DE PAUW UNIVERSITY 



1772 



DE QUINCEY 



in the endeavors of old established conserva- 

 tive firms with few merchandise departments 

 to bring themselves into a position to compete 

 with the new methods. The finest and best- 

 appointed department store in the United 

 States is in Chicago; the" most famous stores 

 are in Philadelphia and New York. The best 

 in Canada is in Toronto, and the most re- 

 nowned in Europe is the Bon Marche in Paris. 



Some Results of Department Stores. The 

 opening of department stores called forth a 

 storm of protest from firms in every branch of 

 retail business, which suffered greatly from the 

 innovation. Many small business men were de- 

 prived of their livelihood, as no matter what 

 their particular line was, department stores 

 dealt in it and could undersell small retail 

 competitors. From the public point of view 

 the department store might be regarded as an 

 unmixed blessing, but its effects on business 

 generally were often very hurtful. The cen- 

 tralization of merchandising enabled the de- 

 partment store operators to purchase cheaply 

 and to offer big .bargains to their customers, 

 but their methods often prevented the small 

 merchant from securing goods at reasonable 

 prices. The result of the competition between 

 department store and small retailer is that 

 many of the latter have been forced into the 

 wage-earning class, preferring to be employed 

 rather than continue a hopeless fight. Most 

 modern department stores are run in direct 

 connection with a large number of factories 

 which supply most goods that are required at 

 the store. On account of quantities handled 

 they can produce cheaply and supply to the 

 customer better articles than the small retailer 

 could obtain, and at lower prices. F.ST. A. 



DEPAUW, depaw', UNIVERSITY, at 

 Greencastle, Ind., was founded in 1837 by the 

 Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church. Until 1884 it was known as the 

 Indiana Asbury University, but in that year 

 the name was changed to De Pauw, in honor 

 of Washington C. De Pauw, whose will pro- 

 vided the institution with a liberal endowment 

 fund, which with other gifts from his family 

 amounted to $600,000. The annual income 

 from all sources is about $90,000. At the 

 present time the university includes the col- 

 lege of liberal arts and a school of music. The 

 faculty numbers over forty, the student body, 

 about 1,000. There are 50,000 volumes in the 

 university library. 



DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL (1834- ), 

 an American lawyer, orator and former United 



States Senator, born in Peekskill, N. Y. He 

 was graduated from Yale College in 1856, im- 

 mediately took up the study of law in Peekskill 

 and New York City and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1858. He was made attorney and di- 

 rector of the consolidated Hudson River and 

 New York Central railroads in 1869, became 

 general counsel for the Vanderbilt railroad 

 system in 1875 and president of the New York 

 Central Railroad in 1885. The degree of LL.D. 

 was conferred upon him by Yale College the 

 same year. In 1898 he was elected chairman 

 of the board of directors of a number of the 

 largest railroad corporations in the country. 



After middle life he had an eventful political 

 career. He figured prominently as a Republi- 

 can Presidential candidate in 1888, but with- 

 drew in favor of Benjamin Harrison, who after 

 his election tendered Depew the portfolio of the 

 Secretary of State, which he declined. From 

 1899 'to 1911 he was United States Senator from 

 New York. Depew enjoys world-wide fame as 

 an orator, lecturer and after-dinner speaker, 

 and has been sought in these capacities for 

 many years. He has been twice married, first 

 in 1871 to Elise Hegeman, who died in 1893, 

 leaving one son. Miss May Palmer, many 

 years younger than himself, became his wife 

 in 1902. 



DE QUINCEY, de kurin'si, THOMAS (1785- 

 1859), one of the foremost English essayists, 

 whose most famous work, The Confessions of 

 an English Opium-Eater, is unsurpassed as an 

 example of imaginative, rhythmical prose. This 

 is not only a 

 masterpiece 

 of autobiograph- 

 ical writing, but 

 an important con- 

 tribution to Eng- 

 lish literature, for 

 it showed what? 

 possibilities exist 

 in English prose 

 when it is handled 

 by a writer of 

 e x t raordinary 

 imaginative power. 



De Quincey, the son of a wealthy merchant 

 of Manchester, was left fatherless at the age 

 of seven. He was sent to the grammar schools 

 of Bath and Manchester, and at the latter 

 institution was so unhappy that he ran away. 

 After several months of adventure among the 

 hills of Wales and in London, his family found 

 him in a half-starved condition, and sent him 



THOMAS DE QUINCEY 



