Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-22
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Business Success.
FACTS FOR YOUNG MEN.

of the Boston Journal:
A young man coming to this city is
greeted with two kinds of business-one
good and one bad one difficult to obtain,
the other found everywhere Clerkships
in banks, insurance offices and frst-class
stores are hard to be got. Capitalists
create these institutions for their sons and
relatives; few die and none resign. Bar
rooms, concert saloons, low groggeries,
the offices of shysters and quack doctors,
and business of a Observation-Disclosures
are usually open to young men fresh
from the country with good morals; If
they have a dash of piety it is all the
better, for they will not drink nor steal.
The kind of business a man adopts usu-
ally settles the question of his success.
If he has brains and pluck, is content to
wait, does well whatever he does, is not
afraid of earning his money, makes him.
self useful so that he cannot be dispensed
with, he will succeed. He may black
boots, pick rags, shovel coal, be low
porter in store if he has integrity, tai
ent and industry, he will make his for
tune. One of the richest men in New
York began as a porter, and his master
is now bookeeper in his establishment.
One of the most eminent Bank Presidents
in New York to-day came to this city a
penniless boy. Do you want boy
sir 2" he said of gentleman who stood
in his store door. What can you do 2"
" Anything sir, to get an honest living"
Take those boots down stairs where
you'll find some backing, and black
them" The lad soon returned with the
boots in a high state of polish. You've
done those well" said the merchant.
My mother told me to do everything
well, sir, that | did, was the reply. That
answer touched the merchants heart.
He has done everything since, as he
blacked the boots. There is no place in
the land where honesty, industry and in
tegrity, bring better reward. This is
shown in the habits of the few men who
succeed permanently.
A. T. STEWART.
Mr.. Stewart began business in New
York in the smallest possible way He
occupied small store, twelve feet wide,
opposite where his downtown store now
stands. For long time he was his own
porter, salesman and cashier. He lived
in rooms over his store. As he prospered
he boarded his assistants in his family.
He early adopted the rule to buy wholly
for cash, to sell the exact article the pur-
chasers bought, and never to deceive in
quality or quantity. In business no man
disputes Mr.. Stewards integrity. Goods
can be bought by telegraph as well as in
person. He is hard and severe. He
gets dollars worth of service for every
dollar that he pays out, but he does just
as he agrees to with his men, and exacts
from them only what he does himself
He asks no closer attention to business
than he himself pays. He comes down
early, and remains till the store is closed,
and works long after his clerks have gone
home. Every days business is closed be-
fore he leaves if it takes till midnight.
r. & L. STUART.
This firm is so famous in the sugar bus
iness, so wealthy and so liberal, was
founded in 1906. The mother of these
sons, thrown on her own resources, COM
menced making little candy which the
boys sold. People laughed at the idea
of this lone Scotch woman mingling pie
ty with her molasses, and serving God
by making a first rate article of candy.
The success of this article led to the fa-
nous candy business, which has existed
till now, and that led up to the immense
Sugar Refinery, which marks the house.
While in the candy trade no adultera-
ton, no impure sugars, nor bad oils were
allowed. The Stuarts would as soon
have adulterated the coin of the nation.
They sold out their candy trade some
time since. They bound the purchaser
under the most stringent obligations to
manufacture and sell nothing but the
pure article which had made Stuart's
candy so famous The candy of COM
merce-gum drops made of glue, liquor
ish drops made of paste-blacking, lozen-
ges and candy made of Irish clay, fav-
ored with fustic oils, can't be bought at
this house. r. l.. Stuart lives in fine
mansion on Fifth avenue, but Alexander
lives next door to his refinery on Cham
Der street, in plain brick house which
has been his home for nearly half Gen.
tury.
A. V. STOUT.
This gentleman is one of our wealthy
citizens, man of high integrity and one
Of the most influential bankers in New
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