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Show visit or nr.omiK w. ciiii.us. Wk have In our mldil today the famoua Philadelphia editor, U. W. Child., a mm dlitlngul.heil for hone.ty,genernltr and philanthropy. Though only a private cltltr'n of the great llepubllc, yet Ihe bonori uiually paid toklngi, potentate, and prlncei are being acoorJed toblm In till tour through tbe country, Blncu he left hla home In 1'blladelplila on Monday, the Snd lu,U he hai traveled over S,"00 mllee, and haa vliltedtbe varloui large oillee eail of ui, receiving every. where pronouueed inarkiof tbe eilecm and regard In which lie la unlverially hell by the American people. Mr, Child wai born In Itiltlmorenn May 12, 1S29. At fourteen he moved to Philadelphia, where lie obtained employment In a bookeeller'e .hop. lty thrift) economy and Induitry lie loon tecamo uie owner of a book e.labll.hmeut, which waa located In the Lulldlng of the lWilia Utlger, then one of the moat Influential paiieri In Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. It Ii laid that about thli time he ooncelved the thought of becoming be-coming lomo day owner an! editor of the Ijtdgtr, The Mca grew Into a firm reatilve, and never for a moment did he IweiUhtorthogoeliet for hti ambition. ambi-tion. From tiook-eller, he ao?n became be-came publliher, au I with till partner, the Arm of Chlldi & I'eterun achieved a reputation aecunl to no other lu the l.ul. In 1501, tho J'uitlo Lcdgtr, owing to mlimanagement of eomo kind, fell a little from Ita uiually flourishing condition. con-dition. Mr. ChllJi then bought It, and ln a abort time male It more papular than It ever wai before In Hi hl.tory. Aa early ai 1967, threo yeara after he aniuninl editorial oontrol of the Ixdgtr, hla reputation aa a Juit and liberal employer wai eitibllihed. In that year be wai made an honorary member of tbe Philadelphia Typographical Typo-graphical Hoclety, and In IVM preient-ed preient-ed It with a valuable tract of land In Woodlandi, near tho city, for a Print-en' Print-en' Cemetery, Thli hai been beautified beauti-fied and ornamented, and the ex-peniei ex-peniei attending Ha proper maintenance mainten-ance wai paid by Mr. Child for over twenty yean. I n all public enterprl.ea he haa laken a prominent rl. The clly of Philadelphia Phila-delphia bean niany monument! of hla generality, Falrmount Park, the Zoological Gardoni, the Pennsylvania Muieumand Ihebkbool of Induttrlal Arts are more or leie the fruition of bli benevolent and phllanthroplo iplrlt. Hut It Ii In hla rtUlloul aa a capital-lit capital-lit and employer that the character of Qeo. W, Chtldi ihlnei moet conspicuously. conspicu-ously. And what Ii more remarkably, remark-ably, bla business prosperity semis lu no way Impaired by hla liberality to bla employe.. On o:ch Christmas eve every workman work-man recelvea a present in money, the aggregate amount being mauy thousand! of dollars. This la what be modestly calls profit sharing. Ho also pension! oil Mi old and Inflrm employee, em-ployee, j In 1670 a delegation of hla employe! came to him with the announcemeut that they were willing to have tbelr wages reduced fiom 45 cents a thousand thous-and emi te 40 cents, whloh then had become the Printers' Union rate, la reply Mr. Child! aald he received the lamo from the rulHo ledger, aud for the advertisement! In It as formerly. HIibuilncM waa In no way Impaired, aud tbe result waa that he declined to accede to the reduction asked for by the printers, and he Is itlll piylDg live cent! a thouiaud more than the Union rate. In 18S0 the International Typographical Typo-graphical Union held Its annual leiilon at Pittsburg. Ou this occasion bolu Mr. Drexel and Mr. Chllds each presented the Union with n check for 5,000, without auy conditions attached. The Union decided that these donation! be made the basis of a fund for a Printers' Home. The birthday anniversary anni-versary of Mr. Chllds Is May 12, aud that of Mr. Drexel September IS. On the former day every union prlater east of the Mississippi contributes the prlcu of 100) ems to this fund, and ou the latter day those west of Ihe river contribute a like sum. The result Is a migulllcent lulldlng In Colorado, known aa the Chlldi.Urexel Home far Union Printers. It Ii iltuated on a slope of Pike's Peak, overlooking the "d.rdeu of the Uodi," not far from the pretty little town of Colorado Bprlngs. On May IStli, Inst., last Thursday, Mr. Chllds was present and assisted at the dedication ceremonies, thuscelebratlng Ii a noble and phllanthroplo manner the 03rd anniversary of his birthday. Tim lloms Is a splendid struoture, containing 03 rooms, Ihe largest one of which has a capaolty of 100 beds. From asanltaty point of view, the locatloaof the Homelsalsounexcelled. Although Mr. Chllds presented the craft with a cemelery, lie lias alw done something toward keeping till fellowmen nut of that reitlng place us long as possible, The oilier acts of l-enevolonce, cbarlly and philanthropy, aud par. tlculan asMOlated with them, performed per-formed by this noble aud public-spirited man woulj till a volume. We bid lilm a cordial weloomw to our clly nnd hope his so)ourn here will bo pleasant aud satisfactory. |
