The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-01-17
Albert Stanley Was Educat-
ed in Detroit Public
Schools.
B0SSED CITY'S TROLLEYS
Served in Spanish War Be-
fore Going to England
to Live.

LONDON. Jan. 2--(Correspond-
ence The Associated Press) -Ameri-
can business experience is what
Lloyd George was looking for when
he upset all traditions and appointed
Sir Albert Stanley as Minister of
Commerce and President of the
Board of Trade in the new cabinet.
The title ."Sir Albert" sounds quite
English, but its owner is about as
American as a man can well. he
brought up as boy at Detroit, Mich,
educated in the public schools there,
getting his first lob" on the Detroit
Street Railways and gradually rising
to the management of that large con-
Germ; then becoming manager OF
New Jersey Public Service Corpora
ton; and, incidentally, enlisting as a
sailor in the United States Naval Re-
serve where he served through the
Spanish war on board the United
States auxiliary cruiser Yosemite.
This crowded twenty-five years of
very active American experience into
the life OF Albert Stanley---the plain
name by which he was known ut the
old Duffield school in DetrOit--and
flushed with his successes, he came
To England to put his American train
ing to parctical use in the business
world here, becoming manager of
that vast system of surface and UNI
derground traffic in London-the
greatest in the world--known as the
London Consolidated Underground
and General Notorious Association,
Limited. His title came,to him later.
and now the greater honor has come
the first man OF American business
training ever to enter the British cab
met.
Sir Albert was in his office at the
Board of Trade when a representa-
tive of The Associated Press called
by appointment to learn something
of his American experiences. The
Board of Trade is a huge establish
ment in Whitehall, Immediately op.
poslte the Foreign Office, with Sir
Albert's office Just across from 10
Downing street, where the new Prime
Minister, Lloyd George, imparts his
strenuous personality to all the
branches of the new regime.
Sir Albert's long life in America
has given him the look OF an Ameri-
can business man. He speaks like
man from the middle West--with a
constant strain of good nature and
good humor, particularly when he re-
calls the hard knocks he received
when he was gaining his American
experience.
American experience is a great
asset to anyone" said Sir Albert.
Travel and experience: Those are
the only means OF getting an actual
insight into the real character and
methods OF country. 1t can't be
done by reading books. 1t is not
matter of theory, but of practice.
You must so to a country il you want
to understand 1t; live in it and grow
up in it"
And this led Sir Albert, in reply to
inquiries as to how he had lived and
grown up in America, TO relate some
OF the ups and downs OF starting on
an American business career
IT'S strange thing" said Sir Al
bert, how ! nearly became alminis-
ter of the Gospel instead of Cabinet
Minister. That was in the days when
we were living in Detroit, over on
the East Side, on Joseph Campan
avenue. ! had already wanted TO 90
into the street railway business. and
had asked the minister at our church,
Rev, John Munday, for a letter to
Strathern Hendrie, secretary of the
Detroit City Railway. But the good
minister and my family thought /
was better suited for the church, and
I've thought lately how close I came
to being minister at Detroit instead
of at London. But / worked out the