New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1927, Page 10

director of the Illinois Steel com- pany, he was called upon to take charge of the organization of the Federal Steel company, a merger of the Illinois and other companies. It was he who first suggested the amalgamation and it was here for the first time he was brought in touch with the -late J. Pierpont Morgan, whose financial assistance was being sought in the formation of the new company. Gary's busi- ness ability so impressed Mr. Mor- gan and his associates that they insisted upon Mr. Gary being made president of the Federal Steel com- pany. As directing head of the Federal Steel company, Mr. Gary saw the larger possibilities of the industry and had often expressed his views to Mr. Morgan. The latter at first did not take to the idea advanced by Mr. Gary for a great steel cor- poration. However, there came a time when it became known that this he suffered a relapse and jt|Andrew Carnegie, then the foremost was considered possible that the [man in the steel industry, was de- cersmony of greeting his subordi- |sirous of retiring so that he could nates had proved too great astrain.|devote rthe rest of his life to phil- After the relapse no one was per- [anthrophy, education and world mitted to visit him but his wife and | peace. | attendants. In Contest With Europe | Won Two Battles Gary wanted to have a steel com- | As head of the great United States |pany that could compete with Ger- Corporation, Elbert H. Gary |many and Great Britain, which LS. STEEL GORP. " LOSES CHAIRAN celebrated the 25th anniversary of his {ncumbency as an executive of- fioer of the corporatien. The news of Mr. Gary’s death was telephoned to the offices of the Steel corporation by F. A. Sites, \Mr. Gary's secretary, from the Gary home. Mr. Sites sald that a statement would be issued at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. A month ago when Mr. Gary first became ill it was understood that he was suffering from ptomaine poisoning. Two weeks ago when it was believed he was rapidly re- gaining his halth he received inhis sickroom execigives who had re- cently been promoted. Shortly after pulsory by the laws of many states. He also was largely responsible for the corporation’s extensive system of welfare work for the benefit of employes. In this work, which in- cluded among other things, play- grounds, schools, clubs, gardens and pensions, the corporation in the 10 years between 1912 and 1922 ex- pended more than $108,000,000. Mr. Gary was known as the father of the industrial safety movement and the steel corporation was one of the first large industrial companies to inaugurate “eafety first” cam- paigns among its employes. The corporation has spent millions of dollars in accident prevention meas- ures. Mr. Gary served as chairman of the committee of the Safety In- stitute of America which inaugurat- ed public safety campaigns. In rec- ognition of this work he was award- ed the Louis ngston Seaman medal. Figuring five persons’to the av- erage family it was estimated that nearly 2,000,000 persons were de- pendent upon the corporation of which Mr. Gary was the head. The employes of the United States Steel Corporation were said to number close to 300,000 before the 12 hour day was abolished. ‘Was Born On Farm Elbert Henry Gary was born on his father's farm near ‘Wheaton, | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927 Sutcliffe of Chicago, are at the ‘he got the car and who owned it, Campbell home in Evanston, seat of (was “Never mind, get in.” Tanner Northwestern University. said he fell asleep soon after the RESIGNS POSITION stop between New Haven and the scene of the fatality. (Continued From First Page) Miss Lopes told the police she was sitting beside Loving and the others were in the rear seat. She said there had been no liquor consumed. Offi- cer Grabeck found marks on the ! pavement indicating that the car |started to skid about 92 feet from | the pole. Officer Bloomquist learned | | from Albert Rauelus of Berlin, Fred | Dery of the Capital Buick Co. of | | Arch street and Thomas Doty of Ber- | lin that they were in a car behind | { the one driven by Loving, from Mer- | iden to New Britain, and they were | | thrilled by the sight of the car sway- | ing from side to side and striking a | {number of pipes which were lined along the roadside. | The crash occurred when the car | ran over the curbstone, Loving's, head being crushed against the pole. university of Evanston, Ill. He grad- uated from the university in 1900 and fmmediately took up public ac- counting. For five years he followed accountancy, making Chicago his headquarters and working out of that city. Five years he spent de- signing and installing administrative and factory cost accounts. | In 1905 he accepted a position at Kansas City, Mo. as comptroller and director of the Long Bell Lumber Co, which is said to be the largest lumber producing con- | 1% Prr Stied TEEIor T b0 e oexniinitnefinli sty sufficient time to realize that he was | While in charge of finance and ac- | rycing dcath, the authorities believe |counting with the Kansas City con- myp, car came to a stop a few feet ' |cern he directed the attention of:fon the fruit stand in front of the industry of the giore on the Nesta property. Miss | |the entire lumber nation to his plan for establishing yopes and the occupants of the rear uniform accounting and cost finding | geat were thrown with great force | methods in the lumber industry. S0 and their escape without fatal in- well recelved were his suggestions |juries is considered remarkable Daughters of Governor Fuller at Hospital Boston, Aug. 15 (UP)—Governor Alvan T. Fuller's daughters, Lydia, 13, and Mary, 11, were admitted to the Phillips house of Massachusetts Coming or Going —Remember Desco General ination and possible tonsils. Accompanied the girls came here this morning from the family summer home at Rye Beach, N. H. hospital today for exam- The by their mother, On your way to the shore, the lake or governor’s son, removal of fonly recently was discharged from the same hospital after undergoing an operation for appendicitis. constantly was confronted with tw dominating the international | problems of the most vital import- anee to the two directly opposite groups of people concerned in them. One was the_successful direction of the huge business organization with assets of nearly $2,000,000,000 and involving the investments of thou- sands of persons; the other, the hu- man consideration of the more than 300,000 employes of the steel corpor- ation and its subsidiary companies That he was eminently successful in | dealing with both problems from the standpoint of employer and em- | ploye was proved by the tributes that were paid to him by the leading men | of the industrial world who made up the steel corporation, and those wh worked in the ranks of its various companies One of the most pleasing tributes aver paid to Mr. Gary was at the an- nual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute at New York in October, 1919. The steel strike had been progress several weeks and the s#eel men, nearly 1,600 of them, had gathered to hear what Mr. Gary had to say. His entrance into the gathering was the signal for a remarkable demonstration. These stald, solid business men, catching sight of the leader of their industry, broke into a spontaneous salvo of cheers, which were continued several niinutes. Raised All Wages On the other hand many stories could be related to illustrate the feeling between the head of the steel corporation and its employe A characteristic one involves the strike of elevator operators in office build- ings In New York several years ago. During the strike every man was at his post in the Empir building, which had been purchased by the United States Steel Corporation shortly before the strike. Asked the reason for the men being at their posts, one of the operators replied: “As soon as the corporation bought this bullding our wages were raised. We are getting as much as or more than the unions are de- manding. Judge Gary has treated us ‘white,” and you can just bet your life we are going to stick by him, strike or no strike.” Established Short Hours During the years he was head of the steel corporation Mr. Gary ne- gotiated and consummated many important matters, but perhaps the one that gave the greatest measure of satisfaction to the country gen- erally was the elimination of the * 12-hour day in the steel industry. Mr. Gary had been in favor of this move a long time and it was be- fore the board of directors many times. Finally, in the early part of 1923 a committee of.the Iron aud Steel institute made a survey of the whole question. Its report was to the effect that it was impossible to abolish the 12-hour day because the change would require too many ad- ditional men (Mr. Gary estimated the number at 60,000) that there was a shortage of lahor at the time and that to make the change ab- ruptly would cripple the entire prosperity of the country. ‘When the report was made pub- lic the late President Harding manifested his great interest in the subject and his keen disappoint- ment in the failure of the commit- tee to recommend the change. He wrote to Mr. Gary in June, 1923, and after expressing his dis- appointment said: “I am wondering if it would not be possible for the steel industry to consider giving an undertaking that before there shall be any re- duction fn the staff or employes of the industry through any recession or demand for steel products, or at any time when there is a surplus of labor available, that then the change should be made from the two shifts to the three-shift basis. I cannot hut believe that such an . undertaking would give great satis- faction to the American people as a whole and would, indeed L lish pride and confidence in the ability of our industries themselves to solve matters which are so con- clusively advocated by the public.” President Harding's appeal was sufficient to prompt Mr. Gary to call a meeting of the board of di- rectors of the Iron and Steel insti- tute with the result that he wrote to President Harding “Undoubtedly there is sentiment thranghout the eountry in favor of eliminating the 12 hour day, and this we do not underesti- mate. On account of this sentime and especially becanse it is in ac- cordance with vour own expressed views, we are determined to exert every effort at our command to se sure In the iron and steel industry of this country a total abolition of the 12-honr day at the practicable.” Impressed Mr. Morzan That time came within a few months and the 12-hour day, long a meoted question in the steel $n dustry. was abolished. The rise of Mr. Gary to be the chief excoutive officer of the Tnited Steel corporation—he chaitman of the executive commit tee and later of the board of di rectors and o 'the finance commit tea—mav he & d to have been to an ineident in the practiee of law, for which he was educated. In 1888 as ganeral counsel for and a strong earlicst time States e due | were market. Mr. Morgan finally decided | to give his backing to the forma- tion of a glant steel merger along the lines Gary had proposed. With the organlzation of the United States Steel corporation the busi- | ness created by Mr. Carnegie was purchased in 1901 for $492,006,160 and in all 10 large companies were taken into the merger with a com- | bined capital of $867.550.394. It ! was the biggest undertaking in the ustrial world and the financia! world gasped when the corporation announced its plans for an author- ized capital of $1.100,000,000 in tock and $304,000,000 in bonds Charles M. Schwab became presi- dent and Mr. Gary chairman of the | executive committee. The great corporation under Mr. | Gary's direction grew apace until it became a dominant factor in the steel trade of the world with 36 for- | elgn offices and 136 distributors in | 44 foreign countries. Its ships sailed the seven seas. FEverything about the corporation-—property holdings, output, money invested, dividends— grew to such an extent that the United States Steel Corporation came to be regarded as greater than anything that had even been im- agined in the industrial world. At a hearing before a congressional | committee in Washington Mr. Gary was quoted as saying that the as of the corporation could not be plicated for $2,200,000,000. Gary Not Surprised | Perhaps the one man to whon |#rowth of the corporation w | surprise was Gary.' It was such a great concern at its organization | thal he foresaw that it would be I'subject to attack. It was this fory sight that impelled him to insist upon the policy that the corporation | at all times conduct itselt in all dealings with competitors and with | the public in such a manner that it could at any time show clean hands. | This policy in later years enabled | the corporation to emerge triumph- ant in two events—the government's suit for dissolution and the steel strike—defeat in elther of which, the former at least. would have blasted the foundation upon which the corporation was built and grew. The government’s suit, instituted in 1912, resulted from'a series of congressional investigations that be- gan two or three years before. Tt charged the corporation with being a combination in restraint of trade and asked for its dissolution. The litigation continued through nine years and threw a threatening shadow over the steel industry in America as well as American busi- ness generally. The government's petition was denled by the United | States District court in 1905, and an appeal was taken to the supreme court of the United States the same ear. It was not until March 1, 1920 that the court of last resort finally acquitted iiic corporation of the governmen Steel St ke Begun ihe | Slst the allies during the war. no | Was responsible for the steel corpor- | A. O s charge. [ber of educational institutions and The steel strike had its inception |be given to his gifts. 11, and was descended from old ipat the National Lumber Manufac- New England stock on one side, | tyrers’ association adopted all of his Lis father, Erastus Gary, having |methods in its various regional as-' sprung from hardy Puritans who | sociations. settled Massachusetts. His mother, Work During War Abiah \ mm? (t:hary ALl d'"mft" -| At the outbreak of the World war mt of one of the officers in the |, wont to Washington in the in- army of I)«!f?;!'e“d"« *""’f;‘"fl‘: With | torests of and representing the lum- lim for the freedom of the Ameri- | o industry of the country. While can colonies. He was educated In the | oot ot hia duty to write regu- public schools, Wheaton college and fyatjons pertaining to income taxes the University ?( Chicago. !and he was closely associated with - He was fl"’fl“_‘""’ to m“ :*“ "‘[ Dr. T. W. Adams, special economist Ulinois in ':_‘ and to the ”t;‘ lof the treasury department in for- United States supreme court I | mulating income tax regulations in Lt l”'(“:b‘:'"y'e‘::‘]‘M';:\_Y“"d“;g; 'the lumber, iron, steel, oil and other = 2 industries. three terms its citlzens elected him | " ‘ eral trade president of the town of Wheaton,| He sat with the federal trad Then when the place became a city commission while in Washington el anichonen Itainrst: ma;:nr and #nd helped that hodp— work out cost reclocted for a second term, Mr, (Inding methods for the lumber :n- Gary also served two terms as coun- '}”S"-v Itub hndused by the war in- | ty judge of Dupage county, Illinofs. dustrial board. 4 ¥ dude = | Following the armistice he came It was from this office that he de- o ; | rived the title of judge and was| !0 New Britaln, accepting the posi- | familiarly called Judge Gary ever | tlon as treasurer of Landers, Frary | after. | & Clark plant, April 1, 1919. | Became Tawyer Mr. Rickey has heen a director of After his removal to Chicago Mr. | the Commercial Trust Co. for the Gary engaged in the general practice | Past_five years. He is treasurer of lof law for 25 voars mntil he was | the Elihu Burritt hotel corporation, |drafted from the ranks of that pro. |bresident of the Berlin Homes fession to cventually become the | Building Co.. and a director of the ontstanding figure in the great steol | (oss & De Leeuw Machine Co. of lindust He served as president of | Berlin. the Chicago bar association in 1§93-4 Fraternally he is a member of | and for « time was a member of the (‘enfennial lodge, A. F. & A. M| United States section of the interna- Gildings chapter. R. A. M.: Doric tlonal high commission named to as- council, R. & S. M. Washington | He | commandery, K. T.; Sphinx temple, | N. M. S and is a director ation’s attitude in helping to meet and chairman of the finance com- | the needs of the Allies in the|mitte of the Masonic Temple cor- | emergency created by the war and ' poration was the recipient of honors from the American, French, Belgian and Ital- fan governments. He also received honorary degrees from several col- |\ following statement: leges and universities. A gold medal| e are pleased to announce that with the profile of Pope Pius X and | yrr. pardon C. Rickey will become | presented to Mr. Gary by the late |, iive Tatedt it p Bontift it récognitice Yur Tis eftors | Actively associated with us us vice- ; esident and trust officer. to improve working conditions. L . GRvelawas iiaads Mr. Rickey has had a brilliant Mr. Gary's publie benefactions|PUsIness carecr; his abilities as ac- ! aggregated hundreds of thousands |COURtant and tax expert are nation- of dollars, He had given unosten. |2ll¥ Known and recognized. fiv rv tatiously, and little was known of,*On Of his long experionce and o them because he was averse to that |Pert knowledge of indusiriul. i sort of publici When & young |cantile and financial affairs, he man he sttended the Mothedict|exceptionally well fitted, not ouly to church at Wheaton, TIL, and in|2SSUme the active manazement of later years he presented the congre- | °UT rapidly growing trust depuart- gation . with. 5 handsome - stons|Ment, but also to act as couiscllor church, fully furnished, and provid. | P4 adviser to our clients in all od an endowment fun tor 1ty v | their business and financlal inter- tenance as a memorial to his father | *St* ENDED BY DEATH sity, which absorbed the Union (Continued From First Page) Aficr a meeting of the hoard of | directors of the Commercial Trust Co. today, President Loomis madc Law school, which he attended as a young man. One of his gifts to the university was his commerclal law library, regarded as one of the most complete law reference li- braries in existence. He gave free- | Iy to war charities and to & num quarters, received a telephone re- |port from 171 South Main street |that the accident had happened in invarfably insisted that no publicity in a resolution introduced by Wil- liam Z. Foster at ihe annual conven- | tion of the American Fedcration of | Tabor at St. Paul in 1915, providing | for the organization of the steel in- dustry. After that contention Sam- uel Gompers sent a luter to Mr. Gary asking him to meet a comm- tee to discuss questions affecting th welfare of the workers of the United States Steel Corporation. Mr. Gary did not answer the letter snd suli- sequent attempts to have him mes committees were in vain, Threats of strike continued until the 1919 con ventlon of the American Frderation of Labor, when September 22 of thl year was fixed as the date for th walk out. The strike order went into effect and while the industrs was hampered it was not cntirely cripplied. The strike was officially | called off in January 1920, without | one of the demands having been complied with. Known as Harmonizer Mr. Gary was known as a har monizer in the steel industry. When he became a leading figure in the work there was bitter war among competitors and hetwern em ploy nd employes, but he work ntly to bring them closer together. In all his efforts, no mut- | ter how great the task, he was guided by a framed motio tha hung in his office: “It can he done.” One of his suggestions that met with bitter opposition from soniv of the directors in the early doys of the corporation was for complit licity concerning the affai < corporation—including money was spent, the ar niateris umber - Grorg is given cor vstem of «n Vi 1 nd nsions and enabling them 1o m the seriptions, Mr. i’ declared r < actually belonged shiare profits througi stock su prTOXima one U cliholders in e emploves Foe to Union Labor was known as a fos to rtheless he the Mr. G union labor, nes ways was interected welfare and poration’s em chest that th rporation adopted the plan of voluntary com pensation to injured workmen long before such action wae made com 4 human side of co ployes. Tt was at his United States el Not a Cluh Man While Mr. Gary belows than two score clubs wd o A= tions, he was not a so-called club man. He took a grear personal in- terest in the American Iron Steel Institnte, composed of than 90 per cent of the stur iron manufagturers, and wi prestdent throughout his life, The famous “Gary dinners” by which annual gatherings of the aders in the steel and iron indus- | 10 he known, were hegun They eame to be r - tirs of national interest he- principal feature annual- of Mr. Gary out- « conu.ions in the indus- | try and of industry generally in the | conntry | Loved to ‘Travel | his chief forms of relax- He made fre- and also had Alaska, Pan- | all his fravels and fous coun- front of 176 South Main street, and he detafled Officers O'Brien, Bloom- quist, Rappanotti and Grabeck to investigate. The police found Lov- ing in the road and rushed him to the hospital, but he was dead on arrival and in all probability was dead before the police reached him. |Tanner called at the police station 'and told Sergeant Stadler Loving’s only reply to questions as to where 1 to more OrientalRugs Complete line of Persian Chinese Makes, all sizcs. Also Repalring and Cleaning. ! lent service and perfect suiis faction guaranteed. We Call for and Deliver. S. V. Sevadjian 162 Glen Strect Tet. and One of ation was traveling. ent trips to Europc visited the Far East, ima and Mexico, In t ihe leading siatesmen the va i derived much pleasure in cussing with them world political W economic problems. He never took an active interest in sports, and was one of the great captains o industry and finance not interest- A in golf. He owned a farm of 110 weres on Long Tsland, on which was i e, He ends there 00k pride 1y ws men of few LEHIGH ? Y. a4 e v snent throughont t in a fine herd and flock of thonsands of chickens, lover of msey eattle | with inusic iy was a iriably was among the first- | Sl ehters annually at the Metropoll- | honse. He also was in-! and gathered a fine statuary and | well-screen- tin opera rested in art ed coul. speedy collection af pletures, delivery and uni- furniture Mrs. Gary Dead { 4 Mr. Gary married Miss | Graves of Aurora, Tl or union two danghters were horn died and three roMy ¢ married Miss Tomnsend e o STANLEY SVEA i . GRAIN & COAL old home in Wheatan, T, His COMPANY antie | R(€E 011 courtesy; . not oceasionally but always! Our Service Makes and Gary Retains Customers ceday for wo wite of I day by the police, as uspected Car Was Borrowed There will be no prosccuiioin of any of the principals, it was =aid to- y Loving, the only member of the party against whom a charge could be made, was killed. Had he lived he would have been charged with taking an auto- mobile without the owner's permis- sion. Although his companions sus- | pected, according to their statements to the police, that he had taken the car without the owner's permission, they did not know who owned it or the circumstances surrounding Lov- ing's coming into possession of it. Sergeant Stadler notified Prose- cuting Attorney Woods of the acci- dent and the latter communicated with Mr. Winkle, giving the latter his first report. Mr. Winkle sald to- day steps were being taken to com- | pensate Mr. Woods for the loss of the car. Miss Annie FitzMaurice of this city narrowly escaped heing another vic- tim of an antomobile fatality in West Haven on the Milford Turnpike vesterday afternoon when a machine which she was driving towards Mil- ford, was sideswiped by another | driven by Harry ¥. McCabe, aged 36 | . of 112 Plymouth strect, New ! Haven. The force of the impact sent | the FitzMaurice car through a fence | and it rolled down a bank. No one was injured in the accident. | M itzMaurice claimed that the car which hit her came to a sudden | stop and that two men riding in ft, | aped out of it and ran away. She ed that it was traveling along | road in a zizzard manner leading yea the ther to believe that the driver must have been intoxicated. | Police who investigated the affair, | found that the automobile in which the men were riding, was one from a “Drive Yourself Agency.” They traced the car to McCabe and his ar- rest followed. He was charged with evasion of responsibility. | McCabe claimed that he was not | driving the car at the time of the crash but said that a man from New Jersey by the name of Martin was 1 the wheel. 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