HIS LIFE AND WORK 



sleep could detach his mind from a task that 

 was unfinished. 



When anything was going well, he let it alone. 

 As soon as his factory was in good running order, 

 he gave it little attention. It was managed first 

 by his brothers, William and Leander, and 

 afterwards by such thoroughly competent men 

 as Charles Spring and E. K. Butler. The work 

 that he chose to do himself was invariably new 

 business. He cared little for the mere making 

 of money. The success always pleased him 

 much more than the profit. He was at heart 

 a builder, and therefore when he had finished 

 one structure, he moved off and began another. 



It is a remarkable fact that as an investor, 

 also, he had no interest in businesses that were 

 already established. Stocks were offered to him, 

 stocks that were safe and sure, but he bought 

 none of them. The money that he invested out- 

 side of his own business was put into pioneering 

 enterprises. He bought land in Chicago and 

 Arizona. He opened up gold mines in South 

 Carolina and Montana. He supplied the capital 



