The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
PApID RISE OF EDWARD BOX.
Gets the Biggest Salary Of ANY Edf-
tor in the United States.

Gets the Biggest Salary CT ANY Sdl-
tor in the United States.
The ancestors OF Edward K. Box,
the editor OF the Ladies Home J3ur-
nal and the Saturday Evening Post OF
Philadelphia, were aristccratic Dutch
men for a long time. The great
grandfather of Edward vas cbief ad-
miral OF Hollands navy, and his grand
father was chief justice 0: Hollands
supreme court. His father was a
a minister to William III, whose
daughter, W;lhelmina, is now queen
of The Netherlands. But the B;ks
lost their money, and William, the
minister, came to America With his
wife and two boys. Edward Box left
school when lad, and vert TO
work. He tells this story ofhis strug-
giles upward:
I'VE were extremely poor, and l
used to gather wood il the vacant
lo.i for our fire. l helped my mother
wash dishes and DO other household
duties. But the first money earned
was in selling water. Persors in New
York then went to Coney Islani in
street cars which ran through Brock.
Ign, I carried a bucket Of ice water
on my arm aud when the cars stepped
I sold it to tee passengers for a
penny a glass. Then l put lemcn in
my bucket and got two cents glass.
1 added little more sugar and lemon
juice and raised the prize to three
cents. That Is where I learnsd that
the public will always pay the best
price tor the best thing. sod more
three. cent lemonade than one. cent
water and made more money.
In winter, when no one went to
Coney Island, carried a newspaper
route on Saturdays and worked in g
bakery, cleaning windows, waiting Oh
! the counter, and running erranis, for
fifty cents a week. Wen l was
thirteen years old left school forever,
going to the Western Union Telegraph
Company as an ofice boy. Al night
+ studied stenography. l got into
Henry Ward Beecher's church and in
to one Of its literary societies. We
printed a little papsr for the society.
and I took it up and developed it into
the Brooklyn Magazine. My brother
helped me. We published Mr.. Beech
er's sermons in full, and then mace
arrangements for the sermons Of d..
Talmage. Curicusly enough, some OF
the oesS writer's Of the day became ou1
contributors.
Il was nineteen years old, and in
the meantime had bsen employed by
the telegraph company as a stenogra
pier. A man conspicuous in the
Standard OH company wanted to buy
our magazine for his son, and, as it
was not profitable, we sold it. This
man told me that magazines and oil
could be carried along on the sam:
trade prlnclples-that the methods
employed to produce gallon Of rein
ed oil would print and sell a single
copy OF q magazine. I told him il
that was his belief be would Lose lot
OF money. I LETT the telegraph com
panY and went to Henry Holt anc
Company, the publishers, also as {
stenographer. Heaven alone know:
what else I did in my own time.
started a syndicate and supplied news
papers with high-class matter of in
tersst to the female sex, obtaining
what 1 called forty articles by iortj
famous women. Some OF the wome1
were foreigners. I kept out Of cook
cry and needlewoik. Mo man shoule
attempt to meddls with such things
I might say that l an the father O.
the wonan's page in the newspapers
but am not proud Of the relation
ship. I am cot proud Of the relation
detest 1T now that it has grown up.
From Holt's, I went to Charlie!
Scribner's Sons, With whom I re
NAMED until l was employed by Mr.
Curtis. I became advertising mana
ger at Scribner's and undertook to de-
velop the Book Buyer, one OF taeil
magazines. While thus employed
was persuaded to go 10 Philadelphia
and the Ladies Home Journal.
when boy / learned the secret 0.
success, as I have told yoU-work like
the devil. To this I now AID, anc
for the delight Of it. Young men il
this esta bliShment come to ne anc
each one asks: What are my
chances?' And I reply: You are
making your Inquiry at the wrong
place. It's. up to you, MT to ne
make yourself Invaluable and your tn
ture will take care OF itself f.'"-N. Y
Com mercial.