Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
NO CHA NEE FoR THE BoYs.

NO CHA NEE FOR THE BOYS.
III Least in Chicago. 4AccOrdii'0 to the Opi',-
ION Of u Yeteram-SoDte Notable E.ccep-
tions Of Boys Who Haze Made Their Pie
[Chicago Herald.
GIVE been watching your boy BOOM"
said veteran margin snatcher Of the
board of trade yesterday to Herald re-
porter, land in the main you are right.
But there are two things you mustn't lose
sight of-the Chicago of to-day is not the
Chicago of twenty years ago, and neither
are the boys. The men of to-day who be-
gan life twenty years ago were different
mold of boys, and besides, they had OPP
portunities that never before fell to the lot
of boys anywhere in the country, and per-
haps never will again.
This remark was made in the Office of
the veteran, and was interjected between
two young men who had approached him
on either side with tablets upon which
were inscribed a lot of hieroglyphics.
"Will," said he to one clerk, "notify
that that corn is put to him at 631a cents.
And hereto the other-'wire the st.
Louis chap that we want 10 per cent. more
margin. Understand"
eyes," said the veteran, as he took
cigar from his pocket and-lighted it,
your idea that if boys have the right stuff
in them, apply themselves, don't
smoke cigarettes, don't go MASKING,
and don't spend their money foolishly,
they are sure to rise to prominence and
wealth, is all very well in the abstract, but
it amt ace high when the turn is called on
a close Northumberland? When there's
corner in the boy market and everybody
has to ante up margins, your goody-goody
boy, with his mas hymn book and his hor-
ror of cigarettes, is swept into the hopper
mighty quick. What l want to say is that
the pace is too hot in these days for such
boys-they're thrown out in the clearing
house; it's cold day for 'em and they get
left"
''But surely you don't mean to say that
steady, plodding, hard work and correct
habits don't win in the end?" said the re-
porter.
''Oh no, they win, but so does snail win
if he keeps at it. They don't begin to win
till the deals over; that's what Pm trying
to get at. A boy, to keep ahead of the
deal in these days, must cut eye-teeth an
inch long at fourteen, and before twenty
must have wisdom teeth strong enough to
he don't, the procession goes on
without him. I tell you, Chi
cago amt what it used to be.
We're community of people who began
with white chip, called the turn right,
passed in our checks and quit. We've all
got rich, are holding on to our wealth, are
proud of our success and mighty jealous
of observation-disclosures from boys. We're
not going to give boys the chance we had
by long chalk. The boy that begins
now, unless he is a mighty fly boy, isn't
going to get rich until the silver threads
come-dye understands"
II am sorry to hear you talk so discour-
agingly to the young" said the reporter.
"Bosh! That oughtn't to discourage
them, if they take the right view Of it.
There's room for Chicago to double her
population in the next twenty years, and
though, as say, the boys can't expect to
find golden eggs as the old gang found
| 'em, they can, if they call the last turn
right, come out away ahead of the DEAL"
shave you any examples in your minds
eye of people who have called the turn
right in the past?" asked the reporter.
"Oh, the woods are full of 'em. Lemme
see. Yes, there's Durham; used to be
president of our board Came here years
ago, as a boy; worked, believe, as
o'clock broom fend. When l first knew
him ne was bookkeeper on a small salary,
scratching harder for living than a dog
scratches his fes. Now look at him.
guess he'd cut up for a quarter of a mil
lion"
"Any body else?"
"Well, lemme see. Yes, there's old
Hutch. He's now the richest man in the
board. He used to make shoes in Lynn,
Mass, wear a Leaf sr apron drive pegs,
and all that. Hut hinson dropped his lap
stone one day and came here. Now look
at him A million You bet-several of
'em. Then there are the Armour boys;
they're a brace of pretty nifty chaps.
They used to be on farm, out here in the
state somewhere, pillow in summer, feed
hogs in winter, and all that. They went
to Milwaukee first, I believe, made little
money, came down here and grew up with
the country"
anybody else ?"
"Iemme see. Yes; there's Fairbank, the
lard man. You've seen his signs, haven't
you-those little pig Cupids-all over the
country? Well, Fairbank was plasterer's
apprentice, used to wear lime-bedaubed
overalls, and slash mortar on lath, and all
that. He got tired of that, came to Chi
cago, aud bimeby began to try out lard.
Now look ut him. a million? Yes, brace
of 'em. There's Robert Warren, Scotch
man, came here twenty-five years ago as
poor as Mrs. O'Reilly's goat. Now he's
probably the biggest exporter of grain in
Amer ca
Anybody else?"
s'Lemme see. Well, there's A. B. Pull
man, brother of George NJ, and vice presi-
dent of the Pullman Car company. don't
know what his boyhood was, but know