The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-20
KID GLOVES OR can sHOPss
Col. scott's Way of Making Man
Out of Boy.


From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Thomson what shall 1 do with my
boy?''
The question was asked of the president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
shortly before his death by an old friend,
a rich man.
"Is he TO be a man or a milksop?" was
the reply. "A private secretary of an en-
ployer of private secretaries2'
Il do not know yet" said the million
aire. but 1 mean to give him every
chance" Then with laugh, Il would
like him to succeed in the world as YOU
have succeeded, TO win the power, the In
fiuence, the emoluments that are yours.
You were the son of father well sup
piled with the good things of this world
and your youth was passed among sur
roundings of ease and refinement. All
that didn't keep you from reaching the
top. Why can't hep
II don't know" said President Thorn
son, with a quizzical smile. Perhaps he
doesn't know what ] went through. 1t
was soon after Thomas A. Scott became
general superintendent of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad, with offices at Altoona. that
my mother went to him, as an old friend
of our family, and asked him. What shall
| do with my boy Frank This was in
the summer of 1858, and had Just passed
my nth birthday | had recently been
graduated at Franklin College, ana
thought l knew as much as most college
graduates think they know. Yet | had
the greatest confidence in my mothers
Judgment The sweetness OF her dispo-
sition and the excellence of her good
sense rendered me, the youngest of her
children, especially devoted to her. / do
not know that she had formed any plans
for me 10 pursue the profession. of my fa-
Their, who was a judge, and ] had no spe-
cial desire to be a lawyer although the
honor in which he was held in all Western
PENNSYLVANIA and the dignity of his post
ton in the community in which ! was
brought up did nor fail to inspire me with
a high admiration for such a position in
life. To my mothers question Mr.. SCOTS
reply was If you want 10 make man
of Frank apprentice him in our car shops
here in Altoona for the full terms of
three years, with the same hours, the
same work and the same wages that every
other apprentice there has
That is just the thing said my moth
err Although neither she nor / realized
Just what that three years apprentice
ship meant, Mr.. Scott unquestionaby
sure her resolution would only have been
strengthened.
ION Sept. i6. 1853, l started in 10 work,
and that day earned my first money.
1t was go cents, and il represented ten
hours of labor at cents an hour II
represented great deal more than that
TO me, for it was the first bard work
had ever done. The surroundings We're
such as naturally to impress themselves
strongly upon the mind of youth
brought up amid the gentIer occupations
and diversions and luXuries of life.
"In the shops at Altoona AT this par
ticular time there was in progress expert
ments I'm the equipment of railroad ears
and locomotives, which We're destined to
exert lasting effect upon what Is some
times known as the science of railroad
ing. Passenger cars We're then lighted by
the old-fashioned oil lamps and the Jour
ney from Philadelphia to Pittsburg over
the Allegheny mountains, for the Penn
sylvania Railroad had Just been finished
between these points a distance of IA
miles, was made picturesque by the glow
ing coal stoves Which were considered
| the acme of heating apparatus and BY