The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-11-19

and hed3d not The la d.wen TO iFochesier
land. with some money he hadesaved out
OF what sums his grandfather had given
him. lie bought printing plant ana starts
ed IN as a commercial printer, While the
1ourneymen looked after the Jobs the boy.
stilweu went out ana solicited the bust |
ness. BY thettimeshe was 15'years olavhe
had obtained so mUch business forAFls
plant tthat he attracted the attenuontot
other concerns, endtho was engagede as.
commercial traveierfoy law biankspuD-
fishing oompany--on the ROAD at 10 lie
ira veisd up and down the Erie and me
New York Central lines and did a Dig
business. .Nextshe.was engaged by g. Balu-
more concern Of printers and Travelled Tor
lrne,,rtn tha Caroltnas and Virginia When
he was 10 he was making betVeen $50"
and 5000 a year, and he got Fnar'leo'
Then he went West, IN Kansas Ct'y Ae
rented a printing office, put all MS ~o1I-'
derful energy into It and made money
FROM the flrst, But 1is health gave way
and'he had 10 give up the business. FSlht-
ing was TOO conhning. He moved to lhi-
caeo and became tho representative OF
two or three Stationery houses uhSre As
salesman.
All this time he had been sthinkinS OF
railroads. railroads, railroads Tho b4ooa
Of hts grandfather WAS strong IN his NelnA'
MS grandfather always had talked 70 MIN
ss II ne was grown man, even "heh
Arthur Stilwen was only u wee CRAP fie
took the lad with him into conferences
with Ananclers, contractors and others
The ola man always treated the poy as
an equal. The boy was fed ton business
| ana statistics and finance, To~aey tAere
is no man in the United States VINO can
1 e.eg al tho hearcaof a complicated mass OK
/ statisticg quicker eard.saxer than Mr.. sul-
wAil. ,,..
"a But sa though fhQpBht eoaN-4i - II ~
he maa not yet READY 70
kembark In ra!itcading aas 9 career, sis
sstyar .iratY ce Z tra drudgarysof the printing
I Tis,,ss vsse md ,of.sellina stationery Hebegah
a. ,etudy {litaa Insurance. VhaHfascif'apeu
~, = ot a ears. fEe became assistant
! aEnf1 Asgesn ts3of the sTraysaers' InsuvaIlee
Il Company inssiilnoiss and Invented new
Sson,tyv which, y1vas the Jlr1ss coppar p2sloy
7 go. s.exyea sins he insurance. fleld. This
u Va i 30 er,rA{ h success thai W.T. hin two
49, y,se fser INSTRUMENTATION 60 y ay cepttof
'fau I'd bosiheast that WAS done by fne
I Travellers was through fhis' poi1cy'f, ", ~
I spooass wns so great thGtthey made stii-
gweli stats agent for C1nnec'lcat " am
4 Rhode ISLAND, EFaFalsosinv 1io1'lef
/ .l5policy 4which h $was adonted oy we 5s1ln
4 lhdutuarsand fwhion wasA reiHHrHno'y sU0-
sresstul. ,,-s
Il Rut haSsvsg sstalafhlnEng. OF fsitEosos,
ftaiYoad " railroads, aud3st " ne s4IsSsd
I4he ;nsurance people by feslgning ana an
.frouhclne shat he was going to become
lrasiroad man. lie was making s''VVV vi
EssonD a year and his income was increas-
Ling RAPIDLY He had saved up. quite u
/ M of money and had a fair amount OK
ROYALTIES coming to him. so he started
West again Onoe 5Inore he lhnoso IN
Kansas city. The Belt line that mas done
an tnuoh for the railroads OF tnal great
.ransoortatiop centre was huilE by Arthur
II stlweu. He financed tins project os
raislug the money from the Insurance.. peo-
nIa with whom he had been "orains'
once the Belt line was built he turned MS
attention to new enterprise Inc ial4"
roads running east and west hsdsa monop-
olv Of tho great traffic beyond the Mis-
ssssippi They fiAed the rates on gram on
!, uaolyinE honse products. on ore and on al
, the other great commodities and staples
oefKRnsRs Nebraska, iowa R4lu lhS IA
Ing states Of the Far West. II was taf'
thar from the Missouri Riverlto the At
/, ,entie sea.ooard than It was from Kansas
, CITY 10 the Gulf. The surplus products
az the Middle West go, in large meas
ure. across the ocean.
D In 1ss2 stnweu' began building the kan
b sss cay. Pltssburg Gulf when Wei
z practically the air iine'froTn Kansas GU!
: "a me Gulf of Mexloo-soo miles. The roa(
E Is better known to-dsYss the Kansas c.i5
a southern. There was not much trouble
about constructing the arst hundred rniier
III but wheu he got thatssar the panic OF 3
VI hit him. To build thssnext ten miles was
lei a horror. 1t required more application
more time. more energy, more persistence
erl TO raise the money for this little bit q
.. trsep than " dla fas Tia Rsxt 2oo- or ~