The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 3, 1918, Page 10

STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 38, 1918. PAGE 10 From Messenger Boy to Railroad President It’s a great thing to be living in a land where there’s but one duly recognized aristocracy—the aristocracy of BRAINS. And it’s a great thing for the WORKER to know that full-fledged MEMBERSHIP in this aristocracy is open to HIM and to all who achieve. There’s a new order of “NOBILITY” springing up in the world—especially here in America. Princes, Lords and Belted Knights are becoming thicker than hair on a dog. ie ee Tele They’re rising to FORTUNE and FAME all around us. They’re not the kind that have to be pushed into high places thru the whims of Autocracy. They’re WINNING distinction for THEMSELVES, most of them from hum- ble beginnings—by slow, persistent effort—A STEP AT A TIME. At the top of this page is the portrait of one of them —Alfred H. Smith—American Peer—by the grace of God, and his own hard work. The sketches that appear to the left and the right of the portrait — show the “vigils” he passed thru in the winning of his “Spurs.” In 1879, at fourteen, Alfred Smith left the grammar grade of old Rockwell school in Cleveland and got a job as messenger at $18 a month in the Cleveland offices of the Lake Shore Railroad. For two years he cleaned windows, ran elevators, did errands and smiled—then he asked for a chance out- side, and went to work as a LABORER. * * * * From ’81 to ’90 he learned a great deal about the uses of SHOVEL, PICK and SLEDGE, and about keeping TRACKS and BRIDGES in repair. When he had been for some time a foreman, they brought him INSIDE. At 25 he was SUPERINTENDENT of a division, at 37 he was GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, then GEN- ERAL MANAGER of the New York Central Lines for nine years, then in 1914 they made him PRESIDENT of the Vanderbilt Sy stems, When the Federal tvncviiomat took over the roads recently, Alfred H. Smith was singled out for assistant DIRECTOR-GENERAL of all railroads —in charge of transportation in the dast for the U.S. A. Alfred H. Smith ae a fine suecess So can you. The Firms Listed Below Represent Practically Every Branch of Seattle’s Great Industries Seattle’s Business and Seattle's Leading Financial Professional Leaders t National Bank of Commerce Dr. Henry Suzzallo American Savings Bank and Trnst Standard Furniture Co. Department Stores and Hardware, Plumbing, Engine, Seattle’s Steel and Wooden stitutions Furniture Companie Boiler, Steel, Iron & Walworth Manufacturing Co. Pacific Coust Engine Works Hofius Steel & Equipment Co. Heffernan Engine Works Commercial Boiler Works Seattle Japanese Import Shipbuilders and Export Companies J. F. Duthie Company Mitsul & Co. Sloan Shipbuilders Corporation Pickg EAS sega Co. Patterson- McDonald Shipbuilding Co. Arama Bros.” Ames Shipbuilding Co. Japanese-American Commission Ce. Meacham & Babcock Shipbuilding Co, T. 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