A MILLIONAIRE ROMANCE.
The career of Mr Gustavus Swift, the wealthy Chicago meat packer, whose death (has been announced, was a typical millionaire "romance (writes the London correspondent of the ' ' Age) . When he first commenced business as a butcher he was the owner of a little shop in a Massachusetts town ; when he died he was]the head of a firm which has a 'capital of .£s,ooo,ooo,§and daes an annual business' of £37,000,000^ Hewas one of the first to use the refrigerating- system for exports, and by a shrewd bargain he obtained, and for long greatly benefited by special railway rates, which none of his rivals in the same trade was abie to secure. j,His success sue-; ceeded that of the Armours, and 6n^ this f account he resisted as long as he^could the proposal for a combination of the packers. When he did join it he exacted terms which, it is said, "made the^ Armours wince." Mr Swift's modest social ambitions, and his dislike of the luxurious habits of the later generation of wealthy Americana, were long a sore point with his numerous family. Until two years l.'ago — when they worried him into taking a house in the fashionable part of Chicago— he lived in aplain wooden house among his workmen in the neighborhood of the famous stockyards.
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Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10730, 29 May 1903, Page 4
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218A MILLIONAIRE ROMANCE. Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10730, 29 May 1903, Page 4
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