Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-24
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How lie Butt Ills Great Fortune.
The stories Of howpoor boys displayed
pluck and perseverance and became tho
architects Of their own fortunes and
finally died millionaires and got into
books as an inspiration to all other poor
boys to go and be the architects Of their
own fortunes have always profound fas-
cination for poor and ambitious young
people, as well as for ,he rest Of tho
world.
We know such a story that has never
been told. Il shows how a man can be-
come very wealthy from an exceedingly
poor beginning, poor in many ways.
Once there was an Italian who came TO
this happy land Of freedom determined
TO be rich. Ho did not care particularly
how h. got 10. butr.ch no resolved 20 bo
Like 20 many other mon who are bound
TO be rich, ho picked up the FIRST thing ho
found. Il happened TO be a hand organ.
secondhand, whoezy ono at that. But
what signifies a wheczo moro or less TO
the architect OF his own fortunci The
bravo Italian walked with the organ
strapped TO his back. Wherever he
found group Of young ones, there ho
iustrappel his music and lotits d9loruus
strains vcx the air tall the children's
mothers and fathers and all the uoardcrs
were driven half crazy and paid dozens
Of coppors to get rid o, 10. In that way
he laid the foundation Of his fortune.
On good days like Fourth Of July. or
at times when he happened in front of
houses where anybody was ~ Or WIS
trying TO write poetry, tho kind people
who pitied themselves because they had
TO listen to bis music shollod out hand.
somcly, aud in the evening when hewcut
to the corner grocery 60 get his copper
cents changed into silver and paper
money ho showed cor his days earnings
sometimes $40 or Sll. THIS ~'ie the
grocery man declare that be- himself was
going 70 start ont and grind an organ
too. Tho newspaper man who lived over
the grocery said ho would also. But
they never did.
AZ last camo the happy day-the day
when industry and frugnlity were re-
wardod He had slept ia hole IN tho
wall and eaten things that we don't
wish TO describe very particularly, but
h. had ssvod his dimes and nickcls. He
resolved 90 end his wandering life and
open permanent business. lie did BOZ.
beginning Ia very humble way at first.
a. was proper Tor the man who was de-
termincd TO be self made. He hired
some Of his compatriots TO follow up the
great city dumping grounds and extract
thercfrom fragments Of paper and cloth
ing that had outliycd their original in.
tcntion. These they brought 20 the man
who was carving fortune. The COM
patriots toiled for him daily, and ho
waited, knowing that the mills Of the
gods grind slowly and that It would be
some months before lao could have still
more base hirohngs at his beck and call.
But his progress was rapid ON IN,
whole. Now he Ii tho greatest merchant
Of rags Ia that whole section Of ccgG
try. lie has bought real estate not .
little and prodted by tho unearned In
crement. His children belong 20 TN
Four Hundred. lie Is ablo to dictat
to the city just what streets shall o
shall not be run through his part O
town. He is also able to give large sum
Of money to the party every presidential
year. There is oven talk OF clecting hin
TO a certain high office IN his state.
This story shows how man who /
determined to bo rich may rise from
humble organ grinder 20 become u mil
lionairo and 30 into politics.