The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-08

tune, but his business doubled IT, and his
marriage TO a Lorillard triplod it,
Mr.. Hendricks, also, Inherited wealth,
aud 10y assiduity and care he has greatly
added to it. Copper did the work for him.
MIR Roosevelt Inherited SI0O,000, mauy
years ago, when tho posSessor OF 100000
was a very rich man, lie attended to his
business ami ate the bread Of careCulucSs,
nevertheless. lie grew richer, and richer,
aud having money TO invest, he seized
upon good property in the city OF New
York. lie always saw aftcr the interest
account never lot it run against him, aud
his purchases were always made with this
in view. How much ls luck, how much
prescicucc in this world, who can say
His purchase, some forty years ago, of the
Broadway front, between Thrirteeuth aud
Fourteenth streets, for some S25, 600, results
now in milton,
We come at last to the two mon on the
list who inherited nothing, but who have
become milljonaires through their own right
hands. Que of these is Yankee, pure and
simple, the other is Scotch Irish,
Mr.. Lotl was born poor he will die rich.
He camo to New York because III New
York were possibilities creator than in New
England. He learned the business of
merchant, aud worked in it indeIatigably,
in days when it was more possible for
poor man to grow rich than it is now, By.
aud 10y he got his own machine started.
aud grst cnmc to his mill which he ground
to his own profit. Dry-goods are of moro
universal use than even tobacco, aud
therefore present opportunities lor great
fortunes.
But the most remarkable machine Of mod
crn times is the Que which has been con
strucled, and is TOW controlled by MI,
Stewart. This vast complex, aud complete
structure has been raised, combined, made,
in the short space OF II life tinic all since
tho year 1929, when this young Scotch
Irish adveuturer landed on our shores to
seek that unlimited success which nowhere
else could have hoon so speedy and SO
marked. In forty years ho has organized
this machine las term it), which enables
him TO gather and concentrate the manu-
lacturers of the known world, and to dis
tribute Them again to the ten million women
of America. to an amount III dollars of
seventy millions u year. For forty years
he has been at work, with paticuce and
care aud forelhought, 10 accomplish this
result He has never rested, he has mover
slept. lie has iorcgonc all that mauy men
value, all pleasures and ambitions. Friend.
ships aud hatreds, societies aud philauthro.
pics, tho".ies aud philosophers, havo been
contemned and made quite subordinate to
this main and only purpose of his life, He
has done what he set himself to do. and has
done it SO we'll that he has secured success
and amassed millions. There is no hOcos .
| poCuS about Vt. This wonderful success
is entirely due to the fact that he has done
| his business a little better than anybody
else, and has duue it longer. lie has
bought cheaper aud sold cheaper than his
| ncighbors, aud so the world is at his
feet Aud because of this, his machine
| has enabled him to draw out OF the earn.
ings of the producer and consumer vast
annual income, W hiCh has grown by accre-
tiou to Il fortune OF perhaps $50 100000 -
almost three quarters of million a year
for his whole working life. Now, Mr.,
| Stewart is chilllcss he can not, in this
| country, found u dukodom or dynasty
what possible purpose can he propose to
himself to stimulate him to the work which
nf I m ,amt i,'"- ' III i' a.. ~" 4StiSrEwrn&lio Er
men are ready, or fancy they are, to take
their ease, to begin to enjoy, to put the
laboring oar into othar and younger hands
Not so this man. lie is as careful aud
pains taking as ever he works early aud
late; he gets his work done hy others al
the smallest possible price. His machine
means business, not philanthropy. llc
does not propose to make the lives Of his
employees more easy, or moro luxurious
or more happy-that is their affair. Ills is
to perfect his machine and make it the most
thorough in tho world ; and as far rs one
can see, he will die doing it.. If ho hns au
ambiton--and who can tell what is inside
man Pit may be to show what a vast and
complete thing can DO organized and
worked by the persistent and well directed
energies of one man living one life
| II this be his ambition he seems likely
| to reach it.
II the estimate of ono mans yearly pro
ducton $500 to 81 ,000) be correct, and if
Mr.. Stewart sells goods to the amount OF
$4,000, 900 year, it follows that he handles
| the productions Of some seventy or eighty
thousand men. Now, if he extracts bui
one dollar each from their earnings for the
use of his machine, it amounts to the very
pretty figure of $50 600 per anunm If from
each ter dollars, then it is $500 600, and Sc
on. He has reported an income, in one
year, Of some $4,000 600.