The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-17
ACHIEVED SUCCESS.
Any N THE ARMY AND NAVY WHO
HAVE GOT RICH
.,..u they Left the Service, Though
same Have Entered While Under n
.d-Sone Typical Cases.

,toyd-SOne lEplcAA
~.,,o5 of service in the navy. or regu-
--rov develops the latent quality in
49, -.sl.e-up of many young man. u
-. Intended here to say that any man
,, GOOD for the American army or
But it cannot be denied that, long
fssore lie present war was even dreamed
,ts-s we're many scores of enlisted men
=. the f5nd and sea forces Of the United
..-..s ra, well endowed by nature and
-,,,s-io1 for civilian effort to daily
...,.gh all of their best youthful days
military outfit in time of peace. Long
.,,,, This war Is over, the same thing may
u,5sbly be set down with truth as re-
cards a considerable class of enlisted men
t., orr two lighting estab lshments. 1t IS
I,,, of self-control and steadiness that
o.rsss men of capacity of the first order
% drift into a voluntary military SER
vice. but. with reference to a great num-
her of the men of this sort who awaken
10 ind themselves in Uncle Sans army
and navy uniforms, the maxim that all
men ike water, are bound to find their
level decidedly does not apply. Men of
the tvpe alluded to ARRIVE" at themselves,
f., ernlov a Gallicism, when they find
themselves serving in a garrison or on
hard a man-of-war, and before they have
mt IN very much service they look around
tbam and reflect in a "Why is this thus?"
strain The one thing they need for civil
ian success is eslf-restraint and they ac-
ouire this in chunks in a uniformed ser
Zioe With self-restraint added to their
x1rha ha
times comes for them to break away from
the service they have Joined, to take a
winning hold on the game of life ashore.
This many Of them do, not alone in this
country but in many parts of the world.
As matter of fact, the most successful
Of them renew shore life IN foreign coun-
tries and the writer knows of many cases
IN which such men have been conspicu-
olslv successful. 1t as better all around,
TOO that such men take to the beach"
Uncle Sam does not require men too well
educated. or too clever by nature, for his
enlisted soldiers and sailors. The we'll
educated soldier or sailor rarely makes as
useful an enlisted man as his swaddle or
sbpmate of only average intelligence, for
education generates independence, and in
dividual independence in a military outfit
is only good thing in theory. The fight
ing esta blishments have more trouble with
their educated enlisted men, by far, than
they do with the great bulk of the men
of only ordinary endowments for whom
the army or navy is the natural place.
MANY of the educated enlisted men in the
navy, for example, who have been notably
successful in civil life after their period of
sea service, have been failures as man-o'-
wars men.
young New Yorker, who, after serving
q six years apprenticeship at the art, be-
came known as one of the finest bank note
arprayrars in
led up with the Tenderloin and the fluids
and other allurements thereof about zen
years ago, and he went to pieces in a can
ter. None of the engraving firms would
employ him on account of his Well-known
tendencies toward dissipation. He would
work for two days and carouse for two
weeks and he got to be a pretty no-ac-
count youth. When he was up against
1t for fair" to use a phrase of the pave,
he concluded that there was nothing for
1t but to hold up his hand" in a recruit
ing office. He chose the navy. He
wanted to get a penman's billet, such as
SHIPS writer or yeoman, but there were
no vacancies, and, like a game young chap
he went in as coal passer. For a man
who had been used to the comfortable
living this young engraver had enjoyed
all OF his life, the coal passer's billet was
heaft-breaklng proposition, but he had
square jaw, and he shut his teeth down
and said to himself, Take your medi-
cine imbecile." By the time he was
ready TO 60 ashore after his three-year
cruise on the South Atlantic station he
mad been rated a first-class fireman, and
ne hadn't been in the brig more than a
nan dozen times for wild conduct He
was as steady as a rock during his last
year and he went over the side of his ship
at buenos Ayres, at the conclusion of his
en!slment about twenty times as good
man as ne was the day he joined the navy
huenos Ayres wanted engraVers badly at
the tlme, and this ex-coal passer got a Job
al S-O per diem in gold the first day he went
osAote' He stuck to his work and kept
ou1 Vi me swift whirl Of young English
.neu ana Americans who convert night in
~ udy Gown in the fastest city in South
aleIlca, and at the end of two years he
sU' contract for engraving and printing
a. the bonds and paper money of Brazil
ne contract made him a rich man. He
nas oig engraving plant Of his own now
- young man well on the hitler side
%, Win all kinds of money, he boards
llCan men-of-war when they get
~ "H a. ms way and dimes in the cabin with
we Meet commander
NJ, Souns San Francisco man named
-" HuoaA shipped in the navy as A coal
ipasser at the Mare Island navy ward. cal
1'.H'5' ln 1889 He had been a clerk in
he ba5 eSlaie and insurance office, and
f Hq nag never had a shovel in his hands be-
The prooaoly, but he raked coal out of
his IluNers vaiantly for a year before
was e'gIl.a ability was discovered and he
rate Of ,i'lie engineers yeoman, with the
went l,, gNIeI petty officer. Then his ship
rcla out TO the China station. By the
lock- I ,ae snip arrived there young Whit
gi1eer was ISL IN difficulties with his chief en-
jo1C5 . VINO was an officer of the old-fash-
the er5'.41 ssering type, still known among
ing r t'l'slel men as ''bucko" or Delay
s, he didn't get out Of the 5a 1 b ed n ynh
had "laa up in naval prison, for he
off the OF trouble to keep his hands
rub T.. eNef engineer, who actually did
thipg ~ III on NAM, and if he had done any
least a ", mat, mat sort it was case of at
yeomar ears in naval prison, and the
cha lnew it. So he bought his dis
his sec' Got of the service. It took ali of
to do II b.. several hundreds of dollars,
The NIL H. out as it afterward deveIoped'
had was cheap enough. WhItiock
when bs solitary IS American gold piece