Show opportunity AND THE BOY the cry ia raised so frequently that the day of opportunity for the young man has hag passed and raised not only by those experiencing temporary setbacks and naturally inclined to the depressed but by others presumed to be wise observers and having no occasion to complain compla irl about how fortune has treated them t that it is pleasant to note a striking refutation of the charge in real life there died at his home in riverside drive new york a few days daya ago belvidere brooks vice president of the western union telegraph lele company he has spent 44 of the 55 years of his life in the service of that corporation and had risen from messenger boy to be the second in command of the greatest telegraph system in the world when he started in he showed a determination and industry that marked his whole career he studied telegraphy while he was messenger boy to such advantage that a year afterward when he was 12 years old he was an operator oper tor his working life began in a texas 1 way station and ended with him one of the big men of the mei me i tro polis he started with cally no schooling but he made up for this handicap with ambition 1 and study it can be argued justly that he had exceptional talent but it is equally true that he had excel 1 1 dional industry and the one would I 1 have benefited him little without the other asked one day after S he became general manager of the company to tell the secret of his success he gave the answer as hard work and application adding the chances for boys today are greater than they ever were before all that is necessary is devotion to the they are doing looking at his advancement from discouraging beginners the boys today will not go far wrong by taking to themselves the counsel pittsburg dispatch |