Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son / Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

by George Horace Lorimer

ILLUSTRATIONS

By F. R. GRUGER and B. MARTIN JUSTICE

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[1.] “Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and telling me what a mean house they have been working for.”Frontispiece

[2.] “Old Doc Hoover asked me right out in Sunday School if I didn’t want to be saved.”4

[3.] “I have seen hundreds of boys go to Europe who didn’t bring back a great deal except a few trunks of badly fitting clothes.”20

[4.] “I put Jim Durham on the road to introduce a new product.”38

[5.] “Old Dick Stover was the worst hand at procrastinating that I ever saw.”50

[6.] “Charlie Chase told me he was President of the Klondike Exploring, Gold Prospecting, and Immigration Company.”62

[7.] “Jim Donnelly, of the Donnelly Provision Company, came into my office with a fool grin on his fat face.”72