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The committee, aware of the large profits of former years, sullenly retired, and after the company's decision had been communicated to the anxious thousands below, the employees of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. slowly returned to their homes. The mayor ordered his chief of police to dispatch immediately in patrol wagons fifty men to the steel works, to guard the property and keep the peace.
It will hardly make a story, but if you would like to hear how it happens that the th District of Illinois is represented in Congress by a Democrat for the first time in its history, here goes but mind you, now, I don't pretend to be in Senator Bull's class as a story teller. "It was a piping hot day in August, and Harrisville at its worst.
At a meeting of the directors of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. it was voted "Not to rebuild our mills at present." Manager Wilson was instructed at once to so advise the employees, also to dispose of all the manufactured stock and raw material on hand, and to clean up the grounds of the old mill site.
Climbing a winding, wooden stairway, George and Gertrude in the lead, our Harrisville friends entered the old-fashioned chamber, where, it is said, on St. George's Day, April 19, 1564, William Shakespeare was born. A bust of the poet stands on the table. "We know little of his mother," said Gertrude, "except that she had a beautiful name, Mary Arden.
Harris's interests increased, till practically he was the owner of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Works, and much property besides. He was quoted as a millionaire, while James Ingram was superintendent of only a department of the steel works, and his income was nominal. Often he felt that great injustice had been done him.
The decision of Gertrude's father to take her and meet his family in Europe was not known in Harrisville except to a few. Most of the colonel's friends supposed that he was busy planning some new business adventure, in which he might employ his surplus capital and his undoubted business abilities.
The Colonel also forgot, for the hour, that his family were absent, and that his workmen in Harrisville were on a strike. Mrs. Eastlake in her girlhood had converted all who knew her into ardent friends. While at school on the Hudson, she met the rich father of a schoolmate. Later she was invited to travel with this friend and her father, Mr.
"Colonel Harris, we would modify the old firm name, so as to read 'The Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., Limited, of London, England, and capitalize it at £1,400,000, or $7,000,000. Par value of shares £20 or $100 Number of shares 70,000
"Resolved, That we, employees of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., extend our sympathy to the company in their great financial loss.
He had climbed to the presidency of the Harrisville Bank which had thousands of depositors, and which wielded a gigantic financial power. It was decided not to start for Genoa till the next morning. Dinner was soon announced and Captain Hall offered his arm to Lucille, whom he placed at his right hand, and Mrs. Harris at his left.
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