The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-03
THIS GREAT CITY, NEW YORK.
THE STORY OF TWO BOYS WHO
SOUGHT FORTUNE IN IT.
The BOY Who wouldn't nc Beaten and
the BOY Who Turned Back-TwO On.
reers which Started Even, Each Of
which was, In ITS Own Way. . Success.

reers which Started Even, Each OF
which was, in ITS Own Way. q success.
~ In small town up in central New York
two boys came out Of high school in the
same graduation soma twelve years ago.
John went to work in his fathers store
Jim got job helping to keep the books
in the town knitting mill. Neither OF them
liked 1t.
They were bright boys, g III W., a good
school record, and they thought tn = were
cut out for better things. jim woul- have
liked to go through college a .ecome
lawyer or doctor or something else pro-
fessional and respectable. John hadn't
any very clear idea what he would like to
be except that it must be something in a
business way to amount to something
They plugged along in their overgrown
village up the State and neither seemed to
get along very fast, perhaps because there
didn't seem to be any particular objective
point to get to. And as their material
progress was slow, 80 their ambition grew.
They read the New York papers and once
or twice they came down to the city to see
what it was like and really it was all that the
newspapers said or they were sure it would
have been II they hadn't felt so strange and
IL they could have seen it all.
And the more they thought of it and the
more they read about it and talked about
It, the surer they hecame that New York
city was the place fortw'o young men who
we're to be somebody and to amount to
somebody to start their careers in. SO
after nearly three years Of upstate life
they announced their intention Of giving
itup and coming here to try their luck.
Johns father saidi, was all durn foolish
ness and worse leaving a comfortable
home and a paying business TO look for
a living among dudes and crooks, and the
youngsters would soon he sending for
carfare home and mighty glad to get there.
Jim's folks said we'll, Jimmy could try
IL, specially al the mill was on half time
and would belglad to lose him till trade
was brisk again. - q: ''tr~-
And the long and short of it wes that
ono morning The two walked Into Forty
second street from the Gratsd Central sta
ton with two grips and $27 between them
80 exhilarated that they wanted 10 dance
and 80 nervous that they werent altogether
sure they were glad they'd come. Jim's
mother had wcpt over him in public at
parting and Johns, father had signifed
his displeasure by refusing to see him off
So. altogether, it wasn't very comfortable.
They found q lodging in Il not ovor-clean
bedroom near Third avenue. Then they
took a walk down Broadway and inter.
viewed sort Of second cousin Of Jim
who had promised, by letter, to do what
he could for them; but didn't seem
TO be as hopeful Of helping them to a job
a. they thought he would have been. Then
they went to a Y. NJ. c. A. place ard wrote
answers to a few advertisements for bright
young men, printed In n newspa per. And
then they ate supper In a restaurant and
it being their first night in big city they
took in theatre from the gallery.
When they got TO their room there was
.,nly $50 Of the ST left. and If the newspa.
ser columns hadn't been 30 very full oil
demands for just such young men as they
felt themselves to be, ard II their room
rent hadn't been paid for a week In advance
they would have felt anxious. They did
decide that there should be no more theatres
till they got those expected jobs at double
the old salaries g..
The next morning, after breakfast
at = perfectly ridiculous cost in comparison
with central New York prices-and a few
hours Of looking for work, it certainly did
look unpromisirg. 1t was hard times
and. everybody said 80. Most men who
might be expected TO employ two young
men were hard 10 see and those who could
Be seen had more young men employed
already than they knew what 10 do with
md al the bright young men, wanted