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The Road to Wealth
Nine out of ten of the rich men of our country today started out in life as poor boys. They went on gradually, made their own money and saved it - this is the best way to acquire a fortune. Stephen Gerard started life as a poor cap-in-boy and died worth nine million dollars. A T Stuart was a poor Irish boy, now he pays taxes on a million and a half dollars of income per year. John Jacob Astor was a poor farmer boy and died worth twenty millions. Cornelius Vanderbilt began life-rowing a boat from Staten Island to New York. Now he presents our government with a steamship worth a million of dollars, and he is worth fifty