Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-02
Horace GreeLey5s Eltrance Into New
York,


Tn late chapter Mr. Greely describes
his first entrance into New York. This
part of the chapter we qnote:
ait was, if | recollect right, the 18th OF
August, 1881. | was 30 years old the
preceding February: tall, slender, pale
and plain, with $40 in my pocket, sum-
mcr clothing worth perhaps as much
more, nearly all on my back, and a de-
cent knowledge of so much of the Art OF
Printing as a boy will usually learn in
the flee of country newspaper. But
[ knew no human being within two hun
dred miles, and my Enthusiastically rustic
manner and address did not favor that
immediate command of remunerating en-
ploymcnt which was my most urgent
need. However, the world was all be-
fore me; my personal estate, tied up
i'll pocket handkerchief did not at all
cucumber me, and stepped lightly of
the boat and away from the sound of the
detcstctl hiss of escaping steam, walking
into and up Broad street i'll quest Of a
boarding house. l found and entered
ore at or near the corner of Wall but
the price Of board given me was So per
week; so | did not need the giver's can-
didiy kind suggestion, that | would pre-
fer one where the charge was more tioat-
rate. Wandering thence, l cannbt say
how, to the North River side, | halted
next at l5S West ST., where the sign Of
Boarding" OH humber edifice fixed
attention. | entered, and was offered
shelter and subsistence at s., 80 per week,
which seemed more rational, and | closed
the bargain.
'My host was Mr.. Edward McGolrick
his place quite as much grog shop as
boarding house; but it was quietly, de-
Gently kept while stayed in it, and he
and his family were kind and friendly.
| regret to add that liquor proved his
ruin not many years afterward. My
first day in New York was Friday,
and, the family being Roman Catholic,
no meat was eaten or provided, which
| understood; bat when Sunday evening
was celebrated by unlimited card playing
in that same house, my traditions were
decidedly Jared. | do not imply that
my observdiices were better or worse
than my hosts, but that they were diff
fercut
"Haying brcakfasted, l began TO ram
sack the city for work, and i'll my total
ignorance, travcrscd many streets where
none could possibly be found. In the
course of that day and the next, l must
have visited fully two thirds of the print
ing offices on Manhattan Island, without
a CLEAN of success. 1t was midsummer,
when business in New York is habitually
dull; and my youth and unquestionable
air of country greenncss must have told
against me- When | called at the JOan-
nal Of Commerce, its editor, Mr.. David
Hale, bluntly told me | was a runaway
apprehtice from some country office,
which was very natural, though mis-
taken presumption. | returned to my
lodging on Saturday evening, thorough
" weary dishcartencd and disgusted
with New York, and resolved to shake
its dust from my feet next morning,
while | could still leave with the money
in my pocket, and before its almS-hOuse
could foreclose upon me.
''But this was rot to be. On Satur-
day afternoon and evening, several young
Irishmen called at Mr. Golricks, in their
holiday sauntcrin@S about town; and,
being told that | WAS young printer III
quest of work, interested themselves III
my effort, with the spontaneous kindness
of their race. One among them hap
pened to know a place where printers
were wanted, and gave the requisit dl-
rection, so that, OH visiting the designa-
ted spot next morning | readily found
employment; and thus, when barely
three days resident, had found an
chorage in New York.