The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-30
will you go TO night school and Learnt
GWhat for7'

"fur me parO-yes, Il WILL"
"At the Cooper Institutel'
yes"
"Do you know where it isl"
"Yes"
"Do you know Purdy's Savings Bank in
Clinton Hall, near the Institute2"
"Sixpenny Savin's Bank7"
eyes"
"Yes"
"All right. I'll put this money in that
bank in your name When you go to night
say to yourself: There's my money If
you need it before you can write your own
name come to me at the Herald Office That's
my name I'll write it down and read it
over to you, so that you wont forget it. and
you can show this card if you do forget it."
ais yer Herald man2"
"Yes-there's my name"
'.Hookeyl Yves pards aginP'
"What do you meant"
"Why, you writes der news and sells it.
Pards every timer'
What are you going to do with your half
of the money!"
''She goes inter der bank wild my pard's
all but a dollar"
Take the odd dollar and a-half. Where
do you sleep tO-night2"
"Lodgin' -house-fve cents bed"
do you want your dinner2 Any clothesl
Anything2"
ppm staked for anythink."
"And if you get busted again you'llc come
and get your money!
That's all right I'm pards wild Her
aid man, ami I'll make strike, sure!"
III.
The next day deposited in Purdy's bank
81 to the credit of myself as trustee for Pat
rick Cork. Elijah Purdy, better known as
1the war horse" was Jacksonian Demo-
crat, who believed in "hard money" as the
fire worshipers believed in the sun. When
gold was at 60 per cent. premium in Wall
street he paid it over his counter at par.
One day / withdrew my own money and
Paddy's with it, sold the gold, and deposited
81 and twenty odd cents in another savings
bank to the same trusteeship. Paddy called
upon me at the Herald Office every week or
two; never wanted any money; generally
handed me dollar or two to add to the
firm fund. One day he astonished me by
reading out the headlines of paper that lay
on my desk. Another day Ned Flynn
brought me scrap of paper, roughly fold
ed; but outside my name was legibly writ
ten, and inside were the words, paddy from
Cork" in very creditable script. Events
passed so quickly then that, like DR.. Young,
we took note of time but by its loss. tsld
Ned the story of Paddy, and added:
THAT boy has learned to read and write
in three months"
Ned laughed We calculated dates. 1t
was fourteen months since l had entered
into my first partnership.
Bring him up, Ned, and let's congratulate
him."
Paddy from Cork appeared, not much i'm
proved in personal appearance, but very
proud of his accomplishments, and with
more money to put in the bank. He had
now over $50 on deposit; but no persuasion
could induce him to draw out any of it to
provide himself with better clothing or
more comfortable lodging. The instinct of
miser had been aroused l imagined; soon
afterward, being admitted to the corner in
Harlem stock, put Paddy's money in with
my own, and drew out So from the corner
for every dollar invested. When Paddy
from Cork turned up again, had the pleas
ure of informing him that he was capital
list, that he had over 5000 out at interest, and
that there was his bank book, made out in
his own name now, since he could sign it as
well as i, and my trusteeship was over.
"Aint we pards no more?" asked Paddy.
GAS long as you like; but l am going off
to the war now, and you must take charge
of the money"
"Wel," said Paddy. slowly, 1--WE had a
streak of luck ever since we've been pards,
and don't want no money. You keep der
book"
''But you can't draw any money out Of
the bank without the book"
Don't want ter"
what will you do-stay, you can pay in
any amount you like, if you're so flush.
This is the form. All you have got to say
is that l have the book, and the bank will
take all the money you bring. Under
stand7"
Paddy understood well enough, as l dis
covered when 1 returned from the front and
found note from the bank bookkeeper ask
ing me to send the book TO be written up.
How Paddy had lived during these months
never knew; but he had paid in an aver
age of S. week to his credit. Those were
war times; money was plentiful; extras
were issued almost hourly; newsboys shared
in the general prosperity. Once in a while
after my return-not often-Paddy dropped
in to see me and report progress. A specu-
lation in Erie, when he was counted in,
because imsgine.that he would bring me
the same luck that he imagined l had
brought him. nearly doubled his capital. In
1866, when L sailed away to England at two
days notice, l squared up Paddy's accounts,
among others, expecting that the party with
which / was to embark would certainly go
to the bottom. A personal interview with
Paddy from Cork would not have convinced
him that he ought to take his money. So /
left his bank book and an explanatory letter
with Ned Flynn, to be given to Paddy when
when he called to see me. He was at that
date, about fifteen years of age, and his pos
sessions on deposit amounted to over 5000. 1
advised him in my letter, to buy or rent
news stand in some hotel, and inclOsed him
my card ofintroduction to the Lelands. then
the reigning family of hotel keepers. Paddy
sold the papers announcing the departure of
the yacht upon which l was passenger,
but never knew that L was gone until long
after had visited the city of Cork and
wandered about its quaint streets, wonder
ing which of them had been the birthplace
of my partner.
v.
Years slipped away, and ifI ever remem-
bered Paddy from Cork it was when other
partners displayed very different qualities
from those that distinguished that straight
forward. honest, industrious and affectionae