Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-10
ONE AMERICUS
BOYS SALARY
IS $4,000
HOW THIS One MADE GOOD
Shows What Grit, Brains and
Industry Will Do

|. Speaking about Americus boys VIII,
have made good-and their name is
legion-there is one now drawing {
salary reputed to be $4,000 a year
who is not only credit to Americas
but to the Georgia State Tech, the
institution attended by him in it,
early days, and the one at which he
received the Neurological training
that put him on the road to high sal
aried positions of trust and great re-
sponsibility, as we'll as great remun.
Grafton.
The boy in question, is Mr.. Furlow
with the Otis Elevator Company, son
of the late Charles T. Furlow, anil
nephew of two well known Americas
men. His father now lives in North
Georgia, was for some years assist.
ant state treasurer, and one of the
best known men in the state.
But to return to the story of the
Amedcus boy who went ahead.
Young Furlow, as he was then, was
one of the early pupils of the Georgia
Tech, in the days when Lyman Hall.
also an Americus boy by the way, was
directing its destinies and putting it
in shape to become the great institu-
ton that it now is, one of the leading
in its line in the land.
Young Furlow was intense in all
that he did. When he started in on
mechanics, theoretical and applied, he
went at it in earnest. 1t was not a
play thing with him but serious life
time proposition. He went to the
heart of everything, dug down to the
roots, got the principles and made
them part of himself, as it were
When he got through studying prob
lem in mechanics~he had mastered II
and knew how to apply it under any
conditions that might arise.
So it came about that one day the
Otis elevator people were putting un
an elevator in big office building N
Atlanta when the elevator refused 70
move according to specifications.
What the matter was the men in
charge could not tell. There were
the specifications, there was the ell
evator, but somehow or other there
was a hitch After vainly struggling
with it an appeal was made to the
Tech for help. 1t came in the shape
of Furlow. The student was sent to
see what he could do.
He came, he saw, he conquered. He
mastered the difficulty, put the eleva-
ton in motion, and few days later
refused a position that was offered
him by the company, in order to con-
tiDue at the Tech and better qualify
himself for the work towards which
he intended devotings his life
Another offer came from the same
company later on, and was accepted.
Time brough promotion after pro-
motion, as his ability was recognized,
until today, as stated, he is said to
be the graduate of the Tech drawing
the second largest salary paid to any
of its former students, the only one
exceeding him in that respect being
the president of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company.
The success of this Americus boy is
simply demonstration of what BOYS
can do who are willing to get down 10
work, willing to stick until they know
and are able to put their knowledge
into practical use There are not
many $4,000 jobs, but there are ple,-
ty $4,000 and $4,000 jobs in the
country, and the Americus boy who
has the grit and the brains can fiji
one of them, just as Furlow fills the
$4,000 job that came to him in rec
ognition of time we'll spent in prep
aration,