The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-07-11
THEIR START IN LIFE.
HOW SOME NEW YORK MILLION
AIRES REGAIN THEIR CAREER.
A FsU Were Bora RIeh. MANY Achieved
Riches by Hard WORK, and Some
Had Riches Thrust Upon
Them

There was published In the World
Sunday, June 10, an elaborate Grtl.
Gle entitled "Millionaires Of New
York" but Il omitted the most In
teresting phase Of the subject, which
would show how these men Of fertil-
ity Of financial resource got on their
feet aud laid the foundations Of their
fortunes. IL IL this feature Of the
matter, therefore, which the Sunday
Press opens up today, and which Il
will follow up next sunday. OF all
phases OF the question ~ TO how 10
get OH in the financial world none IL
50 attractive 90 the young man as the
means by which men who have
gathered large wealth have adopted
TO start, TO build up and 10 secure
their fortunes.
For many reasons Jay Gould
stands today, in the eyes Of Ameri-
aud interesting figure among Ameri-
cas- miliiOnaires. And this comes
in no small degree from a certain
mystery surrounding his methods
and his daily walk. While he IL, or
has been until recently, easily ac-
cessible to newspaper men, yet even
in that accessibility he has been n
mystery. This comes In part from
his quiet, unpretentinus manner,
and the thought in the mind Of the
caller Of the wonderful results flow
ing from the activity Of that remark
abl y we'll poised head carried on so
slight q frame.
When MFR. Gould was a witness
before the Pacific Railway commits
sion May II, IssT, he summed up in
q nutshell his view Of the whole sit
uation confronting every man in his
search for wealth. !. was an eX-
preston Of the street, aud yet one
which Russell Sage, Coils 7. Hunt
ingtOn, Austin CYrbin, John ID.
Rockefeller, John Jacob AstOr, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, =. 7. Barnum,
Levi Z. Morton, Andrew Carnegie,
Claus Spreckles, George West,
Philip Armour, Robert Bonner aud
Warner Miller might with strict
prOpriety aud with u view to careful
definition have applied each Ia his
own case. These were Mr.. GOuld's
words:
81 have been all my life dealing in
railrOads-that H., since I was of age
and always in futures. have
made my money. The first railroad
bonds ! ever had I bought nj ten
cents-Rutland and WashingtOn-
aud not only my bonds became good,
but ! sold my stock out Mt l2j. Just
30 In the Union Pacific. I saw a
future there. Just so In the Kansas
Pacific. I saw that the Kansas Pa
ciilc was going to develop faster
than the others, because IL was run
through a better country. Yes. sir,
there II a better way of Judging of
railroad values than any you have
mentioned, aud. IL Is Ia the future
OF IT,"
HOW GOULD SAW MS Future.
al saw a future there, ! have been
all my life dealing in futures" The
fortunes Of all of the miIliOnairrs
Just mentioned hinged upon the
same thing: % saw n future there"
Various stories are aflUat A. Ia
where Mr.. Gould saw that future
before lac went int railroads, after
he came TO this city In ISIS. IL il
said that he was n cowboy on Del
aware county farm; that IL, one
whose duty u was 10 drive the COWS
To aud from pasture and help milk
them. Then comes the story OF his
peddllng maps In the rOunty and of
his writing q history of it and sell
Ing il. But. whatever lac was doing.
he was always looking for Gu-
lures. The future he saw ia the tan
merry business In eastern Pennsyl-
vania has been told over and over,
and always coupled with IL IL the
story that Mr.. Gould saw future"
"a
there ln playing sharp on his part
ner. One OF the cautious men oil
thls clty, who knows Mr.. Gould
wei, selu the DINER DAY:
Inc story That Mr.. Gould
Wheedled MS partner out of his
money anu the tannery business L.
IsIse, but u has oeen lndusiriously
circulated 10y MS enemies. Mr..
OIouIu partner made fortune out
OF the business, and u was through
mr. fOuld lhslghI INTO the luture
IN the business That lie made that
fortune
10 was the taunery business that
gave Mr.. Gould his start, put him on
his feet and enabled him 10 come to
New York Ia turn that wonderful
brain of his To the future Of rail
roads.
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THIS view IL not generally held,
nut there II abundant evidence "i
the truth ni the statement To those
who have seen some of the working /
OF the Huntington financial machin-
cry. One confidential clerk II kept
II work weeks at time semi
annually cutting coupons from MI.
bonds, aud each six
months the coupons figure up n
quarter OF million nG dollars.
Mr.. Huntington was horn Ia Con
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