The age-herald., 1901-12-01

With the exception of those derelicts
 of fate which on pleasant summer days are found moored to park benches, ana in the winter drift from lodging house to police station and from station house to work house. ticketed ''vagrant the great city of New York is man hive swamming with men struggling either to sustain themselves sor benefit their con
 dition by arduous labor. It would seem to
 him who had never before set his foos
 on the pavement that every channel ev-
 cry avenue of industry was so crowoeo
 that there was no room left.
 I know of no conceivable sensation more
 appalling to the youth who comes to the
 great city in quest of employment than
 that which must pervade the heart and
 soul of the young man arriving at the last stage of his journey from the West after nightfan. He stands at the forward part of the ferry boat crossing the North River, before him stretch the silent wa
 ters, curling beneath the bow of the boat,
 and from them rise the mass of tall buiid- irgs. giistening with lights. They seem their shapeless mass rising dark against | the sky-a symbol of his ill-deflned fn- ture. They appear impregnable, unap- proachable almost and yet, with every | throb of the machinery, narrowing the | dis tance, lines unfold on lines and sepa-
 rate and distinct shapes and forms of
 Buildings become recognizable. "ln all 1 this" the visitor thinks to himself. 'ls there place for me7"
 | An that is it! The country-bred lad, urning his eyes to the great city of the | continent, says: "Is there place for me?" l Let us consider. Edwin D. Morgan, n | country lad, sweeping out the store Of | his first city employer and sleeping under the counter, amassed fortune and was
 honored as the War Governor of New York Cornelius Vanderbilt, off a farm, | turned ferryman, steamboat owner, rail- | road king and founded a family. Moses | Taylor, country lad. merchant, banker, lmilnonaiIe. Jay Gould, Pike county sur veyor, reached. New York and ultimately
 reached out from New York until the railroads of the West passed into his control. Henry B. Hyde, weary of watch
 ling the boats leave the Catskill Landing for New. York. and the blue haze of the l mountains set out for New York and | founded a gigantic insurance company. 1 The list can be indefinitely prolonged. | But say you, CT hese were in other days.
 when opportunities were numerous " Nay, not so. It goes on today, every | hour. Men IOIeIiioSt III tlS iiltnCldl ' world of today, still on the threshold of
 their maturity. come to New York with their belongings tied in handkerchief.
 They come every day. F.
 Compare the growth of the young men of the city with the young men of the country Judge by the standard of suc- cess. Look here, look there, over the | lists of men most prominent most sue | cessful. From whence come they rom | city or country? In four cases out of | five the country lad ranks first and fore
 most. Is there cause for this?
 The country. boy, coming to the city | with the resolution, to make his way. has ! a fixed purpose He, has no ideas of the
 influence of friends or relatives. no the
 oretical visions as to mystic pulls" and | pushes" He has one talisman work | Nothing interferes with work-too D DOT | for the pleasures of the city, the country | lad with fixed purpose goes early to | bed and rises early His energy is con eentrated in his labor, his ability develops with his study and aprlicati3n,J his de- pendence on himself makes him prudent | no foolish pride places a stumbling block | in his way. He grows up strong in him.
 self. a master of the business he has | learned.
 The city boy works, as a rule, like one
 who has task to perform. He sees ncth- ing before him but the pay envelope on | Saturday night. His pleasures are many his tastes bad. his habits execrabie His | energy Is spent in many directions his | ability is not developed. He always has some one ito fall back upon" he is not | prudent, and resents labor ss beneath | his plane of dignity.
 : There are exceptions to both. classes;
 yet in the main they prescribe the rulA