. Little journeys to the homes of the great . for mess-pork, sold for future deliveryat war-time prices, which contracts they filled at amuch lower cost and to their financial guesser was good and they , the city of Chicago grew faster than Mil-waukee. There was a rich country south of Chicago,as well as west, and of this Philip Armour had reallynever thought. Chicago was a better market for pickled pork andcorned beef than Milwaukee, as more boats fitted outthere, and more emigrants were landing on their way totake up government land. One of Mr. Armours br
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . for mess-pork, sold for future deliveryat war-time prices, which contracts they filled at amuch lower cost and to their financial guesser was good and they , the city of Chicago grew faster than Mil-waukee. There was a rich country south of Chicago,as well as west, and of this Philip Armour had reallynever thought. Chicago was a better market for pickled pork andcorned beef than Milwaukee, as more boats fitted outthere, and more emigrants were landing on their way totake up government land. One of Mr. Armours brothers, Joe, was a packer inChicago. Another brother, H. 0., was in the commissionbusiness there. Joes health, it seems, was pretty bad,so in Eighteen Hundred Seventy, Philip Armour cameto Chicago, and shortly the house of Armour and Com-pany came into being—H. 0. Armour going to NewYork to look after Eastern trade and financing. In thosedays branch houses were unknown and packing-houseproducts were handled by jobbers. 177 PHILIP D. ARMOUR. HE Father of the Packing-House Industrywas Philip Danforth Armour. The businessof the Packing-House Industry is to gatherup the food-products of America and dis-tribute them to the world. Let the fact here be stated that the world is better fedtoday than it ever has been since Herodotus sharpenedhis faber and began writing history, four hundred fiftyyears before Christ. In this matter of food, the dangerlies in overeating and not in lack of business of Armour and Company is to buy fromthe producer and distribute to the consumer. So Armourand Company have to satisfy two parties—the producerand the consumer. Both being fairly treated have aperfect right to grumble. The buyer of things which Nature forces the man tobuy, is usually a complainer, and he complains of theseller because he is near, just as a man kicks the catand takes it out on his wife, or the mother scolds thechildren S3 S3 To the farmers, Armour used to say with
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