The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-25

| of . college educstion It 10 the old question OF
the trained boxer, runner, athlete, ososs .,r,
| age Whatever the popular deiosions, In inc
| trials there never has been but one result.
| Charles Francis Adams. a college gradu-
| ate, president of the Union Pacific: not
| opIy manages to hold on to his position,
| but it is said manages to slip IN many 9TH
| ers of the graduates of his alma mater into
| the best positions on the line. When
| search was made few years ago for the
| man who combined the most remarkable
| capacity for details and the most wonder,
| full mastery of principles, the choice feii
| upon Aldace f. Walker. graduate OF
| Middlebury, who was made chairman OF
| the Interstate Railway Association.
| Among the sixty-fve college men in BUSH
| ness in and around New York, already
| mentioned, were fifteen railroad officials,
| six of whom were presidents, among whom,
| besides Depew and Adams, were Austin
Corbin. president of the Philadelphia &
| Reading, and recently chosen president OF
| the New York & New England. to whom
also may be added the late Frederick Bill
ings. Of the Northern Pacific; the late Lew
| c. Wade, of the Mexican Central, ana
Presidents Bishop and Wat-ous, Of the
| New York & New Haven railroad.
| Alexander T. Stewart and John Jacob
| Aston both were successful business men,
| and one was educated at Dublin univer-
| sity, the other at Columbia college. Stew
art, 1t is said. retained his interest In his
college studies to the end OF his life.
Cyrus Mccormick, ST., OF reaper fame,
and J. Y. Farwell, the great merchant.
both of Chicago, thought it would not
spoil their boys to send them through col
lege, and Cyrus Mccormick, IT,. Is show
| ing that he is able to handle reapers as
well as his father, while J. V. Farwell, jr.,
is well filling the place of his sire.
E. W. Biatchford. also of Chicago, who
has spent his time in running oil mills and
shot towers. spent four years in pursuing
course in Illinois college.
Charles A. Pillsbury. the senior partner
in the great firm of Minneapolis millers,
says:
have had several college graduates in my
ONCE. In every case they have gwen splendid
satisfaction, as they learn the details much
more rapidly and seem to take hold OF the
principles of business in a more business-iike
manner. In every instance that can think Of
the college graduates in our employ have either
been promoted to the head OF their departments
or have gone into business for Themselves I
think man with q good college educstion and
few years discipline in q well-regulated BUSH
ness ONCE is as well fitted for business life a. II
ia possible for q man to BE-
In the Yale catalogue for 1s62is the name
of Franklin McVeagh, the great wholesale
grocer of Chicago, and he now enjoys
writing articles which the magazines are
glad to publish, and likewise enjoys hand
ing cdrgOeS OF Gomez ana tea anu tasting
sugar and syrup.
Within a quarter of century college
men have become the managers of nearly
ali the leading publishing houses in
America.
Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton
gin, was college graduate. When
student at college he one day borrowed
some tools of carpenter, and showed
himself so expert in their use that the
carpenter said There was one good me-
chanic spoiled when you went to college"
But the re Iult proved this statement to be
untrue, for Edward Everett Hale said that
his invention changed the commerce of
the world, and changed the manufacturing
system of the world"
Professor Morse, the inventor of the
telegraph, had a diploma from Yale.
Modern submarine warfare and the tor
pedo military authorities ascribe TO David
Bushnell, a graduate of Yale Edward
Burgess, a Harvard graduate. designed the
victorious yachts Puritan, Mayaower and
Volunteer. A college graduate devised
the present system of standard railway
time. Horatio Allen, Columbia gradu-
ate. ran the first railroad locomotive on its
trial trip ever used in this country, because
everyone else was afraid to do il. Charles
F. Brush. of the Michigan university. has
been called 'the father of the arc electric
lighting system of the world by reason
of his Inventions. De Witt Clinton, gov
ernor of New York, graduate OF Column
bia college, thought out the plan of wed
cellor Livingston, of the same college,
gave Fulton the courage and money to
launch his first steamboat.
Iron making is Mr.. Carnegie's business,
and it was not long ago when convention
of iron and steel manufacturers in New
York unveiled memorial bust in honor
of Alexander L. Holley. college graduate,
who introduced the Bessemer process into
America, improving it and adapting it to
our use, and at the same time q gold
medal was presented to Abram s. Hewitt,
another college graduate, late mayor of
New York, through whose influence the
business has been largely developed. A
/ Yale graduate and an excellent classical
scholar has been manager both of the
Pennsylvania steel works at Harrisburg,
and the South Boston Iron Company, and
he has improved the Bessemer steel plant,
and first succeeded IN making Bessemer
pig iron from native New JERSEY ores. n.
S. Bouion, one of the foremost iron and
steel manufacturers of the interior, said at
Denver a few years since that college bred
men were taking the lead of all others in
scientific manipulation of iron and steel.
Horace Greeley once said he would as
soon have lot of horned cattle in a china
| shop as college graduates in a news
paper office, and yet he always had more
or less on his paper, and since his death
the paper has passed into the hands Of
| college graduate. Samuel Bowles always
had considerable number on the Spring
| teld Republican, while Nathan Hale, De-
lano Goddard, John C. Kinney, Joseph R.
Hawley, Charles Dudley Warner, James
| G. Blaine and Henry B. Anthony, of the
New England press; Henry ]. RAYMOND,
| Girard Hallock. James Brooks and Will
| lam Cullen Bryant, of New York journals;
William Bross, of Chicago, and George d.
| Prentice and Henry w. Grady, of the
| South either are or were, when alive, col
lege men. Where on the staff OF leading
secular newspaper of Chicago in 1872 there
were only two college graduates. there are
now ten. In Stedman's Library of Ameri-
can Literature fifty such journalists are
represented. most of whom are of wide
| reputation in the newspaper world.
Ticking up the Worlds Columbian Erposi-
tion, illustrated, last week. while on the
| steamer Eliza Anderson, l found sketches
| in it of number of persons who are prom
| inent in the work. OF these the Hon. T.
| W. Palmer, the president of the exposi-
| ton, is graduate of the University of
| Michigan; J. VI. Shepard, his private sec
rotary, of the Wesleyan University of
| Connecticut; John 7. Dickinson, secreta-
| nv of the exposition, of the University of
| Virginia. having been leading editor in
| Texas; R. J. Murphy, press secretary. be-
| gan his journalistic experiences while in
| college. John II. Savage, treasurer of the
! Wisconsin committee, is a college man II.
| H. Price, vice president for that state is
| graduate the Wisconsin State University
| ana after graduating he went iAto the log
| ging business, having 600 men under him,
| and has since been IN both houses of the
| state legislature; is a farmer on large
| scale, and was the first president of a