He went to his parents and obtained their consent, and in this way the young lad launched himself upon the sea of business.

There was no holding back a boy like that.
It was the old story.

He soon became indispensable to his employers, obtained a small interest in a collateral branch of their business; and then, ever on the alert, it was not many years before he attracted the attention of Mr.Miller, who made a small investment for him with Andrew Kloman.

That finally resulted in the building of the iron mill in Twenty-Ninth Street.

He had been a schoolmate and great crony of my brother Tom.