Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-07

ance. I sleep from seven to, eight hours
every night, and don't allow myself to be
dragged about to dinners and clubs. When
l first came to New York l was persuaded
into joining the Union League Club. and L
was a member of it for years. never at
tended more than two or three dinners
there, however, and l seldom went to the
club rooms. Then my friends wanted me
! to give up my membership to someone else
| number of men who wanted TO get IN,
and could have gotten as much as SZ0O tor
make money that way, and that | would
hold the membership until it ran out. This
1 did,.
Russell Sage on Money Making.
Speaking of money making. Mr.; Sage,
how did you get your start? How did you
make your first thousand dollars?'
There is no particular story in that -
replied Mr.. Sage. when was 16 I went
to clerk with my brother; Then 1 had a
store of my own. / never had a great deal
OF trouble in making money. My first
thousand probably came from saving, and
was made on much the same principle that
l haze followed throughout life"
But are there any fixed principles by
which man can make money, Mr.. Sage?"
at depends a great deal on the man, of
course was the reply. But there are
two things which any and every man must
have who makes any permanent success in
this world. In the first place, man must
be honest in spirit and in deed, and, in the
second, he must be Industrious. ] should
also add he must be economical and invest
his money so that it will work for him."
Young Men in New York.
What do you think of New York as a
field for money making? Should country
boys come to the city?'
'iThe man who has it in him." replied
Russell Sage. will succeed anywhere You
can't keep the right country boy down and
hound 10 get up. The chances in New York
are perhaps greater than in the country,
but the temptations are also greater tell
you don't like what l see about the clubs
here in New York. You may go to them
any night and you will see young fellows
who have less than n thousand dollars q
year dressed in swallow-tailed coats. They
are eating expensive dinners. They are
drinking a little and playing cards little.
Such are not my ideas of successful
scheme of life for young man, and those
are not the young men who succeed 1t is
the young fellows who spend their evenings
at home and save their money who keep
bright eye for the main chance and live so
that they will have brains healthy enough
to see 1t when 1t comes.
Railroads md the Union Pacific.
''You have been interested in many enter
prises in your life, Mr.. Sage?"
Yes. l have" was the millionaire's reply.
"I early became interested in railroads. 1
Travelled over some of the first built in this
country and l saw there was going to be a
lot of money in them. / bought a lot of
stock in the Western railroads and I was
for a long time president and vice presi-
dent of the Milwaukee & st. Paul. / had
also interest in roads further West and for
a long time have been connected with the
Union Pacific"
What is going to be done with the Union
Pacific Mr.. Sage?"
II think the government ought to have
something TO do with it, was the reply.
"A great deal of noise has been made
about it, but the Union Pacific has been of
enormous profit to the United States gov
ernment. Its profit has perhaps not come
directly; but indirectly that road has built
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of millions Of dollars worth of taxable
property and the great states of the West