Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-06
HOW TO GET RICH.
ADVICE ON TIE SUByEcr BIZ THOSE wB0
HAVE SUCCEEDED.
Real Estate, Savings Banks, Stocks and Bonds and
Other investments Recommended, But the Prin-
cipls Requisite is to Be Abls TO fsks care Of
Money After Il is Mads ard to Put Il Where i!
Will Increase.
Written for he Register. copsyiqated.

American working man aud one who Is
determined TO conquer fortune and be-
come wealthy aud distinguished-pro-
pounded, by letter, to several OF our
most prominent milliosaires the ques-
ton How to Get Rich??" The men he
| addressed were in every instance men
| Of the people-men who have largely
been the architects OF their own for
tune-and every one OF them, with one
exception, have raised themselves
| from poor, humble boys to an honored
place among the noneyed aristoracy OF
our country. The young mans letter
ran as follows:
DEAR SIR: Knowing that you are a
wealthy man and that your wealth has
been acquired by your own exertIon, or
largely so, take the liberty Of asking
your advice. am young mechanic,
with a wife aud child. / make good
wages, and am able by strict economy
to make about forty dollars per month.
| now have about five hundred dollars,
and am at q loss 10 know what TO do
with 1t. VIII you kindly tell me what
YOU consider tho best investment
| for small savings, with view
to making them the nucleus OF great
| fortune, or, in other words, how to get
rich? Would you advise that small
| savings be invested in savings bank.
10 real estate or in good stocks and
bonds? VIII you also please give me
| any general directions or advice that
YOU think will be- OF service 10 a young
man, just starting in life, who is deter
NJ ned to become rich? Iinclose stamp,
aad shall be greatly obliged for the IA
vor of an answer.
In reply to the above letter the young
man received the following replies:
ANDREW CARNEGIE's ANswEk.
Few American milionnires are better
| known than Andrew Carnegie, who,
though born In Scotland, is natural
ICED American citizen, and who made
every dollar OF his fifteen millions In
this country. There could be no better
example OF q self-made man. He him
self has often told from the public plat
form that when brought, as small boy,
by his parents from Scotland 10 Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, the family were 10
an almost destitute condition when they
reached that smoky city. Mr.. Carnegie
replies to the young mechanic Is fol
lows:
DEAR SIR-Put what money you have
and all you may save hereafter at in
terest where IL will be well secured.
Real estate Is the most tangible and
safe of all investments. Even II build.
ings are destroyed by Storm or fire, the
land they covered still remains Money
at interest is the most faithful OF al
servants. twill never strike for eight
hours day, but will work right straigh
on for you every minute in the twenty
four hours, day In and day out, and
never utter complaint
Never have too many irons In the fir'
az once. There is nothing truer than thu
saying that no man can serve two masters
and there is nothing TO which II apple:
more forcibly than TO engaging In two
kinds Of businesses at the Same time
Devote all your energies TO one ayoca
ton until You have made success oil
have fully determined that you never
| can make success in that line Of ef
fort. Hard work and thrifty habits arr
powerful factors In the accumulation oil
wealth. Respectfully yours,
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
HENRY cLEws FAvoRs PERSONAL PREP
ERTY.
Few men OF wealth are more wldely
known by name and reputation TO the
| American people that Mr.. Henry Clews,
the Wall Street banker and broker. lie
favors investment in personal property,
as will be seen by his appended letter.
DEAR SHIN answer TO your letter.
the gist OF which Is how to get rich,
would say that first Of all young man
should choose that business or avoca-
ton for which he has the most
decided preference and 70 which
he believes himself the best adapted.
The Bible tells us that whatever
our hand finds TO do we should do II
with all our might, but young men are
not inclined TO do in that way things
that they do not like, while whatever
they do from choice they generally do
well. Many man fails In life simply
because he has chosen, or his relatives
and friends have chosen for him, some
uncongenial occupation for which he is
wholly untitled by nature and inclina-
ton, while in q career for which be Is
| adapted he might be not OILY happy
and successful, but even make his mark
as star OF the first magnitude.
The utility OF a collegiate education
for success in business IL now being
largely debated. As the collegiate cur
riculum and training stand at present,
the ordinary course Is not In general
| calculated TO make good business man.
1t Is enormously regarded by some peo-
ule as 2 kind Of substitute for business
training ia the earlier years OF q young
mans life. There can be no greater
mistake in the beginning OF business
career. II is In many instances not only
ahindrance, but absolutely fatal 10 sue
cess.
When old Meyer Rothschild was
asked questions similar TO those you
| have propounded 10 me. he said: IL
buys cheap and sells dear" Those
who follow this method always succeed.
Few things present better opportunI-
ties TO buy cheap and sell dear than
stocks and bonds, aud such securities
| when "gilt edged" not only pay interest
on theinyestment, but they can also be
readily turned into money AZ any time
il desirable
Yours very truly,
HENRY CLEvs.
GOVERNOR FLOwERIIKEsE EAL ESTATE.
Hon. Roswell p. Flower, the mil
IIonaire Governor OF New York, recon.
| mends the young mechanic 20 invest In
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