The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-22

tNetv york SUN
Lovisvill 1T hey tel stories in Louis
vile aboat sstart which Pom Jona-
son. recently elected mayor of Cleve-
land. made here on his read to fortune.
tte game here at taeS age of AZ and Sc
cured employment as office boy at 50 a
Week in T. G.. Golefnanis foundry. at
FIRST and Nam streets. HIS duties con-
sisted Of keeping the Office clean. run
mig errands and picking up odd scraps
that got into other people ! NAY.
=. du Pont, who was part owner of
the foundry. saw the indHstrietis office
boy rush one day into the street pick
up a BIT OF IRON arlg returning. tFroa.ik
on the scrap heap inside. When the
boy re-entered the ohices Mr.. du Pont
said to him:
Why did You do that, my son? ''
" ny, sir, said TOrI,a, bit embar-
rassed there was no Iise wasting Il.
4 hey can put It in the furnace and use
II over again.
We'll. I 3ust think I can use you.
young man, in the street car business.
How would you like 10 come at 81 a
Weeh2,'
Young johnson accepted the SIS raise
With aiacrity Mr. du Pont controlled
the Fourth avenue and Walnut street
lines, One, barn was at Eighteenth and
" alnuts stree Is. and at Fourth avenue
ana Main street was the drawing sta
ton. All the cars of the 1system had to
pass there, and. it was. there that the
I money was drawn from the big clumsy
boxes into which the fares We're
dropped. ~
One Of the rules Of the company was
that as eapH bag of money was drawn,
the drawer must "a Try il into the Office,
put i into the safe and close the door.
to this rule Johfson owed his promo
ton frorn Office bess
Mr. do Pont was seldom at the draw
ing station during Z ne day ana in time
| The drawers grew CARELESS. No one had
access to the room but the drawers,
ana SHOWING one .apother to be honest,
they formed the habit Of carelessiy
throwing the bags Of money on the floor
and piling them a4ls into the safe in a
heap at the. end OF the day or when
they thought AR du Popt might be
around,
One day the. chief drawer was, iii. and
young Johnson the Office boy. was sent
BY Mr.. ciu Pont frOnI Eighteenth and
~ alnut streets TO Fourth and Main TO
help out. Johnson read the. rules, and
ia drawing the bag of money from the
tfst car, ne bounded up the steps to
the room, opened the safe, threw in the
money and slammed the door,
What the hades did you do that
for demanded the bookkeeper
=. he rules say 50, answered the sub
drawer over his shoulder. as he ran
down tlle steps to meet aso ther ear
The same thing WAS repeated dozen
times. Then the bookkeeper wheeled
around and demanded:
Don't You think I'm honest? Do YOU
! think ] want to steal any of that
damned money - ~ ~
'fDunpo, = answered johnson, shut the
1 rule says Put the bag in the safe and
shut the door, aud that's what I am
going TO do, whether you like it or
not. .,-sa sEsas s,
The .bookkeepsr jumped off his chair
/ just as Mr.adu Pont came in.
whats all this row about27 he
4 asked.
This. young, fool is acting as if he
Thought / was trying to steal your
4 money the1 beokkeper replied
II was Just obeying the rule, Mr. du
! Pontv spoke up young johnson Here
/ il is and he showed the president of
! the company the rule
.AH right. my boy said MI du
PoDts 'ssince you obey the rules so well
I III make you chief dra vrer right now =
Two years later. whsn he was II,
! young JohnSon Was superintendent OF
/ the road