The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1913, Page 4

ce CC TE MESSENGER BOY | ONE, RALROAD PRESENT NOW Alfred H. Smith, New Head of | the N. Y. Central, Used to Be a Laborey. EARNS HIS PROMOTION. His Maxim 1s, Make Your- self Invaluable to Your Employer. Some of the wonderful oppertunitics ter success that American business iife offers are exemptified in the election, o taw Gays ago, of Alfred H. fmith at ghe| age of forty-nine, to the Presidency of the New York Centra! Rallroad system. He started his ratiroad career at the ottom, first as a messenger boy then as workman in a construction gang. He was not afraid to work and poll hie hands, lowest grade to the highest AN three of these men--Newman, Brown and Bmith-came from the Lake @ Michigan Geuthers Railroad, one ts third in succession of New York! ntral Presidenie to rise from the Ghore of the best managed callroade in the country. The practical man control of Ameriosn railroads from the wah and the hustler. \, dency formerly tay through Wall street @reet financiers. Most of the Now it ts via the construction gang, overalls and rubber boots. President Smith is a hustiew. wrusque in apecoh and quick yet he te good-natured, Me hae been eo busy past thirty years that affable an: ‘doing things the|f @ high schoo! courses, I thought I the -eword of his| %8* ripe for a business career. “I obtained employment as @ meesen- utterances is smal! and he has not yet acquired the after-dinner speech habit which 19 usually thrust upon all rail- read Presidents. As Vice-President and General Meneger, Mr. Smit! te operate the railroad. N. dent he will have to operat: had only ae Presi-| the pub-| *", FACE DISFIGURED WITH PILES on, Ashamed to Go Out on Street. Cuticura bay ny Ointment En- tirely Cured Two Weeks, I HW PELghY | i I i tt Th HF i | i : fit f¢ iy fe i i ii & E : TO REMOVE DANDRUFF Mere is that te know. [out anyway and you can usually avoid te again taking| !%8 of trouble by telling him the whole [story at once. “IT started out to great systems have enthroned the worker in the world when ‘The way to the Presi- Ger boy in the Lake Shore offices ip Clevetand at a salary of 818 per month. 1 tried to make myself gradually picked up the routine of the stationery department until I was mede @osintant clerk in that department. From the stationery department 1 want to the purchasing agent's depart- ment and there I ground out @ routine for four years. I woud meet \eaadberenra marvellous salesmen month in and month out—s sort of mechanical existence that galled | William H. Newman, who later became me In| Preeldent of the New York Central ays- 1 seemed to be up againnt a dead wall, 60 1 F®| wag Vice-President and General Man- me. CENTRAL’. WHO BEGAN WORK ON ROAD AS LABORER. | ALFRED NEW HEAD, H. SMITH Hie. Hence the necessity for a President] and Sunday. learning how to do two things at eace—| with hie setting bossing a ratiroad with muscular force) of and concliiating the public with soft preach. WHAT PRESIDENT O8MITH BAYS handle » ABOUT HIMSELF. President We all T couldn't see anything for the future in this departinent. signed to take @ fresh start. Alsoon Neck. Couldn't Put Clothes| ins. tooncs over tha Asia and. deter. mined that the proper way to begin Wa8 New York to become Amith'e eutod!-| ography—what he eaye about himself: “1 don't Uke to talk about myself. Bot my experience is that there ie only one thing to 6o with @ newspaper man and te tell him what he waate to fooner or later he wii find it je my own way aa fourtemn. father had died and had left my mother t.| with five children. There were no drones in the hive. “Ag & Uttle fellow I had always liked a worker,| the raliroade. They had @ fascination in action,| for me, So after I had gone through 4 clever, | ¢ grammar eobeol and had taken part worked. useful and ‘THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1913. < ome of the Lake Shore with headquarters in Cleveland, Fi there T was brow ito New York in 1902 in the New ¥: al. up briefly, My advice to @ young man, | thie: Make yourself invaluable to to the best of your | merit is bound to be yo get inn rite [A man to be veluabie to his muat have eas, ie muat ve adie think beyond the ruler of the office that he has talen problem with which he i# associated, “Bo many young men are content eo much for expenses, so mi Dleasure—and they work day in a face of the there je no advancement for them.” ABOUT HIM. fo much for the autobiography, pie a out Aifred H Smith. into the very cen! action wherever it happened. As operating manager he was all 0 section of road he controtled. 1 shovel, a crowbar or a al ‘ongside of any husky section Loss out of window he saw the old s! he was & foreman of construction. eatiy needed a coat oF tng allowed to Jook like that! claimed Bmith. “It's @ reflection on fellows who came from thie tows. My had a coat ef fine paint put on shortest possible time. He atill keeps up the pace. Back of all the personality that has characterised recent presidents of the New ¥ Central eyatem there is to the top. Old John Newail, its, president organisation the stamp of his o Individuality, strength. It as a heritage m, Then came William C. Brown. his general superintendent. ager of the Lake Shore, with Smith [pee Central brought Brown on the as A few monthe ago Mr. smith’s private at Adrian, Mich, Looking tea that he remembered in days whea paint. “Te think of the Adrian station be- ex ‘Then he got into ofMcisl action and the head of the New York Centra! sye- tem saw to it that the Adrian depot Im the olden days they used to call him “Meteor Smith, because of the way he tore through work and tme. indelible imprint of Lake Shore trein- ing. There is something about the wonderful experience and schooling men get in the company’s service that gives the ability and the opportunity to rise many years, left on the Lake Shore vigor and ht ork ave had only one maxim, Summed t wae ‘Do the beat you can.” employer; study his inteveate In every articular; apply yourself to your task i | to or the precedents and be able to show Into him heart the eolving successfully of the business te draw a fairly good aalary—they have for nd day out af machiues. The work in not even congenial and they work in the owltive knowled@e that THINGS THAT OTHERS SAY Now for some of the things that other peo- Hie Gominating characteristic is energy. Rover since he started out in overafia and rubber peote with the construction gang he has been on the job, dey, night | Nothing ever interfered tre an ta- ty the for wn ! | which her father brought against Mrs. | aity upon persons whe rent out etrest | Trust law, bas been i the courts for! ity sroutenburah son before his death, S New Ph t h sft Fe ws 2 | Se gee Tee gato | pence Sar Rave mee: | DOL. YOUNG Yor, F HOLOSTAPAS crdinances, was told last wight that Al- former wheat king: Robert M. Thomp- |recting Mra, Stoutenburgth attorneys to Think of it—¢3 Worth of Photographs $1.00 Giynn that ine Evening World bill Wes | Texas, Prank tment Viele. oe with the Coupon below for a really an attempt on the part ef the| P. 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Tn thet regard it makes the ame o|Cnce, Tunrenresented tm court by As-| ne death. She asks that Mrs. Stouten- misdemeanor, whieh is a ertme wnder| can "a.regreatmrney Guile. He hed! burgh either return the bande er pay Sox.Youns Photographs the penal statutes, punishable BY B°tlterney Dorr, whe poenerm Ne yp cbiay por £12,600 and $00 damages for detaining | fameus far and near for sear) of reproduction of the human face, more The New to manager in the mechanical ur operating branch.|under Newman, and he brought Smith 1 went to work in @ construction gang along. must love his task or there ts a prospect ef success for Dim tn branch. I¢ his work tant congenial, if he doven't fect that he cam put hie whole sou! into it, he will mot be ren- dering the best wervice to bis employer. BEST FOR HIS EM PLOVERS. | “1 took my turn at the sledge with the rewt of the construction gang and Nved about the same kind of life they jd. But I kept in mind eu the time ‘that 1 must do the beat I could for my employers. After four years’ work in various gangs 1 was made a foreman construction wang at Adrian, Mich. 1 was then twenty-two yeare old and It is never a mistake for @ young man to get married, =A s00d woman will steady him and often- times give him an Incemtive to hustle when work te irksome. “1 suppose the railroad people saw something in me, although I was net making any stage plays for advance- ment, for in 1880 I waa made superin- tendent of the Kalamasoo division tn I was then twenty-six years |old. This was the emailest road in the Lake Shore system Michigan. ihave called I got married. iy and some people kindergarten—e achooling for raltrouding possibilities. I thought it wae a pretty big thing. “Then they made me superintentient In regular order they marched Brown guoceeded Newman poor thet | aie day the President of Gove wo-day. ‘Twe Men Held tn 96,000 for Held Up O14 Hen. avenue, Brooklyn, and Henry Levine No, 19 Henry a#treet were held in #, ball to-day by Magistrate Levy Centre Street Court on a charge highway robbery made dy Abrahi man who Keeps a soda water stand. ev and took 8% from him. es Shooting Ri Richmond Valley, Staten Inland, @ fieki near Anrboy road to-day. was hunting rabbita with # .22 cali “The Shadow.” Story by Arthur Stringer. A “Fancy Dress Affair.” Pretty Dorothy Perkins. it and 4mith flied in as general inanager. Ne Brown has retired and Smith becom president. In John New- the road worked herder and longer hours than any other employee, That's what Smith eee eee ROBBED IN THE SYNAGOGUE. Alexander Fine of No, 40 Saratoga of 3,009, in of an Beloff of No. % Pike etreet, an aged Beloff said that the two prisoners nt and held him He Kille Himeelt. Ray Reid, elghtecn, of Murray etreet, shot himself in the stomach accidentally in He bre rifle. He tripped and the gun wan dis- charged. Dr. R. W. Reynoltn af Prince's Bay, and Dr, David Cloman of Totten- ville, were summoned, The boy died in an ambulance taking him to the Sméth A Thrilling Serial Detective First Instal- ment in Magazine and Story Section. One Woman's Reply to Another on the Subject of Suffrage. An Interview with Mrs. Incz Milholland Boissevain by Alleyne Ireland. Another James Montgomery Flagg Picture About LEVY DEFENDS FINED $4000 EACH vi." sors: EVENING WORLD'S | FOR COTTON POOL iS.sr=ii-at TAMICAB BIL} THEY RAN IN 191 plished. The pool had been broken up ete 4 the | Replies to Attack on Measure} Associates of Patten, Who Reported Made by Alder- Pleaded Guilty, Put in Nolo man Nichol. | Contendere Plea. The Coupon Below Is Worth$2 Toward the Purchase of Phot of Yourself or Any Member of Your You Can Take Advantage of This Extraordinary Offer Any Time Within 30 Days of the Date of the Coupon. ' i i after all. ‘The main thing, he said, was that all sof the Government had by the Supreme Court future corner in cotton, | so any vecessity or com-! woult be Line After the imnored tie defendants were untods Spoon DAUGHTER CONTINUES | SUIT FATHER STARTED Mrs. Parker Will Try to Get $12,- 590 on Bonds From Mrs. Mrs. Stoutenburgh. Mra. Fvylyn Hoyt Parker, daughter of Dr. Bugene F. Hoyt, famous phyecholo- Gist, who surprised the medical work @ few years ago by proposing that orimi- nale be given laughing gas instead of the third degrea, wilt continue a suit fines we parol PUNISHES The famous “cotton corner” of 1908 1910, which was smashed in ite infancy by the Government. was finally die- pored of to-day before Judge Grub of ‘Texas, in the United States District ourt Kach of the five defendants mocused of running the corner entered @ plea of nolo contendere, end was tined eon, Thin was satiefactory to the Government and Getendante alike. ‘The case, which was cme of the mest VIOLATORS. Democratic Assembly Leader to Fight Attempts to Win Glynn’s Veto. ALBANY, Tes. 12—Democratic As- sembly Leader Levy, author ef the Evening Werlfe bill te impose o pen~ ‘one year in prison or (600 and artistic manner in which all fine, or both. “The law strengthens the ordinance in that it firat makes criminal thet which 1s prohibited by the local ordi- nance. It will prevent the discharge and acquittal of persone in violation of the local ordinance, such aa occurred very recently before Magis- trate Barlow, when five cases were pre them. In reply Mra. Stoutenbdurgh refers to the famous ecientist’s daughter as his “alleged attorney tn fact.” Mrs. Parker @aye ghe was her father’s attorney in His oltents, he sald, we fact before his death. astute uae, Ny bad tone Mrs, Stoutenburgh’s address is given in the papers as No. 94 Amsterdam ave- ‘|nue, Dr. Hoyt lived at No. % West Fifty-eighth street. Me was a inember of the Manhattan, Lotoa, Columbia, Yacht and National Democratic clubs ——— ‘WIDOW LOSES HER SUIT. Mrs, Bother Sanda, widow of the late Jultus Sande, who was well known on Wall atreet, to-day lost her ault ‘to com- pel KE. C. Potter & Co, brokers at No, 3 Wall street, to return to her $13,000 worth of stock which Heged the late Arthur 8. Levy, for ears tamentary trustee of the Band's as- tate, hed embezzled. 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Corner Tit St. 1807 Amoterdam Av. Bet. 140th & 150th Sts. “In each instance the Megistrate dis- charged the offender, claiming that it was no crime to violate the local tazi- cad ordinance. A repetition of this oan- not mow take place, because the Levy law unequivocally defines these attempts as crimes, “@ince the Levy bill passed I have deen flooded with telegrams from many leading hotele and taxtoab com- panies in Now York telling me of the great injuntice I did them and appealing to me to use my official position as leader of the Assembly with Gov. Glynn to procure these various concerns @ hearing from the Governor, 90 that Mr. Glynn might be induced to veto the bill “This clearly shows that Alderman Nichot does not understand the bill end has fatien into error. I told the Gover- mor to-day of the wishes of the hotels and taxicab companies, ‘Mr. Giyna told me he bed else buy the material they needed. “I helped to make the Bherman law,” sald Senator Spooner, “but there have been timea within the past few years been sorry for it. I realise were made in the law.” emed much in earnest, but there was an audible smile around the lawyete’ table. Former Assistant District-Attorney Dorr told the Court that he could not agree with the learned lawyer that the combination of these dealers and bro- kere and opinners was made througn phileathropic motives. He said that the New deraes 157 Newark Avs. UDP Broad St. 928 Bros iti 1 ‘ rand Ma. aoe Connection Here's your Merry Xmas This Set of Columbia eae, Records “The Shadow” A Thrilling Detective Story by Arthur Stringer. The Villain In the narrative is one of the most daring criminals ever sought by the police. Story Will be published in serial form in the Sunday World's 24-Page Illus- trated Magazine and Story Section. Don’t Miss The first instalment next Sunday, Dec, 14. “The Evening Wertd exposed then and this exposure convinced me that the taxi people and hotel ewners have no just claim for such @ hearing. Gov. Glynn promised me that be would grant Ro hearing and that tn the regular course he would approve the bill.” Gov. Glynn would not comment en the Nichol telegram. a eoeetee FIREMAN GETS HERO MEDAL, Ward Jumped Inte ley River and Saved Man From Drowning. John J. Ward, @ fireman on the fire- boat Thomas Willett, received @ Con- gressional silver medal for heroism thie morning. Congressman Jefferson M. Levy made the presentation in Com- aiasioner Johnson's oMfve in the pres- ence of the Commissioner and Chief Kenlon and other officers of the depart- ment. to the same value can be supplied Grafonolas from $50 to $500. Graphop! from $17.50 to $65. On easy terms of payment. 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