The evening world., 1912-01-25
NIHI

"' IN NcW YORK ono uhy It week
! felt a thrill OF wonder as asked the question. Fr here as n ran re-
pu"d to he worth sG"oc". and 1t Il. vel NOV throughout tho land vat re
did not inherit, me dollar.
Born In Austria In iH. he came 10 America with his parents when a chi
From M to 1856 10 va President OF The DstHlory AM Cattle Feeding COM
pany," me of n" srcat business combination of he continent with headr"r-
tiers at i,oh. H.
In 1876 he entered the department store ned, acquiring al interest In the
scgcl Cooper Company Of chicago ad New York. He became the controlling
.ockhodcr Of this c,mpany and IA President IN i9l lie retired from III dis
banks and Industrial companies. mostly in Chicago an Peoria
4 blk man physically, with can. say eyes ~ soft. thoughtful an" ici
dr. Ss tfuputlsy ono! IS tempted to say elegantly me r'rsets mat ne n
sSty-cyht years old
why 10 you ask that question" he sale.
because the public ants % know. N especially the young men Of this
nation want TO know
with auht simplicity, n a strong man with never IA whit II vanity nr anec
tauon tells Of the event that made d@p IMPRESS ri hisu NE Capt Greenhu re-
i,., Tin, smy OF h, eslnnln in bushes
Il went with m parent to chicago In ISL when It vas a city OF 400" p'-
pie When vas twelve ears old had to leave school because had to go
to work AM earn a nving, 10 started In 20 learn the trade % tin AM copper
smith That vas In tho year lNl
"Hu, In It short whne-t three months atcr I LETT SCHOOL, discovered tina |
was greatly handicapped Ivy mS deficiencies in book knowledge; realized ven
nNrncics And NO entered u nsht school "A private school -witho thor hoy who
were IN tn. a. nx that wa In. who didn't hay \ chance as he saying Is
and finished Learning my trade and became a jnurneyman II nd coppersmith
then started on T. Quincy to SEQ, the country. as moved partly by the
that would not succeed unit l had a larger knowledge OF my uaho nd OF
general busrcsa and Of the life OF people IN various parts Of the country. /
had no money Mt all to start on this Journey.
u worked my VA, Srng from town to own for a year, ant then arrived
In Mobile Ala, WITH % cents searched all thu shops Of Mobile for work Nut
trad MAS duL II MAS to year lN2 gus, prior to IN" var nj the South as
Ia poor shape used up t" p cents m was literally rcnai,s%
- vent 10 the proprietor ot a certain shop and told him that must have
work else Woutl sta>c My sincerity must hay touched him, md perhaps my
youth, bat | WIS s'lons and robust M IL I'D give No work for three weeks
at the icgmW Ioatncyman Wages s. a day, Neart this shop found a cousin OF
my mome hd a AIRY Goods r'oro. W. Would undoubtedly have give" me as
sstancc had made m}sr known, which however, DID not do until ate l
got sdfsustluluS
AT the end % three week., when I was nnldns the last piece Of work and
was pamns what 20 do after that aay when would again be nut OF work.
hero cam TO tr shuu the Isssants superintendent Of III Mobile IN Ohio Rail
way, and a. t turned ONT, tho comins of uds man OF that day ~ for me a
par Of tho design of Providence
FOR I ws worAng at a aonch b~de them They discussed the system u put
ing tin roofs . railway ears The railway 0mciai told Of the sgsas trouble his