New Britain herald., 1922-08-21

horizon, John D. Rockefeller, thu
 worlds richest man, took course 1T
 bookkeeping. In fact, practically al
 the kings of business and the leaders of finance were trained in bookkeep | ing. This is especially true of bank
 CTS. Over 90 per cent of the men who
 head the big banking and mercantile
 establishments of New York City at. ribute their success to business train
 ing.
 Topping the neighboring height: and ,57 stories above the street level
 stands the majestic Woolworth Build ing, monument to the jenius ot Frank w. Woolworth, the man who made the five and ten cent peaces famous Mir. Woolworth operated
 stores in practically every state in the
 Union and was probably worth about
 5,oo0,o00 He began his career as
 a bookkeeper at Watertown. New
 York. His first position was in a dry
 goods store, where he conceived the
 idea which made him a power
 Julius Rosenwald, who heads the great Sears -Roebuck Company found it necessary to increase his income just after the Civil War. He was a clerk in a dry goods store and his cir cumstances were such that he could ill afford to sacrifize his small income. MT. Rosenwald attended night school, as many other great men have done, and secured business training which is the foundation of his success.
 William Loeb. Jr., began as mes senger boy for the Western Union. He took stenography and became an expert court reporter. In crises he was called to take Theodore Roose- velt's dictation the day he was ih- augurated Governor of New York. Roosevelt took him to Washington, and when George B. Cortelyou be- came a cabinet member, Loeb took his place as secretary to the presi- dent. He is at the present time presi- dent of the American Smelting &- Refining Company.
 Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the treasury; Hugh Chalmers, the for mer sS4,000 a year manager of the National Cash Register Company; George B. Cortelyou, former secre- tary to President Mckinley, now pres ident of the Consolidated Gas com pany, New York City at a salary of s1oO,Oo0 year; Federal Judge Landis, of Chicago. are just a few of the hundreds of men who used sten- ography or bookkeeping, or both, to help them over the small jobs.
 Nor is the field limited to men, for lte,f of u,h ba, o6o oI business success is q very long one. Some years ago Miss Olive Cole left a small town in Wisconsin to become the head stenographer in the adver- tiseing department of the Gillette Safety Razor Company at Boston. Several years later her ability won recognition in her apointment to the position of advertiseing manager in this great corporation, whose cap itol is $13,0o0,000.
 Mary E. Orr, who became acting treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Remington Type writer Company, began her career as for the company.
 Leona M Mills who now draws VI efio'' d SVdl os noSc1ioet Clerk of the Appropriation Commit tee of the Government, began as Civil Service stenographer at Wash ington a few years ago.
 It is said that Catherine Harrison, for many years confidential secretary to Henry H. Rogers, the associate of John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil business drew a salary in excess of s40,000 year. It is also said that In the coarse of her long association with the above company she accu- a fortune of over million dollars.
 Zelda Sears, the well-known actor ass, was formerly stenographer to Clyde Fitch, the author and play write This position brought her in contact with the stage and lead to her latter triumphs.
 Miss Inez Barton holds the very lucrative and eXacting position of secretary to John Hays Hamm ond, the famous mineing engineer, whose salary is reported to be more than s1, 100000 a year. Miss Barton is Mir. Hammonds right hand man.