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c- merce street by John C. Bridges. I stayed s' with him untii be went oat of business, i- and then I went with the Merchants and 1- Miners’ ”,! HOW COL. JOYCE WEST CP.When Col. Jerome H. Joyce, hotel manof national prominence, organizer of allf. kinds of public enterprises and demon-g strations and big citizen generally, startedh out to make his own llrlng he was not s prophet enough to see what he would fln-d ally come to. His first job he got when he I- was 17 years old and Just out of Loyola College. It was the notion business he en-s tered.His first employment was rrith the old o firm of Hodges Bros., of which former s Mayor Hodges was the head, as a stock s clerk at the princely salary of $5 a week, o The Colonel never had any foolish Idea about getting more than be was worth, e He didn’t think he was a merchant prince y when he drew his first wage, for he i- thought hts services were worth at leastfour times that amount. Perhaps that was the reason for his future success.I held my first Job when Cleveland was first elected,” said the Colonel. ‘‘After theelection there was a great pv*de of rejoicing, and til the wholesale houses had their employes la line. I was in the parade, carrying a cane with a lot of ribbons on It My father. Col. Eugene T. Joyce, who was the colonel of the old Ninth Regiment, was marshal of the Crescent Club in that parade, hut be wasn’t any prouder than I was.“By the time I left Hodges Bros. I was the outside buyer, and because I was under 21 I thought a great deal of myself. We used to get orders from Southern merchants for all »orts of things that we didn’t carry In stock, and it was up to meto go out and buy these things for them and buy them right. I quit the Hodges bouse later and went to New York* to hold a position with Sylvester, Hilton Co. I stayed there five years and then came back to Baltimore to take over the management of this hotel from ay father, s horn I succeeded In ISOS.”WAS A POLICEMAN AT 16.Francis Lawton, Jr.t contract agent of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, president of the Advertising Club and business 'manager of the Paint and Powder Club, besides being a member of many other organizations, doesn’t look aa though he had ever been a policeman, but as a matter of fact that was the flrat important and responsible job be ever held.Mr. Law Jon was a conservator of the peace when he was 16 years old and a pupil
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Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sun, Mar 26, 1911
Page 31
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