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THE NEW YORKER



One of a series of little biographies of Elgin Watches

As I think back over the most interesting scenes of my life, my memory goes back to that red-letter day, a few years after the close of the Civil War, when I retired as Secretary of State of the state of New York.

As a remembrance token, a group of loyal and efficient officers in my department presented me with an Elgin watch—one of the earliest manufactured—inscribed with their names and good wishes.

With this gift, came their whole hearts—and there were tears at the parting of our long association.

I carried and treasured this watch for many years, when it was stolen from me in a street car. But the respect it won from me for Elgin reliability has kept me an Elgin devotee for over half a century. My present watch is an Elgin Corsican—and it makes me proud of this wonderful era of American manufacture and efficiency. Almost as thin as a silver dollar—without a grain of waste bulk—it is the handsomest watch I ever saw. And it is as exacting in time-keeping as it is exquisite in style.

—by

THE WATCH WORD FOR ELEGANCE AND EFFICIENCY ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH COMPANY, ELGIN, U.S. A. CH. N. W. Co.