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June 7, 1887
The Democratic Leader
Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming
What is this article about?
Descriptions of the modest offices of prominent business and political leaders: Norvin Green of Western Union, Chauncey M. Depew of Central Railroad, banker S.V. White, Erastus Wiman, and Brooklyn leader Hugh McLaughlin. From New York Sun.
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Magnates in Their Offices.
President Norvin Green, of the Western Union company, occupies a handsomely furnished big room for his office, and sits there in modest state, with a clerk or two near by. President Chauncey M. Depew has even a larger room, all to himself, in the Grand Central depot, but it is not either expensively or fully furnished. He sits at a great table desk, and at his left hand is a sort of short column or pedestal, dotted with electric call buttons bearing the names of the officers of the Central railroad. His clerks are in other rooms, and he is left alone at his work.
You could not swing a kitten in S. V. White's office, it is so small. There is just room in it for the banker's roll top desk and chair. Erastus Wiman has a little slanting topped, old fashioned desk jammed against the wall between two windows in a space railed off at the head of a big room that hums with the noise of a host of clerks, some of whom have their desks behind the rail by his. Hugh McLaughlin, of Brooklyn, the most powerful political leader in this country, has an old fashioned desk in an auction room in a side street in Brooklyn, and sits at it all day receiving callers, six days in the week.
-New York Sun.
President Norvin Green, of the Western Union company, occupies a handsomely furnished big room for his office, and sits there in modest state, with a clerk or two near by. President Chauncey M. Depew has even a larger room, all to himself, in the Grand Central depot, but it is not either expensively or fully furnished. He sits at a great table desk, and at his left hand is a sort of short column or pedestal, dotted with electric call buttons bearing the names of the officers of the Central railroad. His clerks are in other rooms, and he is left alone at his work.
You could not swing a kitten in S. V. White's office, it is so small. There is just room in it for the banker's roll top desk and chair. Erastus Wiman has a little slanting topped, old fashioned desk jammed against the wall between two windows in a space railed off at the head of a big room that hums with the noise of a host of clerks, some of whom have their desks behind the rail by his. Hugh McLaughlin, of Brooklyn, the most powerful political leader in this country, has an old fashioned desk in an auction room in a side street in Brooklyn, and sits at it all day receiving callers, six days in the week.
-New York Sun.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Magnates Offices
Business Leaders
Western Union
Central Railroad
Political Leader
New York Sun
What entities or persons were involved?
Norvin Green
Chauncey M. Depew
S. V. White
Erastus Wiman
Hugh Mclaughlin
Where did it happen?
New York, Grand Central Depot, Brooklyn
Story Details
Key Persons
Norvin Green
Chauncey M. Depew
S. V. White
Erastus Wiman
Hugh Mclaughlin
Location
New York, Grand Central Depot, Brooklyn
Story Details
Anecdotal descriptions of the simple and modest offices used by powerful business magnates and a political leader, highlighting contrasts between their status and work environments.