The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-03-30
Al TEy-CYLINDER BORN OF Al
H, |s KIND ACTION.

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4 Al TEy-cYLINDER BORN OF a
XII, KIND ACTION.
In September, eighteen hundred and
five, poor Young mechanic, just arrived
from England, was wandering about
4 New York in deep detection; he was
without money, without friends; and with
out work; and far from his native home,
he knew not which way 10 turn. but
\ passing alohg Nassau street, an open
door encouraged him 20 enter. The pro
prietor was a very little man, indeed, per
/ haps, not Eve feet high, but he had a
j pleasant conntenance and large heart;
for upon being asked by the homeless
! and penniless strangerif he could direct
him to some respectable person who
could board him until he could find en-
lployment, and thus obtain the means Of
payment, the storekeeper,. pleased with
/ the expression and demeanor OF the eight
een.year-old boy, had ii In his heart 10
offer him the desired favor himself; but
he had q wife, whom he knew to be a
woman Of rare worth, Cor she was pril-
dent, self-denying, and humane. He
might have known what would be her
answer, for be had only TO make tho
proposition 10 q way to indicate his own
views, and it would have met with an In
1 Simultaneous and cheerful acquiesencs, nm
less from some almost insuperable reason.
The young stranger was admitted into
\ the family. But the yellow fever was
raging 10 the city. III less than q week
| the poor lad was strickcn with it, and
recovered, although lie was at the point
.lof death for several days. During his
i Illness, he was cared for by his kind host
land hostess, with ail itssiduity aud watch.
Eiulness which only they know who net
firdai % sing prt,stil 70 insi . a,iBil ia,
mainly. :5s45 81, u .,i,5 II &. +. Is.
+ just aquarter Of century, later, the
same man was applied to by Major Noah,
1ot pleasant memories, who was then sur
seyorof the port OF New York, TO put
] together n machine III the custom house.
aud take models Of It's various parts.
This was done, aud the mechanic con.
Ecelsed the idea OF constructing asimilar
article, which Should excel anything Of the
kind for efficiency III the old world or
the new, and be succeeded. Hedied III
1888. His son succeeded him ia business.
and inheriting the inventive genius Of his
father combined with rare business tact
and iodomitable energy, he has added i'm.
1 proyement to. improvement, until he has
made the whole civilized world his debtor.
There Is not one Of all lis millions OF
families which does not every day derive
,EgreaI benefit therefrom. 1t carries light
to every household; hour BY hour. Is iitt.
ing the degraded and the fallen, aIid il
aiding in the reRolntionizing of all nations
which exist by oppression, wFong.dning
aud injustice. But that machine. whit
is It! Fifty years ago one might have
purchased il entire for hundred or two
dollars; common dry-goods box might
have easily contained all its parts; bnt
| now, in its perfected state, IL occupies d
Espace Of fifteen feet high aud forty feet
long; II is made Of fourteen thousand
seven hundred and thirty parts, weighs
| fifty Thousand pounds, and costs thirty
thousand dollars. One Of its belongings
not named above, IL thirty thousand aud
sixty-tiEee yards Of tape, The penniIcss
English lad was Robert Hoe. The Good
SainaritaDs of Nassau street were G rant
/ Thorburn aud his wife, the latter an an,
i gel now; the former "still liYinVp In nj,
honored old age, by seven years over
fourscore. The4nachine is Hoes ten.eyl.
linder printing press, as now in operation
in the. Office Of the Nss York HoYld, aud
the iargesteyer made.
The FIRST and only newspaper Of our
childhood was printed on q press. which.
with the mid Of three men, turned out
forty or fifty impressions in an hour.
When, on the 18th day Of November,
1914. the London Times announced that
Lin was printed BY steam which made ], 100
Impressions In an hour the whole city was
astouislied, aud the pressmen themselves
looked on in mutewonder and admiration.
1 But to-day through the agencies Of Rober,
Hoe, the English lad Of 1906, or The
kindly Grant ThOrbusn aud his wife, aud
/ Richard NJ. Hoe, OF New York, there are
made at the Office Of the Horld, in Print.
ing.IIonse Square, $4,000 impressions In
sixty minutes. Who can diselailn iadebt.
edness to these four namess The mer.
chant who sips his coffee at breakfast and
reads the latest news up 70 2 or s o'clock
lin the morning, perhaps forgets to whom
be is mdebted for that pleasure; aud so
with the day-laborer, who finds time TO
1 CLEAN from his paper, at a cost OF one cout.
what is going on throughout the habitable
globe. ere he sallics forth 10 his daily toll.
Rich and poor, learned aud unlearned, oil
should remember with respect and graft,
tlide the heads and the hearts to which
every day makes them renewed debtors,
1 to wit, Robert Hoe aud bis son Richard
NJ, 70 Grant Ihorbarn and his noble
wife. a.s::..-ts ssffE~1a 80 3