Show From F Fr r Bread read Wagon Wag t to tc ead King Wards Ward's Story I Man Who Worked On Route Only 18 IS Years Ago Noy Heads BaTtery Bakery Merger With C Capital Which May Reach Re-lh I I I D By SAM I NEW I Fob FI b 21 20 William WilliamC II Ward ald was was a bre bread lj wagon some tome 13 years year ago aso Now ho he I Is head of of- what is on un a at least tile titu largest cor- cor cor corporation in America IThe The They call him bliss the bread king Ward was heralded as a I new typo trpe ot at 0 philanthropist when char char char- chartering chartering of this thi concern concert was an- an announced an announced flounced rec recently Tim Jh chatter charter provided pro that a- a a portion bf the profits be for for- welfare t Ork S Then from Washington Washing the th corporation cot cop was heralded ns liS a ei- ei I- I gaT c trust I Back B ok to Belfast Ireland runs the S story ory of ot Wards Ward's rise back three e generations to the th days day when his grandfather wasa wasa was a a bakers baker's apprentice bound out to learn the trade GET VI The vas as II hugh Husli h I Ward lie He c came mo to America merlea and hI I started on street in NewYork New ew I York c city l IJ a from bakery bakery from rom which I the thc present Industrial emInence Industrial eminence of oC I William B 13 Ward Ward sprang There flure IE secrecy lb In New YOi Yo-iu I about William D B Wards Ward's financial Dut Eui they started with daily Bally l deliveries from a abre abr I bre br d wagon wacon to merchants and hous In la Pittsburg Cl land n land and ana Boston Boton The wagon I was pulled b by horses nor by nut nur by by g And Ward was the driver was Ward Yard was born bora In I Ills His father was Hobert B L Ward I EO of Ward Ward I rush ot 49 figures In Inthe lr the tho story story Hueh Ward left Jett N w York br forthe or the gold cold gol fields but at money ran out And there hero he went back into the baking business ss Robert nobert B Ward Ward inherited the Industry A And Arid he set William B Ward ord rd to work to learn the bread business from the thc bottom up I Why Wh wondered wondered B D 13 Ward ar as he drove e his bread I wagon is bread delivered only I once one k a day 7 D LI EH IT 11 hOT 1101 Out of his grew Brew 1 10 t v 0 deliveries s hot daily dally liot- liot from bread bread from all the the plants the Wards had come corne to control L Later Lter he came to New Yoi k York There Ther were s s itt upward steps t p for Or him sim In th the thi VJ Ward controlled baking Industry then Hugo Huge o of bakery bak m interests came carne came under his IsIs control The rise Ward Food Products cor- cor cor n the Is-the latest of these Six feet teel two Inches two inches Inches In height Var Ward Is an 10 Al tt I ew Rochelle fashionable New NewYork NewYork York suburb he has a aC e farm lIe spends He-spends leisure time cattle there raisin raising chickens and duCks TO IO 1 10 0 ChURCH a a the lIe is III I a trustee or o the New Methodist Episcopal church chu I Not long Ion ago o a H gift of ot 1000 and 1000 acres of land 1000 1 by Wa Ward Y d to the Asso Association for tor im- im Im m- m 5 s s 5 S d S n B V flU ni nt of the condition of the he Poor wll w Butt Butt- Clar ty has no place In my 01 plans Ward Ward- says says- The word Is distasteful to me 5 rie charter of the l Food I I I I that after aHer dividends on preferred stock are paid A portion of thenet the thenet thenet net earnings earning may may bit be used In buildIng hospitals recreation grounds grounds and helping sh estabi c child welfare organizations Ward I lias hs said ald tile portion will Ito c e 10 pc per cent lIe He H believes in tithing his hi friends explain Potential ca capitalization ot of the th Ward Food Products corporation ii placed by financiers fInanciers- at t 1 2000 2000 0 0 0 ITS I Ita Us charter would permit It to any act permitted by bylaw bylaw bylaw toI I law to the th end that the Ameri Ameri- American American can people may n 4 have ha 0 and enjoy Wholesome food at fair fall prices and that e every ery child may ejoy the r elit to to be bc born well reach school age ace well Veil and to grow crow to maturIty fit mentally and physically cally cathy for American citizenship Virtually unknown to Now New N V York social and club circles circles but at 41 a financier on whom the eyes ees of the w whole O countr country are centered Ward ard personifies the romance of I modern business enterprise enterprise- All because ota of a loaf o of bread 00 |