Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-05-05

The nnnils. who had stopped work
ine and then resumed his writing
Il took him by the collar, dragged
him out of his seat and gave him
thorough whipping. He turned ou'
10 be the son of the chairman OF the
prudential committee. The old mar
never spoke to me again. not ever
when | met him in the road. ne riu
ing in a buggy and l walking 10 u
from my work
Went to Sea for Two Years
On his graduation at the AnhapoiIs
Naval Academy, young John VIE
gate Weeks went to sea for a CRUISE
Of two years. Seventy men were II.
his class, but there was room TOT OH!
10 of them in the navy. Inc nav!
itself consisted Of but FIVE steam yes
sells classed as first-rates. and tney
were obsolete and unfit for acti'e
duty. George Barnett. his roommate
went into the Marine Corps ana
now a major general and the com
mandant of that branch OF the naVa
service.
In Florida, where he had been en-
gagged as a surveyor on railroad. tas
late Midshipman Weeks learned thai
an old firm in Boston was going ou'
of business. One of the partners hat
died and another had become blind
Henry Hornblower. a son OF one
the partners. and the youthful Nj
Weeks bought the business. the lat
ter borrowing the money with who
to begin his career as banker an
broker
Hornblower acted for the firm o.
the floor of the Boston Stock r.
change Weeks kept the books an
waited on the customers as they al
peared. In few years the two youn5
men had Offices all over New EnglGnt
and in cities as far away as Chicago
Il got my first valuable bushes
idea from a famous New .'nglan'
dressmaker," Captain Weeks said t
the writer of this articl' "A frierf
who came to spend the night at on
house was talking to Mrs. Week
while | was reading newspaper
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 dres
she was wearing at his establishment
1T Is not right. Please give you
name and address to the clerk and W
shall correct the matter at once
A Story Of Great aIue.
But the woman replied, the dres
is satisfactory to me. Whatever
wrong is so small that it is not wort
mentioning
Small to you, madam the ma
answered. but very large to u.s.
"'And do you know, the womn
told Mrs. Weeks. the dress was Nc
only taken back, but it was kept an
/ was given new one.
Il repeated the story to my partne
next day." Captain Weeks said. ar
from that time onward we tried
please our customers before .
thought OF ourselves and the rrotah.
profits we could make in our trar
actions"
Three years ago, following at ono,
his election to the upper House
Congress, Captain Weeks sold out t
his partners and disposed of every IT
terest that might be thought, even in
directly, to influence his judgment a.
a lawmaker. 1t it said IN New Ems
land that he has always been yer,
careful about his reputation as bus;
ness man. An anecdote told of hin
in State street, the Wall street of Bos
ton, shows how his sensitiveness t.
public opinion on one occasion prove,
highly profitable to his partner anf
himself
A run on q bank in which Captain
Weeks was a director. though h.
owned but 5000 Of the stock, threat
ened, so he feared, to injure his stand
ing in the community. He spent /,
day and night at the bank, pledge
two-thirds of all the property he an
his partner owned for the payment O
the banks debts and put through re
facilitating plan under which tt
shareholders were assessed 500 pc
cent on their holdings. The bOn
ened shareholders sold out Their i,
terests were promptly bought b.
Captain Weeks. The bank prospere
and later was combin with othe
large banks Boston financiers ga
that Mr.. Hornblower and Mr. Week
ultimately made $25O.000 on the stocl
which they purchased when the ban
seemed to be on the verge of ruin
When asked Captain Weeks abou
the matter. he said: II was a youn.
man and couldn't AFFORD to be a d!
rector in q bank that had closed it
doors in the faces of its depositor
many. of whom were poor and mos
of whom were small merchants an,
|age-earners."
How" l asked him, inasmuch a.
he was a sailor himself once, and /.
now on terms of intimacy with man,
high officers. would you describe tn
navy of the United States?"
AT the outbreak Of the war in E,
rope" he answered. "our navy, in III
opinion. was the second best in exis
tence. Authorities for whom I hav.
great respect did not agree with MT
They ranked our navy third or fourtl
some giving France second plac,
and some believing Germany was
stronger at sea than ourselves.
81 still think that in ships alone W.
were the equal of France or German,
and much the superior Of Japan. Gu
officers are the ablest in the world
our crews are the most intelligent n
nation gives its officers the trainin,
that is given to the naval officers
the United States. And the men II
our ships. coming from farms and vii
lagos, in large part, are the fines
morally and physically afioat.
In my days, back in 1880, let us sa,
the sailor on shore leave wbc returne
to his ship sober was keelhauled o,
otherwise punished by his mates. Al
that has changed. Intoxicated sailor,
are see no more on the streets. On,
men are sober, serious and canahIe