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, porkpackers, 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 Pierreponthas written asking if his father doesn't feel that he is qualifiednow to relieve him of some of the burden of active management

II.

From John Graham, at the Schweitzerkasenhof, Carlsbad, to hisson, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.

The head of the lard department has died suddenly, andPierrepont has suggested to the old man that there is a silverlining to that cloud of sorrow

III.

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

A friend of the young man has just presented a letter ofintroduction to the old man, and has exchanged a large bunch ofstories 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'sfirst report as manager of the lard department, and he finds itsuspiciously 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 himselfand Helen Heath, who is in New York with her mother, and hassuggested that the old man act as peacemaker

VI.

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

The young man has written describing the magnificent weddingpresents that are being received, and hinting discreetly that itwould not come amiss if he knew what shape the old man's wasgoing to take, as he needs the money

VII.

From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, to his son,Pierrepont, at Yemassee-on-the-Tallahassee.

The young man is now in the third quarter of the honeymoon, andthe old man has decided that it is time to bring him flutteringdown to earth

VIII.

From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, to his son,Pierrepont, at Yemassee-on-the-Tallahassee.

In replying to his father's hint that it is time to turn histhoughts from love to lard, the young man has quoted a Frenchsentence, and the old man has been both pained and puzzled byit

IX.

From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, to his son,Pierrepont, care of Graham & Company's brokers, Atlanta.

Following the old man's s