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THE WESTERN SENTINEL, WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY MORNINQ, JULY 22 .1919. By GARNET WARREN. ' w-e, lkMt4 fV All tHartita swsttaJt L h toe rw - - NEW YORK, Saturday. n a V.1. In Hfn. ..n,. Annln L hp mi te nnpniu"" -c" aK"u . DID YOU.GET YOUK. F HUT-JOB?" i thlrlanA hf nnnnrfnnltv. Clrmnr. fcrv startling' i It dark laf Wow Tell of Jhe Modest Ones with Which The? Began the JBig Battle es seeking to waylay us. It lingers ..i. icMnnnnlnar intent If raUea riiers w iiu .w ".. ' b arms ana r ..... niiftp flnnhtless. golld but un- Lr.mrnge, perseverance, and It Is exhil Ft th least suggestion of Intelligence. n,.s its silent worn m urn jmius o uiimice "professions, in the fields ot construction or ntlini, "here minds or houses are built. Its t ,s , the theatre, Vi men is a m urnu iisimi. 1 the first ' JOB or tne rami iucwhiui uikd . . ... A ......... ln.t.iKl mtl , (hitlR WHICH men u "cio iiMiiiuiuij iuioii Tnv were usually Jobs which In other -coun- Lid h:'ve been dooms. They were the crudest They were- joos usunny puraumi eould hardly wait till I opened that envelope. 1 went way by myself to do this thing, 1 remember. I tore open the euvelope and there wns $10. Two ami a half a week was my salarv." At nineteen he went to' Rurnharu Hoot, archl tecta, of Chicago, where he slaved till he was twentv flve. Then he proudly set forth Jn busiuee for hlnV , ku. n rm ju was rrom a neighbor a phval , . clan. It was to design a porch for his house "When the posts wont up." said Mr. Starrett "I 7 wi afraid that I had made a mistake. I was scared iurt td death, The physician came arouud and said, -Look in Inst.inre of )' k IihimII tips. consider the career of Max Steuer. fine bus ""'"l 01 Dlcuc lual u '"" ,.ir8 he Ims appeared m more cases man any Lttnrnev In .he world. There is, perhaps, no r ..Li t. . ., , r tilirt dn.V I" 1110 Jrar wniuu uum uuv uuu iu.- it(,llPr n pleader In the law courts, as a cross- her ho I" reputed to lie- orunniii. , xei ii wouiu Ilcult for ninny a romance to mutch the con of Mr. Sietier's career. . . Max Stcutr's Career. ! nnii bnrn in Homonq, In Austria. His family fnshlnn of many immigrant families arrived h frnKitients. The intlier came nrst. Ue sent ulster. Hoth sent for the balance of the fam-, limijr the. Imiiililc bedy of which came young tetier In the steerngo. This was In '77. They In the most crowded section of the east side. bedroom was more than a bedroom for the It whs also a dining and cooking and sleep- hartment. Ma Stener's rather worked In a sweatshop, to whlcn present young Steuer fter school hours. From nine to three he went jool, ami from three to nine he worked at the hop an unmatched equilibrium of honrs. particular activity was to pnll stitches from hlr made, coats. His pay ranged from a dollar half to a munificent three dollars a week. But I. pigmented this by bringing frankfurters and democratic food to" the sweatshop workers and From Three to Nine He Worked at flw Sweatshopi "Look here," said the acqualnunce, "can you rals one hundrod dollars?" Steuer thought and Imagined that perhaps he could. "Tou csn get a Utxls desk space here, then," "aid the acquaintance., "Tou can let some of the rest of It out. It won't cost you much. And perhaps there ' are some small matters here that I'll get the firm to turn over to you." So Steuer engaged his small room for $20 a month. He sublet It for $10. Which seems to Indicate that Homono, in Austria, wan able to develop some com merclal Instinct. However, still Steuer waited for clients, but they would not come. At balf-past twelve be would walk out on the streets for an hour or so to pretend that be bad' been out to luncheon. He was beginning to think of looh. tng for a Job any Job. 'Then one fine morning a man walked Into his room. He sqld he had been rec His First Job .Was That of Errand Boy ; Ho Waa'.Put-to Cleaning-tne Crudo Tobacco Lett. ...... , i m , . j , r-i ,iir, ttl -kl U xx If tJ -, v ' ' ' x " ' ! Bwecptnj out a Banlc lag tips which were a fashion even in those lavs. In his vacation he developed into a very "basting puller," and as there were three or four pops In the building he did , the "basting" for j" weatshop were prudent places and divided mry among them, so that he then averaged tbree F week. He was about seven years old at In. Shortly afterward KJelnert fortuitously ln- fl aress shields. Steuer'a father, with a fine Telal Instinct,, saw, the possibility of dress nd purchased ten gross of them. Grand street In those daVs," said Mr. Steuer, 1 s gathering these details from him, "was P"t wonderful thoroughfare I have ever seen. lorn has no street now which can compare with Nat of business. It was throOced with thou- t intending buyers. WelL my father and I larough Grand street' Beddiffi dress shields. He l'i cents on each oalr. and could eastlv sell F three hundred pairs apiece on a Saturday night. I 1 t about the time the stamp was taken Joe matrhM . 4ul;iicb went, yrwiousiy wiu MlTecenU 'a oack. rM b"rd a man callln mstrhsa at twelve R inquired the reason and found ht tha t ll"d taken off. He calculated, and found "mendous posslbiliUea of profit Hs, and hU r forthwKU walked Into' tha Diamond match P "d purchased 100 cases. The" put every money they had saved or mnM harrow into i ,tcbo- Thev sold anil dsllvA f..m M wlth- t 0 s the first real money that ever came Into ""Uy," Mr. Stenar ralatut .n,inno. j . - ri made so nrnch on this transaction that It cul- Thf re8oIntlon to send young Steuer to col- h Pssed the clvD service examination Job in the foreign man department. In ""intlme, boon. ' V hmtl.. m nnnr ftotae TH0RLEY. Phata try aUnxso By tQo JTcxt Evening: He HaoTTaRen to jfw. om mended. Who recommended him Steuer dues not know to this day. The man said that he bad come to give biro a case. The man had purchased foreign stocks and bad received a frai'dutoit certificate. Th( man aaked him what his fee would be. Steuer con sidered with great trepidation and asked If $25 would be. too much. The man produced $25 and Steuer set to work. He recovered tie, man's $3,300. When he paid his client the money the man asked what it was he owed him. "Ycta paid ma my fee," said Steuer. "I only asked $25." , i. The man took $500 from the $3,300 which Stener bad Just returned to him. "Will this satisfy you?" he said. "Amply," said young Steuer, who thought that law might be a pretty good thing after all. Tbat was the turning of the tide. From that day Steuer did not tbluk of hunting Jobs any more. Clients got Into the habit of pursuing him. They are still at it Oscar Hammerstein's First Job. The picturesque Oscar Hammersteln Is another brilllantlv successful man with what one might term a past He was born in Berlin In 1841. He came here also In that popular means of transportation, the steerage. He needed work with a peculiar-need; ha needed it very badly. But his training had been pe culiar. His father had intended him to be a professor, , and had accordingly taught him languages, which ls,i of course, the very foundation of professorship. He also taught him mnslc, without the knowledge that he was afterward to apply it in the direction of mak ing a million out,of grand opera. ' When Oscar Hammersteln arrived in New York, however, he found that there was no universal de Biand for professors. Indeed, be found no single per son who wanted one. He stopped at an exceedingly cheap boarding bouse on the east side till his monej ' was exhausted, and then, with trepidation, waited upon his landlady. , Ha will tell yon that it was the one more nervous moment thsn that which even pre ceded the engagement of Mme. Melba as bis first prima donna He represented that he had no more money, bot a very certain appetite and much abHUv to work. He asked tbat something be done to match the tbree things up. ' ' "Can't I. worts tor my board some wayr na eug- A Delivery Boy in a O r 0 cVr St--V Mx Steuer'a Job was a night one, and h fmc , Ail . ... . . . I . 1. 1. . .h - Wam 1. ,.n 1,1,, nnJ , n A n .nMiathlnff Now tne landlady was Kioaiy huu bu mvuui bub wj w uv uj u uimu, iv vv wanted coal carried and fires made and odd, mys- sometbtug he Intended should be architecture. FREDERIcTHOMPSOJt : Photo by Davis 'and XickaMayst.' . . 'That was the hai-dest money I ever earned," sala Mr Hammersteln recently. "It was also the best." After tbat he commenced to invent He also be-, came the editor of a trade paper, at which point, of course, his career became kaleidoscopic and prosper ous and passes away from the province of this article. Theodore Starrett's Start. Theodore Starrett, the great constructor "and con tractor, is also a man who made very small begin nings. At eighteen he was attending college at Lake Forest near Chicago, when it became necessary for him to leave. His father was conduotlsg a magscine In the days before magazines bad the largest circu lations of all circulating things, and the fact reacted on young Starrett Mr. Starrett Sr.. could not afford to send the boy through ollege, and It- became necessary for that xnis One' krimi, ihinc fn ha done about the kitchen. "If you onlveraity In the day. He wii working want to do that for your board you can," said she., 8 them burning upon the heads of opera stars vo at- So round young Btan-ett went at the age of eighteen, tempted to "bold him up." But the carrying was his and became a copier of letters, a mnner of errands f , ;. 7" Doors then out of the twenty-four. Finally "Olcnlited. w .v. b.. . fr. wuuiilivu iu turn W MMM "Is Intention of following law. htlti. was, 1 ' " u one thin. , .v. 1 j w ivuqir 1 lie taw idu twawwj., get fin nnnwhiih. m . , ,tnm . . . ft oked for r DoSltlon law dark. Bnt the "t A, . . uHnl Wlln Iaw clerks a habit it nas orercotne. day bis mother met Mr. Boyington, the Chicago archi tect, on a train, and broached the subject of her son's ambitions. "Send him round," said Mr. Boyington. Younff Rranar waa tnat minmeac- . WR ma urn- j - - UlSCnntVMjl . . .. . . . . . .l . i.,.AA m him lpini -a woaaj om cauea U we ouaca v xnen tne man unu w - flataaca. A wages. very first Job. Then one aay ne saw miBrummcui. "Wanted A boy to learn the tobacco trade," it read. He preferred the promise of the tobacco trade to carrying coal. He felt that It offered a greater future. So he presented himself and the man hired him. He was put to cleaning the crude tobacco leaf and after ward to rolling it He worked at the back of a little mnrt .tnre for twelve hours a day. At the end of a . week bis back felt very tired and his fingers very sore. $2, voica wna uis and a tracer of drawings at a salary of nothing. No- money had been mentioned by any party to Star, rett's Job. So for two months he workol. and then one bright, unforgettable day he waa handed $20. Now that $20 puzzled young Swrretc He dldnt know whether It was two months' salary or two weeks. He didn't dare if ask. "My heart was In my mouth while t waited for the beginning ef next month." said Mr. Starret recently, laughing over the reminiscence. "I was waiting to see If my aajary was $10 a week, or $5, or $2.50. I Ho Becaftte a Tracer of Drawinga here, Thoodore, those posts look as If ttiey were, made for a cathedral. They look about the slr.e uf a town.' Well, I went around to lock at them. I ivn : scared to death It waa my first Job, you know. My professional reputation with the neighbors depended on those first posts. Well, they did look big, biit the ( roof wasn't on yet, "Walt till they get the roof on, I said, 'then tt will be all right' Well, the roof altered the whole complexion of the porch. That ' porch was the Joy and pride of that physician. Ha used to go around after tbat recommending all his neighbors to have porches. I got $15 from that 'first contract of mluo. I think it was the crLipest money aver felt" Charles Thorley'a Venture. CharlesThorley, florist to the wholo aristocratic world f America and Its wife, has bad a llfff varied ex periences, perhaps the most interesting of which vs when be made a beginning after having beej thoroughly and creditably cleaned' out by that tine old Institution, Wall street He was only twenty-two kt I the time. He previously bad mudo a success lu Kou ' fpenth street, but great successes dou't count when Wall street la working the other way. Young Thorley I owed the respectable sum of $120,000, which seems convincing even for the period of 1S$0, snd tncontW, nently left Fourteenth streot He not iinnaturfll7 - wanted a clean leaf to start upon. That morning he walked Broadway without a dollar with leas than a dollar and he thought thought of what he could do. "Then, all on a sudden,' a sign seemed to Hash out npon.me," he said., ".'Store to let,' It was. It seemed to detach itself from its surroundings. Well, I thought and thought, and went down next morning. There was that sign still. It directed me to the Gtlsey estate, which was a little further along the way. I went In and a very g.-uff man told me tbat neither of ' the Mr. GUseys was in, so I waited snd wuitrd and finally went in again, A very harsh looking nan met me my, but he was a sour looking man! 'Vmi've got a store to let,' I said. 'What do you want that store totf be asked. 'Flowers,' said I. There was a florist In there Just before and he made a failure of It' ho : said. Thafa all right' I said. Well, then be com menced to ask me questions. WJiat was my name? . Was the place big enough? Was I sure I could handle It? I said 'Yes' to everything. Then he half closed bis eyes and sat looking. After a while be ssld, 'You . can hare tha place.' ' I said 'All right' slowly, won- " derlng where I was going to get the money from." Well, then the old Mr. Gllsey (for It was be) looked at Mr. Thorley and said, "But you haven't even asked tbe price. " That was all right, tbat was all right said Mr. Thorley. ' If be wanted tbe store the price wasn't , an object WeU, Ifs $2,500 year," ssld the older .Gllsey, "and our terms are three months In advance." A Clean Sweep. Charles Thorley murmured the familiar "all right" once more. And they went to see tbe place. It was small and bare, and the paper was torn off. The un successful florist bad made a clean sw;p before he had gone. , Now, Mr. Thorley had a gem In bis pocket He bad held to It for sentimental reasons, and it was the only titng which he possessed. After viewing the little room he walked down tbe street looking for a pawn shop. .He fund one and said to tbe man: "How mnclvwlli you give me for that? Give me as mnch as you csn: I wsnt every cent yon csn give me on It." "One hundred snd twenty-five dollars," said the pawn, broker. Mr. Thorley took the $123 and went to look at tbat little room again. The optician next door. scenting a neighbor, came out. "Going to take tne Well, Mr, Thorley, thinking, thinking, went back to the Gllsey office. "I'm going to take that place:" said he to Mr. Gllsey, "but they say you're a wolf. I'm going to give you $30 on account of one month's rent It's all i ve got." -Mr. Gllsey looked at Mr, Thorley then looked again. - There was a twinkle about the furthest edge of hl eyes. To show you hew much of a wolf t am," he jsald, "your jreut will be $4000 Instead oB 2,W0, and 1 won't take your $50 on account till lbs month's up." 1 :: ' . ' ' Well, Mr. Thorley went to the place where the Marlborough Hotel now stands, where there was ,eeend hand himbor yard. Near there he made hit purchases two chairs, a counter, a mirror, a chan. deiiwr. Then ha repnnered the stora. He stocked It When finished he had sixty cent It was on Krldny and he would not open that dnys He stood at his" door shuffling the sixty cants In his hands. Old Mn Gllsey came up and chatted, with hlin.i There waa aa old theatrical boarding bouse across the street. Bud. denly Mr. Thorley took his sixty cents and threw II with all his force over the - roof of the boarding : bouse. Mr. Gllsey stared and said, "Wuel! are you doing?" "That's the last sixty cents I hnv," salt) Mr. Thorley. "If I haven't got mora than that by to-morrow night you are going to have a bad tennnt" . .. ' , -n . ' By tbe next evening he had taken in $100. In flr VMIw has Kw.4 Ka KA akaw uav. v ka flOilikIA &. J " uni 'si IU viny WII V VI IUV fiamfll UQ linig .owed, with Interest Everything he touched turned ' Info golds In seven years be Owned bla store an property adjoining. He owned the house aver which he had thrown the money. Mr. Gllsey consulted him about everything. Tha first cranky looking old matt ; In the Gllsey oQlcas waa bla private accountant fot fifteen years. . : , Also Charles Thorley climbed up to tha roof of thai old theatrical boarding bouse which, he bad owned . ,1 I. mjLmiUA ... . .ft.. l ... . k... ft.... .. . u - - u .Htui-uov ftw wv sui vtuvi, uui ua norac found It ;. : . .4.r -.; a Henry Slegel'g Success. ' Henry Blegel. whose name la so associated with lb development of the department store as w know II to-day. came originally from Tubingen, In Gerroaay, He waa only flftaen whea ba came hare),' sad his llraf Job waa that ot errand boy la Washington. Here ha sihjbq rour yean, running ananas ana aeoping nis eyes open. Ha had definitely decided that. $3 A wvek was capable of Improvement, so at nineteen he went to a little town In Pennsylvania and started a store. It waa a very little store, for young Henry Slegel wasn't S mUltonnaire at that time, but tha bault at keeping his eyas open commenced to ba useful, "I did things to that little place," ha said decently, "as I had noticed them doing In Washington.! It possible, I would think oat aom little Improve, ment It la a good rata la business to adopt a good Idea and Improve npoa It Don't let anybody tall you not to copy. Copy as4 better) that's tha successful rule In business," ' " It proved so at all svanta In young Henry Slegal'a ease. In a few years ba bad a large store, wfc.cn ba sold out From there ha want to Chicago, where bla sensational success la a matter of record; and wbaai ha left, in 1806, bt waa one of the biggest merchant' In the city. His experiences in New York and Bostoiv have been bnt a duplication ot this. "I ascribe all uiy success," ha says, "to tha habits X formed when aa office boy. 1 have never forgotten them, and find tbatn equally good now .. Frederic Thompaoo. Janltorshlp.. . J Frednrlo Thompson started at twalvs. ! Hs da. cams dollvary boy in a grocary store at that popular sum of $8 a wssk. Ha delivered groceries, with greit success. In thsse days ba delivers theatrical goods. The most vital time In his career, however, arrived at Uia time of tha Chicago Exposition. Tills found blm with Just snfficlant money to go to Chicago, where he presented himself at tha oJSoea ot Maoavlng, Maxwell A. Moors, who wan ana of tha largest oa hlbltors. "Thura. a InnUm 4nK fuu- miA lit. I. cbsrge. , . , So Frodaria Thompson aeceptad tha janitor's lob. ' He was expected to sweep out, a Job at which? hut youug blood rebelled. So ba hired another man to do this and proceeded to maka himself useful among tba exhibits. So much so Indeed that at tha end of tns: week he sent la a bill for tha man ba had hired ennf It was paid, A fsw weeks attar Mr. Moore, ona ot! the pantnera, came to tba place ot exhibit and thlnkF . log Mr. Tbompsno the company's repreaentaUva, com uieticed to suggest changes. Mr. Thompson entered enthusiastically into that discussion. Ha didn't hlr auy ona to do that However, when everything was concluded be announced bla official position. "I'm Janitor hsra," be ssld. Two weeks later ha was man ager. Hut career after tbat was a phantasmagoria of expositions and Luna Parks and. Hippodromes and' theatrical productions, ona of which you ara usually; certain of swing somewhere near Broadway. "I got everything I have by hard work," ba say. ' "A rule? .Work as if thera was never cluck In tha office," x - - -.' ' Theodore P. Shont Explodta a Tale, , "It Is a matter of soma regret"' Says Theodore P. Shouts, "that in telling bow 1 procured my first Job) . 1 am obliged to explode tba old story which 1 hiira seen In print that I worked my way up from tba position uf 'water tender,' for that sounds roinstKlo, whereas my first work was anything but fanciful. "Wheu 1 was graduated from Monmouth Collsge, In 1870, I owed my brother-in-law, L. 0. Campbell, i $100, which 1 bad borrowed to complete my educa tion. Ue owned a bank at Csnbrevllle, Iowa, where : 1 lived, and It happened tbat Just then he needed a ' man of all work around tha establishment Tha Job paid $U0 a mouth. There waa no batter position open ' in the little town, so I applied for tha place a od got It Sweeping out a bank waa not quite np to what ' my college course bad fitted ma for, and aoms of 'my friends thought It did not fit In wall with tba degree of 1). A which I bad studied hard for, but 1 did ' not mind that I was anxious to get to work and' pay ofif uy indebtedness. - 1 1 "1 never have taken quits so much satisfaction la sny money I bsve esrned since then as I did In my first month's pay. The amount was not large, sven as salaries went In those days, out It represented tha ' result of my own efforts. It gave ma an entirely , new sense of Independence and self-reliance quail-' ties which every boy should Cultivate. I made up my mind that if my untrained hands could earn thatj much my trained mind could earn mora, Snd I re doubled my efforts to master tha business I was tn. for I considered myself a part of tha concern I was around early In the .morning and bad tba bank I cleaned wit and ready for business well before tba' opening hour. During tbe day I helped and watched i my brother-in-law, who did practicaJag all of the banking work, ss it waa a small institution. Grado i ally I familiarised myself with tha details of tire ' business snd In a short time I waa virtually running tbe bank, while Mr. Campbell gave his attention to other matters. But I still continued to eweep,-oot tn 4 the morning and close np at sight It waajhsnd) work. Due 1 reii mac 1 waa accompllsning something 1 and advancing, and that, satisfaction mora than coin- , pensated for tbe effort . . - . -. ; "Tbe knowledge of accounting which I; acqrtlred gained me a reputation through Southern Iowa as an expert bookkeeper, and I made considerable money on tbe outside, after hours, aa an rod 1 tor. - I knew, however, that tbe opportunities la that direction were limited, and It waa stlil my ambition, aa it had 'been when 1 left oollege, to become a lawyer.. A!, v.. 1 "I studied law at night, and after a yeavta tha bank I went with tha law firm of Baker At Drake, tit first aa a elark, and three years hi tar as a partner. . There I became Interested in railroading through tba ' purchase of rights of way for tha old Missouri, Iowa ' and hiabraska KaOroad. and It waa not long nam I abandoned tbe law for tha new and mora attractive! store?" ssld be. "Yes," ssld Mr. Thorley. "You've wrm, m wnicn 1 beiievea thera jrera still rreatac got a bad Undlord," said the optician. "He's a wolf sjattaaUlea.'' . . , J . . . - - v - - . r
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