The Detroit times., 1908-12-28
7hats What We All Must Do When
WE Encounter Obstacles in the
Path OF Life. To Win Success
n as Claus spreckels Did.


a where he attained greater success as grocer
The California gold fever spread over the country he
west engaging there also in the grocery business
BY accumulated $4,000 but that was not all
He had applied himself to his business observed ana Su
meanwhile
experience grocer had taught him that there was
he purchased share IN ehhey
u in San Francisco
He didn't sit down either, and wait for dividends
sugar gained attention and he travelled back TO
Germany family with the new product
BY sole of the refinery but this tact DID
getting into overals and working the heio
\ for six weeks a common aborer to study
way satisfied himself that the time not ripe Tor
him to enter branch of his business
Returning California he pushed his business until his refinery
the biggest on the coast
1876 Hawaiian islands and there purchased
tract of considered and worthless land
Twenty miles away there plenty OF water
& 1T REQUIRED THE DIGGING OF A CANAL. WIDE
AND DEEP AND THE BLASTING OF THIRTY TUNNELS
THROUGH SOLID ROCK BUT HE GOT THE WATER 10
HIS LAND
AND 1T DEVELOPED INTO GREAT CANE PRO-
DUCING PROPERTY
returning he found battle to fight
He had become undispued king the sugar industry the
his had brought him to the attention OF
N so-called sugar in the east
They for his business and when he
fused started crush him.
BUT HE CARRIED THE FIGHT INTO THE ENEMY'S
COUNTRY AND BUILT 100000 REFINERY IN PHlLA
DELPHIA
This brought the trust to price for
field.
Next we find the penne peasant boy defyng railroad The
had been charging rates that gave the
farmer absolutely profit -
#s HE BUILT NEW RAILROAD INTO THE WEST AND
BROUGHT THE BIG RAILROAD TO PROPER FRAME
OF MIND.
The San Francisco Gas Electric power house close
to his big chimney poured its black smoke up
against windows his Offices He objected and asked the com
pany something The REQUEST WAS IGNORED AND
HE BUILT A 100000 PLANT OF HIS OWN AND GAVE
THE PEOPLE LIGHT AND AT A GREATLY REDUCED
COST.
Saturday he died at age of years.
His Spreckels and he known as the Sugar
He entire trade of the Pacific coast In
addition his Hawaiian plantations steamships tugs
reneries factory Salinas Ca and other
widely properties the choicest business
and residence buildings in San Francisco.
The 16stoy Spreckels building the of Third and
Market streets whose illuminated dome guide
H 20 mariners entering the Golden Gate
Here may well be patterned after by young of
eoday.
Claus Spreckels started penness
He a strange land and far from friends
He was dependent solely upon himself the brain
and energy Almighty had endowed him
The brilliant successful business closed teaches
there be the heart there
end ambition with it.
Success awaits in payment application though
may follow disappointment solid rock after solid
rock the path of the canal that turned the
Claus sprecke into fields of godenasseled
sugar
we mus blast through them, and overcome
develop that which
yield where inactivity fantheartednss
lack of substantial purpose had laid a
be Of the proportions dollars and
n as that 70 Claus Sprecke
is always measured by the earthly goods obtained
To lived honest industrious life who tried,
though failed honor enough for inscription upon head
soac. .. I.>'
Claus spreckels lights will the
Francisco square only guide the entering
CAT but remind the young Of America of how
Industrious brought trust and railroad his
light will bring the safely
n the port Of success.
Success will always for rightly placed energy