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Hundreds of young men are in U. S. law schools for no reason but the old saying, "A little law never hurt a man in business." Last week the outstanding examplar of a very sound old saying that one is, finished his long career -Judge Elbert H. Gary died in Manhattan at 81, the, as yet, unretired board chairman of the largest corporation in the world U. S. steel. He read law in his Uncle Henry's (Colonel Henry Valetted) office at Naperville, Ill., after returning from volunteer service in the Civil...
...smaller salary in his uncle's office to practice privately. In boisterous young communities the demand for good lawyers is second only to the demand for doctors and, perhaps, masons and carpenters. When the Chicago fire wiped out the property of others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest of the shrewd at winning cases in the confusion of the rebuilding city. Behind his shrewdness lay industry. His cross-examinations had the steady light of careful preparation rather than inspirational brilliance. In 1882, only thirteen years after he began private practice, his friends...
...proud of his race, who was for three years (1914-17) lightweight boxing champion of the world, lay on his face on the bedroom floor of a cheap Manhattan hotel, last week. He was alone and he was dead. On his bed was a copy of a biography of Elbert Hubbard, opened at a page containing, among other passages, the sentence: "Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know what happiness...
...Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert H, Gary's chairmanship in U. S. Steel. Bankers closely connected with Judge Gary, now in poor health, denied those reports...
Last week a white marble staircase which spirals from the first to the fourth floor of Elbert Henry Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan went begging for a buyer at $1. Twelve years ago the staircase cost $150,000. Today it could hardly be duplicated for twice that sum. But because modern homes want no white marble staircases, because the labor of removing this one intact would cost thousands of dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided...