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MESSENGER BOY CLIMBS HIGH, t ^ Part of Boyhood Spent in Columbia, t Not Educated But Ambitious. ? A New York dispatch says: To be a messenger boy at 11 and i a master of finance at 21 ontfictions ? the wildest flights of the late Ho- < ratio Alger, who threw an irnpres- i 8ive but impossible glamour around I the struggles of the "Ragged Dick" ( heroes who came to the metropolis < to do and to dare. t But a young man who spent part Sfcf. of his boyhood days in Columbia, S. s !., has turned the trick. He is Geo. 1 P. Breen and just a few days ago he I arrived at man's estate, although in appearance he is still a boy. Today he is the junior member of the firm of James O'Brien & Co., * stock brokers. Just ten years ago young Breen came to New York. He was 11 years of age, but he was full of boyhood 1 enthusiasm and ready to grapple ] with life in the busiest mart in the * f world. At first he was bewildered, * for he was alone and he had $3.20 in 1 his pocket?all that stood between 1 him and begging, but Breen is not s III the type to beg. t / Starts as Messenger Boy. 1 He had only a smattering of book 1 knowledge and after going from place ( to place to secure any kind of work | ? that was offered he finally secured a 4 position as messenger boy in the firm of Hayden, Stone & Co. * ?. The busy life of the street?-and, * ; those undercurrent stories of fabu- 1 lous fortunes made overnight? * j;' thrilled him and fired his irnagina- 2 tion. He lived at a home for self- 1 supporting boys on Tenth street and ( he saved his money. He soon learn- 1 ed that to win success it was neces- * sary to create an atmosphere of sue- J p cess and so his savings went toward ( replenishing his wardrobe, and in this way, coupled with his alertness, 1 ~ he attracted the attention of his em- ( S&K'; ployers. i j He was induced to go to a Y. M. C. * A. night school and here he began 1 ? ; . polishing up his education. He was 1 soon taken into the office in a cleri- I St ^ ; cal position, but he ddn't remain v long. . 1 Mad? Private Secretary. 1 fi James Phillips, Jr., a big financier, < .s singled him but and took him into 1 his office and later made him his 1 private secretary. It was under this < financier's shrewd tutoring that he i began to learn the maze of intricacies 1 that one must know of high finance 1 before one can be successful in Wall 1 |L street. ~ Once Phillips was called to Europe < and he left his affairs in charge of young Breen. There were days of 1 darkness in Wall street?and houses < ' were going to the wall with every t ominous click of the ticker. Breen 2 faced such a situation for his em- * player and by several shrewd and 1 well-thought-out moves saved the financial life of his chief. This was ^ & - the test that showed his'mettle. . O'Brien .Reaches New York. In 1915 James O'Brien came to " New York. He was the son of a , | prominent family in Montreal and i -was starting out to make his way in a the world. He was interested in mines and worked as a miner in Ari- i zona and Alaska, learning the busi- I ness from the ground up. His rise, i tbo, was spectacular and in casting I about for some one to help him share d the burdens and responsibilities he f wag attracted to young Breen?then f V % 4-n iho. firct flneh of his nrosDeritv. 2 He went after him and he placed him \ in his office and made him a junior t ly, member of the firm. \ Thus at 21 Breen becomes, through s his association with O'Brien, one of p the youngest financial giants in New f York. During the past year he has h more than trebled his fortune. a He has been so busy making money that he has not had time for the finer a . sentiments and so it is that he is s single. " b Neither Smokes Nor Drinks. r * He is a well-set-up young man r with a clear eye and a firm hand- v grasp. He does not smoke and he s does not drink and he declares that fi he never will. h V"In my few short years in Wall I street," he says, "I have seen good, v strong, clean-cut young men start t out drinking a cocktail before lunch, b They came back to their offices full b of what Broadway is pleased to call t 'pep.' Soon they were requiring two li cocktails and later they would dis- o appear. Weeks later they would re- t -* -? ll- -x J. ? X _ 1 ^ 1. xurn io trie streets to uunuw a, utiie i] small change from old-time friends, a / "It was the strain that did it. Per- b haps some people can take a drink t and let it alone, I do not know, but e I do not believe they can do it in Wall street." < v Spent a While in Columbia. b Breen was born in Toledo, O., but fi his father was of a roving disposi- o tion and he saw a great deal of the 1< country. His father went through e the South, living at Meridian for two b years and going from there to New Orleans, Knoxville, Columbia, S. C., h and winding up at Asheville, N. C., for three years. Then he came to the h middle west and worked in Colum- F >us, Ohio., Dayton, Charleston, W. /a., and Clarksburg, W. Va., and by his time young Breen decided to cut iway for himself and so he came to s'ew York. "I would not advise any man to go nto Wall street," says Breen, "unless is a prime requisite he has a strong ronstitution. Secondly, he must be villing to start in as a messenger )oy. There is no royal road to sue- 4 jess in the street, in my opinion, save* >ver the lowly paths that are trod by he humbled messenger. "The messenger, who is a keen observer, learns things for himself that t would take others years to teach lim." HUNTED fcY POSSE, SHOT. r flayer of Marlboro Rural Policeman ^ Fatally Wounded While Resisting. Bennettsville, Sept. 29.?Henry Lewis, the negro who shot and killed Ftural Policeman E. J. Alsbrooks a :ew days ago, died in the jail here ;his afterrioon as the result of ivounds received while resisting ar est this morning. Sheriff Patterson received word last night J ;hat Lewis was in this county and im- ^ nediately summoned a posse to ar- | -est him. For a time he eluded the )fficers, although it was known in a general way the section of the county ie was in. ? The bloodhounds were brought lere from Columbia early this mornng, and additional information was 'eceived by the sheriff and the oficers in pursuit of the negro's where- * ibouts and he was finally traced to i swamp. The swamp was surrounded and three of the party, Dr., J. A. tVoodley, Mr. Marlboro Hamer, and \Ir. Edgar David, Jr., were at the lead of a branch when the negro lame out. B He was ordered to throw up his I lands and surrender, and instead of I loing so he commenced firing, shoot- | ng a thirty-eight calibre pistol three :imes when a bail rrom one 01 me party shot the fingers off his right I land,, causing him to turn loose his I ?un. After this Lewis ran about one lundred yards and got into a ditch vhere he was overtaken and brought ;o Bennettsville. It was found that :wo balls had passed entirely ;hrough his body and from the.na;ure of the wound it was evident that t was inflicted by an automatic " vhich was fired by Dr. Woodley. Af- ^ x ;er reaching Bennetsville medical aid G vas summoned and Drs. May and a Jordan did everything that could be * lone, but the wounds were fatal. Rewards in the amount of $300 lad been offered for the arrest and lelivery of Lewis, and those who ook part in the arrest unanimously isked that the rewards be collected tnd presented to the family of the ate rural policeman. See those 25c Fountain Pens at Fhe Herald Book Store. WAR'S LATEST GHOSTS. ;Continued from page 2, column 2.) n sheer weariness, they assented, tnd he went and found the book. "He was a man deeply interested n the occult, and from time to time le was able to gather further details n sleep, so that when the teller of tis story met him, the invention was [early complete. He was utterly conident of its practical success. Apart rom the details of his invention ;ained in sleep, he became familiar nth the plots of the Germans, and hat they were trying to wrest his inention from him in sleep. He also aid that, before they took this des icable means of gaining knowledge or nothing, they had tried to steal lis model, and there had been two ,ttempts on his life. "His chief enemy was a well-known ,nd highly placed woman in London ociety, who, unsuspected, spied for ler government in circles where she' aoved without shadow of suspicion esting on her. But in sleep, she ^aged many an astral fight to wrest ecrets which would have been of ininite value to those who employed ier, from the unwary sleeper. A J had innumerable encounters rith this emissary, but the utter fuility of trying to explain the intangiile to persons in power is too well :nown for him to lay himself open o the charge of being a meddling jnatic; though he knew, as did many ither psychically inclined people, hat she was a spy of the worst type, ie held his peace. It is difficult to rrest an astral spy who hovers nebulously above Portsmouth, or above hose prohibited areas where the for igner is forbidden to penetrate. "All this happened a couple of ears ago. In August, 1914, the war roke out. Very recently some ofcers returning from Germany told f reading while there of a marvelous invention useful in war for Zeplins and submarines, and proceeded o describe what seemed to be the ealously guarded invention of our ero. 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