Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-09-25

the state convention was held he was
nominated by the Republicans for state
auditor and superintendent of insur.
ance. He was elected and for two
years administered the affairs Of those
Offices. Colorado never had a better
auditor or better superintendent Of
insurance.
Kingsley lad a great liking for in
surance, as we'll he might, inasmuch as
$1,000 insurance policy had been the
means of giving him an education. He
studied insurance in all its phases,
and the more he studied, the more it
appealed to him. When his term of
office expired he had many opportuni-
ties to engage in business, for offers Of
positions were showered upon him.
In the Insurance SusIness.
or all the offers that came to him,
one, from an insurance company
proved most attractive. He took it.
He loved the work and entered into it
with all his heart. He did SO we'll that
the company sent him to Boston to
proved rich field for him. He did
magnificently. He inspired his men
with some of his own energy and en-
thusiasm, made friends and did tre-
mendous amount of business.
He was in Boston for about three
years, and then the company called
him to New York, to become superin-
tendent of all its agencies. He was
as good a superintendent as he had
been canvasser or branch manager.
Next he was made third vice-president
of the company, and then vice-presi-
dent, and five years ago he was made
president.
1t seems very simple, as it is print
ed here, how this man rose. Essen
TALLY he is no different today from
what he was when he edited that little
newspaper in Grand Junction, Colo.
He has broadened and is more studi-
Gus, perhaps, but he has the same
ideals, the same earnestness of char
acter, the same keenness of perception
and the same courage today that he
had in 1883. He has grown and pros
pered, but so has the little city in
which he played his part in making.
Today Grand Junction Is the center
of what is known as 'the Little EN-
pire of the Western Slope" The gam
blers, the gunner and the fiotsam and
jetsam of western humanity have
passed to other fields.
The valleys of the Grand and the
Gunnison are rich with agricultural
wealth Irrigation has transformed the
land In few places of the world does
the soil yield more bountifully. Tens
of thousands of tons Of fruit are
shipped from Grand Junction every
year. Fine, big stores and brick
structures stand where the saloons,
the dance halls, the faro banks were
housed in shacks IN '83. There are
banks and Libraries and churches and
handsome dwellings in the beautiful
city. 1t is land transformed, it is
q land of peace and plenty. All is
changed but natures work. The
Grand and the Gunnison still pour
their waters down the valleys, the pic
turesque Book cliffs still stand guard
at the north, to the southeast rises the
San Miguel peaks, to the northeast
the snow-capped Grand mesa, and to
the south the glorious Uncompahgre
ranges. The seagulls come from the
far distant Pacific, as did the seagulls
of countless ages ago.
The Indians are only memory, al
most as distant memory as the faro
banks and the dance halls. Occa-
sionally a prospector wanders in from
the hills, but not often. Edwin Price,
who had that little printing shop in
the wild, turbulent town and was
proud of his few fonts Of type and his
apology for press, is there still. For
sixteen years he has been postmaster.
He is the last of the old guard. He
was in at the birth of Grand Junction,
and he will remain there as long as
he lives
May Dream of Old Days.
In his magnificent Office on Broad
way, or up in the University club or
the Union League club, or in his hand
some home at Riverdale Kingsley may
dream at times of those days when an
armed guard protected him at Grand
Junction and when he carried a pistol
in his coat pocket and had his finger
on the trigger for instant use when he
went abroad He does not look much
like the man supposed to be the type
| to defy the western bad man" But
| quiet, earnest men are the ones with
moral courage.
New York knows Kingsley and
knows him we'll, but it is not prouder
of him than is Grand Junction, when
they point to the early files of the
Grand Junction News, for the Grand
Junction News is still printed, and
show you the editorials and the other
| articles that Darwin p. Kingsley
wrote, and when you read the time
| yellowed columns they will tell you
that the man who wrote them Is presi-
dent of one of the greatest life insur-
ance companies in the world and trus-
tee of many hundreds of millions of
dollars And they will tell you that