The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-13

IA has been dubbed a "commereiai Holmes. it appears. has been trying to write his brother ints the T. P. A for sometime. and has not yet succeeded. Some of the boys say he is nothing more than an order taker.
 Charles Abrams always attends T. P. A. meetings @ regardless of weather conditions, but he wasn't seen around the Chamber of Commerce Saturday night. However. many of the boys were there. so the routine business was dis posed of.
 o. P. Fontaine broke the record last week, bringing in four applications for membership in the T. P. A. While some of the boys contend that O. P. has been working on these four prospects for seven years, they have found it impossible to mark will be set up as a standard in future.
 A. T. Baugh is a promising young man. He promised to bring some applications to T. P. A. meeting Saturday night. What? No, he didn't.
 Some of the boys are wondering what has happened to Henry Hiden. MT. Hiden has not been seen at a T. P. A. meeting for sometime, notwithstanding he is the life of every party in which he happens to be, and is popular with everyone. What has happened to Henry?
 Colonel Kennedy Is promulgating a new definition of a henpecked husband. and it is said the colonel is an expert on such. The definition Is, "A man who has his nerve in his wife's name"
 Post B, Travellers Protective assoca- ton. yesterday afternoon sent a large bouquet of floors with an appropriate note to Mrs F. O. Harvey. wife of one of the most popular members of the local post. Mrs. Harvey has been i'll for sometime, and the local post has sadly missed MT. Harvey at its meetings, he being com pelled to remain at her bedside. Both Mr. and Mrs. Harvey were missed at the T. P. A. picnic barbecue at Cook Springs recently, and the sympathy of the entire post went out to them DOtn. MTS. f1aT- vey is getting better now, and may be out within a week. The best wishes of the travellers of Birmingham and of the writer are hers.
 J. P. DeJarnette, Jr., was just on the eve of securing an application for mem- bership in the T. P. A. from a salesman when his prospect suddenly remembered
 
 lished very intimate relations with Bos- ton bankers who were prominent in fn- ternational banking affairs. Chief among these associations was one which he es- tablished with the late William B. Bacon. If there was attempt made to select any one who could be regarded as pre- eminently worthy to be named as model of business integrity those who knew the career of William B. Bacon would without hesitation identify him with this distinction. MT. Bacon was for years the American representative, at least in Boston, of the great banking house of Barring Bros, London. He was a man of almost excessive modesty, never making any ostentatious display of his banking business or of his associations with the Earrings. He maintained a very office over the Merchants bank of Boston. With him the late J. T sonal as well as business friendship. The time came when MT. Bacon was anxious to retire from active business, and his successor was Jacob c. Rogers. He also was esteemed as a fine type of banking and business integrity
 Shortly after the present head of the house, J. P. Morgan, was graduated at Harvard. he began clerkship at what may be called an apprentices desk in the ofe of q RnQarS Thara he learned the rudiments of practical as well as theoretical banking. MT. Rogers took keen interest In the young man and at last was persuaded that he possessed all of the qualities which would make it pos- sible for him some day to succeed his father as the head of the house of J. P. & Co.,, MT. Rogers was pleased to point out the young clerk unknown 1 to young Morgan. to bankers who visited his office. Sometimes he introduced young Morgan to these bankers, and when they went away from the clerk 8 desk 1t was MT. Rogers custom to say. That young man Is going to make worthy successor of his father" Hav- ing tlere acquired the rudiments, MT. 1 went abroad to be instructed in the higher branches of banking and he became as his father did before him. master of the science of foreign exchange and of the principles upon which interna- 1 tional banking is based.
 The Third Generation
 Junius Spencer Morgan, who in the first week cf September entered the house of J. P. Morgan X Co., took good heed of the example set by his father. He, too. be- came Boston trained in the rudiments of banking. He served as clerk In the house of Brown Bros. At one time, and perhaps now, this house was regarded in Boston as the leading house in New Eng land so far as international banking Is 1 Having served his apprentice |