A Multi-Millionaire.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 37, 13 February 1901, Page 2

A Multi-Millionaire.

v “ DUST TO DUST.”

THE FRIEND OF THE POOR.

(By Telegraph.) [Por Mail Steamer at Auckland.] Philip D. Armour, philanthropist and multi-millionaire, tho head of tho great commercial establishment, is dead. Mr Armour passed away at his homo on January' 6. The cause of death was tho heart, following an attack of pneumonia. He expected death, and had declared he was ready for it. Tho funeral services were held in the Armour Mission, established by Mr Armour, and were largely attended, especially by employes and people in humble circumstances, in whom Mr Armour always took a lively interest, and whose lot it was his pleasure to brighten in many ways. The sudden death from pneumonia of his son and namesake, was a blow which the older Armour could not recover from, and his hold on life and its interests has gradually relaxed since that death occurred a year ago. Tho house of Armour is immensely wealthy. The moat-packing department alone does an annual business of a hundred million dollars. There is a grain business of half that amount, always conducted by the. payment of cash, and Armour was practically the owner of a great railway system. Armour was intensely American. Ho was sixty-oight years old. His widow, son, and grandchildren arc heirs.