New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 40

40 SLAVES LEFT YET IN REMOTE LANDS Inland China Has Most—Afri- can Slave Trade Ended Slaves in Arabia Barbary Coast Slavery on the | Tuaregs make exucting m they allow of the ho pear to “Slave vears ce LT Sudan Once a s but their slaves the freedon ehold and the serfs ap- hjoy their lot. arket for Africa traffic for hundr of d in the a i NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929. CAPTAIN DOLLAR COLORFUL_FIGURE iSteamship Tycoon Is 85 B : Won't Consider Retiring chold of Slavery lopn 1 lot of 1 Dollar rchant than f that a birth- But the occa- any talk of his was at his desk Dollar hip Com- , as he every day, hopes to be the rest of bring He a concern 0 vessels n world. Twenty large “presi- urchi 1 operating vorld pas- and also trans-Pacifi are s p service, se 1'd t a lot of bus have wve lost by was FRANR E. GOODWIN Main Strect Optometrist Phone 1905 WHEN IN HARTFORD DINE WITH US. Don’t forget to take hom¢ some Maryland oysters and {resh crackers. 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Every family needs—and can have Frigidaire | 3. Harola Dollar, on plans for a fleet |ot the biggest freight-passenger ves- | s¢ls on the Pacific, for a radio-tele- pont of educating importers to buy in smaller lots. This means | smaller capital tied up by the phonic system connecting all Dol- | merchant, a quicker turnover lar vessels with the Dollar offices, | with replenishment from our fre- and for many other improve- quent vessels—and more regular ments. 'cargoea for ui he whole world is moving, | erything is changing—and ship-! Dollar, born in Falkirk, Scetland, ping is moving, t0o,” Dollar says. | in 1844, left school at 12 and work- “We are working to keep up with |ed in a machjpe shop. Soon after this program on the seas as we | his mother died. his father began are in our office practices. We |drinking, and the father and sons can see an era of great expansion|sailed for Canada to start anew. ahead. We have plans fintshed | The lad vowed he never would touch for fleets of bigger vessels, trying | liquor, and he has religiously stuck to look far enough ahead so these |to this, will not be out of date 15 years He worked long hours for little from now.” | money in a stave factory. Then he |went into the Canadian woods as This round-the-world service it- |a lumberman. A few years later self 1s a monument to a man’s life- | he and his brother, with a com- time. But it's just part of the day's| bined income of $26 a month, work with Captain Dollar. It's a good bought a farm. sample of Dollar optimism and busi-| While working as a logging camp ness methods. | cook, Dollar used his spare time to For y Dollar advocated & make up for his lack of education. trade route going westward from | Owners of the company, finding the the Pacific coast, and circling the!lad figuring in an eold cash book. globe. shipowners declared | gave him a better pesition the fol- practicable, this thing | lowing year. In time, he became a hips going out of a port in one | camp foreman, and tn 1872 he made direction and never going back | his first business venture—losing | from the er direction. all his savings and $5000 more in Dollar, despite his 80 |a logging deal. He refused another | conferred with his wife— | partnership until he could pay off ng helpmate. hey had | all his indebtedness, which he did | about 35 business trips to|after three years' work. And there and they made five trips | were adventures aplenty, too, in the nd the world to put over the |northern woods of that early day. steamer system, | commerce of States has been my ain alesman on says Dollar. the-world ca had no the the | | Early in the '$0's, Dollar moved 0 to Michigan, where he bought and operated & sawmill in what became Dollarville, He bought all the gov- ernment timberland he could fi- nance, and reaped a great profit. Seeking new fields, Dollar, his family and his brother moved to | California in 1887. They lumbered |in different parts of the coast. And | the shortage of ships to carry their 'lumber was the seed from which sprang the mighty, far-reaching | Dollar Steamship Line of today. | The first vessel, bought 37 years | ago, was the little schooner “News- boy." Dollar before purchasing | the craft, made a personal inspec- | tion of its engines, crawled through | its boilers and by examining it from bow to stern assured himself it was 1 good shape. And until the last five years, that has been Captain Dollar's practice with every vessel e purchased. You see, we never have vessels up for repairs” he explain get them in first class cond tion, and continually work to keep them so0." | In 1901, the Dollar concern made | iit our business in | it s first venture in China trade with | have everywhere built | tt steamer “Arab.” The vessel | pendability. | carried over half a cargo of Dunar; carried to lumber, and Doliar saw there wus | | | | service : direct trade Straits S In the started, N have d th of commodities there. We ed a large cargo of lexandria, Egypt.” tons of freight are to anghai or | the Dollar freight to re- ecured. By the Aurns to its start- loaded and dis- ird car- Ameri- connection tlements, for | five years since with tan e route nts n all . explained my would be hou- nis | . “Only one is strict hon- decent and honest th before the inevitable Spring rush! / Immediate delivery need of an organization on both sides of the Pacific if there was to be any success. A year later, he and Mrs. Dollar made their first trip to the Orient to drum up busi- ness. That year, a steamer carried a load of Oregon fir ties to China— and a load of Japanese oak ties back for railroad building in Mexi- co. Dollar was getting things started. Since then, the Dollar house flag has spread over every sea. Dollar Line offices have grown in every maritime couutry. The shipping business which started 37 years ago as an adjunct to lumbering, now has wecekly sailings for oriental ports, regular round-the-world sail- ings, and complete coastal sched- ules, Since he has passed his 70th birthday, Dollar has seen his lines enjoy their greatest expansion, and You SAY — SINCE THE AuTo COME IN,- LIFE ANT THE Frigidaire is portable—.attaches to any electric outle't. This carefree, automatic, quiet electric refrigerator is tor every home. Its benefits are equally important to those who rent and those who own their homes. Don’t postpone buying—order this week! The extra easy terms available only now give you a year and a half to pay in small amounts monthly—you’ll hardly miss them. THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO. PLAINVILLE Tel. 560 NO-NO—| SAY WE MAY HAVE To USE AUTOMOBILE RIMS IN OUR GAME I has helped in plans for their ex- pansion for 20 or more years to come. Today, Dollar is an alert, shrewd Caledonian who looks closer to 60 than te 85. His plans are to work to the last. And then his sons, R. Stanley Dollar and J. Har- old Dollar, will carry on along the lines father and sons have decided upon. And as an exception to the adage that a man should retire from busi- ness by 70, Captain Robert Dollar points to the *“round-the-world” ser- vice he started when 80, with fort- LASSM Mad nightly sailings from here to visit sppear. First simy ("‘PP“"‘,“' 21 world ports in 15 nations; cov- fl"‘"’;’;‘“ “'::e‘m“ad‘hm ering 30,000 miles in 112 days. A"”.Y';m ig‘“‘:fh Tube Honesty, persistence, temperance mdl"rhm.pflepipeflgt-flnm and dally reading of the Bible, Cap- tain Dollar declares, have been the greatest aids to success. r EMBARRASSMENTandpaindis- READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS UST RARIN' TO GROW GIVE THE LITTLE SEED A HAND IT'LL SPRING UP OUT OF THE GROUND. .. A DELICIOUS VEGETABLE The Famous Hart Variety every other vegetable the table of an epicure. : Vigoro tter—ultra scientific fertilizer, pe bulk. 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