The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-18
How the Leader Of Great Ma
chine Concern
WON PRESENT POSITION
@The Young Man Of To-day, to Succeed
should Learn to Garry Money
About Him and Not Spend IT."
Says MIR. Morrison.

IN IFS series Of 4New England Rom.
ances Of Success the Boston Sunday
Post yesterday printed the story 81
John G Morrison, a native Of Barre,
and well-known here a. the owner 81
the Morrison farm. The Post story fol-
lowsi
John q. Morrison. head Of the Mead
Morrison company is a Boston business
man, who eame from country dis.
triet IN Vermont into this city, and
with considerable amount Of pluck
and energy built Up mechanical bus
mess, which Is now leader Of It's
kind % the United States
The remarkable part Of MIR. Morri-
sons experience has been due to the
faet that be came to Boston and took
up the feius OF administration in a ma
chine manufacturing plant after spend
ing years ia bis native state as a dry
goods merchant The sound business
principles. which made him succeed as
dry goods man, were applied with ex.
celleut results in his present business.
"A great deal Of my success in bus
mess was due III large part to the
early teachings of q good practical fa-
ther,9 declares Mr. Morrison II was
born On a Vermont farm, and while
49, ak
q half-mile from the farm, had TO
figure on rising early in the morning
and Do my share Of the chores before
school time.
After school came more chores, and
thus when small boy learned what
ii was to work, aud this WAS impressed
very firmly on my mind indeed when I
had To wade through the deep SHOWS
to school ii The winter time
"Mv father impressed on me the vail
ue Of being able to work hard when the
occasion required. and above all, to be
cf saving nature. ! got the store
fever about the time I was IS years
old aud after ] had finished my school
ing, I got d position as q dry goods
clerk in a store ii Barre, VT.
aMy pay was 300 year and my
board. ard The hours were long. II was
get to work IL the morning at much
earlier hour than IS now enjoyed by
the average clerk ard there were no
holidays 81 vacation coming to man
IN those days
After working three years as hard
as / knew how and even saving money
ont 81 the 500 yearly salary, bor-
rowed money and with partner. who
started on borrowed money also. we
bouaht orr employer out We had no
clerks. and had II get down to the
store in the morning at & o'clock and
sweep up and then stay each night any
where from "a u o'clock
At the end IF three years ! bought
MT partner out and I went back to the
store to carve my way alone and BIZ
nv own efforts / found as / went
along that to adapt myself to my GUS
toners and to study their characteristics
was the way to make the business come
iii The more ! tried this ont the bet
ter / found that | could read people,
ana ! soon began to develop good
business
Fl gradually enlarged and opened an
other store. Later / bought 4 store III
Montpelier and devoted this wholly To
clothing. Then | began 10 get q glimpse
81 city life, ii | did all Of the buying
foT tile stores myself ard came 10 Bos
ton 70 get my wares.
About this time | was married, and
mv wife being 4 Cambridge girl, / was
married IN her home City. Like every |
country bow. the city nad fascination
for me-. and I sold out my stores In
Vermont and came with my wife to
Cambridge. I became acquainted with /
I skilled maehinist who wanted me To /
start into the machine business with +
aim. to take the business end and /
ae To take the mechanical end Of
I'm 1883 we started the present bus.
ness, and while we tried to put our
out III the best possible man
aer, things went backward We lost
money fast and try ~ We could We did
lot gain an inen.
II went among the customers person
llly. leaving the office work until i
Guild attend to 1t at night / listened
d the faults of the machine and ! re-
nrned "a the works one day determined
q make my plant a modern one or
Euit, 0nr competitors were getting the
aade and Il was case Of getting out
md hnstlinR myself
II had every tool destroyed in our
works. end with brand new machinery
i modern pattern, ana new designs Of
machinery. we commenced aIl over
gain and went into the market to com
,ete with other firms We began to
urn out specialties and place our bids
or government work
Some Of Mr. Mprris0n's sayings are
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