Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-30
ANDREW CARNEGIE,s ADVICE.
How a Young Mas Can Succeed-Three
Dangers to be Avoided.

Dangers TO be Avoided.
From the Youths COMPANION.
You are about to start in life, and 1t is well
that young men should begin at the begin
ming, and occupy the most subordinate posi-
tons. Many of the business men Of Pittsburg
had serious responsibility thrust upon them
at the very threshold Of their career They
were introduced to the broom, and spent the
first hours OF their business lives sweeping out
the Office.
was a sweeper myself, and who do you sup
pose were my fellow-sweepers? David Nc
Cargo, now superintendent of the Allegheny
Valley railroad; Robert Pitcairn, superintend-
ent OF the Pennsylvania railroad. and Mr..
Moreland, city attorney of Pittsburg.
Begin at the beginning, but aim high. I
would not give fig for the young man who
does not already see himself the partner or the
head of some important firm.
There are three dangers in your path; the
first is the drinking of liquor. the second is
speculation, and the third is endorsing"
When was telegraph operator in Pitts
burg, / knew all the men who speculated.
They were not our citizens of first repute;
they were regarded with suspicion. / have
lived to see all of them ruined. bankrupt in
money and bankrupt in character. There is
scarcely an instance of u man who has made
fortune by speculation, and kept it. The man
who grasps the morning paper to see how his
speculative ventures are likely to result units
himself for the calm consideration and proper
solutions of business problems with which he
has to deal later in the day, and saps the
sources OF that persistent and concentrated
energy upon which depend the permanent sue
cess and often the very safety Of his main BUSH
ness. The thorough man of business knows
that only by years of patient, unremitting at
tentIon to affairs can he earn his reward,
which is the result not Of chance. but Of WELL
devised means for the attainment Of ends.
Nothing Is more essential to young business
men IMAM untarmshed credlt, and nothing Kills
creul. sooner imam the knowledge IN any bank
poard that man engages In speculation. How
can man be credited whose resources may be
swept away IN one hour by panic among game
sters! Resolve to be business men, but specu-
lators never.
The third danger is the perilous habit OF in
dorslng notes. 1t appeals to your generous
instincts. and you say, How can I refuse to
lend my name only to assist friend?" 1t is
because there 1s so much that Is true and COM
mendaole In that view that the practice is so
dangerous. Ii you owe anything all your capt.
tai and all your effects are solemn trust in
your hands to be held inviolate for the security
OF those VINO nave trusted you. When man
IN dept lndorses for another it is not his own
credit or his own capital that he risks, 1t is the
money OF MS own creditors. Therefore, say
that IL you are ever called upon to indorse
never do 1t unless you have cash means not re-
CURED for your own debts. and never indorse
beyond those means.
Assuming that you are safe in regard to
these your gravest dangers-drinking. specu-
latlng and endorsing-the question is, How to
rlseI Inc rising man must do something ex-
ceptlonal, and beyond the range of his special
department. He must attract attention. A
shipping clerk may do so by discovering in an
invoice an error with which he has nothing to
do. and which has escaped the attention Of the
proper person. III q weighing clerk. he may