Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Wealthy, but Hard-Worked. [ARTICLE]

Wealthy, but Hard-Worked.

One of the most conspicuous business men in New York, who is the extensive head of a company with many millions of assets, said recently that he had not taken a vacation in ten years. He is a millionaire, and his statement indicates the high pressure under which men who manage the affairs of big companies sometimes work. During the summer his family live in their cottage on the Jersey coast. “I am able to get away from my office at 3:30 in the afternoon,” he said, “by making use of my time on the trip down to my cottage. Igo by boat, and I take my stenographer with me. In this way I am able to clear up my correspondence on the way down. My stenographed returns at once to New York, and when I reach my office I find the letters that I have dictated the night before ready for my signature. That saves me about an hour a day. Vacation? No, I don’t take a vacation. My clerks and assistants do that, but I find that it is Impossible for me to get away There are many little details that I have to attend to personally, and I can’t turn them over to any other man.”—New York Sun.