The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-09-16
MILLIONAIRE rs
,&S, AN OFFICE BOY

Hugo Zimmerman ;. In the Cleveland
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| New York has q millionaire office
boy who owns automobiles, racing
motor boats, wears six suits >of clothes
a week to the office in which he works
and takes his wealthy. employers beau
tiful daughter to luncheon. He works
for 1 salary OF 50 q week and spends
twice that sum for his luncheon; yet
he is working faithfully, licking stamps
and addressing letters, answering the
phone and running errands without =
whimper.
The boy Is the son Of DR.. v, one
of the most prominent ana wealthy
physicians on Manhattan island, and
through his mother, heir OF great F:cs:1.-
es besides what he will receive from
his father. He IL the marvel OF
the lower West Side, where he works.
and the disturbing element for scores
Of fair typewriter girls who watch for
| a chance to win q smile or q glance
from the office boy.
"Flunked" and Wss Put to Work.
The office boy IL nearly tWenty-one
years of age, and he was "dunked
OUT of college, 50 his father ordered
him to go to work and, despite his
wealth and influence. the best he could
do was to find a position as office boy
|
company on the West Side, the
owner of which was friend OF his
father.
| Look" and the blonde typewriter.
bending her fair head toward where
the office boy was licking postage
| stamps, TITS a shame to make him
work that way. He's wearing the sixth
suit CT clothes he's had on this week.
He's worn a blue suit, black suit, .
| brown, worsted and a tweed. and
that frock he had on yesterday"
You must watch him pretty close,
Name" remarked her companion.
I'm not losing any chance to catch
him. Wish he'd take me out to lunch
| like he does the old mans daughter"
Say, It's awful. EVERY time that girl
comes down here to touch the boss
for couple of hundred extra for a
new dress that office boy he Just drops
work and joins with her-and the old
man don't kick at all. They go over
| to the Astor house. The bookkeeper
tells me he don't turn jim any expense
account and one luncheon will cost him
more than he makes in a week.
Orders French Racing Auto.
Hes all right. He always treats me
politely, but somehow I can't snub him
like did the other office boys. One day
at noon he came over and asked me to
Itypewrite short letter for him. He
was polite about it, too polite to men
ton money: SO I said Sure
And say, Whatd you think he die
tated? He wrote to a French automo-
bile manufacturer, ordering new au-
! to. price $4,000. Wouldn't that jar
you? An office boy with racing auto
and chauffeur that he pays twice as
much as he makes himself!
when finished writing that note
he said Thank YOU and said Not at
all: you can pay me by taking me for
a spin in that auto I was just JOSH
ing, but he said: I'll be glad to have
you go some day. I thought he was
Iblufhng, but, about month afterward,
one Saturday afternoon when l was of.
he drove up to the house and maybe We
didn't have q swell time. He took me
way up the Drive. thought sure I'd
made a hit, but he's only polite now.
Goes on Trip With Employer
AT that stand pretty we'll with
him; only think of an Office boy call
ing a stenog. Miss Gray and saying
Please can't get used 10 it.
He and the boss went duck shooting
}, down In Virginia together: for two
weeks and his salary went right on. I
think he's going back to college this
fall, but Well all be sorry to lose him
from here" >,