River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-07-18
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the same.
If there is a sleazy thread II
your character" says Ralph Waldo
Emerson, you are going to weave
it into the fabric that you make, y
The criticism on Rembrandt
portraits was that all of his pictures
looked very much like Rembrandt.
| A Ford automobile looks like
Henry Ford. 1t is light in physical
weight, strong in every part, we'll
balanced, safe. effective and
efficient.
1t has about it look of honesty,
which quality is proven by its use.
Henry Ford is not the typical
American business mamie is
more than that. He is as fine and
gentle as Luther Burbank, and is
just as devoted. He is very seldom
in the linelight, and then not of
his own choosing. He is a
mechanic, inventor, naturalist. He
loves the woods and fields. He
likes to work in his garden.
He knows nature in every form.
But he also knows every part of
his manufacturing establishment.
He moves among the men as one
of them. They know and respect
him.
Also, he respects them.
He has the time for a nod and a
smile, and word of greeting as he
passes.
He is the only automobile
manufacturer to-day who invented
his car, developed it In every part,
and grew as his business grew.
| regard it as one of the great
privileges of my life to know Henry
Ford.
Just remember that this business
started in nineteen hundred three
on paid-in-cash-capital of only
twenty-eight thousand dollars.
About eighteen hundred ninety
Mr.. Ford made an explosive gas
engine. This little gas engine was
made at odd times in the boiler
room of the Edison Illuminating
works simply as a matter of
recreation.
He dismounted two old bicycles,
using the wheels as wheels for
his buggy. These with a buggy
seat and steering geer-and he
was ready for business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ford and their son
Edsel used to ride up and down
Woodward Avenue in this machine.
1t was the first and the only
one in Detroit.
About the same time, however,
there was machine of somewhat
similar pattern made at Kokomo,
Indiana, and another at Springfield,
Massachusetts.
All great inventions are invented
in different parts of the world at
some time. n
Mr.. Ford, with his little gasoline
engine, kicking away at inoppor-
tune times, found it very easy to
pass the most of the horses on
Woodward Avenue. He found it
also very easy to scare these
horses into the curbs and up on the
sidewalk. So worthy policeman,
intent on maintaining order,
arrested Mr.. Ford, not only for
exceeding the speed-limit, but
for blocking traffic
Whenever Ford stopped his
machine and went into a store on
an errand, he had to fight his way
through the crowd in order to get
back to his old mo. $780,.
Mr.. Ford had to adopt the plan
of claiming the machine to lamp
post in order to keep mischievous
boys from trying their hand at
running it while he was inside.
l believe special permit was
finally given by the mayor for Mr..
Ford to run his automobile. At
that time he was the only licensed
chauffeur in America
In the Ford works can be seen
the original gas engine which
Henry Ford made, the first
gasoline engine and half dozen
others, showing the gradual
evolution of the idea until it
energies in the form of the Ford
standard machine.
The Ford plant is equipped just
as well as money, ingenuity and
skill can possibly equip it. 1t is
not decorated with either bonds or
mortgages. Everything in it has
been paid for, and bought with
the cash discount off.
OF the five thousand workman