The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-02

bHBd house. His object was 10 eommeaee and leara
everything frsm prick laying 10 stone cutting, and ne
knew that with Mr.. Gait he veuld have every shsnss.
He worked for him all that ssssen laying brick cutting
stone, and sarnisg the masoA's trade Wasa the fail
came hr. Gait could not pay his work sa George
lost all he had earned, and Obliged leave owing
hs beard bin. He told Mr. Neal, whom he Owed this
be.Id ban how he was situated but tina. a. soon IS he
was abls he would rend him what he owed Noel ,a,t
hsIe vas time enough, and George then footed ssk
10 hoy-twenty tive niles-And hired cut 10 lay brick
unti The weather became Geld, when he received his
pay and at started for Hoose Fsur Csrssr who're
he paid Mr.. Noel the beard bill Noel vas surprised,
and told George h expected 10 get t as nsns Of
Sats werfmen got paid When George sos out OF asSt
he found he had gained his first lesson n trusting 10
nay this Money, Though it left George nothing he
walked twenty-five miles and oack-nakns f0rty-tour
miles in cav.
he spent II at winter Troy sold old silver watch
which purchased the summer and with the pre-
ssee. bought few ssDop Soo we're ans n
but very important at thai period OF Georges life.
They consisted Of Dabos Arithstic horse's Geogra.
ply and Atlas Walkers Dictionary, and work entitled
Bookseppg by Single Entry These books learned
"by hear" and strange as II may seem, Jet in alter
years when the operations of George covered nall
ions he varied from the rules OF his client in
s1uctsr. His boots always kept by single entry
and upon certain occasion, when the head OF com.
pany with millions of capital, OF winch George
chef owner was explaining the advantages OF this s
cooled with such system should have spent fortune
n clerk hire, and been penneta myeeh." He devoted
his hsle mind to his books all this winter
That spring (ls2s) he went to wsrk sgain lay
ing brick, and earned las. day. That May no
paid his parents visit at Ja,isoa, and soon after
the Delaware ana Rudssn sapai Mr.. Aardock Who had
been superintendent tor Mr.. Calf the year psevoss,
wrote him st Troy 20 TO Ulster, where he would
fnd work; ut Ulster George went Into the employ Of
0liger HasbroucE and commeaced building iock fer
them. He was ignorant, but MIR. Nurdock who was
perint.nc.nt OF The work showed him to it. and
his wages 81 rs per day. He somp-ted tas look
some locks. Here he superntended tue suildiag Of
lock for Mr. McGtnns and received twenty snillings
per day. This he completed in August OF rae same
year he then engaged TO build two locks under Mar
dock which occupied him three months, for Two bro
theirs named Dubois. In November he made his secoad
visit home TO Washington county. He had saved
hundred and fifty dollars.
George had now accumulated lot Of small books
which he could easily carry, and to which he devoted
every Leisure moment. ana ADDITION to those he hsd
procured at Troy, and which to him were " STANDARD"
work she had SHAKESPEARE in several pocket Volumes
Colds nniths works letters life Pope's Homer and
eight volumes Of Byron's works.
THIS year he vas twenty years old; and then he
started for Pennsylvania with his POCKET library
That Stats was just commencing its great work
George could now cut stone lay bck or DO any work Of
that sort we'll any one, and understood bu2ing
locks, bridges &c. He contractors get work, and
then get to carry it out; and he ssld to himself
the work rnyself' These do not overses thsir
work. With such views he ls,t home for the city
Pennsylvania He down the North river the old
Chief Justice Marshall and landed at the foot of Liberty
shEs. days. tine. ne
about the city looking at what was to be He also
visited Brooklyn. From Ne- York he wen. to New
Brunswick and to the Della by stage to
Philadelphia. The trip took day, and its apidty
was subject Of conversation among the passengers.
He remained in Philadelphia three days, then went to
Reading thence to Harrisburg and from there to York
Mountains where he commenced getting out stone AID
bloskpE il into shape FOR locks, at much foot.
When the weather got cold he went to work building
heavy all, nine miles above Harrisburg
George then hired out to a TO 60 to Port De-
poat TO gst out stone to be sent to the Dismal Srans
canal in North Csroins and Virginia. This in tue
risburg fifty miles, to Port Deposit He cosld not 81
ford to 60 by stage 1t would have cost too much. Hs
got the stone reaoy and all shipped but one load to Nor
fpV He fhpuw ont nm In Maria IA IN fnrt nd
down for the purpose OF seeing the Susqus
hanna river and how that busness was conaucssd
Che ark on the west York side of the river, aud
walked until twelve O'Clock 1T night TO Port De9o
ST. and embarked in sloDp carryiBg the Last load OF
stone 20 Norfolk. This Georges drst voy-
age. From Norfolk bs walked to the place OF
the bark CT The canal The water red, beng unt.
Per water. There was no ett'em"nt save six
shanty groceries Here be boarded AT place with elk
other men; they had negro woman for cook His
work to finish up atone Tor the canal locs. IL hs
very unhealthy, and in June (iS2) ne rsturnsd
10 Norfolk and from thence in sailing packet 10 New
York.
During the a6ove trip he bad with him all the books
which he lad accumulated except "Morss's Atlas"
Which he could not conveniently carry.
Gtgrgs commenced work tie Morris canal,
ion Hopkins FAIRBANKS, ut Mountyie, and vorsed un-
n November, ~hsp cola weather commenced. During
This time hearing thai his brother Samuel had been
AIKEN with paralysis he made a visit home. II Noven-
Der he heard that the heath OF his mother was siiins
ne went homo and remained until she died, He was
then q years old.
In the spting OF 1925 Georgs went back to Mount
and aso inclined plane Here he worked until Jaue.
He me, With trouble in getting his payments from tbs
company, and LETT reashing New York city sbous July
Here he had proposition made to him to tsse WORK
the Harlem Canal, which was to connect the Hudson
and East rivers He regarded tae whole concern a
nonsensica and would rot continue to work upos 1t,
concluded 20 back Pennsylvania 30 the lower
division Of The Lehigh Canal three mules from Easton
he COW became SUPERINTENDENT for Mr.. Csdy, man
about sixty years old good mechanic who had worked
on the Erie canal Tins Mr. Csdy uset TO take the
world easy He would get under saed out OF the sun
audv Itch ne nd
men. On occasion he called 10 George TO come
70 him. George" said he, "you are great fool 70
work for me as you do"
." How so l' inquired George.
"why used 10 work aud superintsni myself uatil |
tion while you in reality DO all the work. You should
make contracts yourself, and work under nobody You
are mere capable Of doing IL than am."
George remained with Mr.. Cajy until the fail Of |
1928 making cams, locks, &C. and experimenting the
masonry WORK.
Daring this period hs had increased hi, library to |
fifty Volumes and had purchased several works OF draw
pg which be carefully studied ut every leisure momsnt
lille working for Csdy he taken siok wita fevsr
ague, and home to Jacksos, N. u He siok
all q at winter and boarded at tavern He never re-
manned at the homestead when he visited nis native place
He had too much pride to ALLOW any OF the neghbors 10
say that he s,onged his parents When sprisg came
This was in n 1872 he then proc.r.d a horse on
credit, and rode to Troy heucs TO Athens in Orange
county, TO New Jersey snd psnnsyysns' s 40.
IN june, Cs2o,l and then went the Delawars
locks and an acqueduet Then he took work OF Mr..
O,is and built Ices and small aoqueduct. He flashed
this in the fall This his first SUB contract 1t
was In 1879, and George was twenty three years Old
George had poor health this summer. Hts old
friend the Kept him company lis went TO Easton
spent the winter OF 1929 and 80 That fall the Morris
canal had Lettings, and George put in bill for the IN
cned plane He travelled the cseal from Esston 10
Andover and made his estimates. Hls bid accepted
With Otis K Carmichael, but in the winter OF 1929
6eorge sold out his interest for $500 That winter bs
made . contract with Otis, and in the spring of
1880 commenced at Gal!ua run taking down aqueducts
and building locks This occupied him until August $780,
Up to this period George not only kept the accounts
and superintended, but worked regularly htnseh.
In the fan of 1880 he went home and th he hal done
every year; but this time he worth Money He had
accumulated capital OF 81 s0e and on the strength Of
visited Marquand, the great jswelieS in Broadway