Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
.EM|GRANTS Who FOUND
WEALTH IN NEW LANDS
Well Known Names in List of Those
Who Came to America
in Storage.
From London Tit-Bfts.

From London Tt-Bits.
Every year the tide of emigration flows
more and more strongly to all the far
| corners of the earth, and one cannot help
specializing what will be the fate of the
tens of thousands who thus fare over the
seas to WOO fortune in other lands.
One thing is certain-among the poor
emigrants of today will be found some of
the colonial millionaires and political
leaders of q generation hence, while
thousands will be men of substance, the
| owners of broad lands to hand on to their
sons.
If we glance down the list of recent
multi-millionaires one is struck by the
number of men who have started on the
journey to riches as almost penniless
emigrants. Indeed. Scotland alone may
claim at least a round dozen of such
men of millions as her sons. leaving
England to occupy the second place.
From Poverty to Afluence.
Sixty years ago James Keene, seeing
nothing but poverty before him in Lon
don, took a steerage passage across the
Atlantic. to begin his chase of 1.-The rain
bow gold" which eluded him SO tantaliz-
ingly that, in disgust, he abandoned the
chase He was not long. however, in
finding another road to wealth through
the San Francisco Stock Exchange.
which he followed SO successfully that
gold up to E1,OOOOO0-a mere fraction Of
the mountain that was his later.
Half a century ago Charles Fletcher.
who was destined to be known the world
over as the Textile King" was earning
few shillings a week as a spinner in
the Craven works, near Bradford, before
he, too, voyaged in the steerage to Amer
lea. Within few years he had factory
of his own at Providence R. l.; other
factories quickly followed, eliminating in
the gigantic combination known as the
Charles Fletcher Corporation, Of which
the ex-factory lad was the many-mil-
lioned president.
In the early forties of last century
John w. Mackay was a barefooted boy
in Dublin streets, when his father car
ried him over the seas to New York. For
long years he piled pick and shovel In a
futile search for gold in California, but
before he saw his thirtieth birthday he
had discovered the Great Bonanza, a
mine which quickly made him the worlds
silver king" with a yearly revenue
counted in hundreds of thousands of
pounds.
In the House Of Lords.
Nearly a century has gone since
James Gordon Bennett ran away from
his home at Keith, in Scotland. and
landed penniless in New York to start
that heart breaking quest of fortune
which, sixteen years later. led to the
founding of the New York Herald, which
was to bring millions to himself ana nus
sons.
And James Bennett was the pioneer Of
at least a dozen other Scots lads who sim
ilarly emigrated and found vast riches for
the reward of their enterprise Three OF
them stand out from the rest as ex-
amples of colossal and well deserved
SUCCESSIVE. Carnegie. who left his
work as bobbin-boy in Dunfermline on
five shillings a week to start that amaz-
ing career which made him lord of at
least fifty millions within fifty years;
Donald Smith, who left his cattle-tend-
ing in the Highlands for the wastes or
to millions and a coronet as Lord
Strathcona and Mount Royal, and George
Stephen. another herd-boy, who fol-
lowed in the wake Of his cousin Donald
to equal riches and seat by MS she
in the house of lords.
Here we have seven emigrants, all
Graded in poverty. who together won
considerably over loo. oO0,o00 by trans
tinent. And similar stories can be told
of others to whom emigration has been
the key to colossal wealth. So many,
indeed. are they that the only embar-
rassment is to pick and choose among
them.
When Robert Gillespie Reid (another
Scotsman) landed in Canada at eighteen
his only capital was stout heart and
a strong pair Of arms. He hunted gold
in vain from California to Australia
before he struck the right road at last
and built up a huge. fortune as con-
tractor and railway pioneer.
Less than two generations ago Mr.
Frederick Weyerhauser landed in Amer
lea without a dollar in his pocket, and
within fifty years he owned timber
land as vast as the whole of England
and was able to count his potential
millions in scores.
Australia's Cattle King.
In 1871 Mr. Sidney Kidman, another