The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-18
JNO. w. GATES TALKS ON \
MANY ABSORBING TOPICS

don't get ss much. In my judgment,
they ought to get. They are not botherI
with labor unions in Germany.
Reflection on what the suocessf|
young men Of the future and the prospeI
Gus laborer will require In the way
special equipment for their work led M
to interest myself In that school fer bd,
that we are going to establish out
Illinois. That's going to be the grea
est school, not only in this country, bt
In the world 1t is to be called the S
charles Home and School for Boys. VI
have bought 1000 acres OF land, lying in
fertile valley thirty-five miles west
Chicago end two and a half miles ca
CT st. Charles, where my father a
mother are living. The institution WI
be open, free IF all cost, to boys of Roc
character between the ages of 10 and
We will give our boys a technical edl
cation, classical education, a CONNIE
cial education, and we shall also educa
them for professional farmers. AftG
each boy has been at the institution "a
a certain length Of time, he will be r.
quired to express a preference for a. III
work, snd from the day the proferend
is expressed he will be educated alor
special lines.
The best possible instructors in III
various kind of engineering, in the ella.
sizes. English and mathematics will L
employed. We will also have the bes
men we can get to fit tho boys for con
mercial life and for all the trades Thel
will be a blacksmith shop a shoe fac
tory, a plumbing and tin shop, a pair
shop, and shops where the other trade
will be taught. 5 ssides these. we sha
cultivate tho land not occupied by tn
buildings. We shall raise all our ow
corn and wheat and potatoes, fresh vee
etables and fruit, and the cattle an
hogs 20 supply the meat We shall ais
have a packing plant, like those of til
great packers in Chicago. only on
much smaller scale. and I expect to liv
to see a second Armour or Swift turne
out of that school. Then we snail rails
few horses so that If any of our boy
want to go to raising horses TO win race
at Saratoga they'll know how to do 1t.
Furthermore, we snail have a full
equipped bank end a fully equipped raj
road, run by the boys. Some one boy
who shows himself to be adapted for tina
kind Of work, will be elected presfden
OF the railroad, and there will be boar
of directors ond an operating depar,
n1ent and every other department that
great railroad has. Well do the sam
thing with the bank, and the boys wi
be expected to run both, under, of courst
competent supervision. Our railroad wi
connect with the two trunk lines run
ming to Chicago and to st. Charles.
I've got boy, and I play golf wit
him and tennis and ping-rcng, and whe
he wants to play poker play poker wit
him, and get stung up good and har,
every now and then If he wants to e
somewhere and try mis- luck at some othe
game Of chance I go with him, If h.
wants me to- I want my boy to feel tina
his daddy is not only his best friend, bu
his chum. believe that's the right wa.
to bring up a BOY.
1Hey tdlk ABOUT SuppreSSing or dOin
away with gambling. They might as
well try to do eway with the wind. Me-
have always gambled and always will
and If I had my way I'd license gamblinj
as saloons are licensed. I'd do this be
cause I think it's right Marshall Fielt
once told me that he always tried to b.
right II per cent of the time. There,
lot in that, young man. The fellow VIII
makes up his mind to be right all tn,
time will be busted always In the lonl
run, by the man who insists on beint
right 81 per cent of the time.
THE same Marshall Field is one o
the greatest business men In this coun
try, and I believe the third richest mai
in tho world John D. Rockefeller is the
richest, Andrew Carnegie comes next anC
Marshall Field is the third. He owns $50,
100000 Of rea. estate In the rest part O
Chicago and in the best of .he suburbs
/ have something of basis to figure
Fields wealth, and I figure him to be
worth something over s2OO0oOoOo, and he
has never borrowed a dollar of a man If
his life"