“A great horde of young men make
their way to this city annually,’, said
a prominent Wall street financier to
a Herald reporter, “deserting the
farm, and country store and light oc
cupations in small towns, ambitious
to wrestle for the spoils of commerce
and the golden fruits of trade, without
the slghtest knowledge of how to live
on small pay. The first lesson I had
to learn was how to spend —how-to
make a small salary put food in my
mouth clothes n my back and a roof
over me. Strange as it may seem,
some never learn the lesson, and go
back disgraced through debt, broken
through disappointment and useless
by reason of their city experience.”
“But how can it be expected that a
verdant youth will know how to
spend, how to manage?” asked the re
porter.
“It is not to be expected. A boy
coming to this city with a few dollars
must learn how to get what he wants
at the least possible cost. He must be
shown. This knowledge will be more
beneficial than a place. He must
know that every penny saved is a
penny made. See all our rich men.
Many of them slept under the coun
ters in the store, and had only bread
and milk for breakfast. See -a. T.
Stewart, Edwin Morgan, John Jacob
Astor, Pierre Lori Hard, Isacc.T. Sher
man, Jay Gould, Cemmodore Vander
bilt. Why, these men matched their
stomachs and tneir backs against the
pennies in their pockets, and the pen
nies won, for they saved them.
