Putnam patriot., 1910-08-26
F. N. corbin Going South.

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 mont street, has resigned bis position
 as Secretary and TfeasureFiof the Whea-
 ton Building & Lumber Compan and
 Jeff, Wednesday night, for Newport
 News, Va, to accept the position Of
 Superintendent of Construction for the
 Newport News Construction Company.
 MT. Corbin has been with the Whea-
 ton Company over twenty-five years,
 and has been Secretary and Treasurer since its incorporation in 1895. Dur-
 ing his spare time he applied himself
 to the study of architecture and build-
 ing construction, and thus made him.
 self valuable man for his company and also became conspicuous as the Company's most reliable man to have charge Of the most important contracts that they made with the United States government and other large bodies and corporations.
 Competing building and construction com panies when they found some one more able and skilled in superin- tending construction work than any one of their own men, would naturally com pete for his services. This Is re- gafded As legitimate competition. In this way, then, MT. corbin gave up his valuable position with the Wheaton Building and Lnmber Company to ae- cept similar important position with the Newport News Construction Com pany. In time lie may find 1t to his in- tercst to come back 10 his old position with the Wheaton Company.
 This k day of large contraction en. terprises. The Panama canal, a water way connecting the commerce of the Orient with the Occident, and the Cape to Cairo railroad, over 1000 miles long, north and south through the center of Africa, are the two greatest engineer ing works by man. \ grand work has only to be suggested and the master mind touudeftake Us construction viii be forthcoming. The limit to human ingenuity and skillfulness has never yet been reached and perhaps never will be. The displacement of one man of extra worth invites another to take hls place, sometimes from quarter the least expected He is somewhere to be found to meet the worlds progress.
 Mf, Corbin gained his fitness to un- dertake the control of large and impor- iant construction works, by laborious study and planning, and the more to his credit is such ambition, tie world profits from t. He has the evidences of what hcfean do by the numerous ar- ehiteetural structures in this and sur rounding towns, and indeed in distant places also. It was no hap-hazard guess that won for him the high opin- ion Of ihis present employers-it was the substantial demonstration of what he had accomplished that gave assar- anee what he could repeat and vary and improve where demanded. His future is bright and encouraging as 1t rests on the solid basis-tnoroughnes and sktlltuf tfhfntnR.
 The Wheaton company while losing | an able and valuable employe does not necessarily become weakened-no large I company could afford to depend on any l one mind te carry on it's undertakings successfully The Company are grati- | fled to have one of their employees ad- aI nt |. ton, especially when SD wofthily deser- l we'd even though Il may cause some in- convenience for time.
 Mf. Coroin won an esteemed position | as citizen while living here. He was I n mem Der Of the congregational church | aud was active in promoting it's varied i interests. He has the assurance that | he carries with him to his new venture | the hearty good wishes of all our peo- | pie that his future will be in every way
 blessed To him and his family. At5 o'clock "Wednesday afternoon,
 before departing for their homes, the employees of the Company, to the mum
 Der of twenty.four, surrounded MT. | Corbin, when Mir. Wheaton, on their
 behalf, presented him with a Morris l chair, and on his own behalf and that
 of the Corporation, a substantial sum
 of money. MT Corbin was so over come that he was unable to respond,
 and could hardly find words to bid i farewell to his associates of so many
 years.