Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ward's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 was purchased for $100,000 by Marshall Field and in time grew into the Field Museum of Natural History. Theodore Roosevelt sent some of his African trophies to Ward's for mounting. The establishment was incorporated before the turn of the Century, but by 1928 only one Ward was active in the company. In that year the heirs turned it over to the University of Rochester. In 1930 the old building was ruined by fire and Ward's moved into a four-story brick building...
...Ward's is capitalized at $115,000, has a current inventory close to $300,000. Gross business for 1936 up to last week was about $200,000. Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger...
...Ward's board chairman is Frank Hawley Ward (grandson), who has a keen eye for fossils, seldom sees one whose name and habitat he does not know. President Gamble, onetime Cornell zoologist, got commercial experience in a Chicago biological supply house. The staff numbers 35 employes of whom nine are women...
Head of the biology section is Oscar Kirchoff, whose father was brought by Founder Ward from Alsace, and who will mount any skeleton from a humming bird to a mastodon. Humming bird skeletons once cost $25, but Preparator Kirchoff now turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering...
...Ward's sends out no expeditions. It has lists of 11,000 collectors to whom it writes for needed items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years...