The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-27
A STORY OF LUCK.
How @ Poor Printer Has Suddenly
Become q Millionaire.

How Poor Printer Has Suddenly
Become Millionaire.
New YORK, Jan. GA true story Of
luck.
Only about month ago George Lincoln
was compositor in the employ of the
American Press Association, earning 81 or
s. a day when at his work, aud living on his
earnings with more or less content He has
not always been a compositor. A strong
desire to raise himself out Of comparative
poverty led him, more than dozen years
ago, to 90 to Colorado in search Of one of
the fortunes men sometimes find there by
exploring the treasure-hOuses of nature.
He IS brawny giaut well-lOoklng in the
extreme, with a huge moustache, that Of
itself is enough to mark him as a man Of
great virility. His appearance indicates
him fit man for the struggle he then en-
gagged in, but he was not successful in it.
For awhile h struggled on, prospecting
in comranv with a Garna fellow-adven-
turer whom he met and liked, and the part
nership they forme in the mountains grew
TO be a fast friendship. Lincoln, however,
tired OF the disappoiutueutS and concluded.
after time, that he had had enough of
Kicking Dirt and, leaving his holes IN the
ground, came east t. stick type again. He
and mis- partner had acquired several claims
in the mining district but Lincoln was con-
WINGED that none of them were worth the
labor and expense Of development, md he
abandoned his STARE to his partner with
less regret than he felt in leaving his
friend.
Coming east, he gave up hopes of for
tune and resumed work at his trade Four
weeks ago, or thereabJut, there was dull
day in the Office. He AMI a fellow-typo
named Cavanagh were justifying minion
and grumbling with considerable hearth
ne over the bother that every practical
printer is aware of. No small snare Of the
grumbling, too, came from the fact that
neither of them were making more than 80
for his days work.
"Nhy don't you invent something and
get richr said Cayanagh. "Im tired Of
working for wages"
Lincoln laughed. II suppose because
neither Of us understand the things that arc
to re invented. What do you know about
a steam engine"
Nothing" said Cavanagh, "nor about
an electric motar, either Do your
81 do not replied Lincoln, aud the con
versation ceased after some desultory talk
of the riches that Singer and Edison accu-
mulated from their inspired thoughts. The
idle talk, however, was enough to kindle
again the same desire for wealth that had
led Lincoln to the mining districts and he
p1ndered the subject for some time that
night. Gradually his thoughts went back
to his work and he got thinking
about his work, and especially the use
of quoins and sticks in his galleys
which have to be made wider
than the columns to allow the type to be
placed in them. He wondered why one
could not be made Of which the bottom or
bed would turn up on one side at the re-
quired distance from the other to make the
width Of the column, and so do away with
the quoius and sticks. The more he thought
Of. it the more feasible it seemed, and he
went TO sleep with the device tolerably well
matured in his mind. In the morning it
looked still plainer, and he said
to himself, There's my invention"
He told 10 one Of his idea, but going to
his composing room he put on Sub"
and at once sought a modelmaker's estap-
lishment, aud said: MAKE me "A brass
trough He gave the dime sions and told
them to put hinge in the bottom so that
he could turn it up aud make the second
side nearer to the first. Thus: