The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-06

power ana all the necessary .SaW-ta- bles, grinders, buffers, polishers, pull leys and belts and plenty of extra parts so not to suffer a complete shut down in case of a break, as even a small part like a bolt or minute spring or a spark-plug would cause an en- forced vacation of at least three weeks until parts could come from New York. The next thing the young man did was to interest some capital and organ
 ze the Bahama Trading Company un- der the State Laws of New Jersey with a capital of $25,000.
 He then left for Inagua immediate ly with his plant in crates and soon had his machinery set up in a large airy "tabby' building facing the ocean with shells coming in from. all parts Of the Bahama and Caicos groups with the result that he procured his supply for ten, eight and even as low as seven dollars per thousand for select ed clean shells and was soon able to ship every two weeks with only the assistance of native help hut being forced to run from six o'clock in the morning until four or five each after noon in order to keep his customers satisfied and even then was several thousand behind in his orders.
 This plant is in operation to-day; but the young man has already grad uated from the arduous labor and is looking forward to extending the bus mess as far as it's charter allows and is investiga ting the umbrella and cane handle business using the native scrub hard woods and also the output of a large cocOanut grove containing 20,OOO bearing trees which is on an island not GOO far for the Company's motor boat to safely run to, and the output of which several large consumers at New York are ready to take.
 At present the young man IS on trip to Haiti looking into the market ing of the dried. meat of the 'conch" which are greatly sought after by the Haitians for the making of chow der.
 I have written at length on this matter, as to me, it proves cOnclu- sively that young man to day if he is ambitious and willing to work and sac riice his comforts and social fife which in most cases exha usts his cash, vitality and ambition and makes him more and more dependent on his em- ployer, can cut loose from all form of stereotyped city business life and wi h little or no capital see little of the world and make a start in life which will earn him his independence earlier in life, allow him to use his brain, &C., quire executive ability and be his own boss and travel which the man tied to a bench or desk job with only short two weeks vacation a year as the only chance for a change and which is usually squandered at some nearby seasfore resort among his own crowd does not get and while temror- arily affording a little recreation does very little toward satisfying the nat ural desire to travel and visit places of historical interest in the United States or other countries other than those confined to limits of the local trolley on Sunday afternoon.
 a best years of his life with continual excessive servility to his emrloyer year after year, daily loosing his individ- uality, his ambition for better things and as a great many are forced to do, live from hand to mouth the year round in order to keep up the Iamily appearance and cater to the artificial atmosphere of society which to f1utter in so many young men sell their very souls and suffer the tortures of Hell, until their bubble bursts.
 This problem is one of the great questions of the day but it is not for one moment meant to infer that, every man who is working on wages or sal ary to-day should quit and go chasing some rainbow-but I do say and the foregoing should fully de- scribe the point taken on this sub ject, that young man cannot, in his full senses, not one case in ten, expect
 
 his earnings even with a few, success full investments to help. to ever w.th the greatly increased cost Of living to face, hope to enjoy an early retire ment on the income from his invest ed savings or to enjoy trips at home or abroad, or the luxuries of a f1ne home until he becomes of an age when these pleasures of travelling become risky to his physical welfare and quickly acquired fatieue rohs the trip of its re>.l object and pleasure.
 So consider these statements from your own standpoint, every ones po- sition is curiously different and no rule applies to all, but unless you are per- fectIy content to work on through the coming years as you are to-day Tor what you well know is in it. then keep alert for what you think upon your own best judgment and upon the ad- vice of wiser heads you feel is your opportunity; then make your break and use all your head and strength to the very limit until you have proven the strength of your new project. The longer a man remains at good thing or "sure job' the longer he will hesitate to mate a change and the more helple ss he finds himself when he suddenly finds himself thrown out of his ''sure thing which only too frequently occurs in Corporations where positions must be made for the son Or nephew of a Director or Stock holder of the company and he is swept saside with the rest of the dead wood'' so often found in these large concerns.