TO REGAIN FORTUNE.

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 9

TO REGAIN FORTUNE.

17 HOURS’ WORK A DAY. It was revealed recently that Sir James William Bulmer, once one of the leaders of industry In the West Riding of Yorkshire, who built up a chain of vast mills and then saw his fortune disappear In the slump, left £155. Tlis widow, to whom letters of administration have been granted, spoke of the spirit with which this man, who died at the age of 54, faced the task of regaining his fortune. “ When by husband died he had been working 16 and 17 hours a day with that aim,” said Lady Bulmer. “ Old friends flocked round him to help—men who had been with him during his rise to fortune. We had had to sell a great deal, including our home, The Grange, at Gußlngworth, which had been in my family for many years. “We took over a worsted mill’at Wibsey which needed developing. My husband and some of his friends worked night and day to get It started again. “My husband would return here with his hands black after working at reassembling the machines and the looms. “ Really he worked himself to death. He used to tell me, when I asked him to rest, that he preferred a short life and a busy one. “ When the business was beginning to turn the corner he was taken 'll. He was ill for nearly a year, and although ordered to bed by his doctor he would never stay there. “He died a she bad lived—in the thick of the fight.” Lady Bulmer added that she now “keeps a directing eye” on the mill. Sir William vas at one time reputed to have been a millionaire, but Lads Bulmer told me that his fortune wa| about a quarter of that sum.