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


He engaged to board with NJ Garlick,
on the instant, and proceeded soon to
test the quality of his fare by taking
breakfast in the bosom of his family
The cheapness of the entertainment
was its best recommendation.
After breakfast Horace performed an
act which believed he had never spOn-
taneously performed before. He bought
some clothes with a view to render him
self more presentable. They were of
the commonest kind, and the garments
were few, but the purchase absorbed
nearly half his capital. Satisfied with
his appearance, he now began the round
of his printing Offices, going into all he
could find, and asking for imployment-
merely asking and going away without
word, as soon as he was refused. In
the course of the morning he found him
self in The Office of the Journal of Com
merce, and he chanced to direct his in
quiry, if they wanted a hand, to the late
David Hale, one of the proprietors of
that paper. Mr.. Hale, took survey Of
whom had presumed 10 address him, and
replied in substance as follows
MY opinion is young man, that you're
a runaway apprentice, and you'd better
go home to your MASTER
Horace endeavored to explain his posi-
ton and circumstances, but the impetu-
Gus Hale could be brought to no grac-
ious response than, BE off about your
business and don't bothr u.s.
Horace more amused than indignant
retired and pursued his way to the next
Office. All that day he walked the street,
climbed into upper stories, came down
again, ascended other heights, descend
ed, dived inte Easements traversed pas
sages, groped through labyrinths, ever
asking the same question, and ever re-
ceiving the same reply, in various de-
grees of civility. NO. He walked ten
times as many miles as he needed, for
he was not aware that nearly all the
printing offices in New York are in the
same square mile. He went the entire
length of many streets, which any body
could have told him did not contain one.
He went bomeon Friday evening, very
tired and little discouraged.
Early on Saturday morning he resum-
ed the search, and continued it with en-
ergy till evening. But no one wanted a
hand. Business seemed to be at a stand
still, or every Office had its full compile
ment of men. On Saturday evening he
was still more fatigued. He resolved to
remain in the city day or two longer,
and then, if still unsuccessful, to turn
his face homeward, and inquire for work
at the towns through which he passed.
Though discouraged, be was not dis
heartened, and still less alarmed.
The youthful reader should observe
here what a sense of independence, and
what fearlessneSs dwelt in a man who
had learned the art of living on the mere
necessaries of life. If Horace Greeley
had after another day or two of trial,
chosen to leave the city, he could have
carried with him about four dollars; and
with that sum he could have walked leis-
urely, and with an unanxious heart all
the way back to his fathers house, six
hundred miles, inquiring for work at eve
ry town, and feeling himself to be free
and independent American ci;izen, tray
cling on his own honestly earned means,
undergraded by an obligation, the equal
in social rank of the best house he pas
sed. Blessed is the young man who can
walk thirty miles day and dine conten-
tedly on half pound of crackers! Give
him four dollars and summer weather,
and he can travel and revel like prince
incognito for forty days. 1
On Sunday morning, our hero arose,
refreshd and cheerful. lie went to church >
twice, and spent happy day. In the
morning he induced man who lived in {
the house to accompany him to small
Universalist church in Pitt-st., near the {
Dry Dock, not less than three miles dis
tant from NJ Garlick boarding house.
In the evening he found his way to
Unitarian church. Except on one occa-
sion, he had never before heard SER
mon which accorded with his own relig-
ious opinions /; and the pleasure with I
which he heard the benignity of the De- t
ity asserted and proved by able men was 1
one of the highest he had enjoyed. a
In the afternoon, as if in reward of the 6
pious way in which he spent the Sunday,
he heard news which gave him faint b
hope of being able to remain in the city. Ii
An lrishman, friend of the landlord, v
came in the course of the afternoon to f
pay his usual Sunday visit, and became S
lquainted with Horace and his fruitless a
search for work He was a shoemaker,
[ believe, but he lived in house which a
was much frequeuted by journeymen
printers. From. these he had heard /:
hat hands were wanting at Vests, No. n
34 Chatham-st., and he recommended "
MS new acquaintance to made immedi-
lte application at that Office. S
Accustomed to country hours, and 6