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Title: Old Gorgon Graham
More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Author: George Horace Lorimer

Release Date: April 21, 2004 [EBook #12106]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Exchanging the grip of the third degree]

OLD GORGON GRAHAM

More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

_by_ George Horace Lorimer

_With pictures by F.R. Gruger and Martin Justice_

1903

FROM A SON TO HIS FATHER

CONTENTS

I. From 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, at the Union Stock Yards.

_The old man is laid up temporarily for repairs, and Pierrepont
has written asking if his father doesn't feel that he is qualified
now to relieve him of some of the burden of active management_

II. From John Graham, at the Schweitzerkasenhof, Carlsbad, to his
son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.

_The head of the lard department has died suddenly, and
Pierrepont has suggested to the old man that there is a silver
lining to that cloud of sorrow_

III. From John Graham, at the Schweitzerkasenhof,
Carlsbad, to his son, Pierrepont, at
the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.

_A friend of the young man has just presented a letter of
introduction to the old man, and has exchanged a large bunch of
stories for a small roll of bills_

IV. From John Graham, at the Hotel Cecil, London, to his son,
Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.

_The old man has just finished going through the young man's
first report as manager of the lard department, and he finds it
suspiciously good_

V. From John Graham, at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, to his son,
Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.

_The young man has hinted vaguely of a quarrel between himself
and Helen Heath, who is in New York