ROMANCE OF CAPACITY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14237, 3 March 1917, Page 5

ROMANCE OF CAPACITY.

NEW PARTNER IN A VAST BUSINESS. NEW YORK, January 5. Mr Thomaa Cochran*,' who ten years ago was an obscure employee xri -. a New York fflm of i*eal estate ..agents, arid wh^, owing to. Mack of means, had to \yoi*K his way . t/hroii&h college, has b^cpnie the ' twelfth" ■ partner in ' the worldfamous firm ''of *J. P. Morgan And Co., the ; agents for the ' British GoVefiime.it. TJio new partner, during his •' "Hrst three years at Yale University, enjoyed all ijthe advantages of being'the eohi of a v^ealthy and indulgent father. Business reverses to hi s . father, however, cut off his allowance. The young man, nothing daunted 1 , decided to "work his way through," and when he graduated "had the habit of wo%. ' 'After^ "a y^ai*' of teaching he went* into;: the hardware ■' cpriiihi-ision. busijietu*;" find ,! thre6^years latei* • tobk upi erojjjpymoi'it "oh a -railway, remaining m thi«£ foi' two yeare. - : -.-■'• '' " '' ' -.Jr' Hpnry -'T. Davltfeh,;. a *'ai_i_pviiry ,> ;i df jthi6*l_rvtei^ :-J;- P.- Moi^an,- _uid.h_mi.elf Bchnethitig erf. a • i diseoVerer;"'.came ujbbn the yd ung fnan iA *the ' r e_iV, estate office ten . years __gt», -saV** the ; Tribune. Ad-1 vaaipeihdht was i_ipct." ' v * 1 ' '*• • ' .', ; Mr. Cochran's many-sided; interests and experience are in<_iOated by' the , fact tliat he is a director of numei*pus banking, transportation; copper, hat, submarine, , piano, . iron, .motor, and other companies'. ,