Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-15
HOW 70 GET RICH.
Wizard Edison Says, "ASk People
What They Want
And Supply Them with It"-Rob-
ert Bonner in Trade-Elizabeth
Cady Stanton Would Buy Ten
Hens and Beg a Rooster for the
Chicken Business-Depew's 500
Investment.
Copyright, 1895, by Ryman Intervie'
Cvndicatpl

Copyright, 1895, by Ryman Interview
Syndicate)
Wizard Edison stood in the door of
his great laboratory building at Orange,
y. j., shifting the spring air and wear
ing the contented manner of man whd
has won his spurs OF fame and riches,
and IS willing now for others to do the
same. How would l so to work to get
rich in a summer" he asked in a
sprightly way, as the question was put
to HIM. Il would go to work in rat
.onal way. And l would get rich, too.
Now, of course, you expect me TO say l
would invent something, but there was
a time when | could not invent on ac-
count of lack OF time and money; and
yet, If had known enough, l could have
got rich. 1 Will tell others the secret.
IL IS a simple one and may make
mans fortune before the leaves fall.
EDISON'S F0OT-STOOLS.
when YOU want to make money give
people something they want. They will
pay you money for it. II l wanted TO
make little pot [ would sit down to
think what | most need. 1t may be
such a simple thing as white wash
neCkt.es in the newst style, Of fine
material. If man comes around with
them l we'll buy of him. Having settled
this point for myself, l ask some one
else what he wants. Gould you use a
small wooden foot-stool?' l ask him, If
sold for 10 cents; and how many would
you take? After l have got his an
sWer l would go on asking people until
| find out The needs of twenty men.
Then l would strike an average. l
know man who made snug fortune
selling Dutch mustard by the pint, and
another who is trying to get over the
one hundred thousand dollar mark,
patching shoes in business offices,
where, FOR a quarter he puts On a pa.ch
eews rips, and even heels and soes. He
carries a satchel outfit and is prosper
GUS as he should be-
That is the secret of getting rich.
Give people somth!ng they want, and
they Will pay money 10 get it,"
Russell Sage's Idea OF making money
is more ambitious; perhaps because his
dealings are on a large scale. But is
his money idea not practicable?"
Il think said he, If | were to find
myself in need Of money, quickly made,
/ should start in On something that
needed Jhe brains of a financier and the
muscle of a workingman. 1 should look
around for an unOccupied house in a
good part Of the town. It would be an
Old-fashioned house, in need of repairs.
and if it belonged to some estate that
could give me no lease, 50 much the
cheaper for me.
Il >5Ould ses the landlord of the house
and have talk with him. See here,
l would say, you cannot rent house
without good floors. | will lay the floors
and get tenants for the summer 1 Will
paper the walls and have good rooms.
BuL you must wait for your money until
some comes in"
There have been good deals of this
kind where great, convenient apart
ments have been let to families, or to
men living alone in town for the sum-
mer who would not be too critical in the
appointments of Their house and who
would pay well, if all was airy and COM
Portable. BY fall | should have money
enough to hire in better place, and by
E year from now | should be looking foa
houses Of my own to buy. When would
l go into Wall street? Not until | had
a million in cold cash and another mill
ion where | could locate il"
Robert Bonner looks ruddy now
Maud S. is doing well, and that puts
him in good humOr. II am ENJOYING NV
money now, young man. said he. but
l didn't always have it to enjoy. I
made my money myself, and in a way
1 can highly recommend TO others. the
rising generation or those already along
IN life. 1t is this: Get control of q bus
mess Of your own and then work 1t up.
When ! went in the publishing business
1 bought paper for its debts. There
wasn't a cent 10 be seen in it: and
was editor writer, publisher and type
setter. But after awhile things bright
ened. I pulled out, and from putting
$50 a year in the savings bank | dropped
in $1,000 a week. Buy a little business.
no matter how small It is. and work
at 1t night and day until you see your
way through"
MRS. STATIONS BROILERS.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, calm. beau
tiful and active, as though she were
looking forward to her fiftieth birthday
instead of her eightieth. has very de-
cided opinions on mOney-making Il
know just how 10 do it," she declares.
briskly. Il should need to have CAPT
tai, say about S.. But I might be able
to borrow that. With the So I should
buy ten hens and beg a rooster. These
hens would lay eggs, and if they didn't
lay fast enough / should borrow eggs
from neighbors, promising to repay in
kind some day.
AS fast as a hen went 'cluck, cluck,
I should know she wanted to sit. and
she should have eggs. would make
her raise three families in succession.
while I took care of the little chicks
and got other hens to work sitting.
These chickens-hOw can l count them
before they are Matched would be
numerous. of course, and l should have
broilers in a little while. This would
give me money for an incubator, and if
7 didn't have a small fortune in chick
ems bv Christmas I'd never eat a mouth
ful of turkey. And speaking OF tur-