CYBUS HALL McCORMICK 



little lesson to his managers on the importance 

 of brevity and exactness. He insisted that clocks 

 and watches should be correct, and in his later 

 life carried a fine repeater which could strike 

 the hour in the night and in which he took an 

 almost boyish pride. Once, when he had been 

 given the management of a political campaign 

 in Chicago, he created consternation among 

 the politicians by the rigid way in which he 

 supervised the expense accounts. "This will 

 never do," he said. "Things are at loose ends." 

 If a bill was ten cents too much it went back. 

 One bill for $15 was held up for a week be- 

 cause it was not properly drawn. The amazed 

 politicians could not understand such a man, 

 who would readily sign a check for $10,- 

 000, and put it in the campaign treasury, and 

 yet make trouble about the misplacing of a 

 dime of other people's money. 



McCormick demanded absolute honesty from 

 his employees. One young man lost his chance 

 of promotion because he was seen to place a 

 two-cent stamp, belonging to the firm, on one 

 of his personal letters. But once he had tested 



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