The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-10-08

years, and then the company called
him to New York, to become superin.
tendent of all its agencies. He was
as good superintendent as he had
Deeh canvasser or branch manager.
Next he was made third vice-president
OF the company. and then vice-presi-
dent, and i've years ago he was made
president.
IL seems very simple, as il Is print
ed here, how this man rose. Essen-
uaily 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 earnestneas OF char.
acter' the same keenness of perception
ana the same courage today that he
had in 1888. He has grown and pros.
pered. but so has the little city in
which he played his part In r.aking.
Today Grand Junction is the center
OF what Is known as 1.-THE Little En-.
pre- OF the Western Slope" The gam
blers, the grhmen and the fiotsam and
1etsam 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 SO. There are
banks and Libraries and churches and
handsome dwellings In the beautiful
city. II is a land transformed, II is
a 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 a memory, al
most as distant memory as the faro
banks and the dance halls occa-
! sionally 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
Vas In at the birth OF Grand Junction
ard 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 OF
the Union League club, or in his hand
some home at Riverdale Kingsley may
dream at times of those days when AT
armed guard protected him at Crane
Junction and when he carried plsto
in his coat pocket and had his finger
on the trigger for instant use when h'
went abroad. He does not look much
like the man supposed TO be the typ'
to defy the western bad man" Blu
quiet, earnest men are the ones with
moral courage.
New York knows Kingsley ant
knows him well, but il is not proudei
Of him than is Grand Junction, wheI
they point to the early files OF thu
Grand Junction News, for the Crane
Junction News is stu printed. ant
show you the editorials and the othe
articles that Darwin p Kingsle,
wrote, and when you read the time
yellowed columns they will tell yol
that the man who wrote them is pres
dent OF one OF the greatest life insur
ance companies in the world and trut
tee OF many hundreds OF millions o
dollars. And they will tell you tina
before he went TO Colorado he was
farm boy in Vermont and that b
worked early and late TO get an edr
cation and that he knew hardship an
toll as farm boys are likely TO kno'
them. And all they tell you abou
this mans career is true.
Copyright, 1914 by the Mcclure Nswsps
per syndicatel