The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1901, Page 1

- The e VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 38, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY.. JANUARY 7, 1901 PHILIP D. ARMOUR DIES AFTER A LONG ILLNESS Attack of Pneumonia Hastens the Demise of Chi- cago’s Millionaire Pork Packer. leaves an Immense Fortune of Which the Foun- dation Wa s Laid in California in ’49. —_—— * % | | | | | | | r s who had been at- | - 1e bedside : 000000000000 ack or + & & 3 THE LATE PHILIP D. ARMOUR OF CHICAGO, \WHOSE START TOWARD WEALTH AND INDUSTRIAL DISTINCTION WAS MADE | s e IN THE “DAYS OF GOLD" IN CALIFORNIA. e practical ownership o Some vears previously the incorporated rmour Elevating . The death Kansas/ City in March. 1599, caus- e In the Armour s they were operated as +h that t death of Mr. Ar- the great enterprises n so closely identi- Armour th s own estate ks 0.000. This, of by ‘he young members For years every enter- sterested in has bes vrofits. His h all advanced largel 1 mak dings ot during best friend I had on nothing further was the way Rev. Frank W. - on the death of v to- Gu s expressed himself The d millionaire and . 18, president of the Armour . have been very firm friends . r Mr. Armour’s sickness he has v visitor, and he was at the xe 1\ Mr. Armour died. Armour’s name was more v associated in the public mind packing and provision ments in which he was interested which do an annuat business exceed- employ v city of importance in ., he was actively Interested in many other big enterprises. As the owner of an important em of grain elevators heavy Investor in the grain pro- the Middle and Western States, nour was an important factor in n markets of the world. was a heavy owner in the ukee and St. Paul Railroad reorganized Balti- He was Interested large- Tllinois Trust and Savings Com- pany, Metropolitan Natipnal and North- ern Trust banks of Chicago, and in the Armour Bank of Kansas City. He was a director of the Northwestern Life Insur- ar Company, and was a heavy stock- a month ed to Chicaro t g well, and hi ery was complete. Lodge, Poilip D. Armour 0 He the * summer Jr, owoc Lake, Wis., and remained street railways of Kansas City. Referring to Mr. Armour’s fortune, the Chicago Chronicle to-morrow will say: “Mr. Armour’s wealth is a subject that may never be accurately known. It is forth s son, winter.. Then he jour- Southern Califor- months. At the time he he made weekly pe to his office in the Home Insurance ing, and was recelving constant re- rts of the gene drift of his busi- ness affairs. | The death of his son, Phillp D. Armour | Jr., in Bouthern California on January 29, was =2 great shock to the health- ’ken man. The son had gone on a visit | father, and was taken suddenly th pneumonta. His death followed with reely a day’s warning. The son had owoc and by some is said to exceed $50,000,000. The combined wealth of the Chicago Ar- mours is fixed at $60,000,00. In one sense the totel is the wealth of Philip D. Ar- mour, but just how much has been carried in his own name and how much in the name of his sons is unknown. He has not been & borrower. He has always been able to pay cash for his purchases, and he has never asked a customer to discount a bill. “In his great wheat deals he has always ed the business ability of the Ar. | had ready cash. In times of panic he has was closely following the shown vast resources in spot cash. In of bis father when stricken. | 159 when a run was made upon the banks ome, completed but a year before, at Michigan and Thirty- streets, toid of his love of art. was not able to aécompany party to Chicago. When he he went direct to Oconomowoe of Chicago and the credit of the city and the fate of the exposition was hanging in the balance, Philip D. Armour bought a half million dollars of goid in Europe and offered help to the big institutions of the city from his cash resources in Chicago. there until the chilly | With a business of $100,000,000 a year in the fall drove the summer cot- | the packing department alone, a grain this city. ibuslnnsn of half that amount, and practi- 2 of Philip D. Armour Jr. | cally the owner of a great raliway sys- ts of Armour & Co., which | tem, the estimates of his wealth at the carried on as a copartnership, | utmost figure appear modest instead of were incorporated under the old name ot | exaggerated.” Armour & Co. This was to provide great- | Dr. Frank Billings, who was at Mr. Ar- ©r stability 1n case of death, and made | mour's bedside when the end came and tw of Simeon B. Ar- | ‘Plans for the fu- | and persons and have repre- | holder In the company which controls lhe‘ estimated to be not less than $30,000,000 | | who had been almost constantly in at- tendance upon the sick man, stated to- | | night that he | no mention of his interest arlsing from the gigantic Milwaukee- Great Northern deal, by which he was re- puted to ha 0.000 last week | *“He looked on such holdings,™ Dr, Billings, s Investments rather than from the speculative view point.” heard Mr. Armour make “We were not altogether unprepared for | | four wars in the century just brought to | g dufeejue my mour, father's death,” said “All the memt Ogden Ar- s of the family had been here since the relapse of th{s! morning in anticipation of the most se- rious t of events.” f Mr. Armour’s death spread the city, and to-night the Prairie Zrmour retired to callers at Mrs avenue mans on her apartments and during the evening | % only the members of her family, - | WAS A CALIFORNIA ARGONATUT. | Armour Wa]ked’P’rom New York to the Coast in 1849. CHICAGO, J: 6.—Philip D. Armour was born on & farm at Stockbridge, Oneida County, New York, May 6. 1822 The California gold fever struck Westera New York in 1849, and young Armour was the first in Stockbridge to determine to visit the Pacific Coast. He obtained the | permission of his parents, and at the age of 17 started with three or four compan- ions from the same neighborhood. The almost incredible part of it was that the party *d nearly the entire distance from New York to California. The commercial which always predominated in his life, iIndicated its presence as soon as he saw the gold fields | of California. He made money from the start, and at the end of six years he re- | turned home with a fortune. dissatisfied with the quiet life of his na- tive town he came West again and, to- gether with a brother-in-law, established a large wholesale grocery house in Mil- | waukee. This venture was also success- ful, and in a year's time he purchased the largest grain elevator in Malwaukee. This led to more elevators and rallroad stock. | In 1866 he came to Chicago to take charge in{ the Chicago branch of a New York | packing establishment. The result was | that the Chicago house ceased to be a | branch and the West. gained the largest packing and provision plant in the world. | The property interests for which Mr. | Armour stoad are estimated at $150,000,000. His personal share of this property is variously estimated at from $25,000,000 to In works of charity Mr. Armour’s monu- ment will be found in the Armour Insti- tute, to which but a short-time ago he gave $750,000 in one remembrance. Asked once what he considered his best paying investment he replied, “The Armour In- stitute.” The Institute to-day represents an investment on the part of Mr. Armour | and his brother Joseph of $2,750,00, and a vearly expense for maintenance of $100,000. Mr. Armour married Miss Malvina Belle Ogden, daughter of Jonathan Ogden of Cincinnati, in October, 1862. They have had two’children, Philip D. Armour Jr., who died a year ago, and J. Ogden Ar- mour, who seems destined to succeed his | father as the head of theé Armour house. Of the five brothers who have been iden- tified with the upbuilding of the Armour enterprises, Herman O. Armour, who went to New York in 1871 to look after the New York interests of the copartner- ship, is the only survivor. Joseph A. Ar- mour, who came to Chicago in 1863 and gave his attention to the supervision of the packing business, dled several years ago. Simeon B. Armour, who for many years directed the Kansas City packing business, died in March, 1893. Andrew Watson Armour, who managed the bank- ing interests of the Armo —~ ‘n Kansas City, dled in 1893 sense, < | SEES DANGER IN POLICY OF INPERIALISH Cardinal Gibhons in Support of Old - Traditions. Hopes the Counsels of the Republic’s Founders ‘ Will Prevail. In a fermon Urging Universal Peace the Prelatt Warns Against & Large Standing Army. BALTIMORE, Jan. 6.—Cardinal Gib-| bons to-day delivered a sermon at high | mass in the cathedral in which he viewed briefly the events of the century just closed, with special reference to the | : wars which have been waged during that | | period as a preface to an urgent plea for | uriversal peace. He incidentally touched | | upon the subject of the proposed increase of the standing army in this country, pointing out the evil results arising from | the maintenance of large bodles of armed | men in Europe and expressed the hope | that similar conditions may never obtain | in this country. | cardinal Gibbons began by saying that | the mission of Christ was one of peace. | He continued: “Before the advent of Christ war was | the rule, peace the exception, throughout | | the world. But although wars are less | | frequent and less inhuman in the Chris- tian dispensation than in pagan times, it must be confessed that we are as yet far | { removed from the millennium of universal | | peace. “At this moment, after an enormous ex- | penditure of men and money, England is re- in or profits ade from $3,000,000 to $5,- | said | Becoming | endeavoring to bring to a successful close | her war with the South African republics. | Tt 1s stated that this campaign will cost PRICE FIVE CENTS. PENDLETON VICTORIOUS IN SPEAKERSHIP FIGHT Alden Anderson Withdraws ‘From the Fie id and Releases His Supporters From Their Pledges. Governor Gage Supports the Southern Pacific Lobby Against the Suisun Statesman. e | | 3 England six hundred million dollars. ¥ S < = | “And how does our own comuntry stand | ] CORNELIUS W. PENDLETON OF LOS ANGELES, WHO WILL BE THE on thé subjeet.of war? Althengh thel SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION cornerstone of the conmstitution is peace BEGINNING TO-DAY AT SACRAMENTO. | with all nations and entangling alllances | ) with none, we have had on our hands | i St a close. In 1512.we were engaged in the | ar with Great Britain, which was justi- | flable on our part because it was a war | of defence. In 1846 the Mexican war oc- | | curred. Our terrible civil war began in 1861, lasting four years, and we have re- | cently closed the war with Spain, which | resulted in the loss to her and in the ac- quisition by us of all her foreign pos- | sesstons. | | “When we read of a great military cam- | paign our imagination revels in the con- | | templation of the heroic achievements of | | famous generals. We listen with rapture | | to the clash of arms, the shouts of the | victors and the sound of martial music. We seem to catch the spirit of enthusi- m by which the combatants were ani- | | mated. | } “But we take no note of the shrieks and | | agonies of the soldiers weltering In their b.ood on the battleflelds. We have no | thought of the sick and wounded lying In hospitals and prisons. We are unmlndrul‘ of sorrowing wives and mothers at home | weeping and sighing for the loved ones far away. | “It 1s-a subject of great concern to the | friends of the gospel of peace that Chris- tian Europe presents to-day the spectacle of a huge military camp. “May Ged so guide our legislators and statesmen that they may never be be- | | trayed into imitating European Govern- | ments by the establishment of formida- | ble standing armies. God forbid that we | ourselves, flushed with recent victories, | lslmuld ever become Intoxicated with the | | wine of tmperalism or militarism, but may | we always follow the traditions of the| fathers of the republic. “Hitherto we have presented to the world a beautiful spectacle. Europeans accustomed at home to meet a solider or gendarms at every street corner, on ar- riving in this country have been filled with surprise and admiration that a nation of so vast an extent and with such an im- mense population contains an army of on- 1y 25,000 men. They have been forcibly im- pressed with the fact that they can travel from Maine to California without meeting a single soldler. They see that every cit- izen of the United States s a soldier with- out uniform, engaged in the active pur- sults of life and ready at a moment's no- tice to defend his country. They would feel that we are a strong nation because we cheerfully bow to the majesty of the law, and are not confronted and intimi- dated by military satraps. May this fair picture never be defaced. “God grant that the new century which has just dawned upon us may inaugurate a new era of peace.” NO PROGRESS REPORTED IN FRENCH SHORE MATTER Officials Take It for Granted That a Renewal of the Modus Vivendi Will Be Adopted. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Jan. 6.—The New- foundland government has not been in- formed of any progress toward the settle- ment of the French shore controversy by the French and British governments. Of- ficlals here take it for granted that “‘pour pourlers’ have been opened by the French for a renewal of the modus vivendi, but the British Government cannot agree to such a proposal without the sanction of Newfoundland. All classes In the colony are opposed to such an arrangement, and the action of the colony will depend upon the ~which the Imperial au- thorities suggest. (5% ¢ B o e e S e B S O S O O O O e e S S | @ sttt ittt it o DERSON RETIRES : FROM THE CONTEST Special Dispatch to The Call. A % CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Jan. 6.—Alden Anderson was convinced to-night that it was hopeless to battle against the widespread and reiterated statements that Governor Gage preferred C. W. Pendleton for Speaker, and after consulta- tion with his advisers decided to release his supporters from all obligations to vote for him in caucus. In an interview late to- night Mr. Anderson said: i “In losing this contest I do not care so much for myself as for the loyal friends who stood by me so gallantly until late this af- ternoon, when several men who had absolutely and uneguivocally, and, generally, voluntarily pledged themselves to me, flopped to the oppositicn. When that occurred I felt it was useless to battle against the influences said to be exerted against me and made a frank statement to a large number of my supporters who had gathered in my rooms, telling them I could not win under the conditions prevailing and absolving them from further allegiance to me. A number of them, however, have asserted that they will cast a complimentary vote for me.” ® the lower house will be held at 9:30 o’clock to-morrow morning. At the request of ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 6.—At midnight to- night one of the critical contests which has marked the prelimin- ary skirmishes of the session of the Legislature that will convene at noon to-morrow was ended. The battle for Speakership of the Assembly has been fought and won and C. W. Pendleton will wield the gavel in the lower house of the State Legislature. Alden Anderson has withdrawn from the field and released his supporters from any obligations under which they placed themselves to vote for him. The fight has been one of the most deep- Iy significant in the political history of the State and it is the opinion of con- servative observers that in defeat Ander- son leaves the contest with all the sub- stantial fruits of victory. He enlisted the support of the best elements of the Re- publican party, commanded the alleglance of the independent, self-thinking legisla- tors of the State and without promise or pledge entered the field for the honor he loat. Against him he found arrayed the power of the State administration and its seduc- tive, practically irresistible balt of pa- tronage. He saw opposed to him the known agents and authorized representa- tives of the chief executive, the pald and notorious lobbyists of the Southern Pa- cific Company, the followers and satel- lites of San Francisco bosses and the wavering members of the lower house, who were ready to fall from the blow of the strongest wind. Realizing this con- aition of affairs, Anderson released his supporters from any duty which they may feel to vote for him. Some of them will not accept this release and will vote for him to-morrow, if for nothing else than to give expression to their loyalty. One of the remarkable phases of this contest ‘was the threat made to-day by Pendleton and his followers that, if necessity de- manded, they were in a position to call upon certain Democrats in the Assembly for support and would do so. A caucus of the Republican members of Anderson his supporters have signed the call and will attend. At this session the Speaker, sergeant-at-arms and chief clerk | will be selected. In the afternoon patron- age will be discussed, and after that a more serious problem than all will come. | It will be the question of Assembly com- mittees. It is notorious that Pendleton has made all sorts of promises and pledges, and when he makes his assign- ments there will be heartburnings, disap- pointments and the Inevitable uproars which follow deals such as this. In passing, it is perhaps of incidental interest to note that the first orgle of in- toxication is in progress to-night. The Pendleton forces are celebrating their tri- umph at the pubiic bars. The only ab- sent member is Martin Kelly, who es- corted his flock from San Francisco to Oakland and then returned to the metrop- | olis to attend, it is understood, a special session of the Good Government Club and elect Pendleton an honorary member. ‘Sacramento presents to-night the scenes which usually mark the eve of a legisla- tive session. The hotel lobbies are crowd- ed; the streets have their groups; legis- lators, lobbyists, promoters, schemers, camp followers are on the ground. Wires are being lald, bottles are being opened and the “third house” is getting ac- quainted with the gentlemen who are to make the laws and perhaps unmake themselves in their hagzardous undertak- ing. Some friend of the new president of the Southern Pacific ought to guide him aright in this emergency. He has declared that he will have no lobbyists on his pay roll. Taking him at his word, he should inquire why his employes, such as Jere Burke and others of his stamp, are here. The climate is anything but an indication that they are here for their health. ‘While the fight for the Speakership has engaged the most attention to-day the Governor and the Senate have received a modicum of consideration. The Gover- nor’s message has been finished and will be a striking document, if for no other reason than its length, which is extreme. | It will review the condition of affairs ex- | Isting in the varfous State institutions and will dwell with recurring emphasis upon the policy and wisdom of economy In State administration. The Governor has a'ready placed the seal of his con- demnation upon one measure which in all probability will be presented at this ses- sion. This will be the proposition to cre- ate a board of control, which will have absolute jurisdiction over the various in- stitutions of the State. This scheme was presented at the last session, but never reached the Governor. If it had, he says, he would have vetoed it. This is a rea- sonably ¢ indication of what he will do if it reaches him this session. The Senate is resting in the obscurity of dignity. There is nothing fn its affairs to excite interest or comment. The Republi- | can members will caucus at 10 o'clock, | telect its officers, choose its committees | and organize at noon. The attaches of the last s.rsion, practically without ex- ception, wiil serve for this session. It develops late to-night as one of the | first tmportant results of the victory of Pendletcn for Speaker that a stubborn ef- | fort will be made at once to Increase the | patronage of the Assembly and provide | places for the hungry followers of the | various interests which supported the man | from the south. | ANDERSON MEN JOIN IN CALL FOR A CAUCUS Deem It Best Not to Array the Re- publican Majority Against Itself. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 6.—Thcre was a conference this morning in the Anderson headquar- ters by Anderson and Pendleton regarding the subject of a caucus. Pendleton had the call, which be had made out, and he | asked Anderson to sign it, giving as a rea- | son that Anderson was the senior mem- ber of the House and also was the first on | the roll call. He said he was determined to caucus in the morning. Anderson ob- jected to the hour, and finally sald he | would confer with his friends, decide upon | his course and give ananswer at 2 o’clock. | " Pendieton took the call back to the Golden Eagle, and after signing it himself he started it around his own ecircle. It was the object of the Pendleton men to get forty-one names to the call from their own ranks, but results show that they fell short and had to call upon some of the Anderson men to help them out. Since last evening Pendleton had been claiming that he had men enough to force a caucus If he wished and that he could even organize the House if he were driven | to it, but it was not untfl to-day that it was boldly stated by his men that he | counted on the assisance of some Demo- crats to do so. At 2 o'clock one of Pen- dleton’s men went over to the Capital Ho- tel and called upon Anderson, but Ander- son was not yet willing to commit him- | seif. From that time on the Pendleton faction took this as a refusal to sign and the caucus call went around openly. It was in Pendleton’'s rooms in the Golden Eagle, and all through this afternoon his men came and went and obediently signed. Melick of Los Angeles was the first man ; of the Anderson camp to sign the cail. He | said two days ago that he would go into | caucus, but that he was for Anderson | first, last and all the time. His signature | of the rollcall was the first sign of weak- ness in the Pendleton camp that the cau- cus call developed. They hoped no Ander- | son men would be necessary, but they were glad to get Melick when he offered. In the meantime a conference was called in the Anderson headquarters and his men began flocking to his rooms. Several of | them came wiiling to sign the eall. but no | one wished to commit himself until he knew just how the situation lay. There was not much to be done until the arrival of the 9:46 train from the city, for both sides had men coming and the fight was | in such shape that every man was needed. The Pendleton men were confident and the Anderson men were equally so. They knew there were not Republicans enough in the Pendleton faction to organize the House, and if they stayed out the organ- zation would be tied up, caucus or no caucus. It was at this time that a persistent ru- mor of the possible candidacy of Dunlap | started. Dunlap had withdrawn several days ago. He had pledged to him mem- bers enough to make hs candidacy worth considering, but when he withdrew they deserted him. Several were approached | on the subject, but the Pendleton men had gathered in a great many and they re- fused to consider their promises to Dunlap as binding. The report of his candidacy continued during the day, and he himself would neither deny nor affirm it. It was | hoped that if Anderson lost on the first | day, Dunlap might re-enter the race and win on the second, but the main fight seemed to have overshadowed all o*hers and he developed no strength during the day. After the 9:45 train arrived with what was supposed to be the last of the legts- | lators on board it was found that Pendle- ton still lacked some of his men. He openly claimed Rutherford, but Ruther- forda was not forthcoming. It was thought, too, that Knight was one of the defecting ones, but Knight got lost som-- where, and after he was given up he came into the Golden Eagle, sought Pendleton’s rooms and signed the call. He was the 1