schumann
JF n an aSgr'Cf.te rental of S90No0
"AFs' Lena stern has sold 80. 20 West SIth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-19
SCOUT MURDER THEORY
Police Think Herman Kne7Cit@ Took
His O5Cn Life.

Detective Sergeant Price OF The Bronx detecO'o
bureau and Coroner Schwarnecke OF The brolN
believe Herman Knewitz who. as told IN Nestei-
DAVIS Tribune was found dead in hts home No
gsi East lGSth street. Saturday night WIN =
bullet wound in his head. committed suicide InoSe
sr charge OF the case have come 10 this conclusion
in spite Of tho conflicting stories told b. different
members of the family.
coroner Schwsnnecae examined Mrs kneWitz
and lh three daughters yesterday afternoon 81 his
Office and found that their stories did not agree
Two Of the daughters. Elizabeth ana Lena ioiu ms
coroner that they had FIRST discovered the body 81
their father on their from visit to friends
in R-ooki,n. and on running TO the street for as
siS.ance had met the mother and the other daugh-
Ter Martha al The door. On the other hand MIS-
KneN.tz and Martha Knewitz told the coroner that
they had first discovered the body on their return
from "a shopping trip about o'clock in the evening
No trace OF tho weapon used has been discovered
and the members OF TIE family say that MI
Knevitz had never own4i.a revolver Sergeant
Price said last night that another search OF me
house would be mad to-day. in the hope Of finding
the revolver The fact that nothing IN me ..ouT
the eyes of the police that Mr.. hne|hz had peeh
murdered by a burglar - ,. r,o5
who was called after the body was discovered sala
last night that in his opinion Il was "A case OF
10 show that the revolver was held by Nj hneEsltz
himself Dr. Monaghan also said the course la 1s
that he had seen where the person dled by ms
hand. -,
IS concealed somewhere in the kneWitz nome anu
that the search to-day viii bring II 70 hgnt:
and had income OF about $3.50 a month IN 40
dition to this he was insured IN me I,os ~ ne
dead man lives IN williamsburg and the police are
making an effort TO get into communication VIII VIZ,
Mr.. KnewitZ would take has own life Bther rela-
fives of the dead man say that they know or no
l1a rr7ic I'll rorll1 lead m %