The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12
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I in time for them to eaten the traln'
| The college clerk was on duty, ana
| although it seemed impossible even TO
| him for all the accounts to be bal
| anced before train time, which was
| perilously close at hand, he went TO
work with a will He had been noted
for his powers of lightning calculation
at college, and now he brought them
] into fun play. Bills were made out,
money taken in and change given in
quick order-in fact, so fast that the
departing guests scarcely had time TO
indulge in even transitOry speculation
as to whether they'd catch the train
all right.
When it was all over and the last
man had gone, baggage and all, and
the clerk had counted the money twice
to see that he had not made wrong
change in the hurry, a guest who was
known 10 the clerk as a Quaker City
banker, walked up to the desk.
Pretty lively fifteen minutes,
wasn't it?" he inquired, pleasantly.
The clerk replied in the affirmative.
Didn't make any mistake in making
change, did your" he went on in the
same tone-just talking for the sake Of
converse ton.
The clerk answered this time in the
negative.
That's good" was the reply. Il
thought maybe in the rush you might
have made mistake, and | wouldn't
want 10 know you were out of pocket
because of your attempt to please
guests"
Then the banker walked away, but
a few days later he was again in con-
versation with the clerk.
What are you going TO do in the
fall?" he inquired, in an offhand sort
OF way.
I'm keeping my eyes open for an
opportunity" was the reply.
The guest smiled.
How would you like to become
banker" he said briefly.
The clerk hesitated.
why" he began, IT don't know
L"
tut. tut" was the elder mans re-
ply, as he read the younger's thoughts,
"of course you can get along with
figures. l haven't doubted that since
the morning when you got all those
people off on time and came out of it
without making any mistake In the
amount of their bills or the change"
And so, when the summer was ended
the clerk accompanied the banker back
to the Quaker City and was given
minor position.
There he remained for nearly a year,
III all IndL time seeing InR president
only occasionally and speaking to him
once. He had begun to think the bank
er had forgotten about him when he
was summoned into his private office
one morning.
"Well, sir" began the president
without any preliminaries, ''you have
been weighed in the balance and found
of standard weight. How would you
like to be one of our assistant cash
iers?''
Two years ago this same man, then
the cashier. was once more called into
the presidents office, and informed
that at the meeting of the board of d.
rectors that day he had been elected
vice president of the institution, vice
the old incumbent deceased. "And,
my boy" the president added, as he
congratulated his new assistant, its
all due to the way you got off those
guests that morning eight years ago
in the hotel, without making a mistake
in the money"
Innate business acumen gave these
two college men their start; love
showed the way in a third case
This particular man when his col
observation-disclosures attached him
self to a hotel in New England, which
is more noted for its splendid golf
course than for it's cuisine. His special
uuly was TO give urSL lessons TO be-
ginners at golf, in which game he
qualified as an expert.
Along about the middle of the sea-
son there came 20 this hotel a girl
from the West. and in her train was
a rich and indulgent papa and an easy
going mamma. The girl had never seen
golf cOurse-much less played the
game, according to her own confess
sion-but her desire to learn it was
poundered only by her seemily I'M
limited supply of enthusiasm.
Somehow if fell to the lot of the
college man to take this young lady
out on the links for her initial lesson,
and when she came back to the hotel
she was more than ever enthusiastic
over the sport. Also, she mingled
with her newly-acquired golf lingo
much that appertained to her In
structor, but her easy-going mother
and her indulgent father attributed it
all to the young mans evident ability
to teach golf in the correct fashion.
Two or three weeks later however
they changed their minds when they
were informed by the young man in
question that he loved their daughter
devotedly and wanted their consent to
make her his wife.
AS the old folks had been in the
habit for years of giving way to their
child's slightest desires, they gave way
to her in this; and also at her sugges-
ton, the father later on took occa-
sion to inform his prospective son-in-
law that he would make him a mem