James E. Homans, editor

“ During these years of business expansion the controlling personality had made itself known and the name of Ferdinand Sulzberger ranked high in the business community, having risen from the ranks by the sheer superiority of his intellect, by his unbounded energies and labor, and by his notable fairness to all. ”

“ Sulzberger's death will not have any detrimental effect upon the business of the company, and that his policies will be continued in the business without interruption. The development of the packing industry is said to be due to his genius for organization and initiative. No one is said to have done more to establish the modern methods of handling meat products; his plant was the first to show that the success of the abattoir business depended largely on the utilization of by-products. ”

“ Two of his sons, Max J. and Germon F., entered the business upon graduation from college, and have grown up in it under the watchful eye of their father, whose aim it was to train and equip them in every branch of the business, in order that they might not only help to build it up during his lifetime, but might continue it without any interruption or change of policy when the time should come for him to lay down the reins. ”