Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — A Chance Friend Made His Fortune. [ARTICLE]

A Chance Friend Made His Fortune.

A pleasant story is told about the son of a very prominent man. When he was a student at Harvard he took a trip West on one of his vacations. He was greatly interested in railroad affairs, and happened to fall into conversation with an elderly man who also happened to know a little about this subject On the way to Chicago they talked about railroads a good -deal and. the young man acquitted himself very creditably. His new friend had introduced himself simply as Mr. Smith, let us say. Mr. Smith and the young college man exchanged personal cards before the trip was ended. Shortly before he was graduated the young man received a flattering offer from a big railroad company, through its President, the same Mr. Smith, call him again. That was several years ago. That young man to day is a rising railroad man, who has already climbed many rounds of the railroad ladder.