The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-12-03

4NeW i DIX on tne Kings OF BUSINESS"
We make some extracts from the 'Iribune's
report
TIE MAGNITUDE OF RICHES.
| can well believe the familiar story of
John Jacob Astor's saving that "a man
who is worth $3.50 900 is Just as we'll off
as though he was rich The mind easily
becomes habituated to these new mag
nltudes. Thomas Brassey the English
railroad contractor, had at one time S0,-
oOO men in his employ, whose wages came
to about $500, 900 a week, and they We're
| at work in eight countries-England
france, Spain, Italy, Venezuela, Canada
and Australia. He wrote a note one dav
ordering $1,000 Wheelbarrows and 5000
wagons. In the course of forty years he
constructed, or helped to construct. $50
railroads, and he did all this with less
iuss aud worry than many a man expe-
flences N running i peanut-stand We
nave a greater than Thomas Brassev in
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who, at eighty, quiet
" made up his mind that the time had
come for us to have tour-tracl 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 |
nope to live to see them laidh And prob
ably he will The care of an estate of
S40,o0O,O00 and the management of all
his railroads occupy only two hours day
and during that short time he does not APP
pear to be very busy. By three o'clock he
Is usually on the road erect, magnificent,
driving 4 pair of fast horses in an open
buggy, unattended. And now the question
occurs Who are these uncrowned mon
archs Of the modern world? What are
they 4? Where do they originate? BY what
means do they accumulate these great re-
sources? In what respect do they differ
from the men who attempt a similar ca
reer and fall out of the course disabled
and defeated Is it their virtue on their
want Of yirtue that give the success ?
These are interesting questions, because
| these men are the masters OF our modern
world, They carry the purse, and pay
eYerYbody dy, and it is apparently law of
| nature THAI the hand which signs the check
Yields the power. AS a rule, these kings
of business begin life near the bottom of
what is called the social scale. They gen
orally begin very poor, Crabb Robinson
records that the late Lord Southampton
applied to the bishop Of Llandaff for ad-
vice how to bring up his son so that he
would get forward in the world Il know
OF but one way" replied the bishop "Giye
| him parts and poyertyh ''Well, then"
said the father, who was noted for his free
living, if God has given him parts will
manage as to the poverty" Another Eng
lish nobleman, Lord Derby. mentioned a
curious circumstance in point the other
| day. Ats gathering in Australia four peo-
pie met three Of whom were shepherds
on A sheep farm. One of these had taken
a degree at oxford, another at Cambridge,
and the third at a German university. The
fourth was their employer, a squatter. rich
in t1ocks and herds. but scarcely able to
read and write much less to keep mis- Jwn
accounts But | venture to say that the
| squatter knew sheep knew land. knew
markets, knew wool Itis an unquestion-
able fact that both in Australia and Amer
\ lea these founders of huge business are. as
! arule, unlettered men, whose college was
arough, hard, long grapple with material
| things 1t is also true that they usually
take hold very early in life OF some plain
work that lies under their very noses, and
! keep TO that until it issues into something
| large and magnificent The wealthiest
and the most powerful houses of business
! IN EnIope is that OF the Rothchids The
! founder Of the house, une iilutired wears
| ago, was boy in his fathers money chang
| ING Office at Franktort-on-the-M Main. He
| discovered that some of the coins in which
! his father dealt had an artificial value as
! specimens, and he used to spend the first
1 day Of the Weell-the Jews idle day-in
4 picking out such coins from the mass for
/ Sale to collectors That was tbn berinnino
| of his career lie took hold vol, vii oL7
.eryp IF III woIl, that 5gy n,osr - o,rioUS y Il ~
" before him,
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--0 .l1- : - - q 7 '''., 0Nh hi'ii'
isaac hleh' no lelt a mlIIlon ard three
! G'l'fSif7 4 yeaf or Two ago to found col
legG III BOSTON, began business thus At
| eiSllVeeH ne CAME from oape Goa TO Bos-
! Ioi Hh Jnrte or iour collars ln MS posses
'!'H'al'' looked ABOUT iof something to DO,
flslH9 early walking lar, observing close
| !, y. [7hectlhg lnnG4' soon ne had an ldea;
he pot'9ht thfee puStlelS ot oysters, hlfed
/ 2 "heeIpafro"' loahd piece OF board,
! ouSht ~ small PlaIes' SIX IRON lorks, a
tAFee cent pepper ooN, anu one OF Two
Glntr mugs. l1e was az the oyster boat
| o(g ln9 ms oN StefS at . III the morning,
WheeIeo Ihein Iilree inlIes' set up MS BOARD
neAl = hatAet' ala pe9an business ne
Sou our MS oysters as quick as he could
! open theh at Il lalf proht' lie repeated
| me experiment morning after morning
HHul ne ilao saved 9I9o' Win Whlch he
oousht = morse ana wagon, ana mad hye
Genus ielt'
no" are you gong 10 poafo your morse?
assoc StapIe keeper VINO Witnessed The
aulaclous transaction
il, = am gong 10 BOARD nun At your sta
! oIa,
= ,hoI l you re q mlnor' minor replied the acute
1ahNee' S.At'' mlnd- - ! can trust you
more than week. INC next morning
me la4' ~ no no. mao eslaolsheu 9 good credlf
NlIH tile y 'leIliieH' bought Ihlfteeh push-
eI5 q / 81 ltfhaply - me oysters which ne
soll III L th9 course oI the aaV at q proht OF
"" % oe was aole 10 pay on MS horses
p""l4' AHu Il9i' 'hele ~ the same mar
KEY ne coptliiueo u oe'i IN oysters ana
IN lor lofly years; became King OF that
pu9iheSs' anu ehtteu ny iouAdlhg collegei