The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

Goldfeid, New, Dec. 26.-lt was
s'clock in the morning. Two O'Clock,
mind you. The train was late getting
IN from Tonopah. Some day there is
going to be a terrible accident at the
GoldfeId station OF the Goldfield &
Fonopah railway and people will say
to one another, in awed tones: 1.-THE
train got in IN time today" That will
be the accident. Nothing of the kind
occurred on this evening, or morning,
rather. For it was o'clock. The fact
Is important because Of what follows.
1t is , o'clock in the morning every day
all over the world, so that is merely a
part Of the routine.
The hack from the station stopped in
front of the offices of the L. NJ. Sulli-
van Trust company. This was also a
part of the routine, for everything in
GoldfieId begins and ends at the Sulli-
van Trust company building. Through
the big windows the electric lights
cleaned in great broad bands out upon
the snow-covered streets and sidewalks.
as We walked through the front door.
the door that is never locked. the lights
inside were dazzling: but more dazzling
was the ,ciatter and roar of the work
that was going on-at o'clock in the
morning.
Differs from Old Way.
People who are accustomed to the
trust companies of the old style, the
kind with frowning, massive portals
that seem 10 say: IF you haven't any
money you needn't come around" can
hardly conceive a trust company do
ing business at O'Clock in the morn
Ing, doing it as busily, and with as
much matter-of-factness as a stock
exchange between 10 o'clock and noon.
1t seems impossible, but this is Gold
field, and the offices are the offices Of
the L. II. Sullivan Trust company.
There is nothing like them in all the
world.
Don't imagine for a moment that all
the business of the Sullivan Trust COM
pany is done between early candle light
and dawn. The people there don't work
all night and every night because they
like to. but because they must. II every
hour OF the twenty-four was not
crowded to it's last second with work
the company's business would accumu-
late so that it would be impossible to
get out from under il.
1t has been said that the key to sue
cess is work. hard work The princi-
pie IS being applied in its most compre-
hensive meaning by the Sullivan Trust
company people. They know what it
means to work and what it means TO
succeed, for their success has been as
phenomenal as it has been deserved.
And that is why the lights CLEAN from
their windows at o'clock in the morn
ing. and every other hour of darkness;
that is why the l.. NJ. Sullivan COM
pany is I'm one class and all the others
In another. n
On the morning the writer arrived
behind the big railing that separates
the working force i'm the main room
from the public, bookkeepers were
bending over ledgers and stock books
Stenographers, tucked away wherever
they could possibly be crowded in, were
hammering for their lives on the keys
of their machines. The clatter sounded
like the roar in a big metropolitan tel
egraph office, or better, like the local
room of great daily newspaper. The
night shift was at work. Fancy two
shifts of employees at work for a trust
company, And the main room waf
only the beginning.
Like Newspaper Office.
In the second room, one devoted ex-
elusively 10 stenographers, another
roaring of typewriters was going on
And they were all working as news
paper men work when they have a big
story to write, and only ten minutes
TO press time In the private offices
heads of departments were debating
letters and mapping out their work foI
the next day. How those department
heads manage to keep on living is be-
yond the average understanding, for
they are the last people one sees al
night and the first one sees in the
morning. They are keyed up to the
highest tension at all times.
Yes. the Sullivan Trust company of
fees look like home to the newspaper
man, except for one thing. Around
them is an indefinable aroma. At least