The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-06-17
Tne poo,b,ack,s Ambition.
sropv or NEW YORK sTREET.BoY WHO
ihs .arS ro MAgs SOMETHING OF HIMSELF.

ruu crnRY OF NEW YORK Sfh""iopo.
w.nTs 70 MAKE SOMETHING OF HlAsELf'
rrr,n, the Boston Globe, June 1o,h.1
. stnrc comes from Portsmouth oy tne
~ ns a bor sncb as we read OF. The 'lte OF
ss;s ronsh began Ia slow estate" he was
W.w York gamin, and was wont to halt sne
rasser.bv In the Civ Hall Park With "sn'ne,
MYSTERY f'i cents" OF course nc nad 10
father and TO mother, and was gwen "
sleeping in dry goods boxes and entslninF.
his sustcnance ct cheap cotiee.anu'cdke
saloon. His taste was never improved
70 any extent. In summer time ne o{ten
wandered off to The walering.Taces.
and got all the benefit of fashion
able vacation ny 'udustriously apply.
| ing the blackiLg.bFash on tho boots OF
visitors. Last winter he set up his box on
the corner by Barnum's Hippodrome, and
when the great moral show set forth for It's
summer tour he came along with it, hoping
to pay Ills shining way with the proceeds oil
bis ave cation. When he brought up in BIOS
ton hf; was poupced upon for shining WIFE.
out license. As thc story has 1t, ne hao
not money enough to pay for license
To ough we believe the booiblacks, incense
does not have to be paid Tor. However
there are conditions about going TO schoo
) which the wapdcrcr could not comply VIVID
r and the great, charitable city of Boston
t weald not allow the. poor BOY 10 gam IN, Nv
n dst,y bread by shining boots ABOUT the DIP
e podrome.
b The future great man was sorely TROUBLED
o but not disa1ayed. CHANGING furtively at
= COW Of the Globe, at newsstand. his ey'
y c. ueht q little paragraph stating that th'
O limited States receiving.shtp Sabine, at Ports
}, mouth. N. H., had been made school.shlI
t OF instruction for boys. He recognized I'
e destiny in a moment, and his mind wa
]. made up. He would enlist on the Sabine
o enter the navy, and become great com
re mnnder. Shaking the inhospitable dust
ID Boston from his diapidated shoes and sling
ID ing his box over bis shoulder, he trudged OF
re for Portsmouth, fifty miles or more distant
y Shining his way through the interven,n
s. towns, be reached the seaport oil New HamP
re shire and inquired for the whereabouts
I'd the Sabine. Going on board, with fiuterln
Of heart, he told something of his story TO IN
OF commander. and expressed bis desire TO en-
list. Alas for bis hopes he codld not
pr taken without a parent or guardian to be re
ro snonsible for him. The commander wa
sorry, for he liked the boys looks aud man
per. but he had no discretion in the matter
Sadly the youth turned back TO the city Q
r. Portsmouth,, cogitating upon the hard linn
tations put upon struggling poverty by th
e, great, respectable world. But "glve up
in was not in his bright lexicon" and b
D. wandered up aud down the streets in scare
K. of a guardian in a city Of strangers. WIZ
II that keen judgment OF human nature WhIc
re his rough life had given him, he searche'
TO the faces of the pussers-by. Passing tb
e. CITY Hall, bis eye caught the countenance o
~ MIR. Israel MardeD, the city marshal. Ihl
Ill was his man. Asking to speak to him for
m moment, he went with the marshal into III
ii office, and with anxious eager heart, ton
OF him bis story. "And now, please sir, b.
l added, " will you be my guardian, and en-
le list me, so that L can learn something tina
IT will be of benefit to me bereafter:" 1h
re marshal consented. and went straight to tn
N office of the Probate Judge and became tn
y legal father of the falherleSs boy. Then b.
Is went with him 10 the Sabine. where he wa
re received By Commander Cooke, aud the DO.
Sc was speedily enrolled in the school Of 10
T. structiou. The boys name is Charles How
lie ard, and he is now seventeen years old. hi
Ii eaperness TO learn and his pluck have alread.
is made HIM favorite with The officers. Mar
e shall Marden is proud of his boy, and pre-
d diets for him great future.