The San Francisco call., 1905-06-22

THE willingness to chance it is. to a
certain extent a factor in success,
writes G. r. Clarke in the Chicago
Tribune There are numberless cases In
which the giving up of sure thing to
follow the path of difficult uncertainties
has proved the entrance to the road to
wealth.
The willingness to take chances, how
ever, is not always the reckless course
and challenge to fate that 1t appears
to be- Instead it is a putting of the
known forces within against the unknown
ones without 1t is a careful reckoning
of the strength of desire, ambition and
determination, and putting them in their
place as a factor against difficulty.
'Chopping's pretty sure, Jim, said the
brother of Hill, the railroad magnate.
when. he decided to forsakef his life as
wocdmana and start out west
Pm going to take my chance and give
it up, just the same, said young HILL
Though he could not see the future,
events since leave no room for doubt
that the young man took a sweeping in
ventory of his energies before he made
this answer.
CARNEGIE TOOK LONG CHANCE.
When as a small boy, Andrew Car
negie got a chance to leave the cotton
factory, 1t was to take the RESPONSE
bility of running large engine, an art
of which he knew nothing. He did not
refuse his opportunity on this account.
but took the chance of making good by
his own exertions afterward.
1.-The firing of the boiler was all right,
says Mr.. Carnegie, in his autobiography,
'for. fortunately, we did not use coal,
but wooden chips. But the responsible
ity of keeping the water right, running
the engine, and the fear of making mis-
take, caused too great strain and l
awoke often to find myself sitting up in
bed trying the gauges"
He never told them at home what
tussle he was having" says one of Mr..
Carnegies biographers, who sees in this
story the key to his success. 1T is the
revelation of his who're character. He
never hesitated to take a chance when
promotion was in sight. He did not wait
until he had mastered an occupation or
situation before accepting it. He accept
ed it first and then mastered it. He was
an engineer before he knew anything
about boilers, to say nothing of engines.
The same is due of the successive duties
which he assumed
CARNEGIE AND PITTSBCRG.
The way Mr.. Carnegie planned to use
what resources he possessed when he was
offered the position of messenger boy, he
tells again in his autobiography
my only dread,' he says, was that 1
should some day be dismissed because
did not know the city, for it was neces-
sary that a messenger should know the
names and addresses of those men In
Pittsburg who were In the habit of re-
ceiving many messages, and l was a
stranger in the city. However, I made
up my mind that 1 would learn to re-
peat successfully each business house In
the principal streets, and was soon able
to shut my eyes and begin at one side Of
Wood street and call every Arm success
lively to the top, and pass to the other
Before long / was able to do this with
the business streets generally
A more recent instance Of the ability to
take chances the greatness of which was
only equaled by his boundless determine
ton was shown in the encounter which
young Mr.. HeinZe had a few years ago
with the Standard Oil Company.
HEINZE'S COPPER FIGHT.
Heinze made the claim that he could
follow the course of copper claim which
he held and which lay between two other
mines, so that he could trace the dip of
his own vein even where 1t went into
the others. The men in charge Of the
other properties laughed at the idea. He
went into the courts, brought suit and
succeeded in getting injunctions enough
to tie up the work of the two great mines
So embarrassed were the operations at
the other mines owned by Standard OIL
promise So Mr.. Rogers sent for Mr..