Show the boyhood bo y hood t of famous vr ty americans wier ij walter chrysler Chrysl cr the boy spent ills tits line tale iho the old wood burning engines of tile union ia pa 1 putter sputter and chug into thi hops shops for reptiles re i airs and overlin alLIg ile ie I 1 chatted w with I 1 it h t 11 0 mechanics sometimes being gruffly ordered y to get out of the villy ran i egrrande tor for them when hen they U 1 were C re good natured a and nd at learned as be he watched it abat b a it killed skilled nanda hands can do wondrous thing 9 the proper tool tools thus ilius waller walter Ui chrysler early in life developed the liking for mechanics that has aided him so much in gaining such a signal success later on in life lie ile was gs horn born in vi western estern kansas in 1870 1876 ariego aro ego a typical hamlet was his birthplace III ills father an engina r for tha union pacific moved to kills ellis a nearby win when villen walter aas a tittle little fellow the lad ind grew up there in the atmosphere of engines and the din of if repair work for the shops of the union pacific were located at ellis he ile would watch his father tart start his run in the primitive loco mothes moth cs of half halt a century ego ago he ile would be waling for him on an his return from across the prairie the yot youngster ingster aspired to follow in the ft foot footsteps of tila his fillice ft end d lecorre a first class mechanic he ile inherited a liking for machinery from his parent the contacts and associations of the railroad centar served to strengthen his in he ile new neier thought serl bously of following any career other than n mechanical one the elder chrysler the first coal burning locomotive owned by the union which Is in di ol catlon leation enough that he was as re ro girded as the pick of the en angi 1 I on the road ills ilia son came naturally enough by his median leal tell bent it would seem the I 1 ills round houi and shops siw much of young chrysler in the t he could spare from school during the summers he lai hac e so much time to loiter around the railroad shops he ile n orbed for a grocer as an errand boy and clerk in the vacation periods ills helped the finlly times were none too good in kansas in those diy daiy aln 11 he was seventeen and had received the he best common school education he could in ellis he dwelled that it was high time for him blin to begin to earn tits own living and to noulie nc ulie a trade he ile tied t led and parsed an elamin atlon to become a zt a apprentice in the fills flits shops he ile had to male his on own n tools as he bp wei nei it along ills lit kit consisting of assorted sorted cail calipers pers ahlders hal till alced gimners limners lim ners test and combination square was nil made with his ills on win hands before he lie was nas elg eighteen hleen after a year in the shops he wis sl sallied 1110 enough to build a miniature steam loco mothe it 1 was complete in cery eiery detail in eluding air brakes he ile built a track in his ills back yard and gae gaie demonstrations of how boil the con would run tired as he was from a hard hird dis w rk in the shops the oung ster md and books banks on engineering subjects to round out the practical Knon knowledge ledge he was gaining as a helper at the wd of four of strict to his job he n was as earn ing 22 2212 cents an hour wt n a first clis journey journeyman me mechanic mec hinic chinte then lie got the itching foot toot and decided to see something of lie the country lie ile worked for a time in petern shops finally set aling in snit I 1 lake ale ity fly where his pay was as 27 cents an hot r there lip lie repaired a loco loca moti es blown blonn off Cill hend in two tuo hours so that it bould pull out the fast mall mail on schedule time tills this feit brought him the job ns as forem in of the colorado A it southern shops in colo next he became superintend nt of mothe potter for the cuifeng Clil Cl ifeng cag great still for knon knowledge ledge and a clintice to broi aroid d en on himself lie accepted the alce as manager of the american locomotive company in pittsburgh he ile got his first chaloe chap in the automobile business thel the BuIck luick com coin piny here he accepted a big salary cut for the opportunity alth hirr file he prospects for the future have ninaus outweighed rewards 11 hat lint he did with ruick general motors nil 11 lys maxwell and his own product concIl conciliates Intes one IT of the tile most outstanding achievements in the automobile in autry today IN 11 are in fit new bork rk where here his fits ancestor tuenis van ion dolmen was the first male child horn born in the tile days when hen the city ity was mas new it Is a far cry from the sun still baked prairies of kansas to a position in a leal lead industry and to offices atop the tile highest building in the metropolis a structure that bears his name but that Is the place to which the box of mide by waltr Lh chrysler on his firca job helped carry him he ile still has haq the implements that skirted him on no the pith to aime and fortune nor has be forgotten how to use them 0 Z 1130 by the north american alliance Att lanc |