The Young Man in Business

THE YOUNG MAN IN BUSINESS.A well-known New York millionaire gave it as his opinion not long ago that any young man possessing a good constitution and a fair degree of intelligence might acquire riches. The statement was criticised - literally picked to pieces - and finally adjudged as being extravagant. The figures then came out, gathered by a careful statistician, that of the young men in business in New York City, sixty per cent, were earning less than £1,000 per year, only twenty per cent, had an income of £2,000, and barely five per cent, commanded salaries in excess of the latter figure. The great majority of young men in New York City - that is, between the ages of twenty-three and thirty - were earning less than twenty dollars per week. On the basis, therefore, that a young man must be established in his lifc-profes-sion by his thirtieth year, it can hardly be said that the average New York young man in business is successful. Of course, this is measured entirely from the stanAb