Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-20
HERE'S HENRY FORD WHO GAVE MILLIONS
 TO HIS EMPlOYES
Auto Manufactures Was . Working Machinist . De cade Ago When He Invent ed His Engine

Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company of this city, who astonished the industrial world week or two ago by the announcement of his plan to share s1O,00o,00O of 1914 profits with employees, has suddenly become one of the most talked about men in the country.
 Doubtless many persons heard the name of Henry Ford for the first time when they read of his plan to divide millions among his employees as a method of taking dividends in good will. Others, perhaps. already had heard of a man named Ford who was among tho pioneer investors and manufacturers of motor cars.
 But of the man himself very little has been learned by the general pub. lie. While spending millions yearly to gain publicity for the products of his factories MT Ford has displayed equal zeal in avoiding publicity for himself.
 It seems hardly credible that a man who has built up one of the largest industries in America. man who em- ploys nearly 10000 men and women. man who pays today the third larg- est income tax of any man in the world. should not have his name men toned in the ordinary reference books containing biographies of the "men of the day.''
 Scarcely more. than a decade ago Henry Ford was a working machlnist. In his small circle of friends and ac. quaintances he was known as a me- chanical genius. He was always tin kering with tools and machines and drawing plans of his ''inv entions." Among the later was a threshing ma. chine. It was prbbably a good thresh. ing machine. but Ford did not profit | financially from his inventions. His friends gave him credit for his genius, but few of them ever thought he would amount to much as a money. maker.
 Slight in build, weighing about 150 pounds, quick and active as a boy, Mir. Ford has the appearance of being much younger than his fifty years would warrant. His birthp' ace was on a farm in the village of Dearborn, about six miles from Detroit. Here he spent his boyhood and carry youth. He attended the country school dur ing the few winter months and in the summer earned money by driving threshing machine or doing other work on the farm.
 Coming to Detroit. owing to the removal of his parents to this city, young Ford was employed as an as- sistant engineer in the electric fight. ing plant He ran a dynamo and dur ing his leisure time made the first gasoline engine of which he had long dreamed. Following his emplc yment with the electric lighting company the young engineer went to work for the Detroit Auto Company, fam GUS for the construction of but one automobile, known as ''999." The company existed but one year and was a complete failure. Undaunted by this an encouraged by his wife. Ford built his first car the following year. This was in the year 1895. Early in life MT. Ford was married to Clara Bryant, the daughter Of a farmer living near his early home in , Dearborn. To his wife MT. Ford gives much of the credit of his sue cess tn building his first faduline engine to take the place of the horse. He speaks of his wife as "the believ' er." and she is the enc, always con- suited when any new plans are under l way.
 , = Mir. Ford experienced considerable diculty when he started out to raise capital to build his first factory for the manufacture of automobiles Fin , ally he succeeded fin getting together few thousand dollars with which he started operations. His success was marvellous from the start. Before long he was in a position to raise all the capital of which he had need His . factory grew like the beanstalk ir E the Iiursery tale. New buildings and additions were put up almost oyei night. Still the capacity of the works
 was unequal to the demands Ono
 mammoth building after another was added until today the plant is good |. sized city in itElf. The famous KrupI
 plant at Essen. Germany, is not SC
 extensive. nor does it employ so many
 men. although Krupp has most of the governments Of the world as custom CTS.
 0 The Ford plant includes the larges
 machine shop in the world. The bis
 engine that drives the machinery fl
 the larges of it's kind in the world l. Completed automobiles are turned ou
 at the rate of one every few minutes Economy of construction is the mali l. idea. One machine has been installed
 in the great plant that enables on' + man to perform the work formerl. r done by 45 men In the lneighborshool I of 3O.0o0 working men and 'wonieI
 are on the Ford pay roll. There ha
 never been a strike among the em
 ployes and the demand for work b.
 applicants is constant.