The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-08

art. He studied printing. he studied inks
 and he studied colors. He studied ma chinery too. The lad took delight in any particularly artistic job the concern han
 died, and was so bound up in the triumphs of the company that the men used to smile at the intensity of his interest. He studied paper as he had studied
 inks, printing, engraving and press work. By the time he was 21 he had better
 knowledge of all the branches of worn the establishment turned out than prob | ably any other one person in the build ing. He had not lost his enthusiasm, either He was just as eager for knowl- edge, just as eager to help just as tire less. just as good natured as he had been that first day when he came in as an office boy.
 Advancement does not come very rapid ly in the printing trade. but the young man never complained. He never was so
 busy that he could not help somebody else and was so dependable and so valu- able that everybody, except the elevator
 man, looked up to him. The elevator man could no longer exclude him from his slow moving old car, and had unbent to the degree of addressing him as MI" !" Green, but never quite forgave him for those two ringings of the bell that day in 1882.
 No young man can be the most useful
  Ilishment without getting responsibility and
 promotion sooner or later. Promotion came to the young man after what seemed to be an unconscionably long time Then it came fast. Step by step he rose until he was manager of the fac tory while still in his twenties. He was as good manager as he had been an of fee boy. He kept pace with every de- velopment of the business, and develop ments came with astonishing frequency, for changes were almost constant in every branch. There were wonderful improve
 ments in engraving, still more remarkable
 ones in lithography, finer and finer presses were being made, printing introduced and
 the art of paper making was being revolu- tionized.
 Young MT. Green never Jagged. Every step was one forward, and when he was 1 30 he got signal evidence of the appre- citation in which his employers held him. The business had spread beyond the linn | its of the United States. A great trade was being developed in Canada, and they | sent him up there to manage the com pany's affairs in the dominion. He was
 just as good a business manager as he
 had been craftsman, and the growth of
 the company's interests in the dominion
 surpassed all expectation. For live years he devoted himself to the Canadian
 field, and then he came back to New
 York to become second vice president This office carried with it great
 amount of detail work. He not only was
 second vice president. but practically gen. | eral manager of the corporation. The | growth of the concern had been rapid l It's business had broadened until it had
 more than a thousand employees. Its or | ders came from all over the world. II
 did only the highest class of work. IL | made all the certificates of the securities
 dealt in on the New York stock exchange | In addition 1t did work for tens of thou
 sands of corporations and a score oi | governments.
 Two years after his appointment as second vice president Mir Green was
 made first vice president, and three years
 after that he was made president. lr twenty -four years he had risen from of- flee boy at 8 week to the presidency of one of the most important corpora l tions in the world
 1 If the growth and widening influence oi the company had been great before MT | Green attained the presidency, it has beer | far greater since that time. Today Il | has nearly 5000 employees. Down in Broao | street in a marble palace that fronts | on three streets, it has it's home. The | building is one of the most beautiful 1T 1 New York. Charming as is the exterior | the interior is still more delightful. There is hardly anything in America in busi-
 ness establishment to approach 1t m | it's furnishings. It speaks elegance, re 1 finement and art in every respect. Every | desk, every chair every tapestry, every | rail was designed by an artist
 I Each separate office received specia | treatment, but everything was done tt harmonize. Naturally the finest office ir the n,hole establishment Is that Of thu