The evening world., 1912-01-25
az My First Thousand Dollars W.
Hw Some Luno Americans Laid the FoundMonst for Their eat Fortunes. BY PHILIP r. DILLON
he Foundations 70, Their G eat Fortunes.
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company as having with thu I'm oof. The hea. of summer wou expand the
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''" f .rss 's u p s s" the. '% nsnr %y " ans,ai T. s SM sM him Of v fs r %ssn confidence. that. ,
mo on IA &c, nm a ,, M, u o rS,fnE , tina, t, would s,,., remedy the. n trouble lie looked a.
healthy n robust 'He said, rather douOttuny: II % an d 0 "a, d are
., w Nns Ss.': e, m m s s' ,, ,s 1t s,. = a d ny on n, ' s",m MeG i ss%S nd o ,a.g Railway shops
.. y ! " made a :" sample %s' ra ss% Tor H q ss ' it q. Simply S"ss . a %ss% sas's sf ,s system
Isws ss"ns D,n. ssnm n, TN ca ,orrs wn'a a, We ., A ,sam mea u . N house, n@ Strain, an c ON ,s oM 1T a !,
n m, m.a,,e S@% y, "a ' n. .S r,r ' ns ra.nn as' sn nj '" "Ss. sss ~s,. wa" Ss, p' ss r.
paired d, at ATT the s shops rs, and , he pm. several, raj, men under nN M, me- IT "a TIT, arrs ST. position position
." rsn,a,nsd " years, , IN tho r,HnS,n shop, I saysl m zone and X:
~"n,. 'n' to S Saas " s saaa' ia "" it, | T i.''M s aS "' +, 's'' week. K. . there Lincoln %as to =. T taau .
on the mississippi River steamboat, to st, Louis noticed a small shp-a
stopped to speak with he wno OF the sp. being curious about, II" te '"po~ei
to- e% st, the ' "". IN" 's "'' louis %' .a "'o D ~e' 'S " "aa 8 $500 !" "o' '''' sssiu an 3. ne %s Ia b. a' s%".
III: T 'a asu "@ ! could I'D S ret my NJ" r,ss .spt free eI IT shipped ' tn" or oranges sa s' SO I 'S bought S%
n e, do no. oM know , whether ,n, tine .n "r," owner r. Intentionally nail i rn9,sa me me-. but, when I
before With the FIRST cargo OF i, season and had stocked tn fruit market OF
= immediately went to the snscs OF; he cneaso and Alton Railway and
\, MS , s1,sS, s," IN. a ns, ,l at , ,, s"s'' ,n Dso a.,ns nY' S ~&'9 s., ven sn,. e,S. to my Ss ar,
st st NO, lsm; ;, s"S en s,So , nd s ,. ,s s ,sa to !, &c &c" sse ss; VA" sa =, Ff , o.:a !, an, ma, 9 m ,,.,
I got to Chicago in tho middle Of; March, 1861 A month later the war
on he nrstc call for volunteers. by Abraham Lincoln. That ended my business
Greer Greer FOR ,nrse ysa ,s l. had SOC "A'" enlisted left the money in Chicago
The res,ment in which I enlisted "a. the Twelfth Illinois Infantry. wa.
so: through me arm =" ,s battle Of rr Fort, noneso"' in February, 1857 and was
,~@s nor m o ,S ,n nn"a s%c m r, @S %OT ,Sna s' ," ~sn Sp0o asa ' IN a"s" s., l%, Il I
INA, regiment and later chief of sian D, or brigade and served until the
sWng OF 1851
pay during tc a I had a ma" over 5000 when The wr ended. With this
capital went into business AS partner In a general ardN arn TIN and copper
smith concern IN CHICAGO and later. in 1866 "a elected Deputy County Clerk
of Cook County-when I was ;wcntvihreo year, old and hen I got married"
Capt Gr""nhut. 10 what agencies, aside fWm good luck do on attribute
/ our success: In business"
"To the habits Of Industry and cconomN ! olwdys sarcf something
ont Of mn ragcs. An my Ic I hare Tired uihin my income. IN cork
shop and ONCE. I olrnys tried TO do a lille more than ! had bargdtned 10
do. Yes, I hare rorked hard and faithfully"
"And do vu belcrc' that young men in me present time hare a. man,
opportunities TO rise In business as the young men had uho began tortl
or fp years a0o"
II drmly believe that there are more opportunities to-day for COMPE
TENT men fhn there mere in the ddvs he n I beam Ncreri in m hsfOri
OF. the morld has the search been 80 wtds and keen for me- uho wI work
and wo kaou hoe to york tnteUgent'y az II u todoyr