Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-18

6octor.
For the next two years Chrysler and
his bride lived in Salt Lake CITY,
where he was foreman in the RIO
Grande & Western roundhouse. He
then went to the Colorado Southern
shops. Two more years of hard labor
and then he moved to Childress, Tex,
as master mechanic of the Forth
Worth and Denver City railway one
wear at Childress and he began
gradual movement eastward, going TO
Oelwein. Ia, where he was employed
in the shops of the Chicago d Great
Western railroad. Here he remained
until 1909, when he was promoted to
the position of superintendent of mo-
tive power and machinery for the Z. &
G. w. road.
Now He's Helping Other Mechanics
At the time Mr.. Chrysler 1--WE must
drop the walt" for Mr. was 80 years
old. and was the youngest man holding
a similar position in the whole United
States. About this time Chrysler's
ability became known further east and
he was offered and accepted the posi-
ton Of general manager of the Ameri-
can i locomotive Comp9ny's works at
Allegheny, Pa. Conditions at that
plant st that particular time were not
rosy and Chrysler's duties called for
knowledge and ability of the highest
kind He proved himself equal to the
task, however, was closely watched In
every move by interested bankers in
New York and at the expiration OF
two years these same influential
interests picked Walter P. Chrysler
(the Ellis, Kans., "lemon'O as works
manager Of the great Buick Motor
company, and eighteen months later
another boost placed him in the presi-
dent and general manager chair,
position he has held for three years
Those who have followed the auto
mobile industry closely for the last
few years will recall the condition in
to which the Buick company was plac-
ed about the time of Mr.. Chrysler's
arrived on the scene. Forty cars day
was the high mark five years ago. Now
it is approximately five hundred cars
a day The plant covers more than
one hundred acres of floor space, and
more than fifteen thousand employees
are engaged, thousands of them being
the best skilled mechanics tne country
affords.
Mr.. Chrysler's remarkable genius
for supervising men allows HIN to
take labor converted to energy, mix
material and machinery, add a spark
of intelligence and produce he desired
results. His mechanical skill and
ability as an organizer of men is the
great power behind the Buick plant,
and his name occupies a prominent
place in that selacl list - executives
whose work has made quantity pro-
duction possible. Like Charles
Schwab, his humble beginning but
served to place his feet on the firm
foundation of actual knowledge of his
product. He knows steel and how to
manufacture it; he knows men and
machinery, and wherever possible the
infallible machinery takes Inc lace
of fallible man.
He Makes You Feel al Home.
Mr.. Chrysler impresses you in both
face and figure. When you talk to him
you are comfortable and feel at home.
e looks like work. If yau were to sec
him dressed in overalls along with his
army of employees you would pick
him as a leader; in evening clothes
you would classify him as an organ
izer. At the club he is "sociable" and
an all-round good fellow. There is no
private ign on the door of his pala-
ton office-an Office not closed to the
laborers who, on many occasions, have
felt free to ask advice On matters
which concerned themselves and their
familis. Others get the benef. of his
carly experience, and his motto seems
to be the do Unto Others-"one He
is always near his work, which is a
part of his. Golf and motoring are
his chief pleasures. He is a melnt err
of the Detroit Athletic club, the &c
trOit club, the Flint Golf club and
Mrs. Banker" H X Mcleod. of Hut
Crimson, Kans., please take notice.
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vice president and director of the
Industrial Savings Bank of Flint,
Mich.
But the love between those three
Ellis, Kans., girls has. never cooled,
and the friendship of the three boys
Mcleod Chrysler and Gage-is still
strong. The Hutchinson banker and
doctor and their wives has visited the
Queen of the Lemon Pickers" home.
The sight of a Buick on an Ellis street
is reminder to the older generation
of the village of the juvenile genius
whom, not many years ago, they har-
bored and whose climb from a push
cart and broom to an industrial leader
through hard work they now point to
as an example 70 the younger genera