Business & Finance: Bookkeeper

In Pittsburgh last week directors of the $200,000,000 Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation crumpled up the old formula for making a steel executive—from puddler to president; wrote a new one—book-keeper to president. This they did by electing Charles A. Fisher, one-time bookkeeper, to succeed the late William Larimer Jones as head of their concern. Hardworking, President Fisher yet finds time to be an elder of the Presbyterian Church, superintendent in a Pittsburgh Sunday School.

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