The day book. [volume], January 14, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 2

About The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917

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and it befits 1913 by $75,000,000.
Net earnings are $11,000,000, which
is no small hunk of cash to slice into
pieces and pass around among stock
holders. -
yNot many people wilffeel sharp
pain over Mrs. Armour's loss through
burglary of her favorite rope of
pearls on reading that the $11,000,
000 net earnings are an increase
over 1914 of $3,491,000. The divi
dend now is 55 per cent on the $20,
000,000 of capital stock, which is a
jump from the 37.55 per cent of 1914
and the 31.41 per cent of 1913.
Anybody with a vague fear that J.
Ogden Armour or Mrs. Armour or
any of the little Armours are in dan
ger of going to the poorhouse or
shoving lead pencils and shoestrings
at passers-by on the downtown
streets should notice that Armour &
Co. balance sheet shows lands, build
ings and machinery valued at $51,
302,577; refrigerator and other cars,
$4,162,000; investment in allied
companies, $8,000,000. Debts of lit
tle butchers, grocers, hotels and res
taurants and others to Armour & Co.
is over $54,700,000.
Cash on hand takes several small
vaults or a single large one to hold
it It's $8,401,470.
Lest anyone imagine that J. Ogden
Armour is the whole works and the
big cheese of the Armours because
he gets into the papers oftener than
any of the others, it should be stated
there are other Armours. There is
Charles W. and A. Watson and Lau
rence H. and Philip D. Armour, all of
'em on the newly-elected board ol
directors.
No wage raise announcement has
come from Armour & Co. Looks like
they ain't going to imitate the TJ. S.
Steel Co. and Pullman Co. in 10 per
cent wage raise announcements.
Health Commissioner Robertson's
recent raport showed no decrease of
the baby death rate out around the
stockyards. Statistics of Aid. John
CL Kennedy before U. S. industrial
relations commission still holds.
: Seven times as many babies under
two years of age die in the packing
house district as a mile away over on
the lake shore in the houses where
they draw salaries and have enough
to eat
An item of $156,000 for a pension m
system is noted in the Armour & Co.
annual report Nothing about high
er wages or fewer baby funerals back
o' the yards.
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JUDGE PUTS SOFT PEDAL ON BIG
'COIN FOR WIVES
Abandoned wives need not expect
the court of domestic relations to
give them such allowances from
hubby's salary that they may live in
elegance, at least not while Judge
Hopkins rules over this court
Mrs. Catherine Zuncker had a
case in domestic relations court to
day. She accused her husband, Vette
Zuncker, 220 N. Green st, son of the
wealthy packer, Prank Zuncker, 2312
N. Kedzie av., of abandonment and
wantedta big monthly allowance.
Catharine was 16 and Vette 18
when they wedded two years ago.
They lived together but three
months. Vette took the drink cure
and they tried it again and again
separated.
Vette says he gets but $20 a week,
his wjfe says he gets $30. Judge
Hopkins opined $7 a week should be
enough to keep her. The judge said
he was opposed to giving abandoned
wives more than what was actually
necessary for a living.
Zuncker says he has had to work
from 6:15 a. m. till 5:30 p. m. and
would, when he came home all tired,
always find his wife wanting him to
take her out for the evening. He
says she once told him she could get
better men than he to live with. '
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New York. Imperial Chancellor
Von Bethmann-Hollweg personally
informed the United Press that at no
time during his recent indisposition
has Kaiser Wilhelm been confined to
his bed.