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Almost wholly dependent on the morale of its truck salesman, Jewel goes in heavily for house organs, conventions, picnics and paternalism. Few years ago it moved its offices and main plant 40 miles out of Chicago to Barrington, Ill. chiefly to provide better living and working conditions for employes. The nautical influence of its top executives is evident in hotly competitive selling groups, organized as "pirate crews" with "captains," "buccaneers," "able seamen" and a mysterious figure at headquarters called...
...Steue, Williamsburg, Mass.; R. L. Swann, Schenectady, N.Y.; L. R. Thiesmeyer, Summit, N.J.; E. J. Hickey, Cambridge, Mass.; Milton Hopkins, Port Washington, N.Y.; R. H. Howland, Providence, R.I.; P. R. Jenkins, Rochester, N.Y.; C. L. Johnson, Waukon, lowa; W. D. Keller, N. Kansas City, Mo.; C. F. Kellogg, Gt. Barrington, Mass.; L. C. Keyes, Cambridge, Mass.; Henry Lasker, Hyde Park, Mass.; S. T. Kimball, Manhattan, Kan.; H. P. Lazarus, Syracuse, N.Y.; C. A. P. McAree, Haverhill, Mass.; R. G. McWilliams, Birmingham, Ala.; W. S. Martin, Greenwich, Conn.; G. J. Maschinot, Paris, France; J. M. Moore, Parkville, Mo.; H. L. Movius...
...executive sanctum. Last week, for example, Oilman Sinclair wanted to be in Los Angeles. He left Manhattan for Chicago. There, in the morning, he saw two bankers about his company's business, met with a vice president and the district managers. He kept a business appointment in nearby Barrington. The next day he flew to Tulsa, central operating point for his company and terminus for its big telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew to Amarillo where his company has im portant gas holdings...
From New York toward Barrington, Ill., to visit his mother & stepfather (Mrs. Fifi Stillman McCormick & Fowler McCormick) flew Alexander Stillman, 20, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman, in his own airplane. Near Gary, Ind. he cracked up, was taken to a hospital. Flying to his bedside that night in a chartered plane Mr. & Mrs. McCormick cracked up, were not hurt...
Another great year in the Insull epic was 1910. North of Chicago were ten small towns (Antioch, Grayslake, Barrington, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Dundee, Carpentersville, Gary, Palatine, Arlington Heights) with 15,000 people, each with a local plant and electric service at night. These plants were bought and junked, the transmission systems interconnected and power sent efficiently from one central station. Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois is now regarded as the engineering germ of the great superpower systems. It was the forerunner of Mr. Insull's great Middle West Utilities System, now serving 5,321 communities...