The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-23

chant needs to do is to sell the goods.
Bush, he does the rest.
Bush began life as a wealthy young
man" said a mar who knows him.
Then John D. Rockefeller discover
ed that his father was in the oil bust
ness"
So that when his father died in
$50 he left the 2~1-year-old boy two
blocks Of South Brooklyn land that a
monkey couldn't walk over. and an
diminished pier in Brooklyn, and a job
with the Standard Oil company.
Young Bush made up his mind right
away to relinquish that Job. He knew
there is a lot of money in the oil
business, but 1t all seemed to be billed
through-and he was stuck at a way
point. Beside, he planned a great CO.
operative manufacturing and ware
housing center for those empty lots.
u was a perfectly good idea. He liked
1t, even after he had talked to several
bankers. BY and by it became diff
cult to get near enough a banker to
snake salt on him.. The rapid inter-
change Of intelligence under our mod
ern system is a frightful handicap to
aspiring young men.
So this is what he did.
He sold bonds in half portions to
people had had SO little none that
they didn't idolize a dollar and built a
When the steamship peo-
PIE said they couldn't find the Bush
m he chartered a pair Of pup
steamboats, and set them to baying
back and forth between his dock and
maci 1t cost him $40, OOO-which
vas all the money in the world-but
the steamship managers learned the
lesson. Then he found the railway
bosses were all up-stage.
20, said Centurion Bush to a SOL
dier. and beat it up to Michigan and
buS me a horrible lot of hay. Hay is
ine ouiKlest stun there is. And send
II to me In ten tor lots"
Railroad men still shudder when
they remember the hay plague. The
hrst shipment reached Bush by wa
OF Asheville, n. c.. Every freirh,
agent east of Catfish Center. Misc
a stabbed a stencil on those OTIS o1
a before they got to the terminals
railroad men can wake ur
out OF a sound sleep and tell the mid.
night burglar where to find Mr.. Bush,
terminal. They're afraid that il the,
Iorge ne may begin again to haun,
them with ten-ton lots Of hay. billed
Via the Chinese wall and the Burlinr.
ton Arcade. London. 1t is a mere de.
tail that Bush made a profit out q,
that propaganda Of fodder.
Now Bush has 200 manufa cturinf
plants in full operation in his prop.
erty. and 200 filed warehouses ant
seven big piers. and a twenty-five mil.
freight road and a two-cent fare ca,
line, and a block of model tenements
He is forty-four years old, reache,
timberline at six feet. has a slight out.
curve at the waist. and parts his hail
in the middle. His one motto has q
do with the virtue Of perseverance,.
Know why a flea is successful?" h.
asks. 1T never leaves a dog"
This is a sort Of story you thinl
happens only in novels.
A large. black-haired smirkin,
young man offered his seat to a younl
woman in the Brooklyn express. Fl,
had too much braid on his coat. Hi,
eyes were too aggressive. Pretty 500
she bounced out of. her seat.
Oh" h gasped. you beast!"
He grinned at her-a fat-faced
sqgary insult. Pretty soon he. wills
pered something. She looked abou
helplessly. A slender. middle-age,
man nearby tapped the smirker OF
Don't DO that again." he. said
Please" 49, "G
The young man with the braide,
coat swore. Then he started an old
fashioned, round arm swing-righ
from the grass roots. When It wa
J way up the elder man steppe,
inside IN put a stiff-armed jolt o,
the Others Jaw. The young man wa
still breathing from the basemen