The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-13
MILLIONAIRE HEAD
OFFENDED AT TOWN
Desires 10 Get Away From
Petty AnnOyanCeS and
"ViIIage Gossip

Special TO Daily Leader.
New York. April 13--Annoyed by q
hundred and one petty grievances,
firm in the belief that only rare luck
enabled him to nip in the bud a con
spiracy 10 declare him Insane knd put
him away for life; almost heart brok-
en- that a scheme of industrial better
ment which he attached to his great
factories at Dayton, O.. as welfare
work has failed for lack of apprecia-
tion among his 200 employees, Joseph
Patterson. the millionaire controller of
great cash register company, has
come TO New York to reside perma-
nently.
Mr. Patterson was at the St Regis
hotel tonight with his secretary,
Charles Palmer, man who arose in
his employ from a position as a rub
ber' and valet to one worth $4,000 a
year Through Palmer, his factotum,
Mr. Pattet,on admitted that he had
shaken the dust of the mean little
town Of Dayton from his feet, deter
mined to bear no longer the annoy
ances to which he was subjected.
Dodges Village Gossip.
Along with the announcement that
he will make his home in this city in
the future, comes the statement that
the general offices OF the cash register
company will be moved here, and that
in the course of a Short time the town
of Dayton viii be punished by this
man OF determined will for annoying
him by losing the great plant of the
company with its 2,700 employees and
weekly payroll of $4,000.
1T is not true, said Palmer TO a
! World reporter at the ST Regis last
might that Mr. Patterson fled from
Dayton because Of threats against his
| life He is not afraid OF any man. He
has left Dayton because he could not
stand the petty annoyances to which
he was subjected, and the small mean
lnesses of the Dayton people. Here in
New York he viii be free from village
gossip al least
Patterson's Welfare Work.
John H. Patterson draws a salary
| OF Sl44 900 a year from the cash reg
lister company as it's president A
man of iron, permitting no opposition
TO his will, and spending the enor-
nous resources of the institution to
have his own way in all things HIS
industrial betterment work has at
traoted attention throughout the
world
over course Of years he con
structed scheme which comprehend.
ed the feeding. housing and recreation
OF his employees II became as neces-
sary for an employe to go through his
lphysical culture exercise every morn
| ing as for him to do his work properly
| IL became as necessary for the execu-
/ tive hesIs az the factory to ride q
lhigh-siepping English cob as to be
able TO tell the details of their de
partment
A great hall. Welfare hall. was con
structed II held a $4,000 organ II
lhad a fine dance floor Lyceum lee
lures We're given every week Educa-
tion In the humanities and the science
of health took a certain number of
hours each day from the time Of every
lemploye
100000 60 Former Valet.
with one swift decision Patterson
has swept all of the welfare work
aside. and today he characterized the
lscheme which for many years had
been his hobby as "hell-fire work
Palmer, the English bath rubber,
who became his valet many years ago,
HIS the fountain head of suggestions
that have caused the creation, over a
term of years. OF the welfare" depart
ment aud IFS demolition on an instant,
and It's characterization as hell.
fire"
| Il is the complaint of the people OF
Dayton that Palmer has taken com
plete charge OF the factory over the
heads Of men who have grown OH in
the school OF experience Recently
la PARAGRAPH appeared IN a Dayton pa
lper telling of the rise of Palmer from
lSl0 a week TO $4,000 "a year.
"Noi enough cried Patterson
l"Make Il $2O000"
Patterson has an estate at Dayton
surrounded bS armed guards. oonsti
ltuted deputy sheriffs. They are drilled
leyery day, and no one is allowed 10
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