The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-10

Ing Unless a man is born TO 1t he can
not hope to have 1t IL he Is unwilling to
save It."
The late Robert Bonner used to say:
THE young men of today want to eat
their cake and have 1t. They want TO
live at the best hotel In town, belong to
all the clubs. 70 In the first society, and,
at the same time, see their bank rolls pile
up. They Will never do It, l saved 81 50
in the year 1853 The following year I
saved great deal more. l kept on pa
tronizlng the savings banks until l de-
posted $1,000 a week.
George Gould Is probably the poorest
example OF a self-madc man, for he Is
not self-made man at all in the usual
acceptance OF the term. He was born OF
a millionaire father who, when he diel,
left him what amounted to $4,000, coo.
jay Gould gave George 100000 more
than he gave his other children as an
equivalent for the services which George
Gould rendered his father during the last
FIVE years OF his life.
Yet II you will glance along memorys
pages. you will see that it is not always
the rich son who remains rich man. 1t
is always easy to get rid of money.
Chauncey NJ. Depew says ANY man can
make money, but 1t is not every man who
can save It,"
George Gould has husbanded the family
interests in such a way that the Gould
money is probably double today that which
1t was when the head of the family died.
Cornelius Vanderbilt lost s60,0O0,O0O OF
the fortune of the family during his life
time. William II. Vanderbilt left $780,
OU0,OO0 approximately, when he died. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt did not leave over $780,
100000. George Gould, by his daily trans
actions in Wall street, continues to In
crease the family millions. so that at the
age Of 40 he is probably one of the most
remarkable men Of today. And he is con-
slderably less than 40
William c. Whitney has always trod
the primrose path of success, but he
planted the primroses himself and watered
them daily. AS young lawyer 1t was
his ambition to become a corporation
counsel, and for a while he worked SO
hard that his wife insisted that her father
must help him or he would work himself
to death. But young Whitney shut his
teeth together in that characteristic way
OF his, took down his law books from
their shelves lighted the midnight lamp
and worked till morning. He was getting
ready for "the opinion" which he knew
he could one day give. Today any cor
poration would pay William C. Whitney
$4,000 for legal opinion. And indeed he
has refused many such offers.
To Wall street go all rich men and these
men are represented by the brokers who
go to the stock exchange and wildly saw
the air in the interest OF their patrons
By tickers and messengers, they keep the
millionaire In his office supplied with in
formation, and when the word comes back
to sell they rush back and fall over ona
another in their haste TO obey the man
dates of the men with the money who sit
in the high office buildings with their for
tunes hanging upon the brokers' success.
1t is not exactly gambling. The stocking
merchant CANDLES, II you want to call It
that, when he buys stocks in the spring
which he hopes to sell in the summer.
That is the way the Wall street man does
1.-THE buys something that he wants to
sell at better price later on.
II Is q great game, but you must econ
omize when you are young II you hope
ever to play 1t.