Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-19
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SECRETS OF SUCCESS.

HOW THE "KINGs OF BUSINESS" AT THE NORTH
MADE THEIR MONEY.
James Parton has been lecturing in New
York on the "Kings of Business" We make
some extracts from the Iribune's report:
THE MAGNITUDE OF RICHES.
1 can we'll believe the familiar story of
John Jacob Astor's saying that "a man who
is worth S250,000 is just as we'll off as though
he were rich" The mind easily becomes ha-
bituated to these new magnitudes. Thomas
Brassey, the English railroad contractor, had
at one time $4,000 men in his employ, whose
wages came to about S500,O00 week, and
they were at work in eight countres-Eng-
land, France, Spain, Italy, Venezula, Canada
and Australia. He wrote note one day Or
dering 10000 wheelbarrows and 5000 wag-
ons. In the course of forty years he construc-
ted, or helped to construct $50 railroads, and
he did all this with less fuss and worry than
many man experiences in running peanut
stand. We have a greater than Thomas
Brassey in Cornelius Vanderbilt, who, at
eighty, quietly made up his mind that the
time had come for US to have four-track
railroad between New York and Buffalo.
Some one said to him, II don't know of any
four-track roads," II DON'T" said he, "but
the Central must have two more tracks, and
I hope to live to see them laid" Aud prob
ably he will The care Of an estate of s40,-
100000 and the management of all his rail-
roads only occupy two hours day, and dur
ing that short time he does not appear to be
very busy. By three o'clock he is usually on
the road, erect, magnificent, driving pair Of
fast horses, in an open buggy, unattended
And now the question occurs: Who are these
uncrowned monarchs Of the modern world ?
Who are they? Where do they originate ?
BY what means do they accumulate these
great resources? In what respect do they
differ from the men who attempt similar
career and fall out Of the course disabled and
defeated? Is it their virtue or their want of
virtue, that give the success? These are in
teresting questions, because these men are the
masters of our modern world. They carry
the purse, and pay everybody, and it is appa-
rently law of nature that the hand which
signs the check wields the power. As rule,
these kings of business begin life near the bot
tom of what is called the social scale. They
generally begin very poor Crabb Robinson
records that the late Lord Southampton ap-
piled to the bishop of LlandaF for advice how
to bring up his son that he would get forward
in the world. Il know of but one way" re-
piled the bishop. "Give him parts and pow
erty." "Well, then," said the father, who
was noted for his free living, "If God has
given him parts, will manage as to the pow
erty." Another English nobeman, Lord
Derby, mentioned curious circumstance in
point the other day. At a gathering in Aus.
trala four people met, three of whom were
shepherds on sheep farm. One of these had
taken degree at Oxford, another at Cam
bridge, and the third at German. The fourth
was their employer, squatter, rich in tiocks
and herds, but scarcely able to read and write,
much less to keep his own accounts. But |
venture to say the squatter knew sheep, knew
| land, knew markets, knew wool. 1t is al un-
questionable fact that both in Australia and
! America these founders Of huge business are,
as a rule, unlettered men, whose college was
a rough, hard, long grapple with material
things. tbs also true that they usually take
hold, very early in life, Of some plain work
that lies under their noses, and keep to that
until it issues into something large and mag
nhcent. The wealthest and the most power
full house of business in Europe is that of the
Rothschilds. The founder of the house, one
hundred years ago, was a boy in his fathers
money changing office at Frank fort.on the
Main He discovered that some of the coins
in which his father dealthad an artificial value
as specimens, and he used to spend the first
day of the week-the Jews idle day-in pick
ing out such coins from the mass for sale to
collectors. That was the beginning cf his
career. He took hold, you will observe, of
the work that lay most obviously before him.
HOW SOME MEN HAVE BECOME RICH
Isaac Rich, who left million and three
quarters year or two ago to found college
in Boston, began business thus: At eighteen
he came from Cape Cod to Boston with three
or four dollars in his possession, and looked
about for something to do, rising early, walk.
ing far, observing closely, rejecting much.
Soon he had an idea {: He bought three BUSH
els of oysters, hired wheebarrow, found a
piece Of board, bought six small plates, six