Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-12-12
Aliseellaneous 8sading.
WANDERERS WHO SUCCEED.
They Disprove the Adage About Roll
ina Stones.

Iney DisPToNS Ho HsaSS TSSSs NV"
ing Stones.
THAT old adage, "A rolling stone
gathers no moss Is not only chest
nut, but 1t doesn't hold good in 6
whole lot Of cases that I know of,
said a Federal official whose station
is in San Francisco. 1--WE see a heaI
Of rolling stones out our way. Thou
sands Of them fit in and out Of Sar
Francisco every year, and you'll never
meet up with any of them who hasn't
got the price Of swell smoke.
"The hoboes are not the only fel.
lows who are on the eternal move
The conditions Of life in this country
during the last twenty years or SC
have developed a large class Of con.
firmed wanderers Of an infinitely
higher type than the hoboes.
"They have all Of the hobo's i'm.
patience Of any one spot as steady
abiding place, but, along with that
they've got brains and education, and
most Of all, the willingness to work
hard when they connect with some
kind Of outfit where their work seems
to them worth while.
"You recall, Of course, that United
States post office department clerk
who reorganized the postal system OF
the empire Of japan and became q
millionaire?
"Well, he was one Of the type OF
which I am speaking. He lost his job
in the post office department at Wash
ington owing to a change Of admins
tration-it was before the civil SER
vice law carne along-and, like most
government people when they're
bounced, he didn't have the price OF
O Wheeling stogie when he was lei
out.
But he made his way to San Fran
cisco on railway postal cars, got bill
let there as assistant purser OF a
steamer bound for japan, and when
he got to Japan he didn't do single
solitary thing but present himself To
the ministers Of the Mikado and tell
them that their postal system was In
an unimaginably bum state. and that
he really couldn't be answerable for
the consequences II they refused to
employ him to reorganize the Japan
ese postal system on the American
pattern.
"His dazzling nerve won him out
and they turned the job over to him
HE had the head, he knew the
postal business from soup to nuts, and
inside Of very few years Japan had
as fine a postal system as any In the
world, and the rolling stone who
started 1t a-going had moss to make
bonfires with.
mot long ago took ride around
San Francisco harbor, and down tc
the Farallones and back, on the beau
tiful steam yacht of natural borr
rolling stone who has 80 much mos:
that he'll never be able to spend 1t
and he's a pretty spectacular spender
at that. Less than ten years ago thi!
one was scratching out SIS a week a!
a stenographer in an Omaha railroad
office.
He didn't see that that was getting
him anything, and so he got his roll
ing clothes on. He shorthanded 1t ir
Denver for a while, and then he go'
somebody to grub-stake him and
rent a-hunting for pay dirt in the
Colorado hills for awhile.
mot springing any Of the right kind
of rocks, he passed that up at the END
of six months and hiked to San Fran
cisco, where he pounded a typewriter
ong enough to save up a few hun
dreds that he needed to push him
along on a little tour down the line
that he had in mind.
He then went to the west coast Of
Mexico and checked off coffee sacks a
q shipping clerk for few months
when he moved along to Central and
South America, west coast, picking w
a Job there to keep him going and
maintain his front.
HE rolled around there down ir
the low latitudes for about three
wears, and then his idea came to him
He made a little list Of all the sizea'
BILE coast towns that he'd struck thai
imperatively needed ice manufactur'
ing and refrigerating plants, got con-
cessions of land from each place fol
the building Of such plants, and then
raced up to San Francisco capitalists
with his scheme and his concessions
all in black and white.
well at the present time that roll
ing chap has got chain of ice max
ing plants all the way from Mazatlar
on the west, to MonteWdeo, on the
east, and, in addition, he's now en-
gagged in starting department stores on
the American plan in about twenty OF
the most important cities of Central
and South America.
ALREADY he's one of the mossies'
rocks of his age in San Francisco
where he spends his time during the
rainy season down the line, and he d.
verts himself by trying to figure oui
how much he would be worth today
II he had stuck to his typewriter
whacking job in the Omaha railroad
office instead Of becoming a rolling
stone.
Every couple Of years or so there
drops into San Francisco, in pretty
sumptuous state on his way to New
York and Europe, a peachy skinned
young millionaire, a man Of thirty-f1Ve
or so, who, fifteen years ago, was
working as delivery clerk In a New
York Japanese store.
His job netted him $12 a week.
and he didn't see where he was ever
going to get his name daubed before
the '& Co. sign out in front. He knew
a lot about Japanese goods, but ne
was sick Of that stuff when he passed
up his job, and he didn't have any
thing more to do with Japanese truck
for a number of years.
HE made for the Slope, nailed a
clerical billet with an Australian
steamship company in San Francisco
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