, 1890-10-09
BEGAN LIFE POOR.
How New York Millionaires
Started Out.
FROM POVERTY TO AFFLUENCE
Men Who Have Succeeded With
No Advantage Except Brains
and Pluck.

Of Independence, who first asserted
that ''all men were born free and
equal, could gaao up and down the
vistas of New York life, says tho
World, they would find ample justi.
hcation Of their1 doctrine. Occupy
ing the highest inches In the struc-
ture of business and professional
life are men whose only heirloom
was Independence and whose only
aids tn success were energy and
brains. With few exceptions these
men are proud of their humble be-
ginnings.
Henry Willard, whose ups and
downs leave him a. power In tho
Northern Pacific railroad, earned
his first money rs q reporter.
Austin Corbin worked on his
fathers farm In Vermont for his first
dollar.
Coils i. Huntington began his
career as Il small merchant In this
city when he wns 10 years old.
Calvin r. Bricc's labor was over
law books in q country law Office In
Ohio.
Daniel Dougherty, the silver
tongucd orator, made his first bit OF
money handling the ribbons over his
fathers bus on Arch street, Phila-
delphia.
Eugene Kelly, now n banker
worth s5. 900, 900. earned his way to
this country by driving q jaunting-
car in his native place, County
Tyrone, Ireland. n r.sfds
Oswald Ottendorfer was a book
keeper on the Staats-Ieltung when
Herman Uhl controlled II.
Sidney Dillon, whose name is al
ways associated with Gould's and
Sage's, was once an errand boy In
tho employ of the New York Central
| railroad.
Chauncey Nj. Depew rose to his
present position from law office.
He was admitted to the bar In 1853.
Jay Gould, IL Ia well known, was
a surveyor and school teacher in
| Delaware county.
| Ex-Judge Noah Davis fl rst felt the
delights of making money of his
own on his fathers farm.
Elihu Root IL also n product or
farm life.
SO are ex-Judge William Fuller
ton and his brother Stephen.
ID. q. Mills was born on small
farm near Albany, and worked there
until the gold fever took him to Cal
ifornia In 1910.
Ex-Mayor William II. Grace was
n butcher in Callo,,, Peru, until he
became ship chandler.
w. Bourke Cochran himself was
a country school teacher before he
became u porter for A. Il. Stewart.
Henry f.. Abbey began as cornet
player in IA theater at Akron, Ohio.
Daniel Frohman was an GRAND
boy In the New York Tribune count
ing room.
Augustin DAILY was originally
newspaper man. John Stetson u
professional athlete. Tony Pastor
Manager Hammerstein cigar
maker.
John King, the railroad man, be-
gan as an erraDd boy in u hardware
store in Baltimore.
August Belmont began his career
In counting-house.
!
thusiastic devotee of music in his
youth and earned u dollar or two
out of 1t.
Rufus Hatch raised and sold gar
den sauce.
Vice President Leyi p. Morton
was boy clerk In u village dry
goods store, and aided his father, "A
poor Clergyman, with goodly
share of his seven dollar. .a-week sal
ary.
Russell Sage was taught frugality
in his brothers. grocery store at
Troy, n. y. ....
Henry Clew's early life was spent
as u porter in u oolen-house at 50 IA
week. .. ......
Thomas a. Edison was once n
telegraph operator in Boston.
Henry B. Hyde, the president Of
the Equitable Life Insurance Conn
pany, was clerk in the office of
the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany thirty odd years ago, when he
conceived. the idea on which the
j Equitable was founded.
| William III. Vanderbilt remained
on his fathers farm until he was 10
years old, when the old commodore
put him in training for railroad
career. te
Lawyer and Secretary of the Navy
benjamin II. Tracy was n farmers
boy, and one with mighty poor
prospects at that. He was born
few miles from Oswego lie dropped
farming and taught school daytimes,
studying law at nights.
General Roger A. Pryor made
enough money to enable him To-
study law doing ''locals" on news
paper
! Andrew Carnegie began life at
the trade of an engineer. Then he
drifted into telegraphy.
t.rastus Wiman made his first
money rs a newsboy when only 8
years old. rt-
Charles Pratt, one of the Standard
Oil kings, was apprenticed to the
machinist's trade at Waterfowl,
Mass, when 10 years old.
Leonard jerome began the journey
OF life as u tramp printer"
Judge Daniels, of the supreme
bench, pegged and sewed nt the
shoemaker's bench.
1t was in law office that William
G. Whiting began to get on in the
world.
Leland Stanford, the million aire
United States senator, was a student
and general factotum In an Albany