The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-29
FATHERS OF THE RICH.
How They Lead Quiet and Uneventful
 Lives.

How They Lead Qaiet and Uneventful
 London Bits.
 It is an interesting and instructive fact that at least four out of five of l of men. who. in their most flourishing days. probably never knew what it was , to enjoy an income of $l5 a week; in . | deed. to the majority of them such a
 modest revenue would have seemed riches.
 The father of Andrew Carnegie. though he toiled early and late as a damask weaver at Dunfe~mline was
 barely able to supply the humblest ot necessaries for his small family; and when steam looms came 70 supplant hand weaving he was compelled to sell his looms and his few sticks of furni . ture and take his boys to America. where he found employment as a weaver in one of the cotton factories
 of Allegheny City, and where one of his sons. little though he dreamed it.,
 was to amass one of the most colossal fortunes the world has ever known The father of John D. Rockefeller.
 whose wealth today is said to be at least double that of even Mir. Carnegie. cultivated few barren acres in Tioga county, New York and added littl> to the family exchequer (scanty enough at the besD by sending out his boys to hoe and blow and husk corn for neighboring farmers.
 W. A. Clark. the copper king" of Montana. whose fortune is variously estimated at from $48,000,000 to fab ulous figures tsome even creidit him with an income of $2O.000 a day.) Is the son of a small Pennsylvania farm. CT. who probably never cleared $500 il: any single year of his life. and for whom the future millionaire did ths hardest farm labor until years after he had reached manhood.
 The father of W. S. Stratton, the Colorado gold king. was a small boat builder at Jeffersonville, Ind. with 50 many children and a purse so ill-fillei that he was compelled to take his son away from school at fourteen to ap. prentice him to carpenter
 Commodore Vanderbilt. founder of one of the wealthiest families in the world, was cradled in direst poverty. and between the age of six and sixteen earned his own living by performing any odd jobs that came his way. from selling newspapers and holding horses to farm labor and porter's work; and Jay Gould, who accumulated a. fortune of $60.000,000 before he died, at the age of fifty-eight, was the son of a farmer. who found so much use for his sons services that he prat- tically received no schooling at all.
 Sir Hiram Maxim. the millionaire in- ventor, had for father a small miller. whose business was so unprofitahle that his son had to eke out the family income by farm work and woodturnins before, at the age of fourteen years. he was apprenticed to a coachbuilder at East Corinth.
 George Westinghouse. wose air brake has yielded such a golden harvest was the son of al mechanical engineer iE small way of business.
 John w. Mackay, the silver king, was the son of a destitute Irishman who emigrated to America with his family. in search of fortune, and afte;' two years of terrible struggle. died, leaving a pennless widow to support herself and her young children as best she could.
 Russell Sage who left fortune of over $S0000.000. was the youngest Of the six children of very poor parents. and was toiling on a farm before he was ten years old.
 The parents of MT, Pillsbury. the flour king of America. were In poor circumstances. a1d his boyhood was passed in a very humble home" and Mir. Gates, MT. Letter and Potter Palmer were all sons of small farmers and served their apprenticeship to work as farm laborers
 The Hon. John Wanamaker. whose stores and riches are famous the world over, is the son and grandson of brick makers. and the father of MT. Heinz. who has made millions out of his con- ailments made modest income as hrickmaknr and market gardener.