The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-05-03

lay, and Mr.. Carnegie gives a list ::of
The best known industrial establish.
which were founded and managed
BY mechanics who served their appren.
ticeship, TO prove the truth Of this state
The lis. includes all the great in.
dus.rial works, Baldwin's Locomotive
Works, Disston's Works, studebaker's
Embellishments. Pnllman's Car Works,
Babbitt's Metal Works, several great
publishing houses and numbers Of iron,
glass, steel works, &c, too numerous 10
mention. Hundreds OF u greatest
captains Of industry to-day started In
lilo as Office boys and CLERKS. In tho
mercantile, commercial, financial, news
paper and other professional fields the
list Is even greater.
Mr. Carnegie iwells upon the almost
total absence OF the college graduate In
every department OF Affairs, and gives n
long list OF noted bankers and financiers
who began as Office boysand clerks with
no more than a common school cduca.
tio,. lie says:
The prIIe.tAscn have 100 many years the start
Of the graduate: they have entered for the race
invariably IN their teens-in the most valuable
Of Hi the years tUf learning an~ything-itom
fourteen To twenty; while tho college student
has been learning little Abou. the bafo.tou'
aud Petty siuAbbl,s Ola iAf'di.tAht psAI. or w
Ing 10 master languages which arc dead. Auch
knowledge aS kecms adapted for HE upon ah'
other planet than this, rs far As bushes. ni'aifs
are concerned-ib future captain of indlsty u
hotiy ENGAGED In the school Of expeieacc, %
tAininE the very knowledge required LOT us Iu'
tu'o tIiumphs.
This, Of course, does no! apply to
young men training for the learned pro-
LESSONS. The writer hes 4 good word
for the polytechnic and scientific school,
which Is timely in view Of the agitation
now going on in our mids. in behalf OF
the manual training school:
There has como, however. 10 recent years, the
poly technlc and scientific school, or courss VI
study. for boys. which Ia beginning to show mos
valuable fruits In the manufacturing branch
| ~ tihlLti HlCGhhtlC vi kHc pant ~ w
have seen, hitherto carried oil must OF the honor,
10 our Industrial works. Is now TO meet 4 rIva.
Ia the scientifically educated youth. who VII
push him ~hLrd-ycry hard Indeed. Thrice OF th'
largest steel manufacturing concerns In tn,
World are already under the management U
three young educated mcn students OF thest
schools who LETT theory Ei tchOOl for practice il
the works While yet In their tsens. Walker
Illinois slecl COMPANY. Chicago: Schwab, E1aa
Thomson Works: Potter. Homestead SIee
WOiEs, Pittsburgh, hTD types OF the new pro1uc
hot onc OF them yet thirty.
Mr. Carnegie firmly believes that thu
present system Of corporations is to dis
appear and that cooperation will taxi
its place. The day Of the valuable ACTIVE
worker in the industrial world is coming
continues Mr.. Carnegie. Let, therefore
no young, practical workman be dis
couraged. On the contrary, let him b.
cheered. More and more it is becoming
easier for the mechanic or practical mai
Of real ability to dictate terms to his EN-
p~loyers. Where there was one avenue
Of promotion, there are now dozen
The enormous concern OF the future i
to divide its profits, not among hundred
OF idle capitalists who contribute moth
ing to its success, but among hundred
OF its ablest employees, upon whose abili
ties and eyertions success greatly de
pends. The capitalist absent stock
holder is to be replaced by the able ant
present worker.
We have devoted more than ordinar,
space to this matter, but the subject wax
rants it, and it is a live topic. 1t is
we'll established fact that the youn.
man who follows George Elliot's advic
and keeps his eyes and ears open, AM
makes his employers interest his OWE
is bound to succeed.