Western Reserve chronicle and weekly transcript of the times. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1854-1855, 1855-01-17


day morning. Vests printing office wa
in the second story, the ground floor be
ing occupied by Nc Elrath q Bangs a.
a bookstore. They were publishers
and West was their PRIMER. Neither
store or Office was yet opened, and HOr'
ace sat down on the steps to wait.
Had Thomas Nc Elrath, Esquire hap,
Pened to pass on an early walk to the
battery that morning, and seen our hero
sitting on those steps, with his red bun.
die on his knee, his pale face supported
on his hands, his attitude expression ol
detection and anxiety, his attire extreme
ly unornamental. it would not have oc-
CURED to Thomas Nc Elrath, ESQ, as a
probable event, that one day he would
be the partner of that sorTy-6gure, and
proud of the connection! Nor did Miss
Read, of Philadelphia, when she saw
Benjamin Franklin pass her father
house eating large roll and carrying
two others under his arms, see in that
poor wanderer any likeness of her fu-
ture husband, the husband that made
her proud and immortal wife. The
princes of the mind always remain in
cogni,o till they come to the throne. and
doubtless the Coming Man, when he
comes, will appear in strange diguise,
and no man will know him.
1t seemed very long before any one
came to work that morning at No. SO.
The steps on which our friend was seat
ed were in the narrow part of Chatham
ST., the gorge through which at morning
and evening the swarthy tide of mechan-
les pour. By six o'clock the stream has
set strongly down-town-ward, and it
gradually swells to torrent, bright with
tin kettles. Thousands passed by, but
no one stopped til nearly seven o'clock,
when one of Mr.. Vests journeymen ar
rived, and finding the door still locked,
he sat down on the steps by Horace
Greeley. They fell into conversation,
and Horace stated his circumstances,
something of his history, and his need
of employment. Luckily, this journey
man was VermOHter, and a kind heart
ed, intelligent man. He looked upon
Horace as a countryman, and was
struck with the singular candor and art
lessness with which he told his tale. "I
saw" says he, ''that he was an honest,
good young man, and being Vermonter
myself, l determined to help him if 1
could"
He did help him. The doors were
opened, the men began to arrive; Hor-
ace and his new found friend assembled
to the Office, and soon after seven the
work of the day began. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that the appearance Of
Horace, as he sat in the office waiting
the coming of the foreman, excited as
tonishment, and brought upon his friend
a number of satirical observations
Nothing daunted, however. on the ami
val of the foreman he stated the case,
and endeavored to interest him enough
in Horace to give him a trial. 1t hap
pened that the work for which a man
wanted in the Office, was the compost
ton of a POlyglot Testament, kind of
work which is extremely difficult and
tedious. Several men had tried their
hand at it, and in few days, or few
hours, given it up. The foreman looked
at Horace, and Horace looked at the
foreman. Horace saw handsome man
(now known to the sporting public as
Col. Porter, editor of the Spirit of the
Times.) The foreman beheld youth
who could go on the stage that minute,
as Ezekiel Homespun, without the alter
alton of a thread or hair, and brought
down the house by his "getling up"
alone. He no more believed that Eze-
kiel could set up page of Polyglot
Testament than that he could construct
a chronometer. However, partly to I
oblige Horace's friend, partly because
he was unwilling to wound the feelings
of the applicant by sending him abrupt
ly away, he consented to let him try.
eft up a case for him. he said,
land well see if he can do anything"
In a few minutes Horace was at work.
The gentleman to whose intercession
Horace Greeley owed his first employ
ment in New " ork, is now known to all
the dentists of the Union, as the leading
of firm which manufactures
twelve hundred thousand arti-
fetal teeth.
After Horace had been at work an
hour or two, Mr.. West, the ''boss" came
nto the office. What his feelings were
when he saw his new man may be in
erred from a little conversation on the
subject, which took place between him
md the foreman.
Did you hire that ID fool %
lsked West, with no small irritation.
eyes we must have hands, and he
$ the best l could get" said the fore
nan, justifying his conduct, though he
vas really ashfmed of it.
"Well," said the master, 4" for Gods
AXE, pay him off tonight. and let him
20 about his business"