The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18
YOUNG MEN BEING INSTRUCTED
HOW TO CONTROL $300,OOO,OOO

T. seen riding brisk,y through the
il, les. The pens that fank these lanes
cGrer such an immense area Of what
was once fat prairie that they almost
seem tn extent 10 tho horizon. and often
the, src fil'cd a.nost ms far Hs tho eye
can SEQ with cattle waiting IN he sold
or to be slaughtered
Into one of these pens. four or FIVE
hundred feet square and crowded with
cattle. ride Brown and young Armour.
They are accompanied by the owner Of
the cattle These cattle are more than
likely 10 he wild steers from the West
err ranges They would kill any man
who ventured among them on foot. but
they have = hereditary fear OF man
on horseback with = whip in N hand.
II IL tho foar handed down from ances-
tors that were herded lassoed. branded
with hot irons and otherwise maltrcated
by generations NJ hard riding cowboys.
So when the three men ride into pen
the steers huddle together
Young Armour owes the animals crit
ic1llv He ficks a. y steer with his
wh,r Tive cattle push md mil and
crowd zach other Hc notes the brand
on their sides n Is the brand ~ an
outft that usually sends its cattle to
market In pretty fair condition, as Jim
Brown observes The study OF brands
it an important item IN cattle buyers
education
Wen give vow seven-fortv for the
lot Young Armour says after a while
70 the owner or the commission man.
whichever he is.
'scven-sixty ia my price" responds
that one
Too much declares Young Armour
He ard Brown ride away, leaving
the csttieman chagrined, perhaps hope
lfss They give him plenty OF time to
think things over. Tn three or four
hours during which they have been
busy In other pens. the two men ride
back. The cattle owner lie ready to
compromise. Young Armour closes the
deal for the lot 81 500 at s745 a hun
dredweisht. The Transaction involves
more than $40 900 So buying cattle
In lots Of 800 and ! 900 is something
more than buying coffee and sugar at
does II every day.
Al noon he drops into one Of Pack
instown's restaurants. II IL filled with
men eating. some Of them in their
shirt sleeves. You can get a good meal
III pIt VI 'HFet HldC tS IOI 10 cents.
Twenty-f,v cents Is perhaps the aver
age price. II man spent so cents for
a meal waiter and cashier would look
at him with surprise II not admiration.
Young Armour sits daily among the
lahorers at the tables and eats the same
kind OF food they eat and pays the
same price for II. Moreover. his work
in the open air gives him good.
healthy Ok ~
yards IL all an appetite should be-
Young Armour will learn sheep and hog
buying after he has been graduate from
the business OF a cattle buyer. Then
he will be taught all about the workings
Of tho big plant--the slaughtering and
the manufacturing and tho working up
OF by-products. After that he will go
into the Offices, and from that time on
his road as a business man will be
smoother
Every dsy records Of his previous
days work are laid before him. He sees
perhaps that the steers he bought yes
terday have averaged az per cent. OF
dressed beef. That is fine. 1t shows he
has bought shrewdly, that he has looked
his herd over carefully, that tho cattle
were In good market condition. II he
can always do az well as that as a buyer
he VIII be worth "A salary OF $4,000 a
year irrespective OF his prospects as
future head OF the house OF Armour
lie need never lose a Job as a cattle
| buyer IL he can do as well as that.
Marshall Field Sd was 81 years old on
september rs, His grandfather founded
the department store of Marshall Field 4
| Co. lie was associated In his early
days with L. u. Letter and Potter Pal
mer, both of whom died immensely
wealthy. At his death Marshall Fields
estate was valued at sl5O,OOO,OOO.
! Marshall Field I'd died a tragic death
eight or nine years ago in Chicago.
Soon after his death his widow took
her three children, Marshall, Henry and
Gwcndolln Field, to England There
n few years later she married Maldwin
! Drummond. a Captain in the British
army Her slster-in-law. Marshall
! Fields daughter, also lives in England
the wife OF Admiral David Beatty, who
won the naval battle against the Ger
/ man squadron at Helgoland "A little
/ while ago.
Marshall Field 80 has grown up
| in England He went to school first
! al Elton and later at Cambridge. from
which he will he graduated next year
/ To all ntents and purposes he Is an
| English boy with an English viewpoint
ard distinctly English mannerlsms OF
! spc och, He saws Jolly we'll" and don't
/ oAcrllnpw" Ike a regular Johnny Bull.
| H. spent SIX weeks in Chicago this
| summer ana fall he GucSt Of his
! grandmother. Mrs Louise c. Huck. and
! his cousin, Stanley Field.
| on his ,wcnty-hrst birthday he was
! made joint trustee in Chicago Of tn.
| Marshall Field estate OF $3.50 900, 600
| This, according to prov sion Of III,
will was Ito acqunint him with the re-
sponNhiities and duty Of managing a
| business"
The day following his birthday, his
| financial interests having been attended
| TO- Marshal Field Sd was placed in
nc Offices ~ the great Marshall Field
! department store and given his first
! practical lessons in business, He had
able teachers In John G, Shedd, presi-
dent Of he firm; James Simpson and
| his cousin, Stanley Field
For week he was STRIFE business
man, arriving cary AZ the store every
| morning and rema ming unt!l carly
| afternoon, when h" always left in HI
autom bile tor the Ouwentsia Country
Cluh ON the North Shore for game ~
| golf
| After his week as a business man he
| wen lack 10 ENGLAND 10 finish his