The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-19

ings of the successful careers of many
of Roanoke's leading citizens. They
will be read with interest, pleasure and
profit. lines reporters did the inter
viewing. But one question was asked:
"How did you earn your first 500 ?"
Below are the responses:
Vice President Charles G.. Eddy
earned his first money carrying news
papers in Milwaukee, Wis, when a boy.
His first 800 was saved while in q rail-
road office, whore he began work at
S13.33 a month. During this service he
learned telegraphy by working until
l o'clock at night wei time, taking
late train reports to pay for
the privilege of learning. He be-
came an expert operator, and when
he enlisted in the army this led to his
becoming cipher clerk and telegraph
operator on General Sherman's imme-
date staff. His warm sympathy with
working boys is testified in an open let
ter which appears in another column.
Col. A. Pope: l began earning my
first S10O as a messenger boy in the
telegraph Office at Macon, Ga. In four
months l became an operator.
S. w. Jamison: Worked for $3.50 a
month in a general store in Big Lick
twentY-ono years ago. 1t took two
years to a 500.
=. L. Terry clerked in a dry goods
store in Big Lick for $40 a year and
board the first year, $50 the second and
Sl25 the third. At the end of the third
year he had saved his first S1OO.
E. ID, Tucker: My first SlOO was
earned as a bank messenger in the State
Savings Institution, beginning at $50 u
month for five months, then $25, then
$50 for six months. In ten years l was
getting a salary of 81, 200.
Joseph Rosenbaum, of R~osenbaum
Brothers: Clerking in the Wholesale
and retail furniture store of w. b.
Moses, Washington.
r. ii. Gray, OF Gray & Boswell, real
estate agents: Dealing in Roanoke real
estate. j. w. Boswell made his the
same way.
w. A. Carpenter, of Simmons, Carpen-
ter & Tinsley, real estate agents: BY
saving my saving as clerk.
George c. McCahan, member CITY
Council: AS "devil" in a printing
office, ard working in q nail factory at
Hollidaysburg, Pa.
l.. L. Powell, of l.. l.. Powell s. Co.,
real estate agents: Collecting on Satur-
days, when there was no school, mem
bership dues for the Virginia Historical
Society, at Richmond.
George Gravatt, Jr., bookseller and
stationer: Clerking in a bank at Fred
cricksburg, Va. after working the first
year for nothing.
Is. L. Greider: AS a telegraph
operator on tho Pennsylvania railroad.
Col. S. S. Brooke, clerk Hastings
Court: Clerking in q lumber office at
Fredericksburg for $50 a month.
j. B. Lovy, president Citizens Nat
ional Bank: AS telegraph. operator at
Jerry's Run, on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad in Greenbrier county,
West Va.
George E. Hunter, real estate agent:
Working on a farm in Fluvanna county,
Va.
w. 81. Horton. real-estate agent: Ped
ding chickens.
Il. II. Fishburne. president Exchange
National Bank: Working in a store at
Big Lick for So q month.
l.. w. Craig, of +. w. Craig e. Co.,
real estate agents: AS a policeman for
Roanoke city.
Capt. j. Ii. Wingate: AS a civil engi-
neer.
Capt. T. w. Spindle: Working in a
store in Spottsylvania county, Va, at
SIS a month.
Col. j. V. Tavenner, Of Tavenner &
Airheart, real-estate agents: Buying
and selling horses.
Il. j. Ecklof, grocer: Losing my
father and mother when | was only IA
years of age, | went to Washington and
accumulated my first 500 as a porter in
q store, at the same time supporting
four sisters.
c. O'Lcary: AS an office boy for a
law firm in Alexandria, Va.
L. Ii. Kemp: BY working hard and
saving a portion of what l earned.
w. Ii. Tlnsley, OF Simmons, Carpenter
IL Tinsley, real estate agents: Raising
tobacco on Mill Mountain.
w. S. Pole, real estate agent: Work.
ing for the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
Company at l3 years of age for SIS per
month.
j. r. Hockaday: By showing a jack
plane and rip saw.
selling it at S1.25 per hundred pounds.
Host the proceeds of this industry by in
vesting in a zone armed Indian show"
and the second hundred dollars l could
call my own / made in Roanoke real
estate.
j. T. EnglebY, president Fidelity
Loan and Trust Company. Gathering
old scrap iron and selling it.
Joseph Frank: clothier: Clerking in a
store.
F. B. Ludwig, of Ludwig Sc Jamison,
real estate agents: Buying, selling, and
shipping chestnuts at St~atesville, N. C.
+. r. Woodward, City Council: Ped
ding newspapers.
William f. Baker: Working on a farm
and driving mules to o canal boat.
j. T. Hall: Teaching school in Floyd
county.