Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1868-07-31
10. 2S. PARIS MAINE FRIDAY JUJy 81 1oeo

Nis captain OF industry, TO tud him a brIs K
and smiling young gcn;emin Of thirty. two
thought u must be mistake. | supposed
ha was the son OF 1.-THE old man. Bot no /;
be was the vcritlblc founder. chief O oxner
and manager OF five extensive iron works
aud during the war he had worked a con.
tract for supplying an army with biscuit.
Tins yonngstcr of thirty.two had done the SO
things and with the generosity natural 10
youth hc was in the habit OF givin, away
SZ9.OJo year to the benevolent operations
OF the city. This young fellow had been
Injured 10 work and TO yesponsibilty from
his boyhood. aud hc carried on these lar,,e
enterprises with nm ease and gaity wonder
lul to witness
/ Few Pcrsous have looked into the lives
OF 50 many remarkable men as I have. vet,
cannot call 10 mind one OF the acknovl.
edged kings Of bu siness who did not in
early Iiic.serve long. rigorous apprentice
ship, TO some occupation akin to ,ha, which
he afterwards exercised, and in which his
great success was made.
Vanderbilt, for example. was boatm,n.
slooP captain and steamboat captain. for
nineteen years before he set up for himself
IN the business Of building and runninr
steamboats,. in which he gained more mon.
"y than was ever before gllned in a single
lifetime. except by plumber There is not
to'diy,In the whole worId.a man who knows
rs much about steamboats, and steamship,
as this same Cornelius Vanderbilt.
A''or, IL another illustration He learn
ed the ilr business from the voty rudimcnts.
lie used 10 beat lurs from morning tall night
IN his masters back shop, and after doing
this awhile, hc used to take a baskc, of
trlukeis and nick naeks and 20 round among
the sloops and markets. driving hard bar.
gains with boatmen, Indians and market.
men for such skins as they had brought TO
town. BY and-by he shonlderei bis pack
aud tramped The country Tor pel,ries; and.
eNtcuiIu: las Journey at length he became
familiar with every place, every tribe. and
every person connected with the fur trade
IN North America. Then hc went to En.
rope. and learned all about the market for
furs and their prices in every part of the
world. Few men have ever understood n
thing 50 well a Mr.. Aston understood the
business OF collecting. curing and selling
iur,, IL knew u, not as A clerk might
have known II; be knew it as man knows
tho trade TO which h. had served long
apprenticeship under a wltchfil and exact.
ing master.
Another ease ia point was the FIRST Roth.
-chIld. who, from his TIVE Iih 10 his twenty
seventh year. laboriously acquired knowl.
edge Of money. first as erranl.boy and
money counter to his father, and afterwards
as bankcrs clerk
Girard, too, was a thorough sailor before
he ever owned a ship, and was personally
familiar with most OF the commercial ports.
long before he ever consigned a cargo to
one Of them.
There is my valued friend John Gorbam,
OF Providence, ihs head OF the largest man.
uiactory OF silver ware, in the world. lie
did not 20 into his fathers couniing-room
as clerk, but into his fathers shcp as an
apprentice AMI be learned how to DO with
his own hands whatever lac has since haG to
d;,oc, other, =, 1,;.,.,
,,.urI ..x,,,,l.. .r,. ,,o,h.-, ,u
ny acquauttnccs with business men tcacb-
.,. u,,, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. -. 80"
in oL,.ioc.,. :, s,,,,,,,.,,.,I -,
edge such knoslcdge A. T.. only acquired
by becoming practically familiar with meth.
od, aud proeesscs-. such knowledge in fact.
a, man gets by takin, hold Of work. and
doing it until be can do i, easily and per.
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