The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-02-15
OUR RICH j. n MEN


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The New York correspondent of the Troy
Times says: Having referred to industry as
the chief necessity to sWeeteh existence, let
me add something upon the fabOrfous habits of
our leading business men. Many young men
look forward to the time when they shall be
released from labor, and they have notion
that the rich men Of this city lead what is
called an "easy life" This Ideals very erro-
neous. Our successful men not only have been
but c0ntinue to be hard workers. l. 1t is true
there are persons who have inherited wealth,
and therefore yield themselves to Incidence
and dissipation, but their experiences quickly
prove the truth of the old saying, that the fool
and his money are soon parted. Our rich
business men work beeause habit has become
second nature, and they would be miserable If
they were idle" We have no rich drones, for
drone would never become rich. Let us
look at the industry of a few Of our own self.
made men. Here is 3o....r.4.;s4.
..., MOSES TAYLOR, ,-ts .o,i+a-...,
who is about three score and ten, and is esti--
mated at FIVE millions. Surely such a man,
one might say, ought to rest.n So far from this,
however, he is almost as busy as ever.i He
was noted as an active dealer and far-sighted
merchant, and since he retired from trade he
has enough to d. in the vast field of finance
Mr.. Taylor is President of the City Bank,
which is one OF the heaviest of our WalLstreet
institutions He would be. extremely misera-
BILE if he did not visit that institution every day,
and spend an hour in overlooking It's operations
in q manner which some nen would call labo-
rlous. After this is dune one may meet in the
Wall-street crowd that form, little and erect,
and that penetrating countenance, which seems
as much on the alert as when he was a poor
clerk. -Four o'clock finds him at his home,
with a racked brain and a weary body, but a
fine dinner restores his tone, and after an hour
of social small talk and a drive to the Park,
he retres to his private Office and enters into
deep and vexatiUus calculation which con-
tinues until bed time. Do you inquire what
can it be which thus drives a rich man 80 In
tensely? / reply, he has a large number OF
vacant lots, which should be covered with
houses. and the architects plans and the build
ers' contracts are to be examined. He has
shares in banks, in gas companies, and in other
stocks all of which must be looked after. And
if he does not finish his work as rapid
ly as each day brings it before him., iit
would soon accumulate in very burdenseme
manner. Such, then, is the life Of a FIVE mil
lion man. ea @e. 13H~3s"s@g 9.a2s 9&Hpi ~
.a# THE COMMODORE. 59 e4h @oih9
He has worked hard more than sixty years.
OF late he has abated the intensity of the ap-
plication, but still labors from fTe to six hours
a day in very close manner. He has just
completed the greatest railway depot for trav-
elers in this city, and this is a mate to the
great depot in St. Johns Park. The Commo-
dore must work to save himself from sheer
misery. Idleness would be to him the great
est of misfortunes. els also determined that
his children shall be working men. The larg.
est part of his property will come into their
hands, and he knows that it is only industrious
habits that can keep them 10 possession. To
such man as the Commodore the idea of re-
tirement is repulsive. Activity is his life, and
business is an elysium. Each day brings its
either of loss or Of gain, and at its
close he feels the pleasure resulting from exer-
else of the faculties both of body and mind. pi9
STEWART. eI Igae7is .2Gld1
1t is well known that this man is a marvel
of industry. Like Vanderbilt, he is about sew.
enty-6ve, but he looks much younger than the
former. Vanderbilt may have felt the impell-
ing consciousness of a family to sharpen his
application, but Stewart has neither chick
nor child" He works in simple obedience TO
MS nature, which demands it. Stewart ana
Vanderbilt are the great exponents of twoyde!
oartments OF business, the one being q .mer-
,hant prince and the other a railroad king
10 not know that they have ever met, and the
greatness of this city is shown by containing
wo such men without collision of interesta
It is the opinion of good judges of character,
hat if Stewart had been bred to military life
le would have been the greatest general or the
Ige. What would not have been accomplished
" such method and such industry +, Having
cached old age, and with property estimated
It from thirty to forty millions, he must still
10 his days work. td o97s179si9g ahuS1i aii"
AWAY TO KILL GEEsE--O One Tom Moaes
7, Of Stockton, ia responsible for this storys-.
Jp in the vicinity Of Grayson, on the west
ide of the river, since the STERN wild geese
ave become 80 numerous as tondo seriofs