How Rich Men Begin Life

Cornelius Vanderbilt began lifo witll an old pirogue, running between Statea Island and New York city carrjing s;arden stuff to market. With two or threa thousand dollars raisod f rom that sourc, ho entered upon steadily incroasing enterprises until he ainassed the euorinous sum of $50,000,000. Alexander T. Stewart first bought few laces at auction, and oponed bis way to suocess in a diny little shop in Broadway near the site of bis wholesala establisbnient. Daniel Drew, in his early Ufe, was a sattle diiver at the ra unifican t rate of serenty-iivü cents a day, and he has driven hi niself into an estáte vulued at from. 125,000,000 to :30,000,000. George Law, at forty-five yeara of ape, was acommon day litbover on tlie docks, and at present counts his fortune at soinething liko 510,000,000. Kobert L. and Alexander Stuart, tho noted sugar refiners, in their boyhood sold molasses candy whioh their widowed roother liad mado at a cuut a, stick, and to-day they are wortli probably $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 apiece. Marshall O. Koberts is tho possossor of $4.000,000 or $5,000,000, and yet, until ho was twenty-five, Le dil not hava $100 ha could cali his own.