The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-07-14
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Instances of Success in New York.
4 A New York letter writer. gives
\ poor clerks and others In like cir.
cnnstahces the following encour.
i twas said of Lord Nelson that
/ he eventually, became captain of
1 the eafne ship in which he fret. et.
| tered rs midshipman. The event
isssosrafe that it WAS made q mat,
ter of special note. We are re.
minded of this by the election of
Thomas dickson to the Presidency
| OF the Delaware and Hudson Ca.
nal Company This is one Of the
largest coal corporations In the
! Union, welding capital Of $780,.
! 100000, and owning inore than
two Hundred miles Of canal and
railway, besides thousands of acres
of coal land. More than forty
years ago q poor Scotch rflachinist
songht work in the company's
chop in Carbondale. He was an
excellent mechanic, and remained
in this service until his death. His
sons found employment with the
company, and one of them has
! gradually risen in a remarkable
manner. Hewas made coal agent,
and then elected Vice President,
and last week assumed the Presi.
dency of that great corporation
where his father served with file
and cold chisel. Mr.. Dickson is
about As; his salary will be about
! $4,000. -
We have some other instances
of a similar kind which, though of
lesser Importance, carry lesson
Of the value Of patient application.
Here is Oscar Dixie, man of very
plain and unattractive appearance,
who entered Nicoll's ten warehouse
as clerk twenty years ago, and is
now the chief man t the firm of
Townsend, Church IL Dixie, who
succeeded Nicoll, and who are
now doing an immense business.
Going a little farther up street we
reach Exchange Place, where we
note the tall and commanding form
of Sol. Humphreys. Twenty years
ago, when Solon Humphreys was
a STRIPPING from Hartford, he en-
tered the service OF z. d. Morgan
& Go. Our next Tax Commission
er, George I'll. Andrews, affords
another illustration. When first
we knew him he was q slender
youth who earned small weekly
stipend in the Office of the Courier
and Enquirer lie eventually be-
came the controlling mind of that
journal, and had he been 8 entire
owner it would have had differ,
ent destiny. ..... ......,.a.
| There, too, is jeremiah Quinlan,
whom once we knew as a ragged
Irish boy, employed by Andrew
Ross, the glassware fnth,r to open
boxes. jerry," as he was called,
] became the chief man in the con
cern, and has taken the business.
which lie carries on in a large
warehouse. Thela;e Bernard Gra.
ham also affords a striking exam.
pie. lie was a poor Irish laborer,
and as such obtained porter's
situation in tire great shipping
house of Peter Harmony & Co.
| From this humble beginning lie
rose to the supremacy OF the firm,
which at the time was the largest
importing house in this city. Will
liam III. Swan, who Commenced
with Grihnel!, Minturn & Co, in
1S49. is now the leader of that
concern. These examples show
that perseverance and ability may
bring the huInblest beginner tt
eninence, and they serve to cheer
the poor clerk in his hours of des.
pondency. Our poor clerks, in
deed, need some c o fiiforti N 9
thoughts, and il they were not thus
afforded many of them would sink
in despair. .t,
. TURNIPs FOR PIGs.-A CORES
pondent of the Country. Gentle
man, planted q few. acres of tar
mps which We're large enough te
begin to feed the first week in in
ly, when they were ted to pigs and