The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31
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Luck in New York of Young English
man Who Wasn't Begun Properly.

Luck in New York of a Young English.
man Who Wasn't Begun Properly.
The young Englishmen who get
stranded in New York are apt to be in
helpless state. Young men come here
from Ireland, France and Germany
with a pocket full of money and a de-
sire to see the country before trying
to make their fortune, and when they
are through sightseeing and the capital
has vanished they accept with philoso-
ply the first employment that offers
itself, and get along. 1t is different
with the average young fellow from
England.
Often such young men belong to mid
die class families and are mere boys
without trades. A few are hard work.
ers, skilled mechanics, wood carvers,
designers of and workers in ornamen-
tai metal work and the like; but the
majority have failed to be of use in a
mercantile house or a lawyers office at
home, and have been shipped to the
United States. So far as mere schooling
goes, they are fairly we'll educat ed.
They have all some accomplishment
some can play a little on musical in
struments, others can draw or paint,
and most of them know something of
one or two foreign languages. But they
do not know enough to earn their bread,
and they are helpless when thrown on
their own resources. They come here
with good clothes, money and a su-
perior air. They have their fling and
come to the old, accustomed end Pen
niless, they write home for money or go
to the British consulate and St. G"crge's
society, where they may get little as
sistance Some of them work heir way
across on the cattleships; some Of them
go West in an endeavor to earn some
kind Of living. But most of them go
to pieces, simply because they can't ac-
commodate themselves to circun-
stances.
New York's a big town, you know,
but it is awfully new" said a young
Englishman a few months ago to a
New Yorker he knew slightly.
The New York man was polite enough
not to laugh in the youngsters face,
but he was tempted to do so. New
York new? 1t wasn't half as new as
this boy of 90 with his loud clothes and
grand air. The young fellow needed
advice, but the New Yorker didn't give
him any, for fortune would teach him a
lesson in time. So the New Yorker
turned aside with smile and said moth
ing.
That was four months ago. The boy
had then $780, which had been gathered
together in England from relatives and
friends, all of whom were anxious to
give him a fair start in life. He could
do several things fairly we'll, but he
had an exaggerated idea of his abilities
and he was very, very new. The four
months passed. the $3.50 disappeared,
and last week when his friend dropped
in at west side pool room he was at
tending to the tables and working II
hOurS a d9V for 81 a week
why don't you leave the city," he
was asked. Go west or anywhere you
think living can be made. You ere
over 20, strong and clever, and you
should be able to get along. This is
no work for you, and you ought to be
ashamed to do it
True, too true" he replied, but I'd
be more ashamed to go back home to
mother and the girls. hear from them
every week and write to them as often
and they think I'm doing finely.
might work my way over, of course
and I'm not afraid of the work, but ]
can't go home and face them. Really
I'm fit for nothing in life. The mar
who keeps this place gave me this iGt
out of pity. 1 had spent a good deal O.
money in here, and when / told him
was broke he put the rack in my hand.
and told me to go to work. Every pod,
gets along, but l can't. I'm of no use.
ITS too bad" his friend said. IL
there nothing you can do ito get GU
of this?'
Nothing" he replied, "and it's al
my fault. My folks did their best TO
me, but I wasn't begun properly.
learned too much on one line and to-
little on another. There was a fellow
who came across on the same poat
! though he was down in the steerag,
and I in the cabin-a little crippled
chap, all pulled TO one side. He's
blacksmith and FORCES fancy designs O.
his own hand. l liked him and len
him $40 when we landed, because h.
had only little money. But he go
along and he earns $3.50 a month low
He came here week ago to pay bach
the money, and lin earning Sc {
week in a pool room and deserve NJ
better"
The New Yorker went home and Wen
| to bed. In the first uneasy sleep tina
precedes sometimes the real slumbe
| ne saw many miles away a little fam
| lily group-a widowed mother and tw,
young girls listening to the reading c
| d letter from the boy who was in +;
| strange land making his fortune, a.
they confidently hoped. A street ca
passing outside made the rails of til
crossing ring, and he saw a little half
| passed smith hammering into iron tina
sold for gold the fancies of his brain
| Inen he slept and dreamed of a DO,
IN a pool room and of other things
There are many things, indeed, on
can dream of; but one cannot live b
dreaming and one cannot chase forum
to the pot of gold that rests at tn
| base of the rainbow. He who know
how to work makes good in the enc
and nothing short of death can .to
his course.
| Paris of To-day-the handsomest ore
/ MUM hook ever offered rc.l d.r &