Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-11-16

A Born MaChiHiSt.


nent English Mechanics (whose death Is
reported to us among the news brought by
the last foreign steamer) had his mechani-
cal instinct strikingly developed. His
father was carpenter, but young Mauds-
ley himself was much fonder of working
in iron, and would often excite the anger
of the foreman by stealing off TO an ad
joining smlthy He urged SO hard for the
change that when fifteen years old, he was
transferred from the carpenters TO the
blacksmith shop. Here he became an
expert worker in metal, and was soon
quite noted for forging Z" trivers " with
great speed and skill, the old experienced
hands gathering round TO admire him
when at this work. They had in this
shop-which belonged TO the naval works
of Woolwich-a very accommodating
experimenting officer, who would blow
his nose in peculiar manner when ap
preaching, SO that all forbidden jobs, and
making '' trivers was among them, was
put out of the way by the time he enter
cd the shop. When a boy has the innate
love of his trade that Maudsey had, and
thousands of American youth all over the
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foot of the ladder. Take a boy-there
are plenty such-who has no particular
predilection for anything, ard put him at
trade, and he will always remain a mere
workman. But boys like Maudsley, al
most without knowing it, are urged on to
something better. AT this time Brahmah
the lockmaker, had great difficulty TO find
mechanics skillful enough to make his
locks with the neat precision he wanted
Young Maudsley was suggested TO him,
and on being sent for, the WColwich
blacksmith came to London. He WAS
then but / 8 years old, strong, muscular,
and remarkably handsome But both
Brahmah and his foreman thought he was
too young to be put in the shop with old
workmen. A worn out vice bench was
laying near by, and Maudsley seeing his
chances were in danger, asked permission
to 90 right TO work and fix it up. He
did so, and the job was SO splendidly exc
cuted that he was at once engaged, and he
became as much a favorite i'll this as in
his former shop. AS before said, he was
extremely handsome-an Apollo among
Vulcans; and his personal advantages,
with his mental activity, had their effect
ON his fellow workmen, who tacitly ac-
knowIedged him as their leader and supe-
rior. He rose in position, and became
foreman. In 1907 he opened a shop of
his own and he and his wife (for pretty
girl had little time before accepted the
hand of the handsome blacksmith) clear
ing the hired shop of the dirt and rubbish
left in by former tenant. His first Gus
toner was an artist, who gave an order
for the iron frame of large easel and
thenceforth Maudsley's shop had plenty OF
work. His next SUCCESS WAS the inven-
ton of the slide rest with which his name
usually indentined, an invention, too,
which all familiar with the use of the
turning lathe. now consider indispensable.
Maudsley subsequently became famous
manufacturer of machinery but even
when he employed numbers of men, and
found it necessary to labor more with the
head than the hands, he used to go often
to the forge and work enthusiastically
with the sledge hammer, just from sheer
love of his art. In time his shop became
as it were a college of mathematical art,
from which the best mechanics were proud
to graduate.