Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-22
How to Get and Keep Money.

How to Get and Keep Money.
IN. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.l
While I was lunching at Delmonico's
(down town) yesterday, Russell Sage
came in and happened to take the va
cant seat at my table. "Can man
ever have enough?" I asked him, rrth'
er bluntly. "Wby, certainly he CAMP
he answered. "What put such an idea
into your head? All I want now is a
good steak and some onions and mash
ed potatoes and celery, and have
enough. My tastes are simple, but not
SO simple as Mr.. Gould's. He will dine
on frogs legs and be satisfied"
Enough money, I mean," I ex-
planned.
"Well," he rejoined, "the same an
swer holds good. 1t is possible for men
to get enough money just as it is for
them to get enough food. In fact, 1
believe that most rich men know that
they have enough and don't really care
for any MORE"
I proposed the old ocular conun-
drum, "When a man has $4,000, 900,
isn't he inst as well as if he was
rich?"
1--WE seen that said of me-" he went
on, "that was worth S75 900. But
j have never said was worth any such
money. Seventy-five millions is big
pile. But have some money. / have
agood deal. Ihave enough, and that's
the answer to your question. I feel that
/ have enough and know that 1 have
enough, and the former desire to accu-
mulate for the mere sake of accumula-
tion has passed away"
"Why don't you go out of business,
then?'
"Well, there are several reasons.
When q man who began where did,
ut the bottom of the ladder, and has
managed to climb on pretty we'll, he
wants to avoid a tumble at last. I
don't want to lose any Of the money l
have made; and when a man has 80
many interests in various directions it
is pretty difficult to get entirely out
and keep everything whole. Your
question reminds me Of Albert Tracy,
of Buffalo. He began with nothing;
was industrious, shrewd, and prudent
and he made fortune of $1,000
which was great thing in those times.
He invested it wisely, and it doubled
up again, and finally he found himself
worth some $500, 900. He and I were
friends. A dozen or SO of the rich men
of the East started West to build the
Wabash road. I didn't accompany
them. Tracy put $15O,OO0 into the
PROJECT and lost it nearly all. met
him shortly after the collapse. He
was rather blue over it. 1T amt the
money care for, said he; 1T amt the
money; sha'n't need that; but hate
to have my friends say "Tracy was
pretty sharp and bright for awhile, but
he lived long enough to be a d.
FOOL, That's what frets me- Now,
Tracy was representative man.
don't want my friends to make any
such remarks about me either" The
waiter had brought his ration now,
and he way paying judicious attention
to it.
"They are not very likely to indulge
in that particular remark" 1 sug-
gested.
"Then there's another thing" he
went on. "When a man has been in
active business as long as I have l
doubt if it is prudent to sell out and
give up work. They very ofteu die
when they do. They are always I'M
easy. l know it wouldn't rest me. 1t
would worry me. Moreover 1 have
had business experience that ought
still to be of value In some way"
We'll make you Secretary of the
Treasury" remarked.
"Ah, thank you; that fixes me.n he
said with smile in his gray eyes as 1
passed out.