Show COW J 4 PUNCHER RSS RESTS johnny wall retires after 33 years work champion cattle driver for armour and company quits quite on 1200 a year for life after long service chicago johnny wall the oldest cattle buyer in the stock yards appeared at tho the offices of armour co and was notified that ho he was one of the first men to receive the bene of the pension fund to which J ogden armour contributed johnny you can go home now and you push any more steers because tho the trusts trustees of armour co have pensioned you off at 1200 a year for tho the rest of your life said john drown brown the head cattle buyer to wall for a few minutes wall who had faithfully served hla ble employers employer a to for r 33 years stood silent I 1 tears teara began to stream down his cheeks 1 I dant like to give up work he said ile ho looked toward the rows of pens in n the stock yards through which he be had tramped tor for nearly two sedre score yeas yeara and as he pointed his old hickory cane the veteran cattle buyer said baldi 1 I remember when we had but a tow low pens in the yards but the commercial world has moved so fast that I 1 suppose ill have hava to glye up for younger blood wall earned the title of champion cow puncher many yer re ago one day a employed by swift co claimed the title after ho he had driven a single ingle 8 herd of 1100 cattle to their death A few weeks after that however armour co bought up A herd of 2280 steers wall drove them to slaughter arid and the record has never been equaled L everybody very body at the yards knows johnny lie ha has a pleasant word for everyone ive and knows more farmers than any other employs at the yards it seems like a dream said bald the gray haired man after ho he reached his bis home fifth avenue 1 I had been earning Qa a year and now that I 1 haye have been pensioned I 1 really dont know what to do with myself for thirty three years I 1 have been accustomed cus tomed to get up at five a m and go out to the yards ill miss the old boys but ill go to the yards yarda otten often on the quiet and visit them I 1 never missed a days work during the long years I 1 was employed at armour co wall started to work for armour co in 1879 1874 the fund which permits wall to retire was created for the benefit ot at sfa salaried aried employed emp loyes who have rea reached clied the ago age of from fifty seven to sixty five years yeara and who have been twenty years or more in the service of the company women may be retired at fifty years of age after having served twenty years alt all employed emp loyes over sixteen years of age and drawing a salary of 10 or more contribute three per cent of their salaries to the pension t fund seventeen thousand employed emp loyes r contribute to the fund it was established on november 6 1911 |