Show the boyhood 0 of famous famosi S vy ar americans iw erald james jamea A farrell white collar jobs were not easy for or boys bos to get fifty years ago A youn young gaer ser had to take what 7 was offered him film and at a small s 1 w wage a g e to too 0 ile II 11 a 1 y v worked long hours houra r and lle lie generally i T did what the boys boa of today would woud consider a ma inana a work james jamea A farrell was no different from the tha run of job seeking boys of ills hla time ile iia quite sixteen when lie he had to go to work ills father lost his life at sen sea and the lads earnings were needed at home lie he was husky for tits his age ue he had no trouble getting a job as a laborer in the plant of the new haven wire company ile he was paid a week for twelve hours dally daily of backbreaking work vork suet such i a life tit fit in with the plans young ran farrell ell had bad made when he was attending grammar school in new haven conn ile iio was born in that city in 1807 the son of a ship owner who ills his own craft ills father was in comfortable circumstances cum stances lie ile counted on giving hla his son the benefit of a college education but the elder parrell farrell met mc with reverses and went down at sea with ills ship before lie ho was able to get ills his son eon started d in life with the advantages of a higher education the tha youngster brood oyer over tits changed circumstances no ile went out and got a job lie he have hate found a much harder one with tits his sturdy body and good health he was ft as able to hold ills his end up with the grown gron men with whom he be worked tired as ho he was when he returned homo home at night he ha studied and read good books ile he going to he be cheated of an education even it if lie did have hae to work as a day laborer lie he made such progress in his work that lie he became a mechanic when lie he was seventeen years old here again he showed allowed an ability to work nork long hard bard and intelligently by the time he was nineteen he was a foreman over 01 er workmen and earning 30 a month As a boy lie he had made several voyages with his father these trips aroused tits his interest in geography lie ile poured over the maps of far away places when he fie studied at night after a hard day in the mills ile he would memorize tits his self taught lessons and then draw the maps from memory filling in the important cities rivers moun mountains ta ins and seaports sen ports in this way he cultivated a nici memory nory that was to serve him in good stead inter ter la in life ills his associates say eay that lie he never forgets an important matter that lie he once once files away in hla his head early in tits his career tie fie was as uhle able to call oft off fact and figures without having to refer to books or statements the boy found it hard bard at first to cultivate a good mem memory ciry but lie fie kept doggedly at ills his plan to remember the facts lie he thought he might need soon the task came easy to him lie he had bad been quite a trader when he be was a little fellow ile he swapped marbles jack knives and other treasures of boyhood with his playmates lie he seldom got the worst of a deal ile he had the instincts of a good salesman before he entered the steel business a as s a lad of fifteen it was natural enough that he turn to salesmanship after he learned the iron and steel industry from the I 1 ground up when ills chance came caine to sell steel products pio ducts lie made a notable record he the hall fiat 1 fellow well met type a mixer and a back cr but he knew his bis goods and lie he was later to gain the title of americas greatest international salesman tile the future head of the united states steel corpora corporation tion lad a long and hard row to hoe before lie ho became a salesman and fulfill the promise of his schoolboy days as a smart trader after nine years gears work in new uaen he went to pittsburgh ile he had made up tip its his mind to learn all there was to know about the dreel business lie ile was convinced that ritts pittsburgh burgh the beat t of the industry held belld an opportunity for him future events proved the wisdom of f ills his change he fie was soon assistant superintendent of a mill after having having worked in the white hot lipat 0 of f the blast furnaces and tolled baro bare to the waist in the rolling roiling plant lie he was as promoted to the and later was waa made general manager ile he was learning how to make steel and not forgetting a tiling thing tie lie lind had learned in the past ills ilia company finally dually put him in harge charge of sales for the united states with headquarters in new york ile he was so successful that the steel corporation po ration hired him tind and sent him film to europe in clinage of sales here tits his knowledge of foreign conditions that had its beginning in his fits study of foreign geography as aa a boy helped him to establish a sales record that success brought tile boy who wl 0 started as a a laborer at a the presidency of the stoel steel corporation one of the worlds greatest industrial du positions 10 byThe by the north koirth A american ala nt newspaper New paper alliance Alli anc |