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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1887)
TjF,rtr$!!aw; c; Wt gnllj storimt. ASTORIA, OREGON TUESDAY JUL 12.1887 WHAT MAY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY EXERGY AND PER SEVERANCE. Coi.. II. AV. PixcKKEY,in Dixie, a newspaper published at Atlanta, Georgia, relates the following in cidents, which came under the writer's own observation, where success trod closely on the heels of perseverance and industry: A man may make aliving and also make tnoney, in hundreds of differ ent ways in this country, and it is a mighty good thing that this is so, else over-production would be the rule, not the exception. I know a man who is getting rich out of baby swings. It's a simple, cheap thing to make, and he started in a simple and cheap way to make them, his entire outfit of tools com prising two saws, two saw benches, a draw shave, two hand planes, a brace and some bits, a rough work bench. He didn't stand around with hands in his pockets waiting for somebody with capital to come along and boost him. Not much. He thought these swings would sell, so he made one and peddled round until he found a purchaser. Then he made, another and sold that, and thus he kept on until finally people began to think his swings were a good thing to have in the family, and they began to inquire for them. He started eight years ago, and alone did all the work of making and selling them. Things with him are different to day. He has a shop two stones in height, and machinery for sawing, planing and boring, mortising, turn ing and sandpapering the material entering into the construction of these swings. In that shop forty men find constant employment, and, as I said before, the owner is getting rich out of it. Counting the wives and children of the work men in that shop, there is a popu lation of nearly or quite one hun dred and fifty making a living out of one man's idea that a baby swing would sell. A baby swing is not a very big thing, but it is in this case big enough to keep quite a little village busy and eomfortable. A stej) ladder is a mighty handy thing to have around the house. Five years ago three men, by the closest kind of scraping, twisting and borrowing, managed to get to gether five hundred dollars. They bought some lumber, rigged up a circular, or buzz, rip saw, and started in to make step ladders For two years it was a struggle of the hardest kind; sales had to be made bj' personal canvass, prices obtained permitted no margin of profit, and the outlook was of such a discouraging nature that their friends and neighbors pitied them first, then prophesied dead failure, and finally laughed at their folly in sticking by a losing game. There came a change, however. A prominent house-furnishing goods firm one clay wrote them for prices on five thousand ladders. The .size of this possible order very neaily took them off their feet. They had' sense enough, however, to understand that this big house would not give them the order un less prices were made away down, so they sat down and figured the thing over, and having decided that matter, awaited the result, which turned in their favor and they got the order. They went to work; each one took his coat off and pitched in; they worked six teen hours a day until that order was filled, and it was iilled on time, and each ladder was honestly made. The only expense they realized was for lumber, screws and paint. They had done all the work them selves. This was the turning point in their business career. Within a month from the delivery of these five thonsand ladders they had contracted with the same house for 41 monthly supply of two thousand five hundred. They were on their feet 'now, and b'egan to push things. They are turning out today, with fifteen men, ten thousand step ladders each month, and have been doing this for more than a year. A step ladder is a little thing, but these men are making- monev ouL of them. About fifteen years ago, in one of the big planing mills of Chica go, a strip of board catching, in some unaccountable manner, on a buzz saw. was hurled with vio lence against the leg of one of the workmen, breaking it and badly mangling tho flesh. The injury resulted in incapacitating the man for performing the labor required of him in the mill, and he was com pelled to seek other means of live lihood. A" man of fine mechanical attainments, his endeavors very naturally sought outlet in" that direction, so he built, after his own ideas, a scrol or fret saw foot power, and rigged up a seat on it, as he was unable to stand for any leugth of time, and began sawing out and putting together articles for household ornament and util ity. - He regarded this as simply a temporary means of making a living. After a time he added to his scroll saw a light boring at tachment and then a little ttirn ing lathe. Then he bought a cheap set of carver's tools. You see he was always looking out to save labor and to combine origi nality in the articles he turned out. Time ran along, and almost before he kntw it he was getting more orders than he could, alone, fill, so he hired .a man to dress and prepare his materials, lay out the patterns, and put the articles to gether. Still his orders increased, and he hircdnother and still an other man. To-day he has thirty men in his employment, and he does no physical labor himself. Making money? Yes, right along, but it was a verv little thinjr that gave him his start. Now, the point I wish to make is this: Capital, in large amounts, is not necessary in the founding of industrial enterprises. A good deal of pluck and energy, and un conquerable perseverance, are bet ter than money, because, having these, money becomes the result, not the means, of success. Money is valuable, not as the means by which an end may be accom plished, but rather because it is the result of an accomplished end. It has power, immense power, but without energy behind it, it is powerless. Perseverance and en ergy can make money, but money cannot make- perseverance and energy. "What I would like to see is more small industrial estab lishments. I would rather see a dozen shops employing three men each, than one shop employing three dozen men. There is more money in the three dozen, because there is greater possibility for their expansion and growth. Don't wait for the establishment of big enterprises with heavy cap ital, but start little ones in a mod est way, and then let them grow, as the majority of them surely will." Terrible Pains. DR. FLINT'S HEAKT REMEDY banishes sickheadache, and will pre vent the return of this most terrible of pains, if taken when the warning S5-mptoms give notice of the recur rence of an attack. At druggists S1.50. 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