New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-07
LONG CLIMB !
Idaho Bank President Once Sold
PaperS in Park Row.

some little -hoys declare that they will
grow up 10 be Presidents. but Barney
O'Neil never thought so when he was sell
ing The Tribune in Park Row some thirty
years ago. In fact. getting mp at o'clock
OF mornings and hustIing over from the cor
ner % the Bowerv and Delaney street was
his main idea in life Just then. and even
after the thrill Of an evening in the Old
Bov.erv Theatre his fancy never led him
TO believe that one day lac would he presi-
dent OF 2 million -dollar-a-year bank.
And We used TO have 10 sell old rags and
y uite bottles 10 get the money 10 so TO the
Eowe-y Theatre" he said yesterday at the
Holland House, where he is registered as
=. +. o'Ncn. OF Wallace, Idaho. Yes.
Idaho is q long way from Manhattan, he
continued. as he cut the end off long,
black cigar and I have been around the
country quite a little since ] lived mere. /
was tired of being Just a newsboy, SO |
went with q marty Of wards from the chill
dren's Aid Society 10 Iowa. Ny parents
were dead. and saloonkeeper named
Clancv war ny guardian. He didn't want
10 let me leave, out I MANAGED u, and
finally / reached Sibley, Iowa.
one gray bearded man came along ana
said 10 me. How would YOU like to so with
me, Bud" but l declined. and then turned
down two more. But when a woman whose
looks I liked came TO me I accepted her Of
fer and went to her brothers ranch, whore
punched COWS for while. and then went
back TO the farm. II was hard going. but
the country was young. and | liked H. and
rang the bell in the village school and had
a chance 10 save little money TO help pay
my tuition. buy books and clothes. and at
the end of three years. when my time or
service was NJ felt something like man.
When I got 70 be deputy treasurer Of Osce-
ola County / used 10 look back and laugh.
In Osceola County that was something like
being tax commissioner in greater New
York TODAY"
After a few wears i'm Iowa NJ. O'Neil
drifted M to Nebraska and spent several
wears at Long Pine. But there was Mrs.
O'Neil then and when her health failed it
took q wear i'm Los Angeles for her 20 re-
c1perate In the 9o's the ONeils went to
the State Of Washington. where the former
newsbov started a bank.
II suppose that was as hard work rs I
ever did" he said. FOR ] was farming. too.
and when YOU get up at a. IN. to attend
the farm. YOU feel like YOU have done
days work before YOU get TO the bank at
2 o'clock
Ten years Of this gave him good start
for long life and d. the Idaho country
was rich i'm silver. he took his family there
and settled at Wallace. a little town OF
six thousand Inhabitants. which is in the
richest silver mining country IN the world.
we produce about half-A per cent
think il is-of all the silver mined. said
Mr. ONcil The Hecla and Bunker Hill
"
Being president of the State Bank Of
Commerce gave the former New Yorker
prominence and he drifted into politics
He was once state Senator from his county.
and is now chairman of the Republican
State Committee
we are looking forward with interest
to the first trial Of the primary system in
Idaho" lie said The election will he
held I'm August. There are. of course. no
electors. it being popular vote. Anybody
who wishes can enter the race. All the
tickets read first and second choice. and If
two men are practically paired. the man re-
ceiving the majority of the first and second
choice votes wins the race
Idaho is happy right now. The troubles
between the Western Federation Of Miners
and the authorities have cooled down. and
the people are quiet and tranquil. Eastern
ers are coming in very rapidly. especially
into the 4sewly opened CPur d'Alene reser-
walton and the Eastern part OF the state.