CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



farm machinery a year from Americans less 

 than we sell them now in five days. So Mc- 

 Cormick exerted himself to the utmost. 



He held field tests to awaken the farmers. 

 He advertised and organized. There were 

 now several dozen other manufacturers in the 

 field, all making Reapers more or less like Mc- 

 Cormick's; and he gave battle to them at Lon- 

 don, Lille, and Hamburg. After the Hamburg 

 contest, Joseph A. Wright, the United States 

 Commissioner, cabled to New York: "McCor- 

 mick has thrashed all nations and walked off 

 with the Gold Medal." 



Again, in 1867, McCormick had a notable 

 time at Paris. The Emperor Napoleon III., 

 then in the last days of his inherited glory, 

 permitted McCormick to give a sort of Reaper 

 matinee on the royal estate at Chalons. The 

 Emperor was present, at first on horseback, 

 and then on foot. The sun was hot, and pres- 

 ently he said to McCormick, "If you will allow 

 me, I'll come under your umbrella." So the 

 two men, dramatically different in the tendencies 

 they represented, walked arm in arm behind 



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