The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-08-26
MEN WHO HAVE MADE GOOD.

chicago I1eIdlu. WHO are ltl6 hl6b
est salaried men in Chicago? From
what point did they work up? These
questions were suggested by the ties
timony given at the recent street car
arbitration bearings.
twas brought out that Leonard A.
Busby. president of the Chicago Sur
face Lines, had started with the com,
pany as an investigator at $4,000, and
in a few years had risen to the presi-
dency at a salary of 100000.
An investigation by Herald report
ers developed the fact that particular
~ all of the best paid executives ir
Chicago had started at the bottom OF
the ladder and by being the best men
on the job" and working had reach
ed the top.
Here are eleven typical cases:
James B. Forgan started as Office
boy and clerk in Scotch bank; now
president of First National and First
Trust ami Savings banks at $4,000 a
year.
George NJ. Reynolds, Iowa boy with
high school education, who began as
clerk in a Guthrie County national
bank Now head Of the Continental
and Commercial National bank, the
Continental and Commercial Trust
and Savings Bank and the Hibernian
Banking Association at $4,000 year.
John j. Mitchell whose arose from
the Job of messenger boy at $3.50 a
week in the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings Bank to the presidency of the
institution, and since has become III
rector in the largest financial institu-
ton in the. United States at salary
estimated at $4,000 a year.
Frederick w. Upham who began
practical work in a relatives lumber
yard at Marshfeld, Wis, handling
boards at IS a week. Now head of the
Consumers Company and other con-
Germs at $4,000 year
3. E. Sunny welcomed his first $32
a month as telegraph, operator. Then
he became executive official in other
Chicago Telephone Company at a sal
airy estimated at $4,000 a year.
Edward Illness first pay was 81 a
week, and as the eldest in the family
of seven he welcomed it. Now he is
head of his own company, the largest
lumber concern in the middle west,
and he allows himself a salary of
100000 a year.
William A Gardner thought tele-
graph instruments tick alluTing.
His first pay as operator was $26 a
month. Now he is president OF the
Chicago and Northwestern railway at
! salary estimated at $4,000 a year.
Charles H. Markham started farther
back than Gardner Markham was
3ection laborer with pick and shovel
n 1881. His pay was s1.25 day. His
salary now as president of the Hin
lis Central Railroad is estimated at
$4,000.
ALERT J. Earling Is another railroad
president at a salary estimated at $40.
100 year who started as telegraph
operator in 1866 at wage OF $23 a
and st. Paul Railway
Orson Smith was bundle boy" in
'otter Palmer's dry goods store at
LIS week. He IL president of thel
Merchants Loan and Trust Company
t salary estimated at $4,000 a
ear.
Geo. b. Catdwell started as a bank
Jerk at a small wage in Michigan, be
anne bank examiner at small sal !
~, later came TO Ch.cago as vice
resident Of thu Continental and Com
nercial Trust anG Savings Bank Re
emily went to New York as president
{ the Sperry e Hutchinson Company
n five year contract at $4,000
ear.
Everyone OF the foregoing attained
is success In exactly the same man
or as did the other he became the {
est man on the job and worked,