Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-15

Il took him by the collar. dragged him out of his seat and gave him a thorough whipping He turned out to be the son of the chairman of the prudential committee. The old man never spoke to me again. not even when 1 met him in the road. he rid ing in a buggy and l walking to or from my work
 Went to Sea for Two Years.
 On his graduation at the Annapolis Naval Academy, young John Win gate Weeks went to sea for a cruise of two years. Seventy men were in his class, but there was room for only 10 of them in the navy. The navy itself consisted of but five steam yes sells classed as first-rates. and they were obsolete and unfit for active duty. George Barnett, his roommate, went into the Marine Corps and is now a major general and the com mandant of that branch of the naval Service.
 In Florida, where he had been en- gagged as a surveyor on Q railroad, the late Midshipman Weeks learned that an old firm in Boston was going out of business. One of the partners had died and another had become blind. Henry Hornblower. a son of one of the partners. and the youthful MT. Weeks bought the business, the lat ter borrowing the money with which to begin his career as a banker and broker
 Hornh;ower acted for the firm on the flour of the Boston Stock Ex- change. Weeks kept the books and waited on the customers as they ap- peared. In few years the two young men had offices all over New England and in cities as far away as Chicago.
 T got my first valuable business idea from a famous New ,'ngland dressmaker," Captain Weeks said to the writer of this articl "A friend who came to spend the night at our house was talking to Mrs. Weeks while was reading a newspaper. l heard her say that she had bought dress in Boston. and that soon after. on returning to the store. the pro prietor, noticing her at the counter, asked if she had purchased the dress she was wearing at his establishment. On learning that she had. he said:
 Tt is not right. Please give your name and address to the clerk and we shall correct the matter at once
 .. 4 Story of Great aIue.
 ." "'But.' the woman replied, the dress. is satisfactory to me. Whatever is wrong is so small that it is not worth mentioning
 |" Small to you. -uadam.' the man answered, but very large to us.'
 And do you know the woman told Mrs. Weeks, the dress was not only taken back, but it was kept and was given a new one.
 ''I repeated the story to my partner next day." Captain Weeks said, and from that time onward we tried to please our customers before we thought of ourselves and the probable profits we could make in our trans actions"
 Three years ago. following at once his election to the upper House of Congress, Captain Weeks sold out to his partners and disposed of every in- terest that might be thought, even in directly. to influence his judgment as a lawmaker. It it said in New Eng land that he has always been very careful about his reputation as a busi- ness man. An anecdote told of him in State street. the Wall street of Bos- ton, shows how his sensitiveness to public opinion on one occasion proved highly profitable to his partner and himself
 run on a bank in which Captain Weeks was a director, though he owned but $900 of the stock. threat ened. so he feared. to injure his stand ing in the community. He spent 6 day and a night at the bank pledged two-thirds of all the property he and his partner owned for the payment of the banks debts and put through re- ha6ilitating plan under which the shareholders were assessed 30 per cent. on their holdings. The bank was saved. but some of the fright. ened shareholders sold out. Their in terests were promptly bought by Captain Weeks. The bank prospered and later was combin with other large banks. Boston financiers say that Mir Hornblower and MT. Weeks ultimately made $250.000 on the stock which they purchased when the bank seemed to be on the verge of ruin.
 When I asked Captain Weeks about the matter, he said: ''I was young man and couldn't afford to be di- rector in a bank that had closed it's doors in the faces of it's depositors, many of whom were poor and most of whom were small merchants and .yage-earners."
 How" I asked him. inasmuch as he was a sailor himself once. and is now on terms of intimacy with many high officers. would you describe the navy of the United States?"
 At the outbreak of the war in Eu- rope" he answered. 'our navy, in my opinion. was the second best in exis- tence. Authorities for whom l have great respect did not agree with me. They ranked our navy third or fourth some giving France second place and some believing Germany was stronger at sea than ourselves.
 'T still think that in ships alone we were the equal of FranGe or Germany and much the superior of Japan. Our officers are the ablest in the world; our crews are the most intelligent No nation gives it's officers the training that is given to the naval officers or the United States And the men in our ships. coming from farms and viii lages. in large part. are the finest morally and physically afoat.
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