CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



instead of names, and who have no more regard 

 for flesh and blood than for iron and steel. 

 He had worked with his hands himself, and 

 brought up his sons to do the same. The 

 feeling of loyalty and friendliness between the 

 McCormick family and their employees has 

 from the first been unusually strong. In 1902, 

 at the suggestion of Stanley McCormick, gifts 

 to the amount of $1,500,000 were made to the 

 oldest employees of the business, as rewards for 

 faithful service and tokens of good-will. Also, 

 a handsome club-house was built for the comfort 

 of the men of the McCormick City, and a 

 rest-room for the women, under the mothering 

 superintendence of a matron and trained nurse. 

 But this one McCormick City, immense as 

 it is, does not by any means represent the sum 

 total of McCormick's legacy to the United 

 States. As the founder of the harvesting- 

 machine business, he deserves credit for an in- 

 dustry which now represents an investment of 

 about $150,000,000. With the sole exception 

 of the Australian stripper, every wheat-reaping 

 machine is still made on the lines laid down by 



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