And every "hand" in those two great factories knew how all-seeing that glance was--critical, but just; exacting, but encouraging.

All-seeing, in this instance, did not mean merely fault-seeing.
Hiram Ranger, manufacturing partner and controlling owner of the Ranger-Whitney Company of St.Christopher and Chicago, went on into the cooperage, leaving energy behind him, rousing it before him.

Many times, each working day, between seven in the morning and six at night, he made the tour of those two establishments.

A miller by inheritance and training, he had learned the cooper's trade like any journeyman, when he decided that the company should manufacture its own barrels.

He was not a rich man who was a manufacturer; he was a manufacturer who was incidentally rich--one who made of his business a vocation.