Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-10-11
Their United
Influence
A Story For Labor Day
BY ESTHER vANDEvEER

Joln Bryan Dc-aH To support niHiSei
| ut twelve years OF age doing odd
chores in the Pollard Manu.acturin !:
rolnpany- Iohany was an ambitious
/ boy and a bright boy as well h..
i.new that n he were ever 70 occupy
ane OF the mahogany desks provided
for the chiefs Of departments he must
re, some education, He had not ra
,eived much schooling rs yet. for be
had been needed at home. and now
that he was at work during the day his
opportunity for study was not consul
w.nt there was A cour'e Ut hours .
iar was all he could afford for the
purpose but he used those hours rex,i
airy
Johnny was fond Of machinery, which
led him to study aboct machinery
This he'd him into fields with which
machinery Is connected The metals
and woods of which machineryis mad :
naturally interested him. and he stud
led ehoGt these and the Docasioa~ whee-
they are found and the processes Of Oh
tanning them and htting them for use
The diaefeat steps by which john
during twenty years ascended TO the
osition Of general manager are MOI
pertinent 10 this story. When he wa
twenty-five years old be was given one
II the mahogany dcsks that he had n
garded so long as the object OF has
inhibition. irf efter he attained II b.
found the realization not what be had
expected Indeed. he used II very III
t'e. preferrfng the more active wor,
% experimenting the department
managed But as time passed and b,
mounted higher in the scale Of til
~orlpany's officers be found II nece-
sary to remain where he could b.
readily reached and could communl
ate with any and all Who relied upon
lin for Instructions
nrrtr. OF being transferred from
-hcrcr TO manager was necessarily
a changed man. Not that he ceased
tn syulrathi.e With the workman, h,i
re vas now in position TO see hot y
sides OF the labor Question He wn<
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-, 'onn as their repfeseata'ive
aho pace tne wnoie mat'cr IN MS
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"n', ~ couio anoso 10 40 anu proved
oi'e'usi'e's 70 naHiseH that II tnis
~" ue.aiu were sahteo II Wouia
~ ~ .ne .ast REMNANT 81 iuhds Tor
ul'Iue,iass ana the calitai OF the con
IN Dei.is a.lroanct'Ve' would seek
os,ief iile'''iis u investment ihis wouie
.aAe asas I'm tne Operatives the oI'
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uen 'ne colui'i's'ee we're reierred 70
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