Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-04-28
HOW TO WIN A FORTUNE.
One Of tho Foremos, Captains Of Ameri
eau ladustry Gives HIS vi.ws On TIL,
Suelsct.

Suejscs.
New ,sri Engineering and Mining Journal
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie is one OF tn,
mot versatile cit;zrns whom n
American environment and Scotch
snce.try have ever produced. No,
satisfied with his achievements il
rising to tho ownership Of ono Of the
largest steel works in the world, and
OF various other industrial establish.
men,s. and i" acquiring fame a. q
philsnthropkist, he IS b~comine no
less famou. in literature. His books
and magazines and newspaper articles
a'e now quite numerous. A very
readable Article from his pen appeared
!" the New York Tribune Of April Is,
entitled "How to Win Fortune"-a
subject in which every one is IN.
aesested.
The article, referring to the newt
able aud increasing tendency toward
concentration Of capital into vast
manufacturing establishments. five,
tn. and even twenty millions OF dol.
lars being sometimes massed into one
corporation-stAtes that this has given
ris' to . complaint on the part OF
young men THAI it 10 now no longer pos.
sibls for shem 70 rise beyond the posi-.
ton Of employees upon salaries. This
complaint Mr.. Carnegie attempts to
show Is unfounded.
Considering the prospects Of the
mechanic in the indu. trial, and Of the
clerk in the mercantile world, he
states that no classes other than these
two have had much to do with estab.
fishing the factories, business houses
and financial institutions which are
best know" t'.dsy. lie gives long
I'st OF manufacturing CONCERNS, in.
GLIDING tho largest aud hest known
works in the county, ia ~asious
branches, and says t.st every one of
these great works was founded and
managed by mechanics, me-" Who
served their sppren to~ship, and tina.
II the list Included ooncsrns which
were created by men who entered life
~ Office boys or clerks, It would EN-.
brace xl,noat every famous mxnufac-
turing co'AceJn in the country.
Mr.. Carnegie asks m,.t I'm port. nt
y 'estion IN this connection: "Whsre
\. the coiies. graduate! | have in.
CURED and searched everywhere in oil
! isrtsEs, but 6nd scarcely q trace OF
'hp." III" rofsrs, VI course, u his
sbsenoe iroW industrial aud CONNER.
c'sl pursuits. asi hot trosa profession.
al life. in which almost exclusively he
is found. The reason, he says, u no,
surprising. The prize. takers have
eut~red tho race Invariably in their
teens. in the most valuable Of Ill the
ssss for learning anything, from
fourteen t. twenty. While the col
Iegs student is learning such k"o.vl.
*, As seems adapted uo,n another
plane: than tits, aS tar AS busin. S.
Affairs are concerned, the future cap.
tain OF industry is hot Y engaged IN
the school Of experience, obtaining the
very knowledge required for his future
triumphs. Tie almost total absence
vi tho gradual, from high position in
the business world ST. ms to Justify
the conclusion that college education
NJ It exists is almost fatal to success
IN that domain. The gradu. t. has
40, the s!ight-s, chance, entering vt
twenty. against the boy who SWEPT
the office. OF began as shipping clerk
Ut fourteen.
Exactly the oppost. stats IF al .irs
seems ~ exist in the case Of the
graduates Of the technical and .cieu.
,'hc schools. Three Of the iaraes,
II "sl manufacturing concerns in the
world, Mr.. Carnegie states, are slrcady