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The Book. When Young Ames reaches Manhattan one day in 1833, he is a smart, poker-faced, likeable runaway from an upstate farm, who quickly gets himself a job with one of the best wholesale houses in the city-Chevalier & Deming Post. Young Ames has freckles and unruly hair through...
YOUNG AMES-Walter D. Edmonds -Atlantic-Little, Brown ($2.50).
By such intrepidity Young Ames makes his firm a million dollars. His salary is raised from $75 to $150 a year and he continues to sleep in the garret. He does not really mind because he knows that some day he is going to own a share in the firm...
At its worst Young Ames is exalted Alger. At its best it dramatizes with nostalgia and conviction an attitude toward life which used to be considered the heart of the democratic ideas. The attitude: that a man can make anything he wants of himself if he has the character to...
Harte is president of the American Hardware Manufacturers Association, president of the Ames Baldwin Wyoming Company, and a director of several charitable institutions and industrial companies. He has formerly served as president of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Director of the National Association of Manufacturers. Director of National Industrial...