Arizona republican., 1909-08-30
FRA ELRURTUs ON ARMOUR.


 published by Ebert Hubbard, the East | Aurora writer, who depicts the true man rather than the grim, unsmiling potency imagination is prone to paint. The book is full of the spirit of gentle | full -heartedness which pervaded the man who built the powerful Armour | institution, and seems scarcely com patible with the virile personality that has often been taken as the ideal of commercial power in play and story. | Yet Philip Armour was a very human individual" says the writer, and throughout his sketch he reiter ates this by jest and story, proving that the forceful character which made the Chicago stockyards world wonder was very much as you and l." He also states that the head of the Armour packing interests, who died eight years ago in this city, where he had won his way by desperate 1 struggle, was a man of big mental | and physical resources-big in brain, rich in vital power, bold in initiative and cautious when he should be" But | that is as the world already knows him, and Hubbard has omitted muck of this.
 Philip Danford Armour was the father of the packing house industry" says the East Aurora writer, and goes on. "The business of the packing house industry is to gather up the food prod ucts of America and distribute them to | the world.
 Besides being the father of the packing house industry. Philip D. Ar mOur was a manufacturer and dealer in portable wisdom His teeming brim took in raw suggestion and threw off the completed product in the form of epigrams, phrases, or phics. symbols. To have caught these crumbs of truth which fell from the rich mans table might have placed many a penny-a-liner beyond the reach of mental avarice. That is the terse summing up of one of the traits of Mir Armour's character, and an apt simile it is.
 The book is introduced by a de- scription of the Armour ancestry. the family home in Oneida county, N. Y., | and Mir. Armour's departure for the west and gold when 19 years of age.
 Instead of digging for gold he set to work digging ditches for men who had mines but no water. This mak- ing ditches was plain labor, without excitenent, chance or glamOr. He knew beforehand just how much he would make Philip was strong and patient-he could work from sunrise to sunrise.
 He was paid five dollars a day. Then he took contracts to dig ditches and sometimes made ten dollars day. Parties who were busted and wanted to borrow were offered a job. He set them to work and paiG them for what they did and no more. It was all question of mathematics. In five years Philip Armour had saved eight thou sand dollars.
 That Is the way in which this bi- agrapher-i in- brevity tells in a brace of paragraphs the character of the ntln. Philip was strong and patient, knew beforehand just how much he was going to make, and this making ditches was plain labor-it's really all told in the three short sentences; in them you can see the way of the man the way that lat made his name called king.
  most too personal account of the re- turn to the east and a love affair which was forever killed by the re- turn. Mir Armour's first location in Milwaukee is characteristically de- scribed. Mir. Hubbard writes of the time when John Plankinton made Armous his junior partner. There is a sense of the growing strength of the man in the words:
 Then business sizzled. They were at the plant at 4 o'clock in the morn ing. They discovered how to make a hog yield four hams
 The opening of the firm of Armour & Company in Chicago in 1870 is treated briefly by the author, who then dives at once into the real per sonal. The following paragraphs are lected at random:
 Armour had two peculiar charac- teristics-he refused to own more land than he could use. His second peculiarity was that his only stimu- lant was tea"
 No living man ever handed out more gratuitous advice than Philip Armour. He was the greatest preach CT in Chicago. With every transac- tion he passed out a premium in the way of palaver. He loved the hustle of business but into business he butted a bit of talk-helpful, good natured, paternal talk, and often there was a suspicion that he talked for the same reason that the prize fighters spar for time"
 Armour called people by their first names as if they all belonged to his family, as they really did, for all mankind to him were one"
 He thought in millions where oth- CT big men thought in hundreds of thousands or average men thought in dozens"
 For all preachers he had a great attraction and it wasn't solely be- cause he was a rich man. He sup piled the voltage. Most men put on pious manners and became hypocriti- cally proper when a preacher joins a group, but not so Philip Armour If he used a strong word or a smile uncurried. 1t was then-they liked it."
 He liked to play big and magnani- nous, to give an elevator boy a dollar, or surprise a clerk by saying he all ways had in electrOtype, to-wit: Keep the change Often he would walk six blocks to save a street car fare and on the way hand d crossing