The morning call., 1890-08-24
HOW THEY BEGAN.
How Some Famous Men Have
Succeeded in Life.

Many Of the men of the present day who
are famous in business or politics COM
menced life in a small way and with but
few exceptions are proud Of their humble
beginnings. According to the New York
World Henry Willard, whose ups and downs
leave him power in the Northern Pacific
Railroad, earned his first money as re-
porter.
Austin Corbin worked on his fathers
farm in Vermont for his first dollar.
Coils P. Huntington began his career as
a small merchant in New York when he was
fifteen years old.
Calvin s. Brice's first labor was ever law
books in a country law office in Ohio.
Daniel Dougherty, the silver-tongued ora
tor, made his first bit Of money handling
the ribbons over his fathers bus teams on
Arch street, Philadelphia.
Eugene Kelly, now q banker worth $780,
0O0. earned his passage to this country by
driving 1aunting car In his native place,
County Tyrone, Ireland.
Oswald 0ttendorfer was book-keeper
on the Staats-Zeituug when Hermann Uni
controlled it.
Sidney Dillon, whose name is always as
ISOLATED with Gould's and Sage's, was once
an errand-boy in the employ OF the New
Central Railroad.
Chauncey NJ. Depew rose to his present
unique position from law Office. lie was
admitted to the bar in 1888
Jay Gould, it is well known, was a sur
veyor and school-teacher in Delaware
County
Erastus Wiman made his first money as
newsboy when only 9 years old.
Charles Pratt, one of the Standard Oil
kings, was apprenticed to the machinist's
trade at WATERFOWL, Mass, when 10 years
old.
General Roger A. Pryor made enough
money to enable him to study law doing
locals on newspaper.
Andrew Carnegie began life at the trade
of an engineer. Then he drifted into tel
egraphy.
William II. Vanderbilt remained on his
fathers farm until he was 80 years old,
when the old Commodore put him in train
ing for a railroad career.
Lawyer and Secretary of the Navy Benja-
min Z. Tracy was farmers boy, and one
with mighty poor prospects at that He
was born few miles from Oswego. He
dropped farming and taught school day.
times. studying law nights.
Russell Sage was taught frugalty in his
brothers grocery-store at Troy, n. Y.
Henry Clew's early life was spent as a
porter in woolen-hous at So week.
Henry e. Abbey began as a coruet-player
in theater at Akron. Ohio.
Daniel tr0hman was an errand-boy in the
New York Tribune counting-room.
Inspector Williams began to earn his liy-
ing in a fish-yard near Digby, Nova Scotia.
spreading the fish on the slakes to dry.
ID. o. Mills was born on a small farm
near Albany, and worked there until the
gold fever took him to California in 1S49
Colonel Joel Il. FL hardt earned his first
money as member of the Seventh Regi
ment of this State during the civil war. He
was studying law when he went to the
front.
Ex-Mayor William r. Grace was a
butcher in Callao. Peru, until he became
ship-chandIer.
Leland Stanford, the millionaire United
States Senator, was student and general
factotum in an Albany law Office.
Walter p Phillips, manager and majority
owner of the United States Press. was a
telegraph operator. DR.. w. NJ. FL. McEn-
roe, the nervous specialist of the Univer-
sity OF the City Of New York, is another
graduate from the clicking key.
a. A. Mcleod, the new President of the
Reading Railroad, began his career as a
railroad man by dragging chains for the
surveyors Of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Louis A. Watres, the Republican candi-
date for Iieutenant-Goyernor of Pennsyl-
vania, began life as coal-pcker.
Finally, everybody knows that the foun-
dation for the Astor affiuence was laid by
fur peddler; that the Vanderbilt millions
have their origin in q vegetable garden and
a country tavern, and that John ID. Rocke-
Teller, whose wealth exceeds 100000, 900, a
few wears ago kent a small procprv in Glavo