The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-09

you can ! want every cent you can give me on #.
hundred and twenty five dollars = said the pawn
broker. Mr. Thorey took the S125 ana went f. loot
Sco.,n AZ ora. niue room again The optcan door
storeT said he. Yes" said Mr. Tborcv ,.yor,rs
gol a bad landlord" said the optciap Hes wolf
well MT Ihorley. thinking. thinking went back 10
the Gilsey Office I'm going To take that nlocc, Uotd
he to Ar GilSey, but they say you're wolf Tm
It's all I've got" "N
Mr. Gilsey looked at Mr. ThorIey. thcn looked
'gain' There was twinkle about the furthest edges
oi MS eyes TO show You how much OF a wolf T
am, he said, 'your will be 200 instead ~
s-''oo ana won't take your so on account till the
Well. Nr Thorey went to the place vvhoro H..
Marlborough Hotel now stands. where there was a
second Band lumber yard Near there he made hI,
pufehases-two chairs counter, mirror a chan
1cner' ur' lhch he repapered the store. He stocked IT,
" hen finished he had sixty cents IT was on Friday
ana ne would not open that day. He stood at h,
door SMILING the sixty cents in his hands Old Mr.
Giisey came up ana chatted with him There was an
OLD theatrical boarding house across the street Sud.
denly Mr.. TborIcy took his sixty cents and threw n
WIN all his force over the roof OF the boarding
house Mr. Gsey stared and said, What are you
doing That's the last sixty cents have" said
MT. Thorley III ] haven't got more than that by
tenant"
BY the next evening he bad taken in 800 In hve
years he had paid every cent OF the $4,000 he had
owed, with interest. Everything he touched turned
Into gold In seven Years he owned his store and
property adjoining. He owned the house over which
he had thrown the money Mr. GilSey consulted him
about everything The first cranky looking old man
In the Gisey offices his private accountant for
fifteen years
Also Charles Thorey climbed M to the roof Of that
old theatrical boarding house which he had owned
and he searched for the sixty cents but he never
found it.
Henry Siegers Success.
Henry Slcgel. whose name is so associated with the
development OF the department store as We know IL
to-day, came originally from T0blngen in Germany.
He was only fifteen when he here, and his first
Job was that of crrnnd hoy in Washington Here he
stayed -FOUR years running errands and keeping bis
eyes open He had definitely decided that So a week
was capable of Improvement, at nineteen he went
To little town in Pennsylvania and started store
1t was very little store, for young Henry Siegel
wasn't millionaire at that time. but the habit of
Keeping his eyes open commenced TO be useful
Il did things in that little place" he said recently
'as had noticed them doing In Washington. II
possible | would think ont some little improve
ment 1t is good rule in business 10 adopt good
idea and improve upon II, Don't let anybody tell you
not TO copy Copy-and better; that's the successful
rule In business"
1t proved at all events In young Henry Segel's
case. In few years ne had large store which he
sold out From there he went to Chicago. where bis
sensational success Is matter of record and when
he left In 1896 he was of the biggest merchants
IN the city. HIS experiences in New York and Boston
have been but duplication this Il ascribe all nv
success" he says, Ito the habits / formed when an
office boy. have never forgotten them. aud fnd
them equally good now
Frederic Thompsons Janitorship..
Frederic Thompson started at twelve He be
Il
sum of So week lie delivered groceries with great
In these days be delivers theatrical goods.
The most vital time In his career however. arrived
ut the time of the Chicago Exposition. This found
him with Just sufficient money TO go TO Chicago
where he presented himself ot the Offices OF Manning
Maxwell Y Moore, who were one of the largest ex
hibitors,
There's jantors job opcn,' said the person Ia
charge
So Frederic Thompson accepted the janitor's job.
He expected 10 sweep out, job at which hl
young blood rebelled. So he hired another 10 do
this and proceeded to make himself useful among tho
exhibits, SO much indeed that at the end OF tho
week he sent in bill for the he bad hred-and
1t was paid a few weeks after Mr.. Moore OF
the partners came the place exhibit and think
ing Mr. Thompson the company representative. COM
menced to suggest changes. Mr.. Thompson entered
enthusiastically into that discussion lie didn't hire
any one 10 do that. However, when everything was
concluded he announced his official position. I'm
-jauitor here lie said. Two weeks later he
ager. His career after that was phantaSmagoria Of
eNpoSitions aud Luna Parks and Hippodromes and
theatrical productions, OF which you usually
certain OF seeing somewhere near Broadway.
ii got everything have by hard work. he says.
"a rule! Work if there never clock in the
Office"
Theodore p ShontS Explodes Tale.
lit is matter of some regret" says Theodore p.
Sbonts. that in telling how l procured my first job
| am obliged to explode the old story which have
in print that | worked my way up from the
position of water tender for that sounds romantic
whereas my lrst work anything but fancifuI
When l graduated from Monmouth College,
in 1876. owed my brothel-jn-law, d. c. Campbell.
500. which had borrowed TO complete my educa'
tlon. He owned bank Centreville, Iowa, where
| lived, and II happened that just then he needed
man OF ali work around the establishment. The job
paid $50 n month There was better position open
The little town, ! applied for the place and got
it, Sweeping bank not quite up TO what
my college had fitted me for and some of my
friends thought it did ut IN well with the degree
of B A. which | had studied hard for, but l did
not mind that. | anxious 10 get to work aud
pay of my indebtedness
II have taken quite so much satisfaction ln
any money have earned since then as 1 did In my
first months pay. The amount was not large, even
rs salaries those days. but it represented the.
result of my efforts. 1t gave me an entirely
new sense of Independence and sclfreliance-qual-
Ties which every boy should cultivate made up
my mind that II my unframed InndS could earn that
much my tralued mind could earn more and rc-
doubled my efforts master the business l was III.
for considered myself part OF The concern, was
around early in the morning and had tue panh
cleaned out and rcndy for business well before inc
openng hour. During the day helped and watcheu
my brotller-n law, who did pgdcllcab5 all oi tnV
bonking work us IL was a small institution, Gradu-
nlIy | famllinrizcd myself with the delails OF tho