New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

before"
Having shaken the apple tree several
times you went 10 Europe" II was gug.
gested, land quit shaking itT"
"Ay" assented Mr.. Stevenson. and then
after long pause, pro tenn"
"Vill you go back to Scotland to I've Do
you think?" asked The Tribune man.
II wadna say So" he replied. Il hope to
gaze back for n veeslt. Ye see. It's like this:
When I was young mon I hoped to make
my fortune In America. put It in a carpet
bag. and gang back to Glasgow TO marry
some blue-eyed birl.
But those waur the dreams and versions
O. youth. | coudna go back there moo.
After eating breakfast the morn sac mony
years in one place at O'Clock. and keeping
busy IN the mills frae then TIL supper
Don't you eat any luncheon" interrupt
ed the reporter
"Ay, II we haze veesitors: otherwise no."
he replied.
Asked how he happened to come 70 Amer
lea. he said he learned the machinist trade
In Scotland and then. twenty-four years
ago. decided to seek his fortune In Penn
sylvania, having, after the good Scotch
fashion, first made sure OF good job
What would you advise young men In
this country TO do to win success?' he was
asked.
II think each mon should find out for
himself" said Mr.. Stevenson, very earnest
ly, what business Il Is he's best fitted for,
and then let him pursue II WI O. the brains
he can muster.
ut will be comparatively easy to get
financial backing II ye haze brains. Brains
are MARE needed in the business world
to-day than capital. Isna 1t so? What 90
ye think ABBOTT it?'
MAN SHOULD MARRY YOUNG.
do you believe in a man marrying
young" he was asked.
! "Ay. let him deescover the business he's
best fitted for and then go into debt ana
II the wife he's chosen Is the right one
she'll work WI him and help to pu' him out
q. the hole and 10 make his fortune. But
! first young mon must have brains"
do you believe that the principle upon
which the great combinations in business
now operate are right or wrong?"
Let me tell ye I used TO think that We
didna need sac much cooperation IN pus'-
ness as we haze now. placed faith In the
raw material, and whatever elsa the Lord
would gle me 10 work WI.
III I must let you into the secret, went
first for the ore deposits. They waur vera
essential things to hae ABBOTT ye in the fteel
business.
III dldna make profit out o tho wire
nails. I fggered to make II out o the tin
plate. And IL didna make Il out O the
tinplate, I wad do so out O. the tubing
That is how I estimated the possibilities
Should the tubing fail me. could IA back
on the Steel and in case OF the warst 1
was weeI aware I could depend for a Nv
ing on the ore itsei.
"I couldna lose. And a. the time that
was following such methods o procedure
in business what waur ye're American
manufacturers doing? They waur fee!n'
ABBOTT. frightened to death. as ye might put
Il. and trying TO make money by forming
pools and the like 70 bolster prices
IT believed, yo see. in getting back 10
nature, but was wrang. went aboot 10
WI that in mind. leaving my competitors to
form the combinations
And moo tell we, there's matr 70 h"
7 gained by cooperation than by the COM
petition that busts people"
A few years ago Mr.. Stevenson, after
selling out his business at New Castle.
Penn, moved his house 10 Sharon. Iher"
have been rumors that Mr.. Stevenson had
moved his house because OF anger over ma
| delight in the home folks that he had been
forced out Of business by the trust" with
an expected resultant rise IN wages.
| Asked for the truth, the Scotchman said:
"Tt was a big house, some distance out
y. town. and when I came to move I
couldna' sell II nor gle It await was too
expensive TO keep up.
II considered presenting It WI my COM
pl,ments TO the Presbyterian meenister o
my wifes church for manse but the
taxes on the place waur MAR than the
worthy mons salary.
ITO gle the meenister the house wad has
been seemilar TO mony Of Carnegte's library
gifts.