Hewnrd Duiil Guteumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 242.
SEWARD ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23,1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
John G. Shedd, Business
' Genius of Marshall Field
Chicago Store, Is Dead
OF HIM MARSHALL FIELD DECLARED “HE IS
THE GREATEST MERCHANT IN THE UNITED
STATES.” ESSENCE OF FORMULA FOR SUC
CESS FOUND IN CARD IN OFFICE—COURTESY,
DILIGENCE, PUNCTUALITY, SINCERITY AND
PERFECTION
LEAVES FARM WHEN DRENCHED IN MAPLE SAP
* Rises from Stock Boy to Head of Concern—Was Direc
torate of Several Banks and Railroads—Served on
Enormous Civic Bodies and Charity Boards—Most
Men Concerned With Start and not Finish, He Used to
Say
CHICAGO, Oct. 23. (/P)—John G. Shedd, one of the
most prominent and influential business men in the
United States, died at Saint Lukes hospital following an
operation for appendicitis.
To the business genius of Mr. Shedd was credited a
large measure of the success behind the growth of Mar
^ shall Field and company from Chicago’s “biggest store”
*in the 70’s to the rank of the largest wholesale and retail
dry goods house in the world in the present decade. To
Mr. Shedd was generally credited the business creed
which developed the store to an enterprise employing
close to 25,000 persons, with a record of having served
more than 300,000 customers in a single day.
The essence of his formula for success is found in a
small framed card which hung in Mr. Shadd’s office. It
was a clear, concise and definite statement of what he
wished all his co-workers might aspire to in their busi
ness life. It mentioned courtesy, diligence, punctuality,
sincerity and concluded with the summary “to be satisfied
1 with nothing short of perfection.”
Such was the aim of the New Hampshire farm boy
who had achieved the biggest place his chosen field had to
offer.
“He is the greatest merchant in the United States,”
the late Marshall Field once declared.
That title had been conferred by the business world
upon Mr. Field himself, but he disclaimed his right to it
in behalf of his former stock boy.
' LIBEL CHARGE FILED
. AGAINST THE YACHT
' WESTWARD. SEATTLE
CAPTAIN E. * R. SNYDER ASKS
COURT TO AWARD HIM SAL
VAGE CHARGE
SEATTLE, Oct. 23. (£>)—Under a
{ Federal libel, Captain Edgar Roy
Snyder, master of the cannery ves
se 1 Northland, attached the Yacht
Westward, owned by Campbell
Church, Eugene Oregon capitalist.
Captain Snyder asserted the North
land spent 48 hours in April towing
the Westward which was disabled in
the gulf of Alaska, into Controller
bay. He asked the court to award
salvage. Mr. Church, with his wife,
i '
son, three daughters and a party of
^ scientists aboard, went to the West
ward where they took motion pic
tures of Alaska big game, during the
spring and summer. The yacht is
valued at $45,000.
The regular weekly meeting of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce will
fcbe held next Tuesday at Fisher’s cafe.
■
“We have no policies,” Mr. Shedd
told an interviewer who made an in
quiry as to the secret ot the success
of his business. “We l*ave certain
fixed principles. When your princi
ples are right, you never need worry
about your policies.”
Born on a farm near Altsead, New
Hampshire, July 20, 1850, Mr. Shedd’s
first employment "was in the field of
his father’s place. At 16 years of
age, he virtually was driven from the
homestead by a curious trick of fate
such as usually is found in the life
histories of many great men.
Walking through the woods one
day with his brother, with two buc
ket of maple sap attached to a yoke
over his shoulders, the youth stumb
led, fell, and was drenched from head
to foot in the gummy mess.
When his brother had regained
self-control after his fit of laughter
at John’s predicament he asked:
“Well, what are you going to do?”
The answer came like a flash:
“I am going to find something bet
ter than farming,” he said.
Within a few weeks he left the
farm for a clerkship in a grocery store
at Bellows Falls, Vt., at $1.50 a week
and board. Here began the business
career of a country lad who was
(Continued on Page -Three.)
JOHN G. SHEDD
PERICH IS ICiTTED
MURDER DOLPH SMITH
(Special to The Gateway)
VALDEZ, Oct. 23. (/P) — Tony
Perich was acquitted by the jury
this afternoon of the murder of
Dolph Smith at Kanatak. The
jury was out 24 hours.
The jury in the case of Joe Loco
is still out.
ALAMEDA NORTHBOUND
SEATTLE, Oct. 23. (/P)—1The S. S.
Alameda sailed at 9 o’clock this morn
ing with 46 passengers. The steam
ship company made no copy of pas
sengers of the original list on the
boat.
UTTER BARKS, EXCEEDINGLY FIERCE
VILLAGERS OF MIDNAPUR, BENGAL, AVOIDED DISTRICT AC
• COUNT SUPERSTITION—GIRLS ARE RESCUED, YOUNG
ONE DIES—OLDER NOW IN ORPHANAGE WHERE
AT FIRST REFUSED WEAR CLOTHES
LONDON, Oct. 23. (JP)—The Westminister Gazette relates that
Reverend Jal Sings of Midnapur, Bengal, had found two girls, ages
about two and eight, living with wolves in a distant part of the dis
trict in which villagers pointed out a path, which they avoided because
they supposed demons haunted it. Upon investigation it was re
vealed there was a wolf den in which were several wolf cubs and the
two girls. Both were exceedingly fierce, running on all fours, utter
ing gutteral barks and living like wolves. The children were res
cued but the younger soon died. The elder survived and is living at
an orphanage. She gradually was weaned from her savage ways but
fought fiercely against wearing clothes which she tore off even af
ter they were sewn on. For a time she refused to be washed and ate
with her mouth in a dish, but was finally taught to use her hands
and say a few words. She is still weak mentally and neither cries
nor laughs. She is gentle with animals preferring the company of
dogs to children.
Si TO BE m
STEAMER WHICH PUTS OUT TO
SEA FROM NASSAU HARBOR
IS UNREPORTED
HAVANA, Oct. 23. (>p)—Advices in
dicated that over 650 persons were
killed in the hurricane which swept
through Havana, • Matanzas, Santa
Clara and Pinardelrio provinces. Ten
municipalities were wiped out and
6,500 are homeless. The damage is
now estimated at $100,000,000. On
Havana alone it is estimated 200 were
killed, 1,600 injured and 3,200 homes
destroyed.
WEST PALM BEACH, Oct. 23. (£>)
—The steamer Munamar which ra
dioed it was in Nassau Harbor when
the hurricane veered from lower
east - Florida Wednesday and put
to sea to ride out the gale. Thus far
the vessel has not returned.
BODIES OF TWO OIF
WARDENS FOUND, LAKE;
EX-CONVICT CONFESSES
MARQUETTE, Michigan, Oct, 23.
(^-The bodies of Emil Skoglund and
Arvid Erikson, state game wardens,
were found in Marquette harbor, Lake
Superior. Roy Nunn, an ex-convict
and reputed poacher confessed last
night of slaying them when they at
tempted to arest him on September
POWER SHUT-OFF NOTICE
Power will be shut off tomor
row (Sunday) from 10 a. m. to
3 p. m. S. P. & L. C.
BULLITT CAMPAIGN
FUND PROBE STARTS
[ - ■ —
LABOR LEADERS OF KENTUCKY
APPEALS TO STATE FED
ERATION
SEATTLE, Oct. 23. (£>)—'The Bul
litt campaign fund investigation be
gins today.
SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (£>)—Senator
McNary is enroute to Seattle to open
the Bullitt slush fund hearing.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 23. (JP)—
Labor leaders appealed to the Wash
ington State Federation of Labor to
do everything in their power to de
feat Bullitt, former president at Louis
ville, who they declared caused strik
ing.
YUKON DEPARTS MIDNIGHT
The steamship Yukon, A. S. S. Co.,
Captain Charles A. Glasscock, com
mander, arrived in port at an early
hour last evening from the South
bringing a fair number of passengers
and a good size tonnage. The ves
sel departs at midnight for Seattle.
| a good deal of misunderstanding ii
[the vessel at 7 p. m.
European Nations Should
Follow America's Trade
Policy, Declares Hoover
POINTS OUT LAST FIVE YEARS, SINCE MANIFES
TO BEEN ENACTED, PRESENT TARIFF ON
AMERICAN IMPORTS FROM EUROPE HAVE IN
CREASED 54 PER CENT—EXPORTS TO EUROPE
INCREASED BUT 13 PER CENT
CHICAGO, Oct. 23. (fl?)—Herbert Hoover declared
if twenty-three nations in Europe will follow America's
states in establishing a free flow of trade between them
selves and if Europe will then establish free trade rela
tions with the rest of the world, which is the purpose of
the recent pianifesto in which International bankers ad*
vocated, the removal of trade barriers will be accomplish
ed. Hooverr said the manifesto cannot be directed with
any logic at the United States * be
cause in the five years Since it’s en
actment the present tariff on Ameri
can imports from Europe have in
creased 54 per cent while exports to
Europe increased only, thirteen. “In
the face of this increase it can scar
cely be contended that our tariff Is
destroying European trade. There Is
a good deal fo misunderstanding in
Europe and elsewhere about the bar
riers on trade with the United States.
In the first instance we have no dis
criminatory railroad rates and no sub
sidies and we make no stipulations on
the money we loan which is to be
spent in the United States and we
have no cartels or government price
fixing. Therefore, our export trade is
wholly tree of impediments.'*