Republican farmer., 1920-06-25
FINANCE
 IS DEADAT
 STAMFORD
c. w. Perkins Succumbs to Inflammation of
 Brain.

cIer, dled today at Stamford Hall Sanitariurn, Stamford, Conn.,, it was announced here. 1 It became known a week ago that MT. Perkins had suf- fered a nervous breakdown but members of his family did not intimate at that time that his life was in danger.
 He was taken to Stamford about ten days ago and George w. Perkins. Jr., announced the change was made | to afford his father complete rest and seclusion from his friends who | sought his counsel during the political | campaign preceding the Chicago con- vention.
 | The affection to which MT. Perkins succumbed is believed to have been 1 the result of influenza and pneum onla contra cted while serving with the r. M. c, A in France during the war. Death resulted from acute inham- nation of the brain, ''the result ot | complete nervous exhaustion. due ta intense and continuous overwork," is was announced
 1 The death of MT. Perkins was un- | expected, it was said at his offices 1 because he recently survived seri- | ous heart attack, after which his family and friends believed his con- l stitution sufficiently robust to throw | off the malady.
 | The funeral will take place Sun | day afternoon at the Riverdale Pres | byterian church in the Bronx.
 | George Walbridge Perkins, for ten l years a member of the firm of J. P.
 Morgan & Co.,, was reputed to have | first suggested to and persuaded l hi hnS tn odn a r..
 ing, insurance, service bonuses, sick | benefits and old age pensions.
 It was Perkins who was also said l to have inaugurated the plan which | permitted employees of the United
 States Steel Corporation and the In- | ternational Harvester Company, in | both of which he was at one time
 an executive. to purchase stock on in
 stalments and at less than market
 value on the assumption that indus | trial justice is the most profitable of
 investments, that justice promotes
 peace, peace promotes prosperity and
 that the workmen's prosperity is ne
 cesSary to the proserity of the buSi-
 ness man.
 MT. Perkins was born in Chica go
 January 31, 1862, descendant ot
 Jacob Perkins, an English ancestor
 who settled in Boston in 1881. His I
 gagged in the shiping industry at Buff 1 falo, was later a pioneer in the life | insurance field. The son entered the insurance business in Chicago when
 15 as a clerk, became a bookkeeper
 an agent and subsequently, manager
 of a Cleveland office. He went tt Denver and in 1892 was made Vice President of the New York Life In, surance Company. His achievement | attracted the nf 1o,
 Morgan and in 1900 he was invited tt : become a member of the Wall stree firm. In this capacity he negotiated number of big foreign loans. H, remained with J. P. Morgan & Go
 until 1910, meanwhile becoming a di
 rector of numerous large corporation including the steel and harveste companies, a number of railroads an,
 the International Mercantile Marin Company.
 Retiring from business a few year
 later as he said, ito devote myself t,
 other work of a public and semi-pub
 lie nature,' MT. Perkins wrote ant
 spoke frequently on the subject 0
 industrial justice and when Colone Roosevelt became Progressive candi
 date for the presidency in 1912 h.
 became chairman of the Nationa
 Executive Committee of the party
 lieNiOUSly ne haO been a E~epuD1 can. The year before he had urge y a revision of the Federal corporation e laws and in testifying before a. Con = gressional committee investigatin; s the United States Steel Corporation he advocated the fullest publicity fo i all corporations. Despite the defea n of the Colonel, MT. Perkins continue, e active in his advocacy of Progressiv l principles.
 . MT. Perkins early in the World Wa ! interested himself in the matter o e American preparedness. He was n severe critic of President Wilson. Il
 a speech in Indianapolis in 1915 h
 declared the United States was un
 prepared for war" and urged imme
 diate action. After the United State
 entered the struggle he endeavored t . stimulate food production and b . large purchases of provisions at dis x tant points sought to avert a war
 time shortage in New York city. H
 was also active in Red Cross, Libert '- Loan and other patriotic drives. Afte e the war MT. Perkins went to Franc l. to investigate charges of waste an e in eff ciency against the Young Men r Christian Association workers abroad j. He reported that while some mistake e had been made there was 1ittl ,- ground for honest criticism" d A close friend of the late Mayo i- John Purroy Mitchell, MT. Perkins 3 g one time was prominently mentione
 for the mayoralty of New York. H L. was once quoted as having said tha Ii New York City could save s25,o0
 900 year by "a proper cut in il
 budget" He was a trustee of Vassa
 College and Berry Sch ool, Rome, Ga
 and member of numerous c1V1'
 scientific, sociological and philanthro . pic organizations. In 1911 MT. Perkin \ ' received the honorary degree ( N LID. from the University of Wooste
 and the University of Vermont.
 MT. Perkins married in 1889, Mis = Evalina Ball, a daughter of FIana v Ball, of Cleveland Ohio, to whom tw st children were born, Dorothy an l. George w. Perkins, Jr., the latter C
 whom was a lieutenant in the Amer '. can Expeditionary Force.
 ar The po1itjcaJ committee men don