Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-07
FORD PENNI[ESS
AFEW YEARS AGO
Rise of Man Who Will Share
Profits With Workmen
Remarkable.

Henry Ford, who has just an
nouneed that every man over twenty
two employed in his great 1notor-car
factory at Detroit will hereafter re-
ceive at least So a day is himself
earning, they say. the enormous sal
airy of 800 a minute! Except John D.
Rockefeller, Henry Ford has the big
gest income of any man in the world,
being perhaps score of millions a
yearl
Yet, only few years ago, Ford ar
rived In Detroit d penniless farmer
boy. seeking a job. He had worked
for several years on a farm near
Dearborn, Mich, where he was born
f1ftv years ago But farm work Of
fered no field to his restless and IN
ventive genius.
In Detroit he found employment
under another and, even now, more
famous genius. 1t was with the Ed
son Electric Company that young
Ford spent the early years of his city
life. There he learned what hard
ships and struggles a young man
must go through, when he is earning
only o skinny weekly wage. Today
he is trying to alleviate these strug-
gles-for his employees at least.
He stayed with the Edison company
an automobile model which he was
persuaded could be made more
cheaply and probably than any ma
chine ON the market. That first Ford
machine was made in 1893.
Ford quit the Edison company then,
though he was earning $3.50 month,
and began to raise money to manu-
facture his machine. One thousand
dollars was all he had himself. And
the men he talked to called him a fool
for dropping good position to make
d ''horseless carriage"
The City Council of Detroit passed
a law to the effect that he could not
drive his little putting machine
through the streets of the city. except
between the hours of midnight and 9
a. m. Whether this was because the
machine was considered nuisance
or q peril TO pedestrians, Ford doesn't
say.
Faith Made Friends MiIlionsires.
But finally he persuaded few
friends to invest several thousands
each in his enterprise.
Today those friends who had faith
are miilionaires.
He was so poor when he organized
his company that he couldn't pay his
LAWYERS fee of 81 200. The lawyer
took stock instead-and today has an
income Of many thousands a year,
The Ford Motor Company was Or
ganized in 1903 with a capital stock
of 100000. The phenomenal growth
of the Ford Motor Car Company since
that time is u byword throughout the
country. But few people know how
completely the success of the $4,000
900 corporation chat is the figure to-
day. is due to the powerful PERSONAL
ity and enterprise of one man alone
its founder, Henry Ford.
Henry Ford is one of the most con-
summate business men our country
has produced. But, just as plain
man, he is also one of the finest
products of the country. His en-
ployees fairly worship him.
Hes just as likely as not to come
into my office. pound me on the back
and begin a wrestling match before
he talks business" exclaimed one Of
his statesmen. Ford is perfectly DEM
oeratic in every way.
At home he works about the gar
den, raises flowers and studies farm
ing. He loves children. He doesn't
smoke or drink-sinsply because he is
temperate by nature. and doesn't care
for excess.
But when it comes to building au-
tolnobiles he calls nothing excessive
nothing can be done on too big q
scaln to please him. Two miles Of
machines a day are turned out Of his
factory. Sixteen thousand employees
work il it.
Henry Ford at fifty years OF age is
still doing new and startling things
on the biggest scale ever!