The Washington times., 1917-06-04

Is VOTED SUCCESS
Death in Salvation Army
Home Reveals Strong Mind.
REFUSED $1,000 A YEAR PAY
Once Wine Salesman, Ran Second
Hand army" Store.

NEW YORK, June 4.-MaJor wal
lace winchell's boys" in the Saliva
tion Army Industrial home, agreed
Yesterday that fifty.year-oid Tom
Glenn. one OF their best liked pals,
who died Saturday, had made q big
success of q life that had been pro-
nounced q failure. For hadn't Tom,
once q deIeliet. made good A. q man.
ager OF the homes secondhand furni-
ture store, they asked, and hadn't the
major repeatedly said he never wor-
rted about the business as long a.
Tom was taking In the money?
Tom walked into the majors office
one night four years ago and said he
wanted to get away from himself. He
explained briefly that be had been
champagne salesman practically all
his life. and the superintendent eK-
cused him for boastlng mildly that he
had been q good one. But q fellow
had to drink wine and lots Of IL II he
expected to land customers. and after
a while the habit got such q clutch on
him that he became useless a. q sales
man. lost his grip and his Job and
went the pace.
Tom didn't 20 into details about his
po5N nv anu Inv htaJoAs -" ~ $500
ned by O mere promise that . man
10 going to turn over Q new leaf.
didn't ask questions. So the former
wine agent settled down to the task
Of fighting II out with work. three
square meals and regular sleep. He
attended religious services whenever
the major or Mrs. Winchen did the
preaching, and one night confessed
that he knew he was converted.
I Get $1,000 onsr.
Just about the time he was sure
he had mastered his appetite = wine
merchant who had known Of his fame
a. . wine agent and had learned that
he had become . sober. industrious
man autographed Tom that he would
guarantee him q salary OF 1900
year. with $500 cash in advance for
expenses, II he would 90 on the road
to sell his champagne. Glenn showed
the telegram to the major and anil
inRIy said: mo, thank you. The
devil can't tempt me again"
This incident was forgotten until
after the mans Geath, when the sup
| erintendent searched through his
trunk for possible addresseE Of friends
to be notified and ran across the wine
merchants message. That was about
all the trunk contained except some
clothes and q big picture OF Colonel
Roosevelt
Friday night Tom failed to turn up
at the home after the hour for closing
the second hand store and at 10
o'clock the major went down to In
| yestigate. He found the door locked
and the place in darkness. He re-
ported Toms absence to the police.
Later the patrolman on post discov-
cred the man in q dying condition In
the store. He was being cared for
by Hugh McCTudden, his seventeen
year-old assistant, who explained
that Tom had felt an epileptic Mt COM
ing on and urged him not to let any
body in until the attack was over,
There were two OF these attacks. the
boy said. and because he loved Tom
he obeyed orders about the door. The
policeman took the semi-eonscious
man to the City Hospital, whore he
died.
Tom never turned back the leaves
Of his life for the enlightenment OF the
home inmates, and his past was al.
ways more or less OF q mystery, but
there wasn't any mystery about the
daily record following his conversion.
He remained at the secondhand store
from q. m. until p. m. every day
selling furniture and other things
collected by the Salvation Army sal
wage corps which had been made over
by the inmates OF the home until they
were almost as good as new. He
turned in carefully compiled accounts
every day and never q penny went
astray. But the best OF II all was that
he was as competent a second hand
furniture salesman a. he was q cham.
payne agent. and that's why the
boys" agreed yesterday that Tom
had successfully salvaged himself.
Ever since the war started Glenn
has been sticking up little American
fags at the store and once in q while
he would express himself briefly about
the American idea OF thinSE, When.
ever he talked his pals wouiSsSeke of
their hats and listen. II WASN'T gen.
orally known until after his death
that Tom had a brother who is q
colonel in the United States army and
perhaps that fact and the picture OF
Hne other colonel in the trunk had
something to do with suggesting his
little patriotic outbursts.
His Great Regret.
His great regret, a. confided to
his intlmates. was that he WAS too
old for military service, but he new
srtheIess did his bit" as q recruit
ing officer for soldiers OF the SOIL"
mostly patriotic but down and out
men who sought farm jobs at the
salvation Army employment bureau
in the second hand store. Three
DAYS before Tom died an unkempt
stranger shuffled into the store and
started to denounce conscrIptIon.
Then he turned his invective on the
President. That was as far as he
got. Tom grabbed him by the neck
and seat Of the trousers and the dis
loyal one didn't stop going until he
reached the curb. There was no mis-.
take about Glenn's patriotism.
The Climbers League Of the SALIVA
ton Army Industrial Home will &C.
cord their fellow climber final hon
ors in the home chapel tonight. They
will place an American flag on the
casket because thats the way the
ex-champagns agent would have
liked Il. Major winchell will preach
the funeral sermon. With the body
will be buried Toms Bible and the
picture OF Colonel Roosevelt, the best
loved of his treasures.