The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-23
PRESIDENT CLOWRY
ONCE MESSENGER BOY AT $2 A WEEK, NOW GETS $5o,o0O
 A YEAR.
He Sees Nothing Extraordinary ir That-New President of the Western Union Says All
 Boys Have Like Chance

Chicago Special.
 T was d messenger boy and am now President, and cannot see anything ex- traordinary Tn that. said Col. koDerl c. Clowry, commenting on ais election to the Presidency of the Western Union TelesIap Company. Tn these strenuous days" he continued, "a future President of the Western Union may now be de- ivering messages in some part oi tne C.nted States. It is the old story ol climbing the ladder, and the laouer ID stil there. The latchstring is ceieDrateu for telng out, but ron my eHperfeine IT. nee with active directors in the neid O. GIT deavor, l am convinced that the iaoder is out and the climbers encouraSeu' ~ teIesraph messages in the frontier boom town of Chicago Colonel CloWry nas now the delightful experience, ,f Io. eight years alter. of opservilis an,,t ni,'et ts the greatest telegraph company on earth. The Illinois and Mississippi Iele- s-aph Company, with which he began .. business, did not have capitai or >ov'ooI,. >', The Western Union of today mas sto@ no and bonds which approach $l25,Ooo'Vo.
 The almost half century of ceaseiess, vigilance and hard work which Coionei CIoWry has given to telegraphins pear to have brightened ms Iaoui' as act i've and as energetic as many men at 4U; This is largely due to the sane alN ,na methodical life which he mas leu Though member of many eoids soIld. as ganizations and popular, he avoids as much as possible drafts upon nus ieisuI and spends these hours in his iprafs at home. c,,. of today
 In looking upon the Chicago oi eoo1S tS Colonel Clowry sometimes descrlpes tu his intimates the Chicago of lso4, wiai ,d few sidewalks. no pavements. t%o anu anu three story frame buiioinss, rn nf 2 much of the time in the posoln o sIhuah and the young messenger "1r freuIently compelled to swim TOT i., ra, m inc two years he put in as messsh s,- he found time to become aie,ptded ai trf orator. As messenger he coHIianuI .Iav Is snm of S2 a week. His salary toot ot identical with that oi lhe
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 AS f,rred to St. Louis. n Lros .,,a.ic attracted the attention ol 'he nt af, a,nment and he was appoi'S;, charg and assistant auarterrnanith s,,ith headquar of Sntlth hWeSJeTn a hrpVp ters n Little Rock He refelyso do1oae iron ,anonoission as l.ieutenaht-Io.inn .inns ser 1ss Tssas%St snS dsSosd 5s %rs HSt ;n charge of the mlntdls 1"nio, hef heeiif also ' acted Tor tn" Western ~ Telegraph CompaaN, to Chicago il ,s7s to asume the duties tha Westeri Gnon ,nd in isSG me General Ansonb f tbs s'agrii tegrritory west of Penn ssso coSry is s,oo msmSSF nsnsSe clubs Ga He
 a Widower.