Daily Republican., 1885-03-30
I HlRO EDITION,
Ths lnssatuse Ensersainmeat.

The lnssatuse Entertainment. II
The inclemency Of weather prevented
. crowded audience at the Wilmington
Institute on Saturday evening, but the
hall was fairly filled and great interest
Vas manifested in Mr.. Jackson's adj
dress on the Path Of Success" The
Philharmonic orchestra and the old
Trinity choir did their full part to make
the evening pleasant and agreeable, and
their excellent music was appreciated
~ she audience ~ was MT. Archer /
Richards stereopticon views of the |
the SoudAn including portraits Of Gen |
erAl Gordon and Ell Mahdi.
Nj. Jackson's address was full of
enCourAgoment 70 young men and boys,
and in dcscribing the difficulties in the |
pa3h OF life TO success - we'll - the
tyiumphs, he spoke nom actual person
nj experience. His address, however,
was clear OF personal illusions,
which are generally Objectionable and
treated Of the success Of other msn In
business, whose names are familiar
household words. He gave 1t length
tho troubles with which s. f. B. Morse
had 70 contend In pertecting the first
telegraph.
"What hath God wrought" dictated
by . young lady was the frst message
sent over the wire from Washington 70
sent was that of the nomination Of
Henry Clay for President in 1874 At
Baltimore. TIE next character de-
scribed so pleasantly and graphically
by Mr.. jackson was George Stephenson,
who gave to the world the first locomo-
tive. The inventor did not know his al
phAbet, andhis workship was coal mine
he carried his father his dinner to the
mine and in his leisure hours herded
COWS, at ID per day.
At nights he worked at shoe mending,
and In time having secured the position
of assistant fireman at the mines, In his
work of cleaning the engines he would
take some portions of the engine apart
and model them in clay. He watched
the movements, obtained some education
Continuing, Mr.. jackson said : Cor
nelius Vanderbilt began his career BY
boat from Staten Island u
New York. George Law was com NOR
day laborer on the docks of New Yorl
as As years of age. James Gordon Ben
nett, the founder of the New Yorl
Herald, was poor man at 40. Pete
Cooper, by sticking to his glue kettles
was enabled to spend over two million
Of dollars in founding Cooper Institate
determined that the poor men and boy
of New York should not suffer for tn
opportunity for an education. He wen
20 school only for q year, and even
part of that time had to remain away be
cause of his parents poverty.
Thousands are rising up TO call hir
blessed. The Stuarts, the great suga
redners, formed their inclinations fo
active business by selling molasses
candy which their widowed methe
made. The eminent and succesfr
merchant, ii. B. Claim, now doing bus
ness in New York, said that the onl
capital he had was energy, determin'
ton and hope. Thurlow Weed was 1
poor in boy hood that he was forced
20 barefoot in winter. Nelson w. ALL
rich of Rhode Island came into Prov
dence carrying on his back all of h
possessions, and now, at As, he Is pro
porous merchant and United Stat
Senator Joseph Brown of Georg
could not read at manhood, but VII
such odds he became a judge, governc
and senator.
Henry G. Davis, senator of We
irginia, started life as a brakeman
the Baltiulore & Ohio Railroad, al
now be owns a railroad, coal mines al
mills. Orange Judd, without dolls
except that which he earned hlmse
started tor school, ~bere he perpar
for college, earned corn by working I
ueighporing farmers, carried II hins
10 the mill to have II ground, cooked
"a mush in his own room, MIXED CO.
daily Tor Lie piut Of MIX an SC gu Do
ted for mouths. Afterwards he work
his way through university anu
three years course at Yale.
Austin Carbin, who owns nearly
the railroads on Long Island and pa
such xfspsive improvements NJ MI
hate a Beach, Who started life as p
r. m boy was commented upon. Sd
cnrne 3. Merrill and Albion \. Tow
railroad magnates, commenced me
first as a laborer in a gravel pr, ana
latter as brakeman on ireie1t IRA
.Joha Roaeh's success was alluded 10
a case in point OF a successful ousin
man and Samuel Harlan, Captain .
aon sud j. T Cause were lnstancei
men who bad fought their way II
bumnle position 10 occupy higher p
MI. ,Jackson's lecture was intens
Interesting. bot delivered IN rat
re Tone of voice 10 be heari by all
the tai