Arizona republican., 1904-07-05
pHoENM. ARIZONA. JULY 5, 19O.
How They Got Their Start.

now prominent factors in the public life of America is to be found the high est inspiration to the youth of this land of the free and home of opportunity.
 IR connection with a symposium up on "Rhe Young Mans Chances Today" :" the Chicago Tribune recalls the hum the' Beginnings made by some men whose Pys-eminent position in various walks of life warrants their careers tIRAng held up as examples of success attained fFcm small beginnings. or course, we cannot all hope to be Stand ard Oil Tnagnatss. but there is some comfort in the fact that John D. Rock efeller began his business career at 16 as a clerk ia a commission house; that three years later he started in the same business en his own hook with s1,O0O he had succeeded in saving; and that hls first effort in oil refining. made in lsea was involved in great financial doubt.
 Not many men would consider a Scotch accent a particularly valuable NOAAAA44NA NAsAa aNSCAs buL Ab ANANC ACu lO the advancement of Andy Carnegie. whose first work was in q bobbin mill Ut Pittsburg, when he received one dollar and a quarter a week for his services. His employer was a home sick Scot who liked the boys brogue and advanced him; later Tom Scott took him on the Pennsylvania road largely because that brogue pleased him, but also because he had made good ia his other positiCns-the really iinEeTtaat lesson for youth to learn.
 James J. Hill was a penniless youth from aaaaa when, at IS, he got a job as shipping clerk at St Paul. He mass EFsctice of learning the busl- r,esb 1g EAe man above him and rose. M&tsEaAIl Field was not considered a s8ecsss ia the general stcre at Con- way. &ass.. where he got his first job, blAt Be wsHt out to Chicago started at ths bottom in the house of which his present marvellous business is the optgrowth devoted himself assiduously tS learning, and became one of the foremost figures in the commercial world
 Senator. Allison taught school, work cd his way through college. began the practice of law when he hadn't a dollar, but kept hitting at it. When Jeseph R. Choate landed in New York to begia the practice of law he had hardly a penny in his pocket. Philan- der c. Knox began the practice of law in Pittshurg with no other assets than his brains and his hustling abil- itY Marvin Hughitt, president of the Chicago and Northwestern, began learning telegraphy when he was IS, at F, when he went to Chicago, was proficient at that calling, became train dispatcher and went on up.
 Melville ". Fuller, TOW chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, helped his brother run a little democratic paper in Augusta, Me, while he was securing his education for admission to the bar He had hard sledding when he first went to Chicago to establish himself as a lawyer
 A. J. Cassatt at 20 was a member of Q surveying party in Georgia; now he Is president of the great Pennsylvania railroad system. Thomas w. Lawscn was 12 years old when he got a. job In a Boston bank at $3 a week. He last ed just one day, his parents taking him out that he might go to school; but live days later his eloquence had per suaded the home folks that business was his forte and he went back to the bank.
 Russell Sage began as a clerk In an Oneida, N. Y, general store; he was once in congress but abandoned poll tics for the more congenial occupation of making-and saving-money. Geo. B. Cortelyou was a stenographer, and a good ona. Leslie M. Shaw worked on farm and sold trees to gullibl- farmers while working his way through college; he denies that he ever sold lightning rods or sewing ma. chimes.
 Senator German @ss a page In the senate at sS, and became private sec retary to Stephen A. Douglas. Gen eral Miles worked In crockery store at the outbreak of the war; before that he had acquired taste for the mill taYy and for uniforms. John w Gates made his first money husking corn; later he run 8 small hardware store. Henry C. FFich, who Is the chief repre- sentative of the steel trust, is worth many millions nOg. but he begun busi- ness as clerk in little country store
 The list might be extended almost indefinitely. The lesson 1t teaches is