Pulp and paper magazine of Canada . e could not have told the wet endfrom the dry end of a machine. Since then, how-ever, this same director has learned more about thepractical end of papermaking than many anotherman would have absorbed in a lifetime and, beinga studious and persistent sort of chap, he is keep-ing on acquiring knowledge. the past fifty look yet, the half-century figure fitsin with his appearance better). He went to schooluntil he was fourteen and then probably handedover his school-bag and books to a younger brother,while he joined the procession of clerks and mech-anics that
Pulp and paper magazine of Canada . e could not have told the wet endfrom the dry end of a machine. Since then, how-ever, this same director has learned more about thepractical end of papermaking than many anotherman would have absorbed in a lifetime and, beinga studious and persistent sort of chap, he is keep-ing on acquiring knowledge. the past fifty look yet, the half-century figure fitsin with his appearance better). He went to schooluntil he was fourteen and then probably handedover his school-bag and books to a younger brother,while he joined the procession of clerks and mech-anics that morning and evening entered and leftthe business of the city. His job was office boyin the old-time wholesale dry goods establishmentof Bryce McMurrich and Company and he doubt-less performed the duties of the position in theregulation manner, burying his grandmother atleast once a year. Ever since he drew his first months pay fromMessrs. McMurrich & Co., Mr. Coppings associationshave been with dry goods it might as. GEORGE K. COPPINGPres. Barber Paper and Coating Mills well have been groceries, hardware or plumberssupplies, for all business is essentially the same andhe was learning principles just as much as study-ing the texture of cloth or the quality of McMurrich it Co. went out of business inL890, the erstwhile messenger boy had grown tomans estate and was a tolerably sagacious andexpert man of business. He thereupon decided togo into the commission business and in partnershipwith G. A. Jones secured premises in Toronto andsel up in the agency line, carrying and disposingof the output of a number of manufacturers. In1900 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Copping To go back to the beginning George Copping continuing the business, while more recently hiswas born in Toronto fifty years ago. (Some of his son has joined him and the firm is now known asfriends put it at fifty-one but, as he has not donned George H. Copping & Son. 780 PULP AND PAPER MA
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