[Illustration: Exchanging the grip of the third degree]



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, pork
packers, 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 Pierrepont
has written asking if his father doesn't feel that he is qualified