Logan Republican | 1903-04-14 | Page 5 | The Way to Succeed

THE WAYTOSUCCUD. Nowadays we read In the public prints much academic advice to young men on tho way to succeed, all of which Is no doubt good and helpful. Tho career of Orcn Hoot, Jr., aged twenty-nine, who has Just been appointed ap-pointed to the highly responsible position posi-tion of general manager of the great Metropolitan street railway system of New York, however, furnishes an Illuminating Illu-minating and concrete lesson on the subject. Ho was graduated from Hamilton Ham-ilton college In 1894. After his graduation gradu-ation he nadeup his mind that the street railway business was to his taste, and he began at the bottom of the ladder. He got a Job as a general workman, a grlpman, a motorman, a conductor, a starter, an Inspector, tin assistant to the general manager, and now he Is general manager of probably the largest urban and lntcrurban railway rail-way system In the world. It Is asserted assert-ed that he won his way without out-sldo out-sldo help and purely by untiring Industry Indus-try and fidelity to all the duties that were assigned to him. If more college bred young men would abjure the overcrowded professions profes-sions and adapt themselves to Industrial Industri-al occupations, being content to begin at the bottom and strive to get to the top by dint of hard and conscientious work, as did young Hoot, we would hear less of tho failures of college graduates.