Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-11

cashier. was once more called into thu
presidents Office and informed that at tho
meeting of the board OF directors that day
he had been elected vice president OF the
institution. vice the old incumbent. de-
ceased And, my boy the president
added. as he congratulated his new assist
ant. its all due to the way you got OF
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.
Teaching Golf.
This particular man when his college
Amherst-olosed attached himself to q hotel
In New England. which Ii moro noted for
its splendid golf course than for its cui-
sine. His special duty was to give first
lessons to beginners at golf. in which game
he qualified as an expert
Along about the middle of the season.
there came to this hotel a girl from the
west, and in her train was a rich and in
duigent para and an easy going mamma.
The girl had never seen a golf course much
less played the game. according to her own
confession, but her desire to learn IL was
FOUNDED only by her seemingly unlimited
supply of enthusiasm.
Somehow II fell to the lot OF the college
man to take this young lady out on the
Inks for her initial lesson, and when she
came back to the hotel sne was more than
ever enthusiastic over the sport. Also. she
mingled with her newly acquired golf lingo
much that appertained to her instructor
Out her easy-going mother ana her indui,
gent father attributed It all to the young
correct fas hioa. Wv
Two or three weeks later. however. they
changed their minds when they were in
formed by the young man in question tina,
ne ioved their daughter devotediy and
wanted then consent to make her his wife
They Gave Consent.
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 suggestion. the father
later on took occasion to inform his pro-
spective son-in-law that he would make
him member OF his financial family as
well.
So, when the time for fall weddings came
around. they were married, and today they
are living out west in the same town with
the old folks. for the son-in-law is the
right-hand man of his father-in-law in all
the latter's important business enterprises:
and the older man swears that the younger
is as good at driving a deal he was at
driving golf ball in his callow college
days.
1t is a far cry from a clerkship in a
Seashore hotel to politics. but among the
politicians of New York there is a college
graduate who arrived by this route
Blood Will Tell.
In this mans veins flows a goodly por-
ton OF Irish blood and he is witty and
suave. and withal a man who has the
power OF automatically handling men and
putting them at their ease.
He displayed this characteristic to such
a marked degree while he clerked in the
hotel that he came to be known among
the patrons as 1.-The man with the steady
smile" 1t was through this characterize
ton that politician. stopping at the hotel
took serious note of the clerk, with the
result that the latter was taken into the
formers law office. and along with the
practice of law taught the devious ways OF
politics.
Now the college graduate is capable OF
acting as political mentor to many who are
his associates. and, in fact, he is frequent
ly brought into consultation by some of the
powers that be.
These are typical cases of the college
youth who gets up through his vacation
work. Others may be found in managers
or even proprietors of summer and win
ter resort hotels themselves.