The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-06
ROCKEFELLER ON SUCCESS
AMERICAS RICHEST MAN TELLS OF
HIS START IN Lice.
some Quaint Things that Evidenced tho
Worth OF tho Man- City Boys arc Not so
Fortunately Born as Those OF tho
Country.

Ono Of those fow and raro occas-
ions upon which John d. Rockofoller
is prevailed upon to address an aud
lonco camo around last night in the
parlors Of tho Fifth Avenue Baptist
church. Mr. Rockofcllcr was ono of
tho speakers of tho Young Mems Bi-
bio Class Of tho church. Much that
MIR. Rockefeller had to say was OK
tremcly intoresting In lpying many
eXcellont prccepts boforo his hearers
he brought forth several lessons from
tho experiences Of his early lifo by
references to his first lcdger, as he
called it, but which was nothing
moro than n small paper covered
memorandum book, Mr. Rockofoller
explained how he managed to save
money ovon on Il small salary. Tho
little book contained the first items
of his receipts and expenditures when
ho first began to earn money, and, to
judge from the caro- with which ho
handled last night this reminder of
his carly struggles, Mr. Rockefollor
was IN earnest when he intimatod
that it would require Il fairly Ii 90
fortune to purchase it. Tho Rov. DR..
W. H. p. Faunco introduced Mr.
Rockefeller, who spcllo in an inror-
nal, conversational mannor, as fol-
lows:
Ii IS not an address at all that 7
have to givo you. / supposed at first
that was to mcct hcro company
OF medical students and young mon,
and have had littlo address pro-
pared for thom. Then whom | camo
in hero and saw SO many gcntlomon
OF mature expcricnco | said to N.Y.
self: "What sort of students are
they" (Renowod laughtor.) Let
mo say that it givcs mo great deal
OF pleasure to be hcro tonight. AL
though L cannot mako you Il speech,
have brought with mo tonight to
show you young mon little book
book, think, which may interest
you. 1t is tho first ledger kopt. !
was trained in business affairs, and
l was trained how to kcop ledger.
Tho practice of keeping Il littlo por
Soh"l ledger by young mon just start
ing IN business and earning money
and requiring to loarn it's valuo, is, I
think, good ono In the first strup-
gle to get footing-~and if you feel
rs did l. am sorry for you, although
would not bo without tho momory
OF that strugglo-I kopt my accounts
IN this book and also some momoran-
da of little incidents that seemed to
mo important. In after years 1 found
that book and brought it to New
York. It's moro than forty two years
since wrote what it contains. | call
1t Ledger A, and now | place the
greatest value upon it. I have
thought that it would be little holp
to some Of you young mon if | road
ono or two extracts from this ledger.
EVIDENCES OF EXTREME ECONOMY.
Mr. Rockefeller then produced from
his pocket, carefully onyolopod in
paper wrapping, the lodgor to which
roforonco has been mado. Procood-
ing ho said:
When I found this book recently
thought it had no cover, because I
saw that it had writing upon it's
back. But J. had utilized tho covor
to wrlto upon. In those days | was
economical, oven with paper When
read it through it brought to my
mind rcmembranccs Of tho caro- with
which / used to record my little
, items of receipts and disbursements,
matters, | think, which many Of you
young men arc ratiicr careless over,
L believe it is Il religious duty to yet
all cmoncy you can, fairly and hon,
estly; to keep all you can, and to give
away all you can. think that it is
n problem that you are all familiar
with. L have told you before what
pleasure this littlo book gives me. |
dare not lot you road it through, bo,
cause my childron, who have road it,
say that | did not spell toothbrush
correctly. Uaughter.) But then, you
know, we have made great progress
in our spellings and suppose some
changes have taken place slnco those