 There he gained his initial knowledge of the business in which he was destined to progress to the point of notable success.After a year he entered the employ of the W. S. Frazier Road Cart Company of Aurora, large manufacturers of sulkies, road carts, buggies and other horse-drawn vehicles.While there he learned the nature of colors and the methods of grinding and mixing them, working for many hours a day at a stone slab with a flat bottomed conical stone.