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I; PA&S0GERSON RESCUE LWER&TELL OF FIRE THAT DESTROYED VOLTURNO "' , THE : . . - r DAY BOOK .An Adless Daily Newspaper. , N. D. Cochran, Tel. Monroe 353v . Editor and Publisher.-. Automatic 51-422: 500 South PeorifLSL . 38 " By MaiLSQ' Cents a Month.' VOL. 3, NO. 14 Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1913x ONE. CENT HOW A MERCHANT RRfNGP LEFT II EARTH AND ALSO FORTY MILLIONS Likewise a Few Qemarfis About Howa Merchant'Erincq 'r'Gan 'Gkrf:ha0iyiucli ffloney Tpgepher ' ' . - Alfafor Himself, . - ' --; . 'W K " , , 'BY N.D. CpCHBArf . I I -have, read-many stories of Jhg -lives .of' successful-men, trot I imagine every one of '.them was aflieintthesens'e that the whole story wasn't told, I recently cread of the' death of Benjamin -Altaian; owner of one of 'the largest department stores' on fifth avepueNew york. " The story paid he was one,ofj,the leading, merchants-of the'Eastr.that he, was-73 years old; that he was an' art connoisseur onpte;-$a he owned pn,e,of. the most important private collections irt Iew Yprk; 'and -that he Jeft 'in 'estate "estimated at $40,000,000. . f , , ;( . , rn.r ..,..,,. -' ' K I knoVnothing of the life, 'of Benjamin Altaian,, beyond what I read & that lttle.new8 dispatch; but the, fac'ttiat he owned adjepartaienistpre apd, Jeft, forty muTiqndpllarjneaves' much, to the imagination. - , presumably durjng; the. greater part of his 'life (Altman, the merchant prince vas' an employer of fabor Jle coud not have amassed forty mi Jions as '& employe."' , ' - " f " ' Men make' jnillions ,only out of Jie labor; of others.. y "" Their success is generally measured 4byrhqw pinch of the product of the labor of others they7 were 'able 'pa grab ff for themselves. I -could tell 'mora about tjie teal fctpry of -AJtman'g- lfe if I knew.;p qiany human Kves-werevecedbec.e-ofkmage3aU'by4hjB mer ts&2&&&f&$fe