The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-27
Quaker City son
tells life story at
home on Hudson.

IIOuL SaTu, ana what 5 more IL was
our house. We bought il, bought il on
payments, of course; but what are
payments TO a new married couple.
After much figuring we decided that
we could afford the services of a GER
tain Dutch girl whom We could get for
81 week, and that We could likewise
afford to spend $40 a week on our lit
tie household.
Now ii was always a mystery to
me then. and it has so remained a
mystery TO this day, how Mrs. Reid
ever managed To make $40 go so far.
We wanted absolutely for no comfort,
in fact, for no luxury. as luxuries went
in Richmond. Ind, and all on $40 a
week. Imagine my surprise. then,
when at the end of three years and
the last payment on our house was
due, my wife divulged the fact that
she had saved up $3.50 out of that $40
week l had been giving her. Isn't
that just like a woman?
They certainly do manage these
things wonderfully-ther right kind of
women do. And after all they are the
only real and great finaneiers-these
faithful, gentle. loving women. whose
last motive in the world for marrying
a chap would be a mercenary one. All,
it is a great thing for a young man to
marry the woman he loves, but it is
still a greater thing when that woman
happens to be just the right woman
for him.
OF i,afn tod hi acnlf
long enough to conduct me through
/ the great hall of his house and up the
broad staircase to the library to show
me some of the mementos of those
| early days. There was, for instance.
photograph of the little old fash
toned United Presbyterian church he
! used to go to as a boy, the church
which, as its richest member, he some
years replaced with the gift of hand
some stone structure with a splendid
srgan and a beautiful chime of bells.
There was also photograph of the
| little house to which he had taken his
| girlish bride, the same little house
where, as he explained in a hushed
voice, he had looked upon the face of
|
Rhea, and where a year or SO later
was also born the little boy who died
when he was seven. And no better
commentary upon the sort of man
Daniel G. Reid is can be offered than
| the statement that to this day no
money could buy that little house in
Richmond. any more than money
| he
dog the little boy had loved in life
When eventually Mr.. Reds increas
ing business obliged him to leave Rich
mond to go to Chicago to live, he left
the old dog and the old horse behind
in charge of trusted keeper, who
kept watch and ward over them, sup
plying them with every comfort and
luxury a sybaritic equine or canine
could desire. until they died, the horse
at thirty-one years of age and the dog
at sixteen. And last and evidently
most sacred of all these tender souve
Mrs, he brought forth a pair of old
fashioned jardinieres which had been
painted by "Rhea's mother" as Mr.
Reid seems to love best to designate
l
tined to die before she could see the
full fruition of her husbands career
in which she had had so much to dc
in its initial stages.
And the softness with which he now
pronounced those words, "Rhea't
mother" could leave no doubt in any
ones mind that there was no treasure
( of oil tho wopdarf,I traocnras of art
and craftsmanship in that beautiful
house which in its masters estimation
was so precious as that pair of jardi
neres wrought by the hands of the
girlish wife who had been indeed &
Eelpmate. After dinner, seated in The
same broad loggia, now flooded witt
the light of the full midsummer moor
Mr. Reid continued the romance o
his success.
Buys TinpIate Plant.
after I paid off the mortgage OF
the house, 1 managed, with Mrs
Reid's help. to save enough money II
buy some stock in the bank, thus max
ing myself eligible for dictatorship
Shortly afterward / became interested
in little tin plate mill at Elwood
about sixty-five miles from Richmond
This mill had never been made to PAL
and was something of a white ele
plant on our hands. At this time ev
everybody save a few Of US secuted
the idea that tin plate was possibili
ty for this country. Everybod,
thought it could be made successful,
only in Wales.
II thought differently; so did few
others. We believed that il we coult
succeed in building the right sort O
plant and installing the right process
we could make of tin plate grea
American industry. In 1891 we or
ganized company and built ant
equipped what we in our infinite liz
norance supposed to be a tin plat,
mill. But it wasn't. It was onl,
a pile of junk, as we discovered TIVE
years later. Our machinery was tor
light, everything was too something
or other that it ought not to hav,
been. The stockholders were disgust
ed. Something had to be done, ant
then we secured a man in Pittsburg
William Banfield, who knew a 10
about mill construction. He was /;
Cornishman and for generations hi,