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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
]. OGDEN ARMOUR
ONE OF AMERICAS
KINGS OF FINANCE
Muhnailionaire Works Harder and Has More Hours of
Business Than Any of His More Than 2O,OOO En-
poyes-HaS No Time for 'Society''-F4iS Home and
"Thc Came Take Up His Whole Life.

Chicago.-By virtue of his millions,
his diversified financial and CONNER
cial interests, his methods, and 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
cnCe.
ASK Mr.. Armour himself and he re-
CARDS the subject as not at all worthy
OF discussion in business hours.
And J. Odgen Armour has more
business hours in the course of the
calendar year than has any other nal
liUnare in the western metropolis.
He cats 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 G. Co., with its pay
roll OF 10000 men, looking to his own
private interests in half dozen lines
of investment, meeting in one way or
another the multtudinous calls that
come from Il great world to the desk
OF the millionaire.
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Has he met with any accident of

Has he met with any accident of
late?'
lie is too lazy for that"
DO you think he has taken any
thing to commit suicide?"
You couldn't drive him to such
thing"
But it's a queer case, madam-a
very queer case. / don't think | ever
met one like it, Can't you give me
the slightest hint to help me under
stand it?"
Yes, l think / can," replied the
woman. After supper this evening
told him that he would have to start
in the morning and help me clean
house, and he turned as pale as death
and rushed out of the house That's
all that ails the lazy coot of a man.
He wants to throw all the work on me,
and I'll be shammed If | stand it.
Here, Reuben, you get up and toddle
along with me or | won't leave a
whole bone in your body"
She seized Reuben by the hair and
gave yank and a twist, and he sat
up and said he'd begin taking down
bedsteads and wrestling bureaus as
soon as he could dress and get home.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
KOSHER MEAT CAUSES RIOT.
Cleveland Shops Picketed BY Jews
Who Resent Increased Prices.

Cleveland, GA riot occurred in
the Jewish district as result OF a ban
placed on the Kosher meat shops.
The Jews are angered over the re-
cent raise of four cents a pound for
meat, refuse to buy and are urging
others not to buy.
All of the Kosher shops were pick
eted by the women and children Of the
neighborhood. Delivery wagons were
stopped, meat soaked in coal oil and
the shops closed.
When Jacob Ro2koyitch emerged
from a shop with meat he was sur
rounded by women. Not understand
ing he attempted to escape.
In doing so he ran over a baby. A
crowd of five hundred gathered quickly
and Rockovitch was being handled
roughly when rescued by the police.
One woman was severely injured
and her clothing torn off by a crowd
for buying meat. Several shops were
raided.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20

One of these men FOR years had
been a 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 10 houses comes un-
der the supervision of a superintend-
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 a particular plant overstocks in
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20

especially are spoken for in advance.
The demand for books on black.
smithing, bricklaying, stonesetting
and other artisan labors are always
out OF the library. Many of the pris-
oners are excellent workmen, as the
new buildings which are being built
by convict labor indicate.
Books of poetry and the standard
novels are read by the prisoners to a
great extent and the mathematical
works are always in demand MANY
OF the prisoners read Shakespeare and
the works of Bryant, Longfellow and
Whittier have many admirers. Dick.
ems Is popular author often asked
for Robert Louis Stevenson's novels
find many friends among the conyicts
as do the works of Edgar Allan Poe
1t is not unusual for prisoners to
ask for books upon theology. A pris-
oner allowed to take a book from tho
library for two weeks at time. If
no other prisoner desires it then he
may have the time extended another
two weeks, Dozens of the prisoners
subscribe for newspapers and maya.
zines. Among these are many techni.
cal journals. H''1
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Manager "caIIed Down."

The house may be 500 or 1000
miles out of Chicago. The manager,
counting upon the distance from the
home Office and the possibility of the
head of great concern scarcely
knowing of the poultry department of
that particular branch, receives the
personal call of the corporation S
head in sublime optimism.
Brusque but pleasant interchange
Of conventional greetings lead up to
the business talk. The weather may
be touched upon. The health of the
manager may be inquired after. No
words are wasted, however. Sudden
ly. like the explosion of a shotgun,
the head of Armour G Co. touches
upon business.
THAT overstocking in poultry just
before Thanksgiving, Mr.. Jones. 1t
wasn't good business move Loss of
five cents a pound on 5000 pounds of
soft stock. 1t mustn't occur again"
The manager stammers a little. He
has an excuse, perhaps, and the eX-
cuse is listened to respectfully. Talk
may drift away from the subject a
little. Then, as suddenly and un-
eXpectedly, the head of Armour & Co.
comes back to the topic from a new
angle. 1t is an explosive recurrence,
but in the inevitable low, even tones
of the dictator. 1t is disconcerting to
the degree that it is unexpected
and disconnected employe is regard
ed as one Of the inspirations of Og-
den Armour. Before he is done with
the department head he may have
come back three or four times to
the unpleasant subject. But when he
has gone the manager has the lesson
Of his mistaken Judgment firmly i'm
pressed upon his mind. He will not
offend again.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
BOOKS THE coNVIcTs READ.
Works on Trade Are Most Popular,
Followed by the Languages.

What kind of books do convicts
read? Contrary to the general belief
this class of men, at least in the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, do not
show marked desire for the blood
and thunder" stories, nor even for
other light fiction.
The most popular books among the
prisoners in the 7,0O0-volume library
of the penitentiary are text books and
works on the various trades and lam
guages.
Among the languages Spanish is the
most popular, and in the last years
several prisoners have taught them
selves to read and write the language.
rhe text books upon French and Ger
man come next in popularity, and
these, as the Spanish books, are al
ways out of the library.
The trade books are even more pop
ular than the works on languages and
those upon plumbing and engineering
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
DFUGHTER

the atmosphere and the physical en-
D~Llnenl OG MS recuperative nccessi-
ties. For him there can be no social
world, writes Hollis w. Field, in the
Chicago Tribune
Home? Why, ]. Ogden Armour is
spending million dollars on a sum-
mer home to the west of Lake Forest.
its basement walls measuring 1870 by
500 feet! There are 500 acres in the
estate, costing 5000 to $500 an acre.
and for months a construction gang
that would affect the pay rolls of a
great railroad has been at work dig
ging, ditching and leveling for the
landscape gardener
Lakes will be formed where only
Swamps existed before. Five lines of
railway one of which Mr.. Armour is
heavily interested in. will be shut off
by a great embankment 25 feet in
height and half mile in length. A
driveway ten miles in length will en-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
OHIO MEATS GET PREFERENCE.
Regulating Purchases BY State Insti.
tutions Held to Be Valid.

Columbus, O.-Attorney General Ell
lis holds that the law requiring state
institutions to purchase meat that is
from native Ohio animals is valid and
must be observed.
The opinion was given to the gov
ernor. The question arose at the San
dusliy Soldiers home, where it was
complicatCd by the fact that it is sup
ported in the main by money from the
federal government.
At a recent bid the Armours under
bid the Ohio butchers.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Close Supervision Necessary.

That such lesson may be worth
while is suggested in the fact that
there are about $50 of these branch
houses throughout the country. Three
hundred and fifty manager are neces-
sary for their conduct, and IS super
intendents and as many travelling au-
ditors overlook the business of these
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 $5,0O0,0O0 or S.
100000 in year.
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 a quarter of an hour ahead of
the cashier
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
STATE ODDS AND ENDS
GOV. HARRIS VACATION
Will Be Spent in Visiting the Seven,
teen State institutions.

Columbus, O.--Governor Harris pro.
poses to while away the heated term
this summer in most unique way. lie
will not go to the seaside, nor will ne
spend much of his time on the farm in
Preble county. Instead he expects to
visit each of the II state institutions
and see for himself if they are being
conducted properly.
He does not propose to herald his
coming, and be met at the station by
q delegation of prominent citizens with
a brass band, but will go as quietly as
possible No itinerary will be ar
ranged either. He may be in one part
of the state one day and in another the
next. BY dropping in as a surprise he
may be enabled to ascertain if the trus-
tees and officers are carrying out his
wishes in regard to the conduct Of their
respective institutions.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Played Checkers With a Corpse

Columbus, O.-William Ellington, in
a game of checkers with Judson Bag.
ley, moved into the king row ard The
latter crowned his man. There was a
cessation in the play and Ellington
joked his opponent concerning his
knowledge of the game. After wait
ing for Is minutes he said:
IT'S your move, Jud. Make some
kind of play end don't be SO slow
about it."
There was no response. An inveSti-
cation disclosed that Bagley was dead,
although he was sitting erect, appar-
emily studying a move.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
LOST WATCH
Returned TO Owner After Eleven Years
BY a Converted Man.

Urhana, O.-Eieven years ago Jas.
McMullen, of WCGdcock, lost valu3-
Bile watch and he has now recov-
cred it. The person who found it
knew that it was the property of Mr..
McMullen. He recently was seized
with religion and his conscience wo:-
ried him until he returned the prop
erty. Mr.. McMullen kept an appoint
ment with the priest Cf the Catholic
church there and the watch was re-
turned to him, the priest declining to
give the name of the finder.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
JUST WHAT ALLIED HIM.
Case Of Man Puzzled the Doctors,
But Not His Wife.

"A policeman had found a man lying
on the sidewalk in an unconscious
condition and sent him to the hospital
IN an ambulance. A doctor spent half
an hour in overhauling him, and then
gave up in despair and establishment.
The man appeared to be on the point
of dying, and yet he had no malady
that could be discovered.
The doctor was about to bleed the
Tatie1t and then follow with electric
shocks, when tall gaunt woman, with
az i+on jaw, made her appearance at
the hospital and was admitted. When
she was uShered into the ward where
the new arrival lay she said to the
doctor who had worked over him:
Eyes, that's my husband, knew I'd
either find him here or at the morgue.
Is he pretending to be unconscious p"
"He is unconscious, madam. In
fact, he efil rot live half an hour. Has
nc been LIP"
'Nnt Il 80 year
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
QUICK BORROW
Made BY Man Who Filed a Bogus
Deed to Farm Land.

Tihin, O.-Last Tuesday a stranger,
giving his name as George NJ. Snyder,
filed for record properly executed
deed conveying from Finley Ringle to
him a farm of 100 acres in Scipio town.
ship. On the same day he borrowed
$2,500 from Nicholas ]. Wolter, q
wealthy farmer, given tc secure the
loan on a mortgage upon the Ringle
farm.
1t was learned that the signatures Of
the grantor and his wife, the witnesses
and the notary public appearing in the
deed are forgeries. The loan was
made through a prominent real estate
firm Of this city, which was complete
ly duped.
Immediately after securing the mon.
ey Snyder disappeared.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20

Most men will admit that II 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 a 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
Well, it is exasperating, to say the
least.
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rife. And, once spoken, they are ir-
revoCable.
In J. Ogden Armour the man asso-
ciated with him in the business of Ar
mour & Co. finds in this head of the
concern the master of details. In the
famous hearing of the beef trust be-
fore the federal court in Chicago,
there is the Armour testimony that in
the matter of rebates of 100000 or
so, Armour considered this a detail
a mere something which had been
delegated to Mr.. Armstrong of the
concern.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20

compass the estate. Inc CnleI ma
terial in construction Of the house
will be marble.
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 II years old-the little
Lolita Armour, weighing three pounds
at her birth-nurseling of the incu-
batOr, with the little life hanging by
q thread-finally the active child with
the handicap of a dislocated hip, to
become the patient of a world-famed
surgeon, and, restored to health and
strength, stand as one of the marvels
of twentieth century surgery.
But this little daughter is the light
of the Armour household. She is
legion in the affections of the father.
The brusqueness of business speech
softens in her presence. The man in
the business Office becomes the fa-
ther in the home. And the trans
formation is complete.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Ornan Was Ruined.

TifflE, GA terrific electrical storm
v1slted Tiffin. The English Lutheran
church, the plant OF the Tiffin Lumber
Co. and a crowded street car were
struck tI lightning, h2t no one wae
injured f'he church building was dam,
aged by fire to the extent of several
thousand dollars and the fine Carnegie
ORGAN wrecked,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Of Few Words in Business.

There are men high in the employ
of Armour & Co. who never have seen
this man of the home environment
Thousands would not recognize him
in the position. To thousands of
these he is man to stand in awe of
to fear, even.
Ogden Armour in business is the
man Of the fewest words. In utter
ance he is of the steel trap speech.
His yes or no is not to be an
ticipated. They spring out of his set
fixed inscrutability like the crack of a
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Over the Cliff.

Youngstown, O.-Minnle Sparr will
probably die and Charles Mach was in
tured as the result of falling over the
Umbrella Rocks" at Mill Creek Park.
The girls hat was found en- the beach
by the park policeman and it led to the
discovery of the victims at the foot of
the rocks, 125 feet below.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
WhjrIed TO His Death

Marion, O.-When workmen entered
the boiler-making department of the
Huber shops they found the mlngled
body of W. P. Fetter, 2S, who had
started the machinery. A button cf his
shirt had caught in the set screw while
oiling the shaft and in flash he was
Whirled to his death.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Wnere lie Eailed.

Toledo, O.-Chas. M. Schwab, a
prominent and aged druggist, secured
a divorce from his young wife, who he
charged had el0ped with the private
secretary TO Eugene Zimmerman
Are YOU any relation to Schwab, tie
Steel MANI" asked the court. "No,
your honor, if l had been my wife
would have been happy"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Authorized Capital Basis.

Columbus, OH an opinion ren
dered to Secretary of State C. A.
Thompson Attorney General Ellis
holds that the secretary Of state is
justified to pay fees, in making Willis
law reports based on their entire au.
thoriZed capital stock and not merely
the stock that is actually issued.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
First Step Toward Transfer,

Canton, Or. S. Shields, admins
TRAITOR Of the estate Of Abner Mchin-
Icy, brother of the late president, filed
a petition in the probate cCurt for the
sale of real estate. The application
IS the first step toward the sale of the
Mckinley home to Mrs. NJ. C. Barber,
in order that she may present iC to
the National Mckinley Memorial asso-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Coroner Stricken

Columbus, O.-Coroner Thos. Kier
nan, of Fairfield county, was stricken
with apoplexy. He rallied from the
shock, and will be removed to his
home in Lancaster. 1t was first
thought that he had been made The
victim of knockout drops.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Taggart's Broker Found Dead.

Wooster, Cd. S. Taggart. broth
er of Capt. E. F. Taggart, of divorce
fame, died at OrrviIle from the effects
of an overdose Of chloral. he was in
Wayne county on a visit home, being
located in Reno, New, where he was
prominent railroad man. He was
found dead in bed by members of his
ia Y11ilv
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Missionary Mare Dead.

Steubenville, O.-The NJ E. church
and racing circuits sustained loss in
the death of Florence Nightingale, the
great missionary mare, who died while
pacing on the Cadiz track. Her own
er, Geo. w. Glover, devoted all win
nings to the missionary cause.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Hail Like Hens Enns.

Ironton, GA violent rain and wind
storm swept over this section. Win
dows of houses were broken, and roofs
blown off. Hail as large as eggs fell
The damage to crops in this vicinity is
heavy
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Houses Inundated.

Ironton, O.-The Big Sandy valley
was visited by another cloudburst in
the night, bringing the stage Of the
river to 38 feet at Pikeville and 40
feet at Louisa. Many houses were in.
undated.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20

| The patent feathers, the gloves, the
silk hat tie, and a few other of the
| evidences of night in the company
of dressy friends. He bowed to the
head of the Armour business, who
had been filling in the time looking
through an Office ledger.
1t was a nice morning, according to
the Armour weather report, apropos
of the cashiers silence.
The cashier admitted that in his
chiefs meteorological observation the
chief had beaten the weather bureau
by ten degrees.
Mr.. Armour had been waiting for
some time. he said.
The cashier hadn't a doubt of it.
The ease, and composure, and pains
taking care with which the cashier
laid aside overcoat, hat, and gloves
were little irritating at best. Just
when the cashier was removing his
gloves, carefulSR the wrinkles, the
head of Armour's brought hand
No"h upOu IHS OpSl IeuSSI.
"Mr. Jones, that's a bad ex-
ample of bookkeeping, if l know any
thing about what a set of books
should be-"
"Mr. Armour" and the cashier
shook the desk with the force of his
clinched fist, that's a -
creditable ledger, and l 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.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Archbishop MoeIIer Presided

Hamilton, O.-The annual CON-
mencement exercises of the Notro
Dame academy were held in Notre
Dame hall, and was presided over by
Archbishop Henry Moeller, Of Clnc;n-
natl. The valedictory was delivered
by Miss Eleanor Connolly.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Nun+lno+on Fitch ExnirAe

Columbus, O.-Huntington Fitch, for
many years the representative of the
Erie Dispatch in this city, died at Ur-
bana. Mr.. Fitch was prominent club
man and well known in the society cir
cles Of Columbus and Cincinnati.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Apprai sers Named.

Columbus, O.-The state board of
appraisers and assessors appointed A.
s. Ranney, republican, as a member
Of the board of review Of Kenton, vice
]. Pfeiffer, deceased. N. j. Carlson,
republican, will serve on the Ashta-
bala board, succeeding w. w. Konkla,
reSiernd
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-20
Wants to Lease Canal Bank

Columbus, O.-George H. Merkel, of
Cincinnati, made application to the
state board Of public works to lease q
strip of ground six feet in width on
the canal bank. He wants to store
iron nine thereon,