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 ELCIN. ...TIME. KEEPER. TO, THE SUCCESSFUL

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW

One of my proudest moments came with the gift of an Elgin Watch

WRITTEN BY EMINENT ELGINEERS 1 One of a series of little biographies of hearts—and there were tears at the Elgin Watches parting of our long association. I carried and treasured this watch for many years, when it was stolen from As I think back over the most interest me in a street car. But the respect it ing scenes of my life, my memory goes won from me for Elgin reliability has back to that red-letter day, a few years kept me an Elgin devotee for over half after the close of the Civil War, when a century. My present watch is an I retired as Secretary of State of the Elgin Corsican--and it makes me proud state of New York. of this wonderful era of American As a remembrance token, a group of manufacture and efficiency. Almost as loyal and efficient officers in my depart- thin as a silver dollar-without a grain ment presented me with an Elgin watch of waste bulk-it is the handsomest --one of the earliest manufactured-in- watch I ever saw. And it is as exacting scribed with their namesand goodwishes. in time-keeping as it is exquisite in style. With this gift, came their whole

-by CHAUNCEY M. Depew Gira ELGINAP

THE WATCH WORD FOR ELEGANCE AND EFFICIENCY ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH COMPANY, ELGIN, U. S. A.