Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-11-25
GOOD ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN:
BY NJ 3. Ingalls,. President Of the C. &
RaiIWaY.

BY M 3. Ingalls,, President Of the C. & O.
Railway.
Tee following are extracts from an ad-
dress by Mr.. Ingalls,, President of the G. &
o. Ry, recently delivered in Cincinnati bs-
fore Queen City Railroad Clerks Associa-
tiou, giving wholesome advice which it
would bs we'll fsr all young men to heed
II was asked to give few words of adj
vice-to say something of what constitutes
success, of what will give success. 1t is easy
to give to do that aud charge nothing for
it, and cannot resist the temptation to give
a little. The first thing that would say to
these young men who work on salarias in
this city, is to live within their incomes. II
over $45 or $40. You remember tho story
of Sidney Smith, who SAID that two and SIX
pence earnings and two sbiliings expenses
uade happiness, but that two shillings
earnings AID two and sixpeuce expeL ses
made nnhappiness. There is nothing truer
than that, and everybody should resolve to
live within his means. No matter what
your salary, spend less and put by little
every month. If you will put some in a
savings bank or building association you
will be surprised to see how fast it grows.
There is nothing like it. 1t earns interest
days, nights, holidays, Sundays and every
day in the year, and long before you ever
dream of it, with little money put by, you
become a capitalist.
TT would be much better for you if, in.
stead of taking glass of beer or smoking
a cigar, you would take the money that you
would spend in that way and save it.
have made little calculation on how much
you would save. Suppose one of you took
three glasses of beer day and that you are
twenty years of age, aud will take the money
that you would pay for beer and save it up
for thirty years, keeping it up each month
until you are fifty years old, you would have
S., 900 accumulated. Now, gentlemen, you
must judge whether the three glasses of
beer day for thirty years will be better than
S. 900. believe that s., 600 will give more
real pleasure than all the beer you would
drink in the thirty years. If you will take
and add to this the price of three cigars ev-
cry day-and if you take the cheapest kind
they will cost not less than nickel apiece
at the end of thirty years you will have
$40, 900 out at interest and the principal.
"This is pretty good temperance lecture.
Don's you think it is? In any event my ad-
vice to these young men is to avoid all in.
toxicating beverages or use of tobacco. II
is stimulant you do not need when young,
and if you do use it while young when you
get old il will not do you any good.
Furthermore, the best thing for every
one of you to do is to make up your mind
that you will be the best railroad clerk in
Cincinnati, and that you will attain the
highest place there is. There is nothing SO
pitiable as a young man or boy who starts
out without any future in view. The first
thing for you to do is to make up your
mind to do something in the end and out
line your future. Do not for one moment
imagine that you are going to remain at the
same routine work all your days. Put your
mark high, then work every hour and day
ofyour life to get to that mark.
"There are hardly any of us who get where
we expect, but the fact that you have your
mind made up to reach further will help
you to get nearer your goal than the man
who has no fixed purposes, and by the reso-
lutions of your own will carry yourselves to
higher places"
Mr.. Ingalls, next gave some intesesting
narratives from the lives of Disreeli aud
Warren Hastings to show how each had
overcome tremendous obstacles and attain
ed the goal of their ambitions, and then
s'Therefore. 1 say to these young men
when they start in to make up their minds
what they are going to be-. These railroad
clerks to day are engaged in the best pay
ing business there is for brains and talent.
There is no business that grows like the
railroad business every ten years it doubles
they need moro men and more
brains all the time. Do not start in as
railroad clerk except with the resolution
that you are soing to have the highest place
in the railroad. You may say this is all
very we'll for man in my position to say
to you. ] started in as a clerk on salary
of $37 so per month (ald if any of you have
gone III any lower you must have taken the
sub ceilar), yet out Of that 1915 laid up
mooey. l give you that instance, and l
hope you will make up your minds what
you are going to do and stick to it. The
fact that worked for so small salary,
believe, has broadened my love for human
ity, and it was this that led me here to-
night. If the few words l have said shall
add strength and encouragement to the ss
sociation and make yoo better employees or
employers 10 your p ,ofession l would be
amply paid for my trouble"