A MILLIONAIRE ROMANCE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11589, 21 May 1903, Page 5

A MILLIONAIRE ROMANCE.

The career of Mr Giwtavtts Swift, thewealthy Chicago meat packer, whose death hres been announced, was a typical millionaire Tomanco (writes the London correspondent of the London "Age"). When bo first commenced business as a butcher be was th. owner of a little r-liop in a Massachusetts town; when he died he was the head of a firm which has a capital of £5.000,000, and does an annual business of fiST.'jO.OOO. He was one of the first to w the refrigerating system for .exports, and by a shrewd bargain" he obtained, and for long greatly benefited by, special railway rate;*, which none of his rivals in the euro, trade was able to secure. His success succeeded even that of the> Armours, and on this account he resisted -ps long as lie could the proposal for a combination of the packets. When he did join it he exacted terms which, it is paid, "made tho Armours wince." Mr Swift's modest rocial ambitions, and his dislike of the luxurious habits of the later generation of wealthy Americans, were long a sore point with his numerous family. Until two years agd—when they worried him into taking a house in the fashionable part of Chicago—-he lived in a plain wooden house among his workmen in the neighbourhood of tho famous stockyards.