The age-herald., 1900-04-15
EARNS BUT A
 DOLLAR A DAY
Yet is Building a Neat House for HimSeIf Wife and
 Little Child.
From the Louisville Times.

From the Louisville Times.
 James s. Winebrenner, a tailor's helper of 100 Cabel street, near Fulton, is demon- strating how a man can live on wages of less than s1 a day, support his family, and at the same time build a house from this income.
 People passing the corner of Cabel street, near Fulton, for a couple of months past. have occasionally noticed woman on a ladder mailing weather boarding against the sides of an unfinished cottage. On Sum days and sometimes at night man and little girl were helping her.
 A Times reporter, who was attracted by the unusual sight of woman doing car penter work on building, sought out the owner, who gave the following informa- ton:
 T work as a tailor's helper. I have no trade, but help around the store My health is very poor, and I cannot do heavy manual labor. I now make about S1 day, but up to a short time ago only got s or $4 week on account of business being dull. If I drop off I want to leave a home for my wife and little girl. The latter is eight years of age, but she is nearly as large as her mother, who is of slight build My wife and I planned the building. It Is to be a four-room cot tage. I am going to put in a stone foun- dation in front I am building the kitchen and dining room first, because I will need them first At present I live In a shed in the rear of the lot which I will use for a coal shed when I get into my cottage. This Is fet our first experience at building. When my wife and I were married we first lived on Sixth street, nearly opposite to where I work. She suggested to me that we could live cheaper and better by owning a houseboat and locating at the foot of Towhead Island We sat down and drew the plans for the boat I bought the lumber, and we built the boat and lived in it for long time. It was the prettiest boat at the island, and one day Mir Strat- ton, of Stratton and Terstegge, who want ed pleasure boat for the summer time, came along and offered me $40 for the boat I sold it. and with the money bought the lot where my house Is to stand. I then built the shed on the rear of the lot, and my wife. myself, and little girl live there.
 After I come home at night I saw the weather boards and rafters into proper lengths and fix the nails in them for my wife When she has time during the day she gets up on a ladder and nails them in place, and at night when I come home I help do the heavy work. Our little girl holds the lamp to give us light. On Sundays we work all day on the house, mailing, saving, and getting out material for the week. I expect to have my house finished in couple of months I intend to paint it myself, but I cannot put on the roof. I want a tin roof and must get a timer to do that, but I will put up the rafters and the boards for the tin to be nailed on.
 "I do not owe anything on the building except few dollars for lumber, which I can pay on a days notice. I pay cash for all the material I get Had I not been i'll I would have had the house finished and paid for long ago. l was taken sick, and the doctors said I had appendicitis. They ordered to Norton Infirmary, where I could be properly cared for and operated upon. recovered from the operation and now feel all right. Of course, all of this cost me money, and I was thrown behind considerably because all the money I had saved I was compelled to spend for atten- ton at the hospital and for doctors bills. By strict economy I have been able to get over the loss I sustained in being laid up in the hospital Of course, I have kept up with the work on my house.
 Winebrenner is a man of about B years. He is very intelligent. He says he finds time to read one daily paper, and keeps posted about current events. He sends his little girl to school, and he and his wife are neatly clad but if they have any Sun day clothes they have no opportunity of displaying them just now as all of Sunday is devoted to work, instead of church-go- ing.