OCR Text |
Show HEAD OF WESTERN UNION nillllllltiiUyillllllll!) I-Ioiit. Col. Robert C. Clowry, president ot the Xll Western Union, Is charged by O. 1). Hunks, ot " T Salt ,j1,Ih' (1"5' wlt" being "The tnoanest man In tllH wo,,u'" l,,ul ''resident Siniill, tbo strike leader, f-tf V quotes the churge approvingly. He says that the W 'JS r'jj agreement entered Into after the last strike was tit " u w,"fu"v Violated, by Col. dowry's subordinates. Illl il ' and t,iat mu"' ot ,no operators were never taken '$t$tti,f ' rA nacl' (,r wcro 80 harassed Iml lloy ,m(l Wnnlly II IlliwVV' '!$ ll I lllll Co' Clowry '""' m,t u" l0I'Ulnr '"" tnc )rilJ' llllllllll sl'lkorH b,lt certainly Is with the directors of i VV xll tno co,"l,un'- 11 ,8 cr' cars ugo that ho entered V M the olllce of the company In .lollot, 111., and asked VijVijt. I for a Job us messenger, offering to work for six VV Tip months for nothing, In order to learn telegraphy. At the end of six months he was given an office In Lockport, nnd from that time his rife bus been steady, till ho completed his fiftieth year of service by rising to the position of president of the company. com-pany. Ills rulo hns always been to do moro than the company paid him for, nnd It Is a rulo ho applies to others us well as himself. When the civil wnr broke out he offered his services to the government und wus given charge of a department with the rank of cnptnln. His work commended Itself to the government and ho retired from the army at the close of the wnr with tho rank of lieutenant colonel. JH Col. Clowry has always been a lonely man since his wife died In early life, leaving him without a single child. He gavo up society then and has jH never taken to It slnco. He finds his pleasures among men of his own age JH and tastes and In business. |